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by 2pasc 14y ago
You're right...but often times...you dismiss the idea creation piece (you have a lot or most Companies pivot anyway)..and you start a Company out of optimism, because you love starting Companies and/or because you don't want to have the con
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by 2pasc 14y ago
I have been through the same struggle with my co-founder last year... My main advice to people who leave their job to start working with a co-founder without an idea AND without a clear verticals they want to focus on...is not to do it. Ti
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by 2pasc 14y ago
BTW - did you join their team?
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by 2pasc 14y ago
Thanks for participating in the discussion. I completely understand what you are talking about regarding attracting engineers. It's so crazy currently in Silicon Valley! I am not saying that you should not be ambitious. It's just that I see
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by 2pasc 14y ago
You are welcome. Really looking forward to test the product though. Do you intend to take on Intelius and Companies like that? Is that your goal?
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by 2pasc 14y ago
I would be interested in talking to you. Can you contact me (plg at stanfordalumni dot org)
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by 2pasc 14y ago
Totally agree. Everybody forgets that neither Facebook, nor Google, eBay, LinkedIn, Youtube, were saying they were doing massive things. And yet...
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by 2pasc 14y ago
Well....I see what you are saying. But if none of the 9VC want to follow up... the Company is toast for sure ;-)
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by 2pasc 14y ago
Congratulations to them! It's impressive, and the product seems really interesting. But having 9 VC invested in your Company is really not an idea situation. (cf: http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/04/vc-signaling-coming-home-to-... ) I am wonde
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by 2pasc 14y ago
That means that our friend Jack Dorsey also pocketed another 78M - along with Adam D'angelo? When most people will never strike 10M in their entrepreneurial/investment career, these guys have pulled three already... That's really impressive
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by 2pasc 14y ago
If journalists knew how to start Companies, they would not write about it but just do it. Please keep on keeping on. You are the real deal. History is written by the winners...I hope you can focus on being the winner in your market, and th
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by 2pasc 14y ago
Same as ig1: last time: 7:01 PM PDT
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by 2pasc 15y ago
What about... having revenues as a fundraising option? It can lead to very successful businesses (e.g. Craigslist, 99 Designs, etc...)
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Well... 1B is an amazing amount of money, but it is "just" 1% of Facebook post IPO value. What are the odds that Instagram growing more and more, the market freaks out, and Facebook stock loses 3-4% in a few weeks. Facebook buying Instagram
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I agree...but the point was not about the revenues, the point was about making sure that when you think about photos - to share or to browse(which is the most used app on Facebook), you think about Facebook. The risk of being displaced by I
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Scheduled spontaneity is a great term! I love it :) You can use http://www.ohdontforget.com (this is not my startup) for scheduled spontaneity - it is like Buffer and it's free (in the US at least)!
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by 2pasc 15y ago
BTW - if you are thinking about the section of a traditional VC deck, you get some info here : www.wisary.com VCDave actually funded my previous Company ;-)
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Great story + passion = great pitch, no matter how many slides you have...
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Weird. Although I have heard that Pivotal Tracker is making very significant revenues (in the tens of millions)...this is not much for a Billion dollar Company like EMC!
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Maybe he will convince a few Stanford students to focus on their startup before the end of their graduation and drop out! What is for sure is the more you spend money on your education (with college, an MBA, etc...), the higher the opportun
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I think this is a great post, and this is so true. The only caveat I would add is that sometimes ideas that don't seem ambitious end up being super ambitious. Facebook is a great example of that. In a video you can now find on Youtube, Mar
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I can relate so much, unfortunately. Reading this post, and all the details that you provide about that day - I can remember so well the day that I learned my sister had an accident... and the night that she passed. I found out it took a lo
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I don't know SamA, and so I am not saying this against him at all. Nor am I saying that people become entrepreneur for the money. As you mention, there are safer routes to get money. I am describing something I have observed in Silicon Vall
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Regarding 2/ In France, most good universities/schools have a high school approach to teaching students. The problem of the high school model is that it was already debilitating in high school... and it does not make it more fun in college.
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by 2pasc 15y ago
The sad truth about startup life and Silicon Valley is that many people become wealthy not because they created something meaningful with lots of customers or users or revenues, but because they get acquired and let die. This would be all f
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I agree with PG that this is "fake news" What few people realize is that Facebook does $3B in revenues while not monetizing two "real estates" that could add $3B each (or more) in the future: - Mobile is still not monetized at all and we ar
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Human Investment - what it takes to build a good founding team(2pasc.com)
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I am indeed. It was quite a journey indeed! Do you know the service?
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by 2pasc 15y ago
I have a good story to share for this from a very close friend of mine. He started a blog/website about mobile app reviews in 2008 in France, grew the traffic organically to something like 150K UV/month after one year, was making some money
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by 2pasc 15y ago
Demo Day for YC W12 is mid-March, so I assume mid April as they need to be focused on the current batch and assist them with fund raising before they can focus on the new applications...Then interviews would be around early January for an e

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