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by akharris 4y ago
There's a wonderful interview with the photographer for this piece, Tomas van Houtryve, on Leica's blog: https://leica-camera.blog/2022/05/09/rebuilding-notre-dame/ .
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When to Shut Down Your Company(blog.aaronkharris.com)
3 points by akharris 4y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 4y ago
Your second point is the dynamic that makes the least sense to me. In public markets, if a stock is cheaper relative to future earnings, that makes it a better buy. In our corner of the world, the opposite often holds true. There should be
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by akharris 4y ago
Fwiw - my general premise isn't that the "majority of VCs are not good investors." My point is that there's a serious disconnect in the markets right now, and that it is rooted more in fear than a lack of opportunity. On
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Today Is Yom Hashoah(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by akharris 4y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 5y ago
I didn't end up assigning explicit scores to things. In general, I gave more weight to the long term in my head. At least, to the long term that would happen if my bet was right.
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A framework for choosing what to do(blog.aaronkharris.com)
8 points by akharris 5y ago|2 comments
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by akharris 5y ago
Congrats to Jon and Chandan on the milestone. Pretty rare to see a company go from seed to unicorn in a single round! Anything particular you learned during that jump? Excited to see how you and the team continue to build.
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by akharris 5y ago
I agree that there's quite a lot going on now, but you could have said the same of many other periods. The 80s saw PCs, but also new kinds of music, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and more. That's always going to be true (hopefully
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by akharris 5y ago
I like this! I guess the founders would mostly argue that boilerplate is the price of admission for angels these days. But it would be great to see it work this way.
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by akharris 5y ago
Do you mean in a down round or just a round at a low price? In my experience, any down round requires massive changes to ownership across the cap table, previous rights or not. The only way to stop this is with even more onerous terms that
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Pro rata is a bad term for founders(blog.aaronkharris.com)
169 points by akharris 5y ago|42 comments
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by akharris 5y ago
Fantastic post. You say "haven't quite figured out" - does that imply there are things you wanted to convert but didn't see the path for, or that the question hasn't truly come up?
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Why Build Toys(blog.aaronkharris.com)
207 points by akharris 5y ago|78 comments
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by akharris 5y ago
This is why I spent so much time working on the series a program before I left yc. many of these tactics/strategies can be taught or partially outsourced to the right advisor.
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Asymmetries in Fundraising(blog.aaronkharris.com)
63 points by akharris 5y ago|9 comments
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by akharris 6y ago
I don't think it exists. Rather, understand the conflict and work with and around it.
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by akharris 6y ago
That is what I meant. Totally agree it wasn't my best turn of phrase. Worked in my head!
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by akharris 6y ago
There are quite a few VC firms that model what you're talking about - for instance I think this describes what Garry's doing at Initialized. But raising money is a choice that some founders will make because their businesses requi
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by akharris 6y ago
I don't think it makes sense to lump a whole group of people into a single categorization this way. You're right that being seen as good helps drive deal flow, but, again, most of the people I've worked with are actually pret
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by akharris 6y ago
Demo Day does this for YC companies. Angel List does it, to some extent. Other than that, it doesn't exist. Got some thoughts on this part of the dynamic in the works.
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by akharris 6y ago
I'm not sure that any founder should make a decision based on a future prediction of sustainability. Each founder should make decisions based on the environment he encounters when making a decision. In this case, the imbalance has exis
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by akharris 6y ago
There's good stuff on YC's Startup School Library: https://www.ycombinator.com/library?categories=Fundraising%2...
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by akharris 6y ago
You brought great material! Just happy I could help nudge it along.
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by akharris 6y ago
This is such a kind thing to say. Thank you. It certainly helps that our conversations have always been so interesting. Can’t wait for our next one.
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by akharris 6y ago
There's no higher compliment. My Bubbe would have been proud to hear it.
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by akharris 6y ago
Thank you sir! Glad to have played a small role.
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by akharris 6y ago
Thanks so much!
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by akharris 6y ago
Wow, what a nice thing to say. Loved working with you as well. The world needs what you're doing, and I'm happy to have helped even a little.
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by akharris 6y ago
Thanks so much Greg. I've always enjoyed working with you and watching what you build and do (and draw). I'm always happy to help, whenever you need it.

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