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by light_triad 2y ago
Sam has always been very skilled at dealing with the media: making grand pronouncements, apocalyptic statements, save the word predictions, rag to riches hero stories. Which is fine. It's hard to get anyone to pay attention to anything
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by light_triad 2y ago
Great job staying healthy and active! I think what you're going through is fairly normal. If you are super ambitious, want to start a company and work on side projects, realise that it puts you in sub 1% of the population. Most people
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by light_triad 2y ago
Lenny recently interviewed YC's Dalton Caldwell which you might also like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7LvNTbaqSI
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by light_triad 2y ago
Great they share specific metrics and give a sense of how they evaluate companies, although all First Round articles have this tendency to be so overdesigned it takes away from the content. The discussion on Lenny's podcast is easier t
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by light_triad 2y ago
Instead of cloning well known sites I would talk to people and try to solve their problems. There's a big difference between people telling you they'll use your product and people actually using it. The bar is extremely high since
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by light_triad 3y ago
Totally agree. What I mean is many research topics can be very interesting from a technical perspective but don't translate into solving problems that are frequent and important enough to build a business around. In the case of Search
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by light_triad 3y ago
Hopefully 2 Stanford CS PhD students hacking on their project would be funded by YC today :) You bring up a good point about starting from the tech rather than the problem. Usually the advice from VCs is to start from the problem and iterat
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by light_triad 3y ago
I agree with you I meant reputational risk and the amount of output per level of input. It's hard to be as hungry once you've 'made it' or at least, your drive changes. Arguably at that level you can have more impact as
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by light_triad 3y ago
As Michael has said in one of the shows getting to PMF is a miracle. If you’re already set for life it’s less risky to play the odds by investing in hundreds of startups rather than starting one. Also there’s altruistic motives in giving ba
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by light_triad 3y ago
Great resources - thanks for sharing! You can also access their 990 form: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810... The critical issues for OpenAI is that structurally the cost of collecting
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by light_triad 5y ago
Thank you for your reply and for the links. Much appreciated.
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by light_triad 5y ago
Congrats Spenser & team! I hadn't realised that you pivoted a couple of times before starting Amplitude. Do you have any advice for powering through in the early days and evaluating startup ideas to get beyond the dreaded 0 to 1 st