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Alternative VCs

I love the idea of reinventing venture capital. Here are some great examples: Patagonia’s venture capital fund: invests in environmentally and socially responsible start-up companies, providing long-term, patient capital. I highly recommend reading Let My People Go Surfing by founder Yvon Chouinard. Y Combinator: invests small sums at the seed stage, but in large batches…

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January 7, 2019October 8, 2019 by Remo Uherek

Obsess about growth

Here are two fantastic posts from Y Combinator‘s Sam Altman and Paul Graham. Startup advice, briefly: Basically everything what Sam Altman knows, condensed in a very short and excellent post. Do things that don’t scale: Excellent essay by Paul Graham Key parts: “Listen to what your users tell you, improve your product, and then listen again. Keep…

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December 13, 2016June 2, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Call your users

I’ve written about Y Combinator‘s mantra before: Talk to your users! Here is what I have done recently: I’ve written a short email to 100 of the most active Exsila users and asked them if they would like to do a short phone call with me. I asked them to send me their phone number and their availability….

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November 8, 2016June 2, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Talk to users

Y Combinator — a successful start-up incubator — has a mantra: Talk to your users! Here is Y Combinator’s advice from the How to Start a Startup Lecture Series at Stanford (which I highly recommend!): “At YC, we tell founders to work on their product, talk to users, exercise, eat and sleep, and very little else. All the other…

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November 5, 2016June 2, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Venture Leaders Boston 2008

Case Study Starbucks vs. Dunkin Donuts:Coffee at Dunkin stays warm for 2 hours; Coffee at Starbucks only 15–30 min. Learning: An apparantly tiny thing such as a different cup material can have huge implications. The coffee doesn’t matter, its the cup! Jessica Livingston — Author of the fantastic book ‘Founders at Work’ — her next book will be published…

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June 21, 2008May 20, 2020 by Remo Uherek

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