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Correct. But the speaker industrial complex requires you to actually publish a book to get those speaking fees which is how everyone actually makes money.
The problem with business/startup advice books is 98% of the time they are better off just being a long article.
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@realEstateTrent
This is why—if possible—smaller buildings built with a “campus” feel will always trump large houses (for me). The other benefit: it turns the outdoors into some of the most used space
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Winning at hiring—especially in competitive situations where you don't have $$—is one of the two most validating things as an entrepreneur.
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NYC hospitals moving to block birth partners and doula support for pregnant women as they try to keep OB units safe. Yes, btw, I'm expecting a baby girl in 3-5 weeks. 🙏 for rapid diagnostics in that time. Thankful my wife is stronger than I am.
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3) For many businesses, equity capital is the worst option possible. But a generation of entrepreneurs have been brainwashed by echochamber.
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And we’re up! Thanks to
@mariodgabriele
for wanting to put a spotlight on Africa—and all collaborators for helping tease apart a lot of dense subjects
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Out of the bag. MT
@FortuneMagazine
: Kitchensurfing raises $15M from Tiger Global, Union Square Ventures, Spark:
http://t.co/bgA7PLesP4
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@nikitabier
Most things you own in NYC are co-ops or condos… and monthly service fees need to be factored into your pricing
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I just realized that Growth Hacking is Internet culture's version of being a Pickup Artist.
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It's important to remember that you really do choose your own reality. For me, I get stuck in a place of nothing ever being good enough. Sometimes it results in good work and sometimes it's just suffocating. So watching hundreds of reviews roll in like this is 😍
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Getting notes from friends and acquaintances about how much joy they've gotten from cooking in their Field Skillets (often with their kids) is a real pleasure.
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1/ Been thinking about this for a few days.
The internet has become a channel to harvest, rather than build, brands.
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Whoever figures out how to build the first real millennial franchisable business will do amazingly well.
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@asemota
If you want to get a sense for how powerful computing is in the financial world... it is literally changing the human world and people don't know. Friend of mine gave this talk in 2011:
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Who would have thought that cast iron has a higher number of DAUs than any other product I've built?
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Andy
@dunn
of Bonobos is doing some of the best writing on business / startups since
@bhorowitz
started writing.
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Kicking around Africa and frontier markets at the beginning of the crypto revolution has been eye opening— incredibly excited for all of the amazing things in front of Yele and Nestcoin.
Today marks the beginning of a new and exciting journey.
I'm pleased to introduce Nestcoin
@nestcoin
. We're building, operating and investing in simple products that make crypto accessible for everyday people in frontier markets
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@kuaicash
Would say that if you can't get in-market local investors interested at pre-seed / seed you are making a mistake. see
@kola_aina
@voltronafrica
@LoftyIncVC
@MushaVentures
@anafricanfuture
@timoncap
@GoldenPalmVC
etc
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@signorabraham
@EghosaO
African venture has a different problem… needing funds to be a certain size to throw off enough management fees to be viable businesses… and not necessarily enough venture trajectory companies to support those sized funds
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Every mid-stage startup in NY is looking for a head of marketing these days... and almost none of them know what they're looking for.
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Most of the best things in my life have happened as a result of persistent and unreasonable actions.
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Africa is the future of youth on planet earth, worth paying attention to gerontocrats election behavior in Zambia, Uganda, etc. Can’t wait for more services delivered from space…
WhatsApp is “down” in Zambia on our General Election.
Friends in the rest of the world, please signal boost this. Pls RT. Pls share; pls get this in front of change makers.
The internet is our global commons, and everyone’s best bet at safeguarding the good of the people.
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Trust as non-commodity.
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@nateliason
That's if you kept it as a loan against assets and didn't convert it to a mortgage. My understanding is a lot of people did portfolio loans to buy all cash / win competitive deals... and then hopefully rolled that quickly into a 30 year at 3%
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@IAtalkspace
Think it's a little more nuanced. If you want to push a message that has real content or depth—you go local. If you want to communicate with more global capital markets, that's not the path.
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I don’t really know why it seems to be going in this direction… but as I get older the most joy always seems to be found in doing the work. That wasn’t always the case and I’m grateful for the evolution.
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@asemota
@just_norm
I think it's very likely that many of the "tech" winners in Africa end up having to pursue deep vertical integration into very non "tech" things to actually get larger scale.
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I find myself trying to trace through repercussions of things happening... let's try a bit here— Sur la Table is one of the major cookware retailers (along with Williams Sonoma)
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Because "synergy" is usually non-existent... and the thing that actually drives long term value is hard to pin down and decades in the making (brand). Roll-up of pay for revenue with no economies of scale...
Always thought a dominant holdco would emerge for various online DTC brands - basically have a common ad tech/CRM stack, consolidated shipping rates to benefit from scale and shared back office functions.
Has yet to happen. Curious as to why.
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Bravo
@patrickc
@collision
-- stellar is ballsy, wildly ambitious, and smart:
http://t.co/cojnfD0pTY
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Fun project to work on and in great company
Extremely excited for The Generalist's upcoming piece:
"Tech in Africa"
Meet the team...
@iaboyeji
@Nicho0le
@haydenalcalde
@sgrin77
@LewamKefela
@Daudex
@aaronqfu
@cm
@lymusing
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One of the more interesting things to follow in the world right now. Go
@mwiyas
My latest: African tech leaders are pushing to transform Zambia into a haven for crypto, startups and their employees.
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It took almost a year, but very excited to be working with
@jontien
to build
@Kitchensurfing
to it's full potential:
http://t.co/bwjKUo15CT
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Today: giving a talk trying to synthesize years of thoughts on the relationship between humans, tools, materials, human craft and materials as technologies for a group of people building the foundational layers of bio manufacturing. Wish me luck.
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Kickstarter is an amazing way to learn many truths about the Internet in a very condensed period of time.
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1) I'm a fan of local business,
@dhaber
, and
@onbondstreet
showing people there's other paths than startup-land:
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56 hours left on Kickstarter. $1M barrier cracked. All that's left is to do good things with good people.
In the
@casamono
kitchen with chef asassonyc. Cast iron is the new a la plancha. @ Casa Mono/Bar…
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Investors are insecure about whether they are helpful (most aren't). All they need to do to be helpful: help paint target for milestones needed for next raise. Do that clearly with good intel and stop armchair quarterbacking and you're better than 99% of all other investors.
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@_SirWilliam_
To be fair, the cold blooded way this usually goes down is employee stock options expire worthless because they can’t afford to exercise within the window (standard used to be within 3 months of leaving the company)
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Amazing businesses that are overlooked: Ookla / Speedtest. 360M mobile installs...
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Getting deep into the details of manufacturing and shipping gives you a whole new perspective on the infrastructure of the world.
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Today, I had the pleasure of being a Kitchensurfing chef again—showing up at a friend's house fully equipped to make an amazing breakfast instead of "going out" somewhere. It was magic all over again.
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Why is populism happening now? Why is there growing resentment towards Silicon Valley? A useful chart...
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4) Which is backwards. You need meaning first, before money. Then no one can take that away from you. Money just helps connect some dots.
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Always a pleasure watching people who want the web to be a good place launch new communities—
Hi everyone!
I'm really excited to announce something I've been working on.
It's called Breadwinner (
@tryBreadwinner
) and it's a community for bakers.
It will help you find new recipes, log your bakes, and give your starter a home on the web:
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Heard from an exec chef that job applicants at the restaurant are starting to put Kitchensurfing on their resumes.
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@just_norm
@Kdenkss
Generally: global investors DD process on African startups has been terrible. Investors will still look for the trees, but expect pace to be slower and DD process to be a lot more thorough. And less trust in local VCs that have been party to big gaffs
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Some good writing and thinking from
@Kdenkss
on the collision of major through lines of the 21st century: African population rising, democracy, bad leadership, AI, and a dose of optimism
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Irony: getting invited to apply to Shark Tank, asking some fair but difficult questions, and then having those questions dodged.
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Franchising is a very interesting way to decentralize a capital intensive food business. Something the startup world forgot.
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LA folks, opportunity to grab one of the most talented iOS folks out there cc:
@paigecraig
@davidlee
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Pinterest freaks me out. When I get notified a friend is following me I feel like I'm being discovered contributing to a women's magazine.
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I think this is what it looks like when you "cross the chasm"... ?
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I love doing customer service, especially as you're just getting something off the ground.
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Little something new from Kitchensurfing in the AppStore—$25 / person weeknight meals made by a chef in your kitchen.
http://t.co/mH5ckL74Sn
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Getting some excellent results from
@thepizzabook
and
@aq
&
@mrb_bk
—and a bit of cast iron as a heat radiator!
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@oliviercantin
@realEstateTrent
It's very property dependent, but the kinds of things that can be wonderful—
- Main house with bedrooms for nuclear family / likely large kitchen and dining area for central gatherings
- Guest houses wonderful to have friends and family visit more often vs. "in your space"...
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This lobster club sandwich has at least a full pound of lobster meat in it:
http://t.co/tu36P52uaz
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Spinning tunes back in the office after our highest booked day ever and firming up our Q1 OKRs. Go, go, go 2014.
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“Starting a marketplace is hard. Scaling a marketplace is harder.” by
@oisinhanrahan
of
@Handy
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Can we have a conversation about more inspiring choices for a running mate for Biden in a country that needs to heal? Current names don't get you there. Where's Michelle Obama?
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@signorabraham
@EghosaO
But I should also declare my priors—I think the venture style of financing is a mismatch for Africa in many ways and that something that looks like a hybrid of VC / PE / would probably have much better returns.
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Software developers get PTSD too. People that are hiring need to be aware of that.
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They know more about US geography than most US Citizens. And to the Q: "What can you do to improve democracy?" No hesitation A: "Vote." /2
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Looking for Shopify and Wordpress developers—who's out there? who knows good people?
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Big score for
@Benchmark
to land
@scottbelsky
. Great firm just got greater—and a big boost of heart.
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"The Field Skillet... has caught on like a runaway grease fire" -
@racheltepper
in
@foodandwine
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Brilliant thing about Patagonia—they do an amazing job of fierce dedication to their values without over proselytizing. It's the ultimate kind of inclusivity.
A friend recently told me he wants to spend the next decade enabling and supporting 10,000 companies like
@Patagonia
:
Values driven
Financially sustainable
Impactful
Ethical
Stakeholder focused
Long-term focused
I hope he goes after his vision. The world needs these companies.
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Pro-tip: if you're soliciting by email and trying to personalize it, but I see different type sizes (copy/paste), you're doing it wrong.
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This is a thing that could start to change the world very quickly...
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This comment by Neal Stephenson on creation, humanity and machines has stuck with me for a handful of weeks.
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Isn't the lesson from Soviet Russia that it's easier to send rockets into space than solve the complex coordination problem of feeding and providing basic needs for a lot of people?
Tesla: Pulled off an engineering/design miracle, stock now ~ flat over six years.
Domino's: New pizza sauce, stock up 6x in six years.
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Fun surprise: give a talk to a bunch of NYU Stern MBA students and find out one of them is an amateur Kitchensurfing chef doing bookings.
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I'm pretty sure it's not possible to do great things on a shoe string without pissing some people off along the way.
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Amen. Too much cash too early generally brings out the worst in everyone (founders, teams, and VCs).
Lower valuations don't mean more dilution. They mean doing more with less. That's the whole point of a startup.
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