Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). A recent large example of this would be how companies like Uber and Instagram leverage the iPhone’s sensors to create new networks.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

If you are a problem insider, interview people from your personal network and ask these open questions among others: How much time and/or money are they are losing due to existing inefficiencies? These early adopters play a critical role, helping you sharpen your value proposition and spread the word. How to find them?

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing. Second, network effects that enable the business to grow faster as it scales. But, competition increases costs.

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