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...timing issue. I love that in terms of the phrasing, the shifting of, like, favor for them, not favor for you. How many of those conversations do you have before you find a discernible pattern which you're willing to bet against versus an anomalous co
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...at the early stages. Yeah. We had this joke last time because I was born in '96, which I think is the year you entered. Exactly. Yeah. So, you've accomplished a lot in a short time, Harry. I I'm the founder of BoldStart Ventures. Started that in 2010
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...that in the early days. So I say the first chapter was, yeah, characterized by you know, it just feels like one one moment I'm sort of paddling in the ocean alone on a little board. The next, I'm just, like, a 100 feet off the ground on this tidal wa
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...stages. One is the first phase is where they have not really even decided to be a founder. I just think they're high quality, and I'm hoping that they will get there one day. The second phase is kind of the founder curious phase, and this is a really
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how a bottoms up approach that SurveyMonkey did sort of revolutionized enterprise software. They haven't done the diligence to understand how to sell or have a prototype based upon history, and it's the same pattern of behavior that I see in fundrais
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in the early days, I don't think that grill would be applicable because there's so much uncertainty. You need to navigate much more tactically in the early days and the early years of building a company. The the framework applies better to profession
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But that's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. You know, you're you're able to move on and, and and learn what you really need in a cofounder instead. And you've been wildly successful with this. It's worked very well. Yeah. We've we've built compani
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And in a country where they have very low unemployment and plenty of jobs available, it's a very interesting, moment in time when people will give up the security of those jobs to take the risk of starting a company, and that's what we do at our fund
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...on stage, so a live demo is quite underwhelming. So that took a few years off my life. But, fortunately, we had accumulated this big, beta waiting list from base from basically doing this, another version of that Hacker News video, engineered to be e
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...in those early days, we we also collaborated a ton. We were we were kind of the new kids on the block and the Mike Maples, of course.
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this is a great path to get you going. And if you're not sure if the thing you're gonna build is gonna turn into that, you know, $80,000,000 exit in, you know, in six months, we believe this is a good chance to improve your odds. People hearing this
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Even before we we have written the first line of code, we don't have a product, but we ask you how would you evaluate that product, how would you run a POV for that product. Essentially, we ask all the tough questions in the first few months for the
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...risk on an early stage startup, they're very, very open to that. So our companies are just getting to revenue. You know, they're making, they're getting to a 100 to 500 k of of ARR within the first, you know, six weeks of of getting here, which is wh
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Depends on who you ask whether or not the ultimate returns are better for VCs from first time or not first time founders. The other thing to note is there's just a lot more founders around today. The pool of people who have started a company before i
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