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“The harsh reality about startup employees risking everything for equity dreams”
...just, like, the reality of startups. And, you know, for for the founders, I completely agree. Right? I mean, you have decided to embark this insane founder journey and have a big mission that we're w
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contrarian take29:18 – 30:02
...reality startup in, in Menlo Park. And they flew me out, and, you know, we'd all read Snow Crash and the same sci fi books. And they It's coming. It's coming next year for sure. It's been coming for a long time. And they sold me on this incredible vi
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...movement. So, Steve Blank and Eric Ries created this methodology called lean startup. He's an entrepreneur, and he's just really awesome. And he created this methodology along with Eric Ries. Eric Ries wrote the book, lean startup. And you want to cr
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...is Silicon Valley. That's true, especially when you're talking about SaaS and AI. But that's not always true. There are really, really strong ecosystems for STEM businesses and deep tech businesses that are not the Valley. So outside of Los Angeles,
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“90% of startups fail - here's the brutal reality nobody talks about”
seem reckless. So how how did you come to terms with that risk, and how should others It is a huge risk. And, it put you under financial stress and mental stress, because as you said, you go from sta
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personal lesson4:40 – 5:19
...lean startup. He's an entrepreneur, and he's just really awesome. And he created this methodology along with Eric Ries. Eric Ries wrote the book, lean startup. And you want to create a hypothesis and run an experiment, and then you can iterate on tha
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...to This Week in Startups. I'm your host, Jason Calacanis. I am still in Japan and loving it. We've had an amazing time here launching Founder University. What's Founder University? If you haven't been listening to the program, in the past year, where
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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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...for a startup going up against an incumbent is when there's this kind of shift happening. What if right now is the best time in decades to start a company? In this episode, taken from Speedrun, a three month accelerator powered by a 16 z designed to
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Five, ten years ago, if you asked students, undergrads at the what's regarded as the top prestigious university, University of Tokyo, what do you wanna do upon graduation? The vast majority of them would have said work at a blue chip well known compa
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I don't think that all STEM founders necessarily need to be as focused on San Francisco as the SaaS founders are. So that's one point of advice. The second one is I think that there's going to be a wave of investors who are more interested in buildin
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in this era. And now you can pitch them to come list with you. Yeah. So and it's actually but it turned out to be for the best because, because I I went up on a path that I wouldn't I wouldn't trade for anything. But it's certainly I mean, you know,
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It's like, well, do people wanna live in ghost towns? And you know what? New York, a lot of the the sky rises and lofts are filled with Russian, Chinese money being parked in Manhattan, and they're ghost towns. And people are like, I have a I have a
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not be one of the laid off people or displaced people, which is a combination of, obviously, learning how to use these tools and being one of the survivors or starting your own product service, being a founder. Those are, I think, the two cleanest pa
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search, great search, great search. That was that was key to standing out. Fast forward to 2014, and we're working with this tiny company who's now competing with Gmail, who's now like sort of the market leader people are used to using in, you know,
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...in startups. Launching a startup takes vision, but also countless legal and financial decisions that can quickly become overwhelming. Even the most dedicated and hardworking founder, they're gonna spend most of their time focused on building their te
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