Entrepreneur. Looking for something new. Former Co-Founder & CEO of Beenest and Bee Token. Former lead engineer @Uber. Boba is bad for you.
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The best fundraising method is 1. Know the space better than the VCs 2. Achieve results faster than the “silicon valley standard” 3. Believe in yourself and your team - as a founder you are always investor #1 – at San Francisco, CA
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Jeremy Lin: “Being a 9-year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court.” facebook.com/145650535458406…
After talking to hundreds of candidates, I'm impressed by the level of independent thinking for candidates based in the Bay Area.
Though I wish it wasn't true though for a variety of reasons.
I wonder if the fear of failure is the greatest impediment to human progress.
And I wonder how we can fix that stigma.
What makes leaders strong is failure.
When their employees or reports face the same failure - a great leader knows how to handle the situation and get the employee back up.
Failure is inevitable, it's how you deal with it that makes all the difference.
Imposter syndrome is still so crazy to me sometimes.
Being in Silicon Valley for 5-6 years has made me realize: no matter how stacked your resume is, you will never know 100% whether you're ready.
If you want something, just go for it. The only way to learn is trial and error.
Still havent used before but should probably check it out I guess
Neighborhood social network Nextdoor raises $123 million at $2.1 billion valuation venturebeat.com/2019/05/14/n…
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You can have anything you want, but you can't have everything you want. Targeting the former is a goal; targeting the latter will set you up to suffer.
For all engineers complaining about how hard it is to learn non-engineering skills: it's much harder the other way around (non-engineering -> engineering).
And even that's possible in 3-9 months through code camps like @lamdaschool or @hackreactor.
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>tfw you're the first person to even suggest living in space with a viable plan and everyone else is hitching a ride.
*Dab*
Apple's Screentime feature has dramatically reduced my time spent on phones and computers. And it's great.
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Long Term Stock Exchange is now approved by the SEC!
🦄 Let startups go public earlier
🙅🏻♂️ Prevent short-term corporate raiders from strip-mining small-to-mid-cap IPOs
👼🏻 Let the public participate in tech gains
🤲🏻 Add transparency/liquidity to startups
qz.com/1616791/the-long-term…
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The most important growth metric for early consumer startups: Long term cohort retention.
Most startups fail so most of them go straight to 0%
At minimum consumer startups that survive get to 25% or more, staying stable at that level for years growthengblog.com/blog/the-m…