Burnout in startups doesn't really come from working long hours or stress.
It comes from a loss of purpose & direction, often when something doesn't work out as expected.
Ali Moiz
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Ali Moiz
@ali_moiz
helping founders win. founder: PilotGPT, @Streamlabs @peanutlabsmedia; angel: Angellist, Mercury, Airbnb, USMobile, Jar, Mesh. opinions are my own. πΊπΈπ΅π°π¨π¦
- The best startup advice to potential founders I've heard: Get started. The rest will follow.
- Un-busying yourself is one of the highest-leverage things you can do as a startup founder.
- AI is now the top theme at YC and almost half the batch is working on it. Here are a few that we invested in:
- okay okay, crazy idea hear me out πΎ A VC index fund, that ANYONE (incl. retail, non-accred) can invest in... ...that is ALSO publicly-listed and tradeable (via any brokerage account) π€― π / π ?
- This is the greatest time to invest in a generation.
- Replying to @Betar_USAShouldnβt an account like this be banned for calling for murder/blood? @elonmusk
- Why aren't more startups funded based on retention, rather than just growth? Imo - growth can look high with unprofitable CAC / marketing spend. But there's no way to make retention look great, without actually being great.
- As an early-stage 0 to 1 founder, you only have 2 jobs: talk to customers (70%) build (30%) Ignore everything else. All other advice on things like hiring, PMs, strategy etc is from folks in the growth phase going 1 to 100, not 0 to 1.
- Why do legal fees for closing a priced round cost so darn much? We're looking at $75k-100k for Stonks, which is NUTS considering how standard and replicable this work is. Somebody needs to disrupt priced rounds with a SAFE, the way @paulg did for early rounds.
- It takes about a decade to do a startup. Your 20s, 30s, and 40s -- each of them will be ONE startup, if you actually see it through to an exit. New founders -- you're signing up to give a decade of your life (on avg). Still want to do it? Drop me your pitch below π
- Hereβs to startup folks who are working today πͺππ
- Some observations on venture and investing: 1. Every VC fund will soon have their own pre-seed accelerator or boot camp (following YC, Seqouia, a16z) 2. Late stage companies will run tenders every year to manage liquidity for employees, and delay going public. 3. Employees