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Driving an SUV, Perception of Risk and Learning per $
I have been thinking about perception of risk in the startup funding market today — and this got me thinking about SUVs…
Phin Barnes
May 31, 2019
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My choice to do the work: Joining The General Partnership
I’m joining The General Partnership
Phin Barnes
Feb 23
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Meditation on power and insecurity
Watching the train wreck of Donald Trump and looking for something to learn from it, I started thinking about power and the way folks…
Phin Barnes
Nov 13, 2020
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Near miss or clear miss?
So you missed your metrics — it’s ok. When you lead a startup, you will miss. No one has ever done what you are doing and you have to…
Phin Barnes
Oct 15, 2020
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A Small Sign of Big Growth for a CEO
In my house we have a doorway that is covered in pencil marks — they measure my daughter’s height in somewhat random increments from the…
Phin Barnes
Sep 17, 2020
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Checklist Manifesto
Over the last few weeks I have been able to spend time with a bunch of individual investors (aka “solo capitalists”) learning about their…
Phin Barnes
Sep 14, 2020
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Zero zeros
The CEO job is to to get started and go from Zero to one — but quickly it becomes maximizing the product of the complex multiplication…
Phin Barnes
Aug 20, 2019
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Self-confidence is the foundation of focus — to get more done, take time for yourself.
The best founders I work with spend their time on a power law curve — almost all their attention is placed on the very few things that…
Phin Barnes
Jun 5, 2019
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Minimum Viable Failure
Everyone talks about building minimum viable product (MVP) but a culture of minimum viable failure is much more valuable for founders at…
Phin Barnes
May 15, 2019
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Chasing the feeling of knowing
It feels so good to be certain that you can lose sight of being right…
Phin Barnes
Jan 14, 2019
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A length of rope
One of the most limited and important resources founders have is emotional energy. I think of this emotional energy as a rope. The longer…
Phin Barnes
Jun 15, 2017
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Cultural Inflection — beware the effect of success
You want me to put my Jeezys in there? Seriously? AND 1 started as a group of ball players on a mission to build the number one basketball company in…
Phin Barnes
Jun 6, 2012
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