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I have been thinking about perception of risk in the startup funding market today — and this got me thinking about SUVs…
Phin Barnes
I’m joining The General Partnership
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Watching the train wreck of Donald Trump and looking for something to learn from it, I started thinking about power and the way folks…
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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
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
Over the last few weeks I have been able to spend time with a bunch of individual investors (aka “solo capitalists”) learning about their…
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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…
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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…
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Everyone talks about building minimum viable product (MVP) but a culture of minimum viable failure is much more valuable for founders at…
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It feels so good to be certain that you can lose sight of being right…
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One of the most limited and important resources founders have is emotional energy. I think of this emotional energy as a rope. The longer…
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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…
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