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"Threads is a Slack replacement designed for makers," from https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadsgroupinc/

You're going to get a ton of skepticism, but I think it's possible in a dense area to find enough people who have enough overlap in the staples they consume who are willing to pay …

I am involved with a company called Teamshares that helps small businesses convert to employee ownership. A big part of what makes it work is exposing company financials to all emp…

The funny thing is this is more functional (and took longer to create) than the first version of DoorDash.

Entering the working world does not mean you have to give up diving deeply into new topics!

Our real estate and land markets seem hyper fragmented, not close to being a monopoly? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

When I've seen founders try to keep investors at arms length it seems to result in mistrust, leaving investors feeling like they can't get the real story, and thus decreasing the l…

My guess is he means that VCs don't make decisions out of friendship.

thx so much for showing an example, very helpful. btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.

I agree, but the opportunists are within that set

One trick to catch opportunists: start with those looking to increase their headcount faster than baseline (as any good opportunist will attempt), and then see if they will adopt a…

This seems like an extreme stretch and the motive doesn't check out. Oride was shut down two weeks ago for reasons unrelated to competition. https://www.pymnts.com/news/ridesharing…

I think you underestimate owner costs of turnover. Risking an empty apartment for even a few weeks can erase your yield for the whole year. Landlords, then, are only likely to hike…

I'm weary of getting into this, but I don't think that's the right conclusion from the beach issue. I'm not intimately familiar but if you care about it, I'd recommend reading what…

Thanks for sharing! I was just searching github for something like this for my own wedding.

Love the persistence. Happy to help edit your app or do a mock interview. Random idea for your product you've probably heard before - wedding website providers might be a good chan…

Interestingly YC has encouraged startups to offer more equity to early employees and I'm not sure it's had an effect. See pg's recommendation in http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

Customers are also a great source of project ideas. You can pick a customer, like "small business owner" or "wealth advisor," and interview them. My favorite question that leads to…

I once visited a career office at a community college that I wanted to hire out of. What I saw was crushing - a small office run by a student volunteer with nothing but a few binde…

If this is easy for you, you should quit engineering and run a growth equity fund.

We're a startup that builds software to simplify real estate, and we use capital markets to power that experience. The ability to buy the home directly allows us to put the homeown…

While great CEOs of large companies do edit much more than they write, I see early stage CEOs that think they can start editing right away, because they're the CEO. For the first c…

whoa.. I think we were literally in the same class at Lab. Nice to see you here!

Btw, David Derbes, the writer, is perhaps the most overqualified high school physics teacher there is. (He was my teacher.)