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Startups and Libertarian Populism

As more and more people look to the startup community to save our nation and our economy, it is only reasonable for things to get way more political. As more former bankers and teachers and rodeo clowns start companies, we’re witnessing the emergence of entrepreneurs as a political bloc. But we are influenced by a [ READ MORE ]

How Entire Industries Become Unethical

Every office building in New York City grows by a few percent per year. Each stuffy pre-war tower, art-deco complex and shiny corporate center. They’re all growing, like those Kafkaesque SimTower projects that added a few lone offices to the roof each quarter when the rent came in. Except they’re not actually growing — just [ READ MORE ]

Learning from Failure is Hard, Learning from Success is Harder

Unqualified lessons are hard to wring from startups. It’s difficult to really understand something without doing it, and no two people who do it have identical experiences. That said, I’ve seen two schools of thought on how to learn from others’ startup experiences: 1) It’s best to learn from success. Stories of failures have no [ READ MORE ]

Your Decisions are Wrong. Is Your Methodology?

I made a lot of mistakes while running GoCrossCampus. Lots of people ask me questions that more or less amount to “If you could have done X differently, what would you have done?” I always answer these questions sincerely. “Oh, I would’ve done A rather than B and C rather than D” or something like [ READ MORE ]

Venture Fundraising in Four Graphs

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In Defense of Lifestyle

You don’t have a company. You have a job. - Yale prof and Honest Tea founder Barry Nalebuff, to me, September 2006 I was in college at the time, running a small antique furniture reseller called Aloysius Properties on the side. Aloysius was a fun business. We realized that Ivy League schools, especially our own [ READ MORE ]

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