https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/public/ recent bookmarks from earth2marsh 2026-03-23T00:00:46+00:00 https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits/ earth2marshKuhn argued that scientists are stubborn within a framework of beliefs, which he called a paradigm. Because it provides a structure that lets them build on and improve existing theories, scientists will not abandon a paradigm until they have to. Paradigms provide a path forward. Entrepreneurship research does not have a paradigm. Or, rather, it has too many, none compelling enough to be unifying. This means that people who think about entrepreneurship as a science have no shared guide to which problems are worth tackling, what observations mean, or how to improve theories that are not quite right. Without a paradigm, researchers are just thrashing around, talking past each other.]]> startups economics VC venturecapital https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e46be7c4ae7f/ 2025-07-19T23:50:13+00:00 https://archive.ph/2025.07.08-003208/https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-a-maximum-viable-promise-beats-an-mvp earth2marshSelling the Dream, Surviving the Real There is a temptation to divide the founder journey into two phases: storytelling, then execution. But these are not sequential. They are parallel, interleaved, recursive. Promising something ambitious forces you to grow into it. Promising something safe tempts you to coast. To promise well is to obligate yourself to rise. To put a reputation on the line. To make a public bet with the future. This is why the best promises feel slightly too large. They contain the risk that you might be wrong, and the humility to admit you aren’t there yet. But if they’re viable - if they reflect something you truly believe you can earn - they are also magnetic. The founder becomes the focal point of a new gravitational center. Employees orbit. Investors orbit. Customers orbit. Not around the current product, but around the future that product gestures toward]]> startups narrative storytelling mvp productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:6c7e950220ef/ 2025-05-24T06:34:46+00:00 https://keith.is/blog/the-end-of-glitch-even-though-they-say-it-isnt/ earth2marshI was genuinely excited. Fastly’s edge computing platform seemed like the perfect technical foundation for Glitch’s next chapter. Finally, we could focus on the creative tools and community features instead of constantly firefighting infrastructure issues. That… didn’t work out as planned. Without getting into the weeds (bridges to maintain and all), I’ll just say that the challenges of integrating a creative, community-focused platform into a more traditional enterprise infrastructure company proved harder than anyone anticipated. Different cultures, different priorities, different definitions of success. The official post mentions that “it takes a lot of time and money to run millions of apps” and points to abuse issues. While both are true, that’s not the whole story. Glitch was never going to be a cash cow, but it didn’t need to be. It needed to be valued for what it was: a place where the next generation of developers got their start and I like the fontography and design choices! ]]> startups hosting acquisitions glitch culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:1f38f4b85d88/ 2025-01-05T17:49:16+00:00 https://getfullyear.com/ earth2marshEvery January 1st, millions of developers face the same crisis: outdated footer years. It's 2025, and we're still updating copyright years manually like we're in 1999. It's time for a change.]]> satire humor startups dates webdev https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f7f336a8ca28/ 2024-12-06T02:51:34+00:00 https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/132k-149k-heres-what-seed-stage-founders-pay-early-employees-based-on-data/ earth2marshNevertheless, here are the average salaries of founder executives, according to Kruze: CEO: $132,000 CTO: $134,000 COO/Operations: $135,000 Product/CPO: $149,000]]> salaries compensation startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c4f49fe0ce47/ 2024-11-25T04:46:34+00:00 https://stackingthebricks.com/5-things-i-wish-id-known-before-founding-saas/ earth2marshHere are five things I wish I’d known when I started Noko, things that would have made my life so much more profitable and pleasurable.]]> business entrepreneurship startups culture tips https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:1e75041f02fe/ 2024-10-08T19:59:38+00:00 https://ehandbook.com/how-bad-entrepreneurs-reveal-themselves-in-the-first-5-seconds-of-a-pitch-3238835c5486 earth2marshFor example, instead of saying, “We’re building a platform that connects X with Y,” say, “Right now, people who do X struggle with Y because of Z. It’s a huge pain point, and it’s costing them time and money.” Now, you’re leading with the problem. You’re speaking to the pain that your potential customers are feeling. You’re making them the center of the story, not your product.]]> business entrepreneurship productmanagement startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d6bb9b6bbb3a/ 2024-08-15T06:34:40+00:00 https://archive.ph/2024.08.09-145545/https://preseednow.com/p/praise-bootstrapping-breaking-vc-narrative earth2marshhow a certain startup would “only ever be a lifestyle business”… as if it was a bad thing to have a business without a bunch of investors on its board and cap table, bringing in enough revenue to give its founders a good life and perhaps even provide jobs for others. It’s time, once and for all, that we accepted that VC is just one way of building a business. If you want your company to one day get listed on the stock market or acquired for billions of dollars, play the VC game. But let’s not think less of people who don’t feel like a good fit for that approach.]]> venture alternatives finance funding startups vc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5b4c8b1d197f/ 2024-07-19T06:00:06+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-laws-startup-physics-eric-paley-ekzxe earth2marshIf you lack confidence in the ROI of your investments, the best thing to do is pause and experiment with a new thesis – as inexpensively as possible. A pause might negatively impact your relationship with investors and your team. However, to win you must ensure your team invests capital wisely to create long-term intrinsic value. It is better to slow things down and reorient towards sustainable growth instead of pursuing an agenda that relies more on luck than logic.]]> programming business startups advice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:289a1fb80a43/ 2024-07-19T05:54:04+00:00 https://medium.com/@clear.ventures/traits-of-founding-teams-that-win-an-it-vcs-perspective-86185c261281 earth2marshfranchise companies, the durable winners that really mattered, needed a confluence of factors to align: High growth emerging market or large market that is ripe for disruption. Strong team with a compelling vision worth fighting for…as a tangible asset. A compelling product as an engine of a virtuous growth cycle. via Tim]]> startups teams venture advice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:2156ff7fe39f/ 2024-07-19T05:43:34+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-devprod-teams-got-funded-20-real-world-examples-abi-noda-qfbrc earth2marshKey takeaways The most common first projects are CI/CD tooling, cloud infrastructure, developer environments and developer productivity metrics. When starting out, it’s easiest to get buy-in for projects that solve acute pain points (e.g. slow build times) or that have clear value to executives (e.g. metrics). See if you can borrow engineers from other teams for a set period of time (see Lattice’s story). This can help kickstart a DevProd initiative.]]> platformengineering startups business funding examples https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:0639c186e0c4/ 2024-07-19T05:23:57+00:00 https://longform.asmartbear.com/problem/ earth2marshEvaluating startup viability This path of “problem” to “business model” is not the only factor that determines success. There are still questions like whether you can reach customers, get their attention in the noisy Internet and competitive space, can you do that cost-effectively, are company costs too high, do you have the skills, can you hire for skills, do you have enough time and money to do it, and so on. Still, we can evaluate the viability of this path with the following model. We’ll use Fermi Estimation to avoid the analysis-paralysis of deep research and arguing over details.]]> advice startups business productmanagement models pricing demand viability https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:667d30cd0696/ 2024-06-01T06:22:07+00:00 https://replicate.com/explore earth2marshRun AI with an API. Run and fine-tune open-source models. Deploy custom models at scale. All with one line of code.]]> ai startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9c4b2a704854/ 2024-03-15T01:39:05+00:00 https://www.llcuniversity.com/ earth2marshStarting an LLC shouldn’t be complicated or expensive. Our free step-by-step guides will make the process easy. Read more about LLC University, or choose your state and start an LLC today]]> legal business startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:69ff2e6ee3d1/ 2024-01-27T16:33:39+00:00 https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/ earth2marshFrom its launch, Ello defined itself as an alternative to ad-driven social networks like Twitter and Facebook. “You are not a product.” (The “I Disagree” button linked to Facebook’s privacy page.) I’d link to that manifesto on Ello’s site, but I can’t, because Ello is dead. In June 2023, the servers just started returning errors, making nine years of member contributions inaccessible, apparently forever — every post, artwork, song, portfolio, and the community built there was gone in an instant. How did this happen? What happened between the idealistic manifesto above and the sudden shutdown? It’s a story so old and familiar, I predicted it shortly after Ello launched.]]> history internet socialmedia startups vc capital business failure https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:0b19a7ea6853/ 2024-01-17T05:48:57+00:00 https://every.to/p/rise-of-the-silicon-valley-small-business?ref=refind earth2marshThe Silicon Valley Small Business, the SVSB, is a hybrid of sorts—it intertwines small business values and discipline with big-tech know-how and ambition. Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But beneath the surface, they’re different. They value autonomy and flexibility. You might see more solopreneurs and studios (and LLCs instead of C-corps) taking multiple shots. They envision a range of potentially good outcomes—not binary, all-or-nothing scenarios. Many peers who’ve founded or worked at high-growth VC-backed startups are now considering starting an SVSB. Teams stay small and run fast for as long as they can. I define a Silicon Valley Small Business as having 20 or fewer employees (and often fewer than 10). In my experience, startup teams above this size are forced to operate very differently—much slower, with more bureaucracy and less alignment. Below this threshold, there’s little hierarchy, redundancy, or purely managerial roles. And a savvy, small team can still create leverage and punch above its size. They’re growth-oriented and going for efficient scale. Unlike small businesses (and contrary to the common characterization of teams that bootstrap), SVSBs aren’t just trying to build “lifestyle” businesses or modest passive income streams. They want to scale as quickly and efficiently as possible. Many of them know how to scale businesses, and their desire to do so separates them from traditional small businesses. Their focus on profitability and efficiency while scaling separates them from the traditional SV startup.]]> startups tech productmanagement business https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4557bcdc689e/ 2024-01-17T05:44:30+00:00 https://caseyaccidental.com/developing-cultural-values/ earth2marshEvery startup talks about their cultural values, but very few live them in a way that better allows them to win. Most are too vanilla and therefore forgotten by the team over time. There is a difference between cultural values, where companies say how they intend to operate on a spectrum compared to other companies, and principles that should apply to all companies trying to become great. Assuming good intent of co-workers, for example, is not a cultural value; it is a principle for great teamwork inside a company. It’s a dominant strategy for every company to operate that way. Cultural values should state the way this particular company does things that might be different from others. When cultural values work, they, along with dominant company building principles, should impact who gets hired, fired, and rewarded.]]> culture productmanagement startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c685cfbedef3/ 2024-01-12T05:31:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/matt_slotnick/status/1617591860305793024 earth2marsh finance startups capital revenue business productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:be3206490bee/ 2023-12-29T18:49:42+00:00 https://social.coop/@BillySmith/111665065247239060 earth2marsh startups stocks shareholders financial advice https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:907406fdcedb/ 2023-12-20T05:38:30+00:00 https://caseyaccidental.com/on-platform-shifts-and-ai/ earth2marshtion shifts did not happen at the same time. Platform shifts that create both technological and distribution opportunities happen in a sequence, not all at once. The internet created websites, but the search engine wouldn’t come along until later to become the dominant form of distribution. Mobile created mobile apps, but it was Facebook mobile ads, not the App Store, that became the dominant form of distribution for mobile apps. So, AI has come out and definitely created a technological shift that enables new ways to solve problems that couldn’t be done before. But AI lacks a new distribution channel. ChatGPT is “not it”, as the kids would say. At least not yet.]]> ai startups strategy distribution opportunities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c459a8a4fa43/ 2023-12-04T21:20:35+00:00 https://www.danhock.co/p/how-to-choose-a-startup earth2marshIf you are highly intentional about choosing startups using a framework like this one, and give yourself time to take multiple swings, I believe your likelihood of picking one that goes on to grow dramatically is pretty high. Doing that will be an incredible accelerant for your career.]]> startups framework jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:2693e73f67c8/ 2023-11-30T18:13:29+00:00 https://review.firstround.com/shippos-path-to-product-market-fit earth2marshGoing back to the drawing board, Behrens Wu and Kreuz looked to the payment processing platform Stripe. “The Stripe model is API first, and we thought that model could work for the shipping industry as well. So we pivoted to that approach — which we're still doing today.” But there were a few bumps along the way. “When we started talking to customers back then, we realized that shipping is such a mission-critical infrastructure component that if a company was big enough to know how to integrate an API, they didn’t want to integrate our API that was unproven and unused by anyone else.” To get around the lack of usage and brand awareness, the founders decided to build a dashboard on top of the API and connect that to the Shopify App Store, which was fairly new at the time. Doing so gave their product more exposure and made it accessible to small businesses, whose owners likely didn’t know how to integrate an API. By riding the wave of the Shopify App Store’s rising popularity, Shippo gained its first customers. Tracking signups plus shipping labels bought through Shippo, the founders were thrilled to see the coveted hockey stick growth chart. “The numbers were small in comparison to where we are right now, but seeing that chart was incredible. It showed us that we were onto something, and this was working,” she says.]]> apis startups shipping shopify https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:34abea90557b/ 2023-11-18T00:33:45+00:00 https://tetrate.io/about-us/# earth2marshTetrate was founded in 2018 by Varun Talwar, who previously served as the founding product manager on the Istio and gRPC projects at Google and Jeyappragash Jeyakeerthi (JJ), who previously led Twitter’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Platform team. Together, they started Tetrate with a vision to help Platform teams and Developers safely and reliably transform their infrastructure for the modern, multi-cloud era. ]]> startups xooglers istio https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9b313548d7ac/ 2023-11-13T20:16:07+00:00 https://vand.io/ earth2marshLearn how to augment your language model (ALM) with toolpacks (a.k.a functions as described by OpenAI) and agents you can use to make your AI more capable. Tim's friend's project]]> genai llms plugins startups python https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c63f7d5bc8a6/ 2023-11-10T15:35:40+00:00 https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/lunar-dev-wants-to-help-developers-take-control-of-their-external-api-costs/ earth2marshWhat they didn’t see was a viable product for managing the usage of those third-party APIs, so they went to work building one. “The way that we perceive things is that we’re looking solely at consumption, helping companies both reduce costs and maintain flawless performance and efficiency when it comes to their API consumption,” he said. The installation involves launching a Docker container that loads the Lunar proxy along with Lunar interceptors, which can see the API traffic as it flows through the development pipeline to the API provider. Lunar doesn’t need to connect to the APIs directly to understand the usage. After installation it automatically begins intercepting the API traffic. Developers can set usage policies like maximum costs allowed via a command line interface, and those policies get implemented as the traffic flows through the interceptors. There are plans for a graphical interface for policy setting on the roadmap.]]> apis startups consumers costs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:88465f342f13/ 2023-11-01T20:58:15+00:00 https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qnsptbros earth2marshiddo startups rapidapi failure https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3446c803488d/ 2023-10-31T18:55:28+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-so-long-noam-bardin earth2marshBrand - in a start-up there is complete alignment between the product, the company and the brand. The employees, management and investors are aligned as well - product does well, company does well, investors do well, employees do well.  In a Corporation, the employee alignment is to the Corporations brand, not to the product (i.e. Google, not Gmail; Facebook, not Instagram). The product is a tool to advance the employees career, not a passion, mission or economic game changer. Being promoted has more impact on the individuals economic success than the product growth. The decision which product to work on stems from the odds of getting promoted and thus we began onboarding people with the wrong state of mind - seeing Waze as a stepping stone and not as a calling.]]> google acquisitions culture startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:1d991746e0f6/ 2023-10-30T17:05:17+00:00 https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-validate-your-b2b-startup?r=7vo67 earth2marshWe also had a very stringent list of, I think, 16 criteria for the idea we were going to work on. And this idea actually met all of them.]]> productmanagement startups lists ideas validation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b2ff11003016/ 2023-10-14T01:28:43+00:00 https://review.firstround.com/the-first-time-founders-guide-to-learning-everything-the-hard-way earth2marsh startups productmanagement founders advice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:55469bd48652/ 2023-10-14T01:17:30+00:00 https://review.firstround.com/Get-the-Most-Out-of-Your-Startups-Advisors-with-These-7-Tactics earth2marshGive them a couple tough scenarios that could happen to your company. How would they help you navigate them? Be transparent and tell them about a real concern you have about your business. Ask them what they would do if it became a reality. Ask them about their previous advising experience. What worked best for them? What didn’t work? How do they think they have evolved as an advisor as a result?]]> advisors startups productmanagement advice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:131c6bfd2b36/ 2023-09-20T05:31:41+00:00 https://lex.page/read/ae4952f3-6ecd-474f-b295-9831ce2de969 earth2marshLex’s odds of success are greater than they may seem, for five key reasons: The application layer is a great place to build. As long as we can switch our LLM provider without users noticing—possible now, and getting easier by the day—then we will be beholden to no one but our users. This is a great position to be in. The people who think AI writing tools are thin “GPT wrappers” aren’t looking closely enough. True, you can build a cool demo in a weekend. But a full-featured collaborative word processor that’s usable in teams, works across platforms, and gives great writing advice? That’s incredibly challenging to build. We’re focused on the things that don’t change, and can never be “good enough.” Amazon’s prices can never be too low, and their packages can never get to you too fast. Apple’s user experience can never be too good. At Lex, we believe people will always value more helpful writing feedback, and will always want to think more clearly and communicate more effectively. This is as much an editorial problem as a technical one. We are working with world class experts at different types of writing to produce uniquely helpful suggestions. Amidst all the noise in the AI hype cycle, no one seems to be taking this idea seriously.]]> ai genai writing jobs startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:10d1dba1b33f/ 2023-09-19T04:26:13+00:00 https://nira.com/github-history/ earth2marshgithub history culture startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a75fee6d1f46/ 2023-09-06T00:51:00+00:00 https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com/p/what-it-takes-to-build-great-strategy earth2marshstrategy essays startups productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:7af15bbf516c/ 2023-09-06T00:39:45+00:00 https://warpdev.notion.site/Public-Warp-How-We-Work-b872d41a1da743fca18220a731aeba48 earth2marshThis page describes the core principles of how we work together here at Warp. It is a living document, meant to change as we progress. ]]> culture handbook startups examples productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4b3d48b7513e/ 2023-07-21T05:09:10+00:00 https://www.applied-cartography.com/goon-squad?t=4 earth2marshThis is an important message for independent developers to internalize: especially in crowded markets, survival, not victory, is the success condition. I run Buttondown, a newsletter platform. Buttondown shares very little with Blot, but they are both in very crowded spaces — awash with competitors, some of whom are amateurish, some of whom are quite well-funded. I've been asked many times some variation of the question "how do you deal with the competition?" There are many answers to this question; in this essay, I want to give one: wait until they die.]]> startups lifestyle business essay competition survival https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:52382e22c057/ 2023-07-07T17:46:50+00:00 https://vimeo.com/833426228 earth2marsh0:37 Train Poly to use an API 1:33 Train Poly how to use API in VS Code 2:13 Generate a client library 3:15 Develop a client app 3:50 Create a custom function 5:28 Discover and use the custom function 6:45 Generate a ChatGPT plugin 7:53 Install and use the ChatGPT plugin]]> apis llms startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:099c127f68b6/ 2023-03-06T20:10:56+00:00 https://www.treblle.com/ earth2marshMission Control For Your APIs Treblle is a lightweight SDK that helps Engineering and Product teams build, ship & maintain REST based APIs faster]]> startups apis monitoring lifecycle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e9a6871bd56b/ 2023-02-09T00:49:47+00:00 https://www.glean.com/ earth2marsh startups enterprise search knowledge products https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:241756c528c5/ 2023-01-31T00:19:07+00:00 https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation earth2marshStock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.]]> startups negotiation finance equity business options compensation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:eb83c0618146/ 2023-01-03T18:42:40+00:00 https://www.otterize.com/blog/generative-ai-chatgpt-and-intents earth2marshthe company I co-founded, Otterize, asks developers to write down the intents of their code, specifically what their code intends to connect to, and automatically configures all the security mechanisms to allow those connections, while blocking any unintended connections. It’s not AI at all, and it’s a pretty narrow focus, but I am hoping it does check the truly-useful box. We eliminate all the pain of configuring access controls (ACLs, mTLS and certificates, Kubernetes network policies, AWS permissions, etc.) by doing it for the developer, automatically, based only on simple declaration of intents. The approach is called intent-based access control – IBAC.]]> intents startups access https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b8d4a5c735f5/ 2022-11-15T01:02:01+00:00 https://sarahguo.com/blog/hardreset earth2marshThe final option is to do a hard reset that accomplishes three things:  buys the company enough time sets goals that change the company’s outcome focuses the team with a plan Buying a company enough time is a worthy cause as a founder. Lower burn and longer runway gives a team additional shots on goal in product. Building things and getting adoption takes time. SpaceX would have died if Elon hadn’t figured out how to fund it through their first successful launch and subsequent first NASA contract (six years and three failed launches after the company’s founding). Buying enough time can let a market mature and catch up to a team that bet a little too far ahead. It is essential to be honest about what goals change a company’s outcomes. A sub-scale software company growing 25% a year and not re-accelerating is not fundable by a high-quality venture firm. If you are an early-stage company that has suddenly decelerated to 25% a year and you don’t know how to drive 70% growth, it can be tempting to set a goal of 40%. But that goal does not change the company outcome. The 40% grower also doesn't get funded. If you are burning $1M/month, and you know in your heart of hearts you won’t be able to fundraise before you run out of money, it can be tempting to set a goal of cutting burn to $500K/month. But that goal will not change your outcome, because you will still run out of money. Choose a goal that does change your outcome, even if it feels impossible, and take focused shots on that goal. Anything else is admitting defeat.]]> entrepreneurship venture capital startups finance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:744adebfba6e/ 2022-10-06T18:25:30+00:00 https://www.schlupfloch.xyz/explaining-advisables-failure/ earth2marshRather than quitting quietly, I've decided to do the exact opposite: to try and explain why exactly we failed and the mistakes that I made - even the deep & painful ones - and to share this in the hope that it might help others! Doing this also has the benefit of forcing me to confront everything and build a coherent, satisfying explanation for myself. However, one major caveat is that, as with any telling of the past, it has the potential for hindsight bias, inaccurate remembrance, and more. While I am a bit negative towards my past self, I think it's mostly accurate, and, for stuff from the past,  what I say lines up with my writing elsewhere - in investor updates, personal notes, etc. Another thing to keep in mind is that it’s actually very hard to determine what actually caused what.  I think there's a natural desire to explain things in a simplistic manner but Advisable, like most businesses, failed for many reasons - all intertwining and interacting in different ways. As such, I think there's a limited amount we can learn from any individual explanation - so I've tried to include a bunch of different explanations where appropriate in order of the likelihood that they were critical. ]]> startups failure lessons postmortem https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:6ba68b342e40/ 2022-08-23T04:37:05+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-26/kalshi-s-stock-market-of-the-world-let-s-you-bet-on-anything?srnd=businessweek-v2 earth2marshprediction markets contracts finance startups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a76541a5c678/ 2022-07-11T19:10:03+00:00 https://medium.com/@Mike_Kestela/convertible-notes-for-visual-learners-f4ae63709251 earth2marsh finance startups equity math dilution shares raising notes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:1b894529d28e/ 2022-06-22T00:13:26+00:00 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