If you already have a logo and a domain name, your startup is like 50% complete, right?#buildinpublic
— Peter Mick (@ThePeterMick) June 25, 2022
If you already have a logo and a domain name, your startup is like 50% complete, right?#buildinpublic
— Peter Mick (@ThePeterMick) June 25, 2022
Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum) and his dad pic.twitter.com/zljKxHsiVt
— Dripped Out Technology Brothers (@TechBroDrip) June 25, 2022
Venture capital & PR are like drugs
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Drugs can kill you or save your life
Use accordingly.
Okinawa is an Island in Japan with the highest life expectancy. It's called "the land of immortals"
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
The secret? Almost everybody gardens!!
Entrepreneurship is a marathon not a sprint. Be sustainable
Find your gardening.
If you’re lucky: your startup will be copied. Don’t be mad
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Channel that frustration into focus into product & community
The best startup revenge is overwhelming product/market fit
For most people: forget Harvard or living in SF
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
With the internet, you are more powerful than you think you are
1) Learn anything you want
2) Connect with anyone you want
3) Be anyone you want
And do it all hyper-efficiently
What a time to be alive.
Startup life is a life full of rejection
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
No rejection, no progress
How to learn quickly:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Ask questions. You almost never learn while you are talking
How to negotiate well:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Listen 90%, talk 10%
Listening equips you with info that you can use
The listener usually wins
Why the most grateful founders are the most exceptional ones:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Gratefulness makes it hard for you to be fearful
It's 10x easier to excel when you are less fearful
The difference between hiring and recruiting:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Recruiting is not hiring
Recruiting is actively seeking the best people to create the best possible team
Hiring is pulling the trigger
Founders should always be recruiting (especially during this economic downturn)
Period.
Most sales people stop after one or two rejections. Go until two or three
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
But never use "just following up"
Be memorable in every outreach (use video, tell a story etc)
I bet your sales go up
Lesson: try, try and be memorable
To-do lists are overrated
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
A “not to-do” list is more effective than a to-do list
Focus is the holy grail
Quincy Jones would talk to every person at a book signing and leave a personalized note even if it took him until 3 AM to get home
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
He understood the power of making people feel heard
Personalization is the secret weapon to build loyalty for your customers & team
When dealing with someone upset, think:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Have they slept, eaten, or been bothered by someone?
Sensitivity to people is a superpower
Many team issues are like dental cavities: long term that people never can address the main issue
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) June 25, 2022
Band-aids never work. Address main issues
You can’t fix something that starts with a poor foundation
This fantastic thread made my day. Thank you @gregisenberg .
— Rob Maigret (@robmaigret) June 25, 2022
That, and that I did yoga with goats this morning. pic.twitter.com/8P2mh1meQd
due to lack of funds in my personal bank account, I'll be angel investing in all of my friends' companies through my blessings. like an actual angel.
— vidy collage 🐥🔪 (@vidythatte) June 23, 2022
There are far more honorable ways to burn $50m to impress people than buying a superyacht.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) June 23, 2022
Like becoming a @gitcoin grants matching partner! Here are the matching partners for the current round: pic.twitter.com/GgzJh9pxLV
The #Russian occupants continue to steal our future — in #green transition too. They dismantled and taken out #Ukraine's largest 50 MW #solar power plant in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region. Russian “liberation” is on.#GreenEnergy #ecology pic.twitter.com/zCwbZcnsfM
— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) June 23, 2022
VC: “we invest in wildly disruptive ideas that will change the world”
— matt schaar in Jakarta 🇮🇩🌻🇺🇦 (@mattschaar) June 23, 2022
Also VC: (votes for and supports policies around education, public safety, etc. that were invented in the 19th century and create massive disparity across gender, race, and class lines)
🤷🏻♂️
raising a seed round from horrible investors is a much worse outcome from you then not being able to raise at all even if it doesn't seem like it in the moment
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) June 23, 2022
Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) June 23, 2022
How much do you think a 2-hr outage will cost them? Both driver and consumer apps down.
— Gale Wilkinson @Vitalize (@galeforceVC) June 24, 2022
Delivery businesses are tough! https://t.co/VpxmPjIFAz
Don’t outsource your happiness or success to other people’s decisions.
— Naval (@naval) June 24, 2022
Friendly reminder to shred your business plan and just launch your startup already. The market has the feedback you gotta hear.
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) June 24, 2022
Customers don't buy your startup's software they buy your outcome.
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) June 23, 2022
Having Covid means I’m wearing this guy out, adding him to absolutely every text and DM: 🥴 He’s my little buddy
— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) June 24, 2022
What's a big win you've had in the last year?
— Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) June 23, 2022
Most ambitious people I know are terrible at celebrating their wins
Even though there's always more work to do, there's value in acknowledging how far we've come
Every time I am abroad, reading American news is truly dystopic and bewildering.
— roxane gay (@rgay) June 23, 2022
Everyone wants cheap #bitcoin until bitcoin is actually cheap… 🙃
— Layah Heilpern (@LayahHeilpern) June 23, 2022
great idea -----
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
i’m convinced that “the view” outside your window has an huge impact on mood, creativity, and productivity
— Anu 🫧 (@anuatluru) June 23, 2022
This morning SCOTUS destroyed our Miranda rights and struck down a New York law requiring cause to conceal and carry a gun.
— Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) June 23, 2022
Just 6 people are destroying our democracy.
Six fanatics who work under the safety of armed guards in a gun-free building just decided that the rest of us must work in constant fear for our lives.
— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) June 23, 2022
It's now cheaper to book a hotel & taxi than it is to book an airbnb or uber.
— david k. de jesus (@Zoosjuice) June 23, 2022
One of the hardest habits for founders to break, once they start it, is learning that "raise more money -> hire more great people" is not the solution to reach for with every problem they face.
— Tyler Tringas (@tylertringas) June 23, 2022
I’ve enjoyed spending some quality time with my guy, @garyvee, the past couple of days At @Cannes_Lions. This was a real treat this morning… pic.twitter.com/VqY3ku0FZk
— Arlan 👊🏾 (@ArlanWasHere) June 22, 2022
👆🏾Tesla asked me to consult for free. WeWork asked me to consult for free. The list goes on and on.
— Arlan 👊🏾 (@ArlanWasHere) June 23, 2022
Don’t be on that list.
Part of the problem is in how we use the word “minority”. It’s an outdated term that is engrained in our lexicon. Let’s find some more words as a community that describes us with an abundance mindset, rather than a closed off, fearful one. https://t.co/smnQfdXtEF
— Arlan 👊🏾 (@ArlanWasHere) June 23, 2022
Women and colorful people?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
I have just the thing for you. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. Please invest.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
Please tell others that take these. We expect to add more than 1k more meds over the next 12 months, if not sooner. https://t.co/eP6JNL0QIt
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) June 18, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. Please invest.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
Just over a year ago, I applied for a job with @lolitataub.
— Arjay Ruggles (@LifeWithArjay) June 23, 2022
A year later, I'm the CEO of a VC-backed company, have 8 employees, and an incredible team of investors and advisors behind me.
When she says she champions underestimated founders, she means it.@ganasvc is the future
And I can't even get her to listen to my pitch. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. Please invest.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
The two-party system is like having to choose between Coke or Pepsi when what you actually want is a fruit smoothie.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 23, 2022
90 के दशक के जंगलराज में बिहार में सड़कों की स्थिति की याद दिलाता यह बिहार के मधुबनी जिले का नेशनल हाईवे 227 (L) है।
— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) June 23, 2022
अभी हाल में ही #Nitishkumar जी एक कार्यक्रम में पथ निर्माण विभाग के लोगों को बोल रहे थे कि बिहार में सड़कों की अच्छी स्थिति के बारे में उन्हें सबको बताना चाहिए। pic.twitter.com/Qp0ehEluty
The #1 thing I learned about angel investing many years ago:
— NickFriend.eth (@theNickFriend) June 23, 2022
The only deals worth investing in…
(to get that asymmetric upside you’re after)
are the ones you can’t get into.
Everyone loves someone who’s had an abortion, whether they know it or not.
— Christie Pitts 💫 (@imchristiepitts) June 23, 2022
History has been made. I'm glad that #EUCO has used the momentum and decided to give #Ukraine #EU candidate status.
— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) June 23, 2022
This confirms Ukraine’s rightful position in Europe. They’re fighting for the freedoms and values EU is founded on.
Another photo, of Nader Guirguis, my driver today in Toronto who saved my holiday by insisting we leave early for the airport! He said he remembered his father talking about my matches in Alexandria, Egypt as a kid. Now in Canada for 25 years. Thanks, Nader! pic.twitter.com/AwYSqgoiBh
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) June 23, 2022
This is what’s most important to me. pic.twitter.com/TK9nD7BYvS
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) June 24, 2022
So the Supreme Court is going to kill gun control, environmental regulation, and abortion rights in a single term. Explain to me again about how it doesn't matter who wins elections.
— Gautam Mukunda (@gmukunda) June 23, 2022
💥JUST IN: Bank of England says cryptocurrencies surviving this crash could become the next Amazon or eBay. #Bitcoin has survived 3 bear markets already bro… 💪
— Bitcoin Archive 🗄🚀🌔 (@BTC_Archive) June 23, 2022
Amount of cash they have:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) June 23, 2022
Apple: $193 billion
Google: $134 billion
Microsoft: $105 billion
Amazon: $66 billion
Intel: $45 billion
Facebook: $44 billion
Oracle: $22 billion
Cisco: $20 billion
Nvidia: $20 billion
Tesla: $18 billion
IBM: $10 billion
Netflix: $6 billion
There's a decent chance Coinbase becomes the AOL of crypto
— Meat (🥩,🥩) (@MeatTC_) June 23, 2022
My heart broke a little today. My mom had texted me for $30 and a picture of an empty fridge. I sent her $300 by CashApp. She called in tears about how she had been struggling with rent price increases, food prices, gas prices… I just… sigh… this PhD was not just for me.
— Joseph Smith Jr., Ph.D. 🔬🧬🌪 (@DrHazmatic) June 23, 2022
Oh no pic.twitter.com/yeAG9tICEE
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) June 23, 2022
Voyager captures Jupiter and Europa- one of its 79 moons pic.twitter.com/VO9dEXjj4Q
— Space Porn (@redditSpacePorn) June 23, 2022
QS ranks @MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2022-23 https://t.co/GSrjsCObi0 pic.twitter.com/1HpymZffeF
— MIT Alumni (@MIT_alumni) June 23, 2022
Less than 1% of startups become “unicorns” and @microacquire exists to help the other 99.9% succeed.
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) June 22, 2022
‘You should’ve seen the other VC’
— Michael Costigan (@michaelcostigan) June 24, 2022
"Nick, put the water down, then the table, then the paper" https://t.co/0SppbD50i2
— Amy Hyslop-Stover MD (@dancingnancy43) June 23, 2022
7 free steps to market your bootstrapped startup pic.twitter.com/vLO5xbI2yn
— Kai (@kai_global) June 24, 2022
Humility on the part of @LinkedIn?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 24, 2022
I think all these billion dollar company layoffs just show that white men can’t manage a budget.
— Sara Ledterman (@saraledterman) June 23, 2022
A balance sheet can give you an accurate picture of your business. Create your own balance sheet using this free template.
— Square (@Square) June 14, 2022
रामायण यात्राको महत्त्व बोकेर भारतबाट करिब ५ सय यात्रु बोकेर रामायण सर्किट, रेलवे जनकपुर आइपुग्यो। #railway #janakpur pic.twitter.com/pr2kznQmnQ
— janamat online (@janamatonlin) June 23, 2022
This masterpiece made entirely of chocolate was presented to me at my Paris hotel! Someone in the kitchen definitely knows chess. Recognize the position? pic.twitter.com/bXfeaf9bSc
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) June 23, 2022
🇺🇦🇪🇺OFFICIALLY:#Ukraine is a candidate country for #EU membership.
— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) June 23, 2022
The European Council has just decided to grant Ukraine and #Moldova candidate status.
Now, we've a difficult path ahead of us. But with the support of our allies, we'll win the war & become members of the EU!
Ironically, intellectual curiosity is something that generic interview processes at big companies don’t look for (or actively screen against).
— Rakesh Agrawal (@rakeshlobster) June 24, 2022
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest Footballer "Lionel Messi". ❤️🙏 #Legend pic.twitter.com/8Lc4OmZRk3
— Routine of Nepal banda (@RONBupdates) June 24, 2022
Many hedge fund people don’t realize that some people get Bitcoin as a one-way street; they’re never going back to fiat; never selling. It’s a lifeboat.
— muneeb.btc (@muneeb) June 23, 2022
Try factoring that in your models, ser.
