#Founders

Key takeaways from our COVID-19 survey below https://www.slush.org/article/50-of-startups-have-6-month-to-live-other-insights-from-our-covid-19-survey/ 1) "41% of startups have seen their runways decrease due to the pandemic. As a result, withou
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The past few months have been a blur. Before this gets lost in the shuffle, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the work we've shipped this
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1. In case you missed it, @NiskanenCenter has put up a recording of today's webinar with myself and @jerry_jtaylor, @lindsey_brink, and @hamandcheese discussing Brink and Sam's new agenda paper, "Faster
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@brian_armstrong @tylerwinklevoss @winklevoss I have a serious question about token legitimacy and listings that i can't quite get my head around. What does it REALLY take for legitimate projects to
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Since everyone has a strong opinion on Punk copyright license, and seemingly no one has even bothered to google it, I did. Here's a thread on my findings (1 of
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It is. Now let’s do Cass Sunstein, who’s made a career out of arguing that our right to express our opinions is a resource the govt should confiscate & redistribute
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1/ What I have been saying until recently in "normal times" is for founders to do some scenario planning and look for the break point where not having the cash
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It was announced yesterday afternoon, that the counter-extremism think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation, has closed down for good. The difficulty of maintaining funding for its work during a lockdown was its
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Can we PLEASE talk about how white people are buying black owned hair companies/products, putting harmful ingredients in them, &now many Black people&POC are losing years worth of natural hair
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"Career planning is for losers."- Marc Andreesen (probably) I read 10,000 words of career advice from @pmarca. Here are 10 lessons Rule 1: Don't plan your career. The world is
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Trying to understand copywriting is hard.Been binge listening to @amlewis4 podcast and his convo with @oliviercantin was especially useful in understanding how to write great copy.Here’s a summary of what
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The City of Toronto plans to spend almost $10M leasing and renovating 233 Carlton St, a building worth about $2M, owned by the parents of the WE co-founders through a
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I guess I have to be the one to say it!This is going to sound racist, it's not meant to be, but I can't help the way this insurrection started.We
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Federalism saved us by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/federalism-saved-us?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The US government “ascertained” Joe Biden’s victory on Monday night. That
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Speaking of Internship,2years ago, I tried to Intern at Cregital. I really wanted to just work somewhereHere is a snippet on how I applied, and now I understand why I
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People say I'm being divisive when I say that America was founded on racism and white supremacy. The reason for that is twofold:1. A lot of white people don't understand
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