@drgurner Are you looking for a more minimal phone or just less colors?
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I had the v1 but it couldn’t handle group texts so I only used it for about 4 hours.
@StartupArchive_ Most "startups" are not a fit for VC.
VC power laws dictate that only 1-2 per companies / portfolio succeed.
Most high-growth companies don't need that much capital.
Better options: bootstrap, angels.
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@nlw Not sure if I agree with this. Balance sheet, network affects, data mode, physical, compute assets. The terms of competition may have just shifted from software to intangibles and hardware.
@Grummz The 1st key insight is not that coordination costs themselves have changed, but that when measured as a dollar amount (given the same % revenue assumption) the cost is more.
The 2nd, perhaps more nuanced insight, is that meetings therefore require extremely high value agendas.
@pitdesi Interested to see how other factors like the size of the angel investor community compares. It also seems like there are a lot of “venture studios” here but not in SF.
@justingordon212 Generally no but sometimes in hyper specific markets yes. For example, breaking down and clustering cloud infrastructure. All these companies look the same to me so it’s helpful to understand distinguishing features.
One of the wildest things I was introduced to this week is bioactive glass. First introduced in 1969, its applications in medicine are just being explored today.
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@FreedVC These are a great start and worthy of a 1 pager. Are there follow up questions that give you pause once they pass these gating factors?
- founder dynamics
- market competition and strategy
- end market economics and pricing
Those are mine.