Anas Aburas

Exploring early stage ventures 📚 Product @hp. MBA @riceuniversity. Engineer.

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

@franchisewolf Online vision retailers. How do they affect his business?

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Fantastic case study on a successful tokenization strategy

[Tascha @TaschaLabs]

This real-world business is growing 80% a year w/ a most downloaded mobile app & 100 million users.

Their secret? Tokenization.

7 lessons web3 projects can learn from them on how to use tokens to drive growth without being a ponzi:

[David Perell @david_perell]

We're living in a commitment crisis:

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Every interesting outcome in my life was unpredictable and was the result of good habits, strictly practiced.

This is the opposite of “vision” “big, hairy, audacious goals” and “accomplishments.”

The best kind of success is continuous, every day, not occasional.

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

📌

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

A life well-lived is a life-well planned.

5 steps to build your own "Life Map" 🧵

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

On storytelling 🔮

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

Business school rewards the same set of hard skills.

Financial modeling. Operations. Excel.

In the real world, none of these are the most important skill.

And that skill is Storytelling.

Here's why...

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

@TexasVC So sorry for your loss. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

A couple of my good friends are starting some companies right now.

I spent a little time writing out some of my own learnings from the early days of Lattice to share with them. Thought I’d post for anyone to read:

[Jackie X @jackiexu_]

Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders. (Can’t say I haven’t been guilty of these myself 🤐)

A thread 👇

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Fantastic thread on 51% attacks

[Haseeb Qureshi ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

Ethereum Classic ($ETC) was 51% attacked yesterday. This is the largest cryptocurrency that has ever been 51% attacked, and it has really interesting implications for the future of PoW currencies. Thread. 👇

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Highly informative thread.

[Yassine Elmandjra @yassine_elman]

1/ A high-level overview of Script, Bitcoin’s scripting language:

[Haseeb Qureshi ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." — Guindon

If you want to think better, write.

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

The car sharing efforts somehow reminds me of McDonald’s shift from being a “Burger’s company” to a “Realestate company” https://t.co/1PXePK81CR

[Yassine Elmandjra @yassine_elman]

Look 👀 at the transaction *value*, NOT the transaction *volume*. $3-4 B worth of bitcoin has been transacted daily in the last year. At ~ $1.3T annually, Bitcoin’s base layer transactional value is within an order of magnitude away from Visa’s.

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Cryptos #1 use case.

[Leo Weese @LeoAW]

My friend is booking hotels in Iran that require a deposit. The note in the email reads: "Payments in cryptocurrency might sound a bit strange, but the severe American sanctions on Iran's banking system have left us with not many choices."

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Annoying people for a living. https://t.co/5hQ2wef4fs

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Before affordable alarm clocks, 'knocker-ups' were used to wake people in the morning, circa 1900

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Yes, you heard it right. A bowling 🎳 bubble in the 1950s. https://t.co/X4FmUo5av0

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

June of this year marked an important milestone:

Capital raised to fund the decentralized web (now ~$20 billion)

Finally surpassed the capital raised during the bowling bubble of the late 1950s (~$16 billion in 2018 dollars)

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

Note to self: https://t.co/OFCAZWY9IU

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas properly executed? Priceless.

[Anas Aburas @anas_aburas1]

@LaurenGoode Audible. Finishing 2 books a month while waiting in traffic.

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

1/“Your investing ability is unproven until it’s survived a calamity."
~@morganhousel