Venture Hacks

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We’ve raised $100 million for startups like Epinions, invested another $20 million in companies like Twitter, and advised many others. Pitching Hacks shows you how to apply the simple lessons we’ve learned along the way. Check out [...]

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From The Human Equation:
“Seven dimensions that seem to characterize most if not all of the systems that produce profits through people.

Employment security.
Selective hiring of new personnel [especially screening for attributes that cannot be taught such as attitude and cultural fit.]
Self-managed teams and decentralization of decision making as the basic principles of organizational design.
Comparatively high compensation [...]

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In 1936 (!), old-school economic giant John Maynard Keynes described the spontaneous optimism that drives startups:
“A large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over [...]

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