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Don’t be a hammer looking for a nail
Has there ever been a more spectacular start-up failure than Quibi in 2020? $1.4 billion down the drain. Total shutdown merely 6 months after launch. Quibi built a product without understanding the customer’s needs. It’s a common start-up mistake–one that I’ve made myself. This mistake comes with a catchphrase: “Solution looking for a problem”. It’s …
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The privilege to take a risk
My first entrepreneurial experience happened right after my first semester of college. In January 2008, I did a brief winter internship. My boss was a part time law professor. Publishers would regularly send him sample textbooks—with the hope that he would select one of their textbooks for his class. The idea is that students would …
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Poker + business + applied lessons from Nassim Taleb
This summer, a casino opened up right by Boston. And I’ve swung by a few times to play Texas Hold’em — low stakes cash games. As mentioned in my Liar’s Dice article, I love games that involve incomplete information, strategic deception, and reading people. Pokers offers an exciting challenge that complements my career. As a start-up …
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