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A little structure, a lot of freedom – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. A little structure, a lot of freedom. At the margins lives creativity of all kinds and it is in the margins that you must permit near complete freedom of thought, action, and iteration. Between the margins is the required structure, as unglamorous and boring it may be, it is essential to permit freedom. August 21, 2013. August 21, 2013. The only antidote to unreasonable VC demands is Customer validation their insight in to your solutions. The VC’s conceit. So you want t...

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the downside of impulsiveness – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. The downside of impulsiveness. No mission. i have no mission. there are some things that feel right and some pursuits that feel wrong but i have no mission. a series of impulsive decisions is how i have described my ‘path’ through education, jobs, and technology to those who’ve asked. And it got easier every year – from the tyranny of linear algebra in first year (42/100 – not my proudest moment) to tensors, electromagnetic theory, and lasers where assignmen...Amount/na...

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Picking Advisors for Your Startup – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. Picking Advisors for Your Startup. Remember your Advisor’s job is to help you make non-obvious choices in the face of imperfect and sometimes non-existent data. Recruit accordingly. The Six Cardinal Directions of Effective Advisors. If they then come back with questions you haven’t yet asked yourself, they may be a good match as an advisor. Don’t confuse mentor with advisor. Mentors. Your advisors are not your investors. Keep these two roles separate. While ther...May b...

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What does mobile mean to me? – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. What does mobile mean to me? There is much excitement, rightly so, about all things mobile. Mobile to me means native mobile. Not mobile-first, not mobile-focused, not mobile-optimized, but an experience you deliver that cannot be delivered in any other medium. IPhone and later Android drove the initial cracks and now the tectonic shift is splitting apart the pangaea. In to new continents. Instagram. Co-founder and CEO of Kicksend. August 30, 2013. August 30, 2013.

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The VC’s conceit – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. The VC’s conceit. Inspired by reading @Pv. Double post on Engineer’s conceit. And Marketer’s conceit. The only thing worse than VCs wanting certainty is founders pitching certainty. vicious circle of truthiness. Mdash; rohit sharma (@rohit x ) August 21, 2013. This is the venture capitalist’s conceit. We often throw up an array of stats, facts, and extrapolations of founder statements in order to coax ourselves out of our quicksand trough of conviction. This kabuki back...

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A Venture Partner Apprenticeship – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. A Venture Partner Apprenticeship. I wrote elsewhere that my successes taught me more although my failures caused me to learn more. Coming off a year of a short-lived attempt at building a data-curated commerce engine, the need to learn more has never been more clear. I am not the kind of person who locks himself up in a room and emerges after a period of learning and/or contemplation. My best thinking is done by engaging with people, not just content. The good ones have...

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rohit – Page 2 – startups, venture, silicon valley.

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. So you want to join an accelerator? F = ma; a = F/m . implies that F is the accelerator entity (partners, money, resources) and 'm' is you, the founder and your startup. hmmm. My friend Semil Shah. Asked me about accelerators and demo days. I thought about it for a few days and other than Elad’s. Incisive “ Incubator of Incubators. 8221; parody, I think there has been little of substance, though lots of noise in the valley about accelerators. Demo days are irrelevant&#4...

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Three rules of venture capital – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. Three rules of venture capital. 1 Don’t behave like a VC. 2 Beware of innovators bearing certainty, the best thinkers are the least certain about their conclusions. 3 Founders are the blood, body, and brains of this business, not VCs. April 26, 2013. April 26, 2013. Http:/ www.sourceasy.co/ Pranay Srinivasan. 2 is the opposite when there is a founder certain of her market. Seven habits of highly effective tech Product Managers. A man and his shave. A man and his shave.

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Startups – rohit

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Startups, venture, silicon valley. When I leave this valley – and i will – at some point perhaps a decade away at this point, what will i remember? I will remember frantic discussions with the simplicity afforded by binary opposition. most discussions of consequence are multi-polar; attracting and repelling but never really annihilating the other point of view. we in the valley live somewhere between foundations and frontiers most days here but frequently confuse one for the other. I will remember the co...