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Startup Purgatory, Common Pitch Mistakes, Competing with Incumbents and More on One on One with A and Z #4

Mar 17, 2021

01:23:28

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The Big Fine Personality Traits

03:52

Investing in People

04:11

How Would You Start a Crypto Project?

01:54

Introduction

5min

Then You Have to Describe the Problems in the Potential

4min

What's the Time Horizon Over Which a Start Up Has to Work?

3min

Is It Working?

2min

How Much Advice Do You Get From Angel Investors?

4min

You Know, I'm in Business to Fund Companies

2min

The Biggest Disagreements

3min

Are You Going to Invest in a Toxic Fonter?

5min

Can You Build a Team?

2min

10.

The Big Fine Personality Traits

4min

11.

What's the Closest Thing to Coach Bill Campbell?

2min

12.

Bill Campbell's Leadership Skill

4min

13.

She'll Get to a Level of Intimacy That's Impossible in an Incredible Short Term

2min

14.

What Are the Characteristics of a Billion Dollar Plus Invaluation Company?

2min

15.

The Big Five Personality Tool

6min

16.

Are You Putting Everyone Together?

2min

17.

What's the Difference Between Basic Research and Scientific Research?

4min

18.

What Is the Prophecy Incentid?

2min

19.

Is Google Doing Basic Research?

2min

20.

The Internet and Its Importance, I Think?

4min

21.

Do You Know What's Going on in Biomedical Research?

3min

22.

Investing in People

4min

23.

Equity Is a Better Model Than Debt

2min

24.

Are We Moving From Debt to Equity?

2min

25.

How Would You Start a Crypto Project?

2min

26.

How to Make a Microso Compiler for Free

4min

27.

Ten Questions for the Night

43sec

Topics covered this week include:

How to tell if a startup has entered "purgatory", where they're getting by each year but no longer has a chance to be a multi-billion dollar company
Common mistakes founders make when pitching VCs
When do the biggest disagreements happen over possible investments
What happens when an idea is great, but one of the founders is toxic
Is there anyone now like Silicon Valley coaching legend, Coach Bill Campbell?
What kinds of large companies are easiest to compete with?
R&D and basic research, now and then
Investing in people, pre-idea
If you started today with zero connections and $50k in the bank, what would you do?