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Mental models for cybersecurity startup founders and why Microsoft cannot easily force nimble early-stage companies out of business

Venture in Security • 275 implied HN points • 08 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Innovation Market Analysis Economics Startup Strategy
  1. Large corporations like Microsoft may have resources, but they often struggle to innovate due to the innovator's dilemma.
  2. Startups need to focus on understanding market needs and finding the right distribution channels to succeed.
  3. Cybersecurity founders should consider external factors like market conditions and economic trends when planning their startup journeys.

How Can You Use Airbnb's & Stripe's Strategy To Build Your MVP? | The First Six Month Of Fundraising For NVIDIA | VC Remote Jobs & More

Venture Curator • 199 implied HN points • 11 Dec 23
💼 Business Startup Strategy Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Funding Technology
  1. Successful startups focus on building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) with the 'Viable' part being crucial, not just the 'Minimal' part.
  2. Key to MVP success is launching quickly, getting feedback from customers, and iterating based on that feedback.
  3. Early adopters are crucial for testing MVPs; founders should build products for customers with urgent needs, even if the MVP is not perfect.

Why Your Startup Idea Isn’t Big Enough for Some VCs? | Sam Altman Strategy - To Find The Right Problem To Solve? | VC Remote Jobs & More

Venture Curator • 139 implied HN points • 03 Nov 23
💼 Business Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Startup Strategy Financial Analysis Remote Jobs
  1. Investors look for startup ideas with the potential to reach a billion-dollar valuation, known as 'big ideas,' and may reject ideas perceived to lack that scalability.
  2. Venture capital operates on a power law model, where a small percentage of investments drive the majority of returns, requiring each investment to potentially return the entire fund.
  3. Founders should focus on solving popular, growing, urgent, expensive, mandatory, and frequent problems to increase their startup's chances of success.
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Designers who PM

Anant’s Newsletter • 6 implied HN points • 18 Feb 25
💼 Business Product Management Design Engineering Team Dynamics Startup Strategy
  1. Hiring a designer who can also manage products can save engineering teams time and resources. They help avoid building the wrong features right from the start.
  2. A designer with product management skills can make design decisions quickly. This keeps projects moving forward and prevents delays in the engineering process.
  3. Having a designer who understands both design and product management helps create a more cohesive product. They can connect different parts of the product and ensure everything aligns properly.

Patience, Patience, Patience

Superfluid • 39 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
💼 Business Venture Capital Startup Strategy
  1. In the world of venture capital, patience is key for both founders and investors.
  2. Technological revolutions take around 50 years to fully proliferate through society.
  3. Investors should be cautious about backing startups in trendy spaces and focus on patient and sensible deployments of capital.

Bootstrapping a Product

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 05 Jan 21
💼 Business Product Development Bootstrapping Consulting Startup Strategy
  1. Real Kinetic successfully launched a new software product called Witful without any VC funding, relying on their consulting revenues instead.
  2. Their approach is focused on steady growth, work-life balance, and sustainability, prioritizing profitability over rapid expansion.
  3. The technology decisions for building Witful were influenced by resource constraints, leading to the use of serverless architecture, Firebase, Elm, and TypeScript, for efficiency and resilience.