Emily Herrera
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I've always rejected the term "entrepreneur" because it implies that you're an entrepreneur first and a software creator second.
In the Company of Giants: Candid conversations with the visionaries of the digital world by Rama Jager and Rafael Ortiz.A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management… and for the lower-level employees their contribution must be more than just manual labour.”
Akio Morita and Leadership Culture - Nick's Blogi honestly wrote this entire piece only as a setup for this joke. and i have no regrets.
kwokchain -Some of the most respected technologists grew their influence through writing.
FREE GAME PT 2 - by Reggie JamesThis is about open sourcing the little bit that I know, that might be helpful for someone else
FREE GAME PT 2 - by Reggie Jamesthe best product is just you, pushed out to the world”.
How would you build an audience from scratch in 2024? - Aug 16, 2024 - Mailbag - Shaan PuriWhat’s the Difference Between Creators and Influencers?
What’s the Difference Between Creators and Influencers? - WSJI’d love to learn about more or folks that have been thinking about what a new MIT Media Lab would look like, even at other universities.
Digital Quality of Life - by Reggie James“E-Health” (reducing online gambling and porn addiction)
Digital Quality of Life - by Reggie Jamesand we’ll be sitting here 20 years from now and it will turn out this was basically the great transition, and in the future the brands will actually all be individually led
Marc Andreessen: Celebrity-led brands ‘future of consumer products’ | FortuneYour intuitive voice is the one that is correct.
Edward LandoWrite the list of things you’ve been wanting to do for a long time, and go down the list doing them now.
Edward LandoRealize that relationships compound dramatically over time. Be loyal to the people around you and continue to write the story together. You can move so much faster when you have deep-rooted trust.
Edward LandoRealize that even though many people are wrong (except for this author), they have simply been shaped by their life so far and do not explicitly intend to be evil. Several truths can exist at once.
Edward LandoBe aware of your general slope, your dy/dx, and ensure that it’s sloping up and steepening. Keep accelerating.
Edward LandoWork every day with people you love and respect, moving toward fulfilling your potential and mission.
Edward LandoNever delay telling people you love them
Edward LandoDon’t think that someone is necessarily correct across the board because they stand out on one dimension
Edward LandoPrioritize the spontaneous plan over the planned plan. Sunk costs are a real thing.
Edward LandoAs long as there is suffering, there will be great novels and also problems for you to tackle and solve. If you are in a position to try tackling one of them, it is almost your obligation. Great people will also be attracted to join you because doing something meaningful is one of the most powerful magnets that exists.
Edward LandoYou didn’t formulate this particular string of words and yet even though you’ve never met it, you recognize it like an old friend.
Edward LandoWhich teaches you the valuable lesson that if you don’t say or do it, someone else will. Often, it is not that you are deliberately choosing to stop it from coming out of you, but more that you never even paid attention to it. Perhaps because this thought has become such a homeostatic part of your day that you never look at it.
Edward LandoTo believe that joy and meaning are achievable for you means that you would have to go out there and look for it. Which is hard in a different way than throwing yourself at a concrete problem that can eventually be broken down by brute force
against brute forcing - by Ava - bookbear expressIt's typically fairly capital intensive
Peter Thiel on Vertical Integration · GitHubyou've got a lot of pieces to fit together in just the right way, and when you assemble that you had a tremendous advantage. This is actually done surprisingly little today and so I think this is sort of a business form that when people can pull it off, is very valuable.
Peter Thiel on Vertical Integration · GitHubWhat that means is, he finds the right associates first and then sends them on a customer-discovery process to figure out WHAT business they can incubate together.
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael Girdleythey can always just pull the ripcord and go pursue their cannabis business or strip club or whatever they want to do.
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael Girdleyusually above like a million in revenue, there should be at least another person on the staff that could hold the wheels on the bus for at least a few months until we find another person
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael GirdleyThey get hit by a bus, it should not be Michael steps in because Michael can only do one CEO job at a time and that's running the HoldCo
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael GirdleySo you can have things in your HoldCo that you will plan to sell at some point and there's reasons to be a C Corp in the United States
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael GirdleyEffectuation is a way of thinking and decision-making based on the idea that entrepreneurs, essentially, make things happen.
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael GirdleyIf there's no strings attached, I have to prove myself through that period of our relationship that I'm the right business partner for them.
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael Girdleymy associate model is I hire them to come in and it's a no strings attached role where I just pay you and we partnered together for you to find your next thing. And I coach you through that as one of these associates.
How to Build Your HoldCo with Michael GirdleyI strongly believe that the concept of personal holding companies is now at the stage where startups were at the beginning of the second wave of the internet - just before YCombinator entered the fray.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship became institutionalized.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipBuild an audience that is INVESTED in you.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipHire a General Manager.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of Entrepreneurshipbootstrapped entrepreneur, I don't have to worry about answering to VCs who might be relying on you for their 100X ROI exit.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipUrbanEDC, SpottedByHumphrey, and GrowthJet are all individual companies but I don't own them myself. My PHC has 100 percent ownership of all three. But I have 100 percent ownership of my PHC, which means I do own all of them
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipI started it as an S-Corp. Then, I use LLCs to protect myself.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of EntrepreneurshipAs both of these businesses grew, I realized that I needed a reliable logistics provider to help me fulfill my shipments. And, in my book, the most reliable person is... me! So, I started GrowthJet, a third-party logistics provider and we now serve 20 clients and have delivered over a million shipments across the entire world.
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of Entrepreneurship"Because all of a sudden, you don't think about, "Okay, what am I going to do for grocery money this month?" you think about, "Okay, in the next 20 years, what am I going to invest in?" It is a very post-economic state of mind. You don't have to make economic choices anymore. You make long-term meta economic choices..."
The Rise of Personal Holding Companies: Exploring the Future of Entrepreneurshipthere are 4 types of investment that a VC can make: equity participation; participation through the purchase of convertible bonds; financing through the purchase of debt securities issued by Business Partners at the initial start-up stage and/or business development; and/or financing.
The Difference Between Holding Company and Venture Capital - Gaffar & Co. LawWhat we call “open holding companies” are well suited to the complex conditions that characterize today’s impact-investing market.
Lasting Impact: Investing via Open Holding CompaniesMost small enterprises require at least a decade to reach significant scale
Lasting Impact: Investing via Open Holding CompaniesA fund must return money to investors at a pre-set dissolution date. This means that the fund may have to liquidate its portfolio before its portfolio companies mature. In contrast, a holding company can allow each enterprise in its portfolio the time it needs to flourish.
Lasting Impact: Investing via Open Holding CompaniesAn open holding company creates a social safety net by letting social entrepreneurs diversify their risks
Lasting Impact: Investing via Open Holding CompaniesAccumulators stick to a category, like B2B software, and you can centralize sales or engineering.
Rho – The four types of holding companiesThe more alike the businesses you hold, the more it makes sense to centralize.
Rho – The four types of holding companiesLet's say you want to own a fireworks company, buy a coffee business, do some PE deals, and incubate companies. You would use a Type 1 structure (The Traditional HoldCo).
Rho – The four types of holding companies