How Vinod Khosla Attracted Top Talent to Sun Microsystems
When Sam Altman asked how Vinod Khosla convinced exceptional engineers like Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Eric Schmidt to join Sun Microsystems in its early days.
Vinod emphasized the imp
Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman on how much equity to give your first 10 employees
Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, shares a simple but powerful tip for startup founders: offer generous equity to attract the best people.
When Sun started,
VCs are backbone of startups. How much do you know them?
Here are my few insights:
1. VCs invest funds raised from Limited Partners, and accountable to generate them returns in 10 years
2. VCs earn 2% management fee annually from the fund, perform
If you’ve ever wondered why VCs invest in risky startups instead of safe businesses, it’s because of something called the power law. And trust me, if you understand this, you’ll see why most VCs don’t care if 90% of their startups fail!
Think about
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Arcane
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Even though 25% of all startups on Carta have just a solo founder, VCs hesitate to fund them.
Having 2 to 3 founders seems to be the sweet spot if you were to raise VC money while building a startup.
So, Is there a way to make VC funding easier as
I have analysed some trends from many months ,
some insights on recent venture capital investment trends for startups : 🚀🤑
• Looking for proven business ideas, not just new ideas
• Want startups making good revenue and path to profits
• Inter
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Dr Bappa Dittya Saha
We're gonna extinct ... • 11m
1 min Cinema is new trend on Instagram!
How to do that?
Shoot cinematic shots!
Sit down and watch them.
Add a context to each frame.
Build a story around that.
Bring videos to any video editor even on VN
Edit frame by frame.
Add SFX
Add voiceover!
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Inactive
AprameyaAI • 11m
Keep it clean.
Add what users love ✔️ .
Add what users are addicted to ✔️.
Add what is in your niche ✔️.
Add what your users Use ✔️.
BE Consistent and Persistence
If You add too many features at once, you can't market all of them in once.
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I'm ready to tackle real pain points and see where it leads. I've only got 18 founders so far, and it's tough to see some building things with no real value. It’s a sad reality. But on a positive note, 70% of them had solid ideas!
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Gokul Gk
Building @Raploid, ... • 2m
Raploid is a HR Tech cum SaaS Platform. Value proposition is be the centralised platform for employment profiles & HR Teams to Screen & verify candidates even Before interview rounds.
We are looking for a technical co founder and a additional team i