Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
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There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.
There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.
During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.
When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
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