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Rapidly Growing Valuations Shouldn’t Scare You Off

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Reading Social Proof Is an Art Form

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Social Proof Is a Valid Signal

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Ask About the Metrics They’re Not Showing You

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It’s Easy to Exaggerate Early Traction

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Everything Is a Proxy for Traction

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Early Winners Don’t Always Make It to the Finish Line

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Invest in the First Credible Mover

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Monopolies Fall When Platforms Shift

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A Lot of Great Tech Businesses Are Natural Monopolies

Naval on angel investing. David Sacks on scaling. On Twitter at @spearhead.

Insightful perspectives that are communicated in a practical way.

Love the bite sized wisdom

This podcast is great. I would also recommend following Naval on Twitter.

A dripping faucet of wisdom

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You have to work from first principles and make up your own mind. • Be non-consensus right • Don’t learn how to invest from the commentariat   • The larger your herd, the worse your returns Transcript: http://spearhead.co/non-consensus

You have to work from first principles and make up your own mind. • Be non-consensus right • Don’t learn how to invest from the commentariat   • The larger your herd, the worse your returns Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/non-consensus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/non-consensus</a>

Be Non-Consensus Right

Create your own dealflow by helping companies get started. • Be a shadow co-founder to create your own dealflow • Get valuable pro-rata rights by investing pre-seed Transcript: http://spearhead.co/pre-seed

Create your own dealflow by helping companies get started. • Be a shadow co-founder to create your own dealflow • Get valuable pro-rata rights by investing pre-seed Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/pre-seed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/pre-seed</a>

Be a Shadow Co-Founder

Investing keeps founders sharp—and plugged into what the best startups are doing. • Founders want to be backed by other founders • Investing aligns interests • Advisors have adverse selection Transcript: http://spearhead.co/founders

Investing keeps founders sharp—and plugged into what the best startups are doing. • Founders want to be backed by other founders • Investing aligns interests • Advisors have adverse selection Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/founders" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/founders</a>

Founders Backing Founders

Branch out from there after you’ve built your reputation. • Branch out after you’ve exhausted your network Transcript: http://spearhead.co/deals

Branch out from there after you’ve built your reputation. • Branch out after you’ve exhausted your network Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/deals" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/deals</a>

The Best Deals Come from Your Network

If there’s no technical team, you’re not investing in technology. Transcript: http://spearhead.co/technical

If there’s no technical team, you’re not investing in technology. Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/technical" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/technical</a>

Invest Only in Technical Teams

It’s a gold rush era in technology hubs like Silicon Valley. •  If you’re not in a tech hub, the odds are stacked against you •  There are about two dozen tech hubs in the world  •  Silicon Valley is a more forgiving place to invest •  The best indicators of a startup hub are exits and later-stage investors Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/hub

It’s a gold rush era in technology hubs like Silicon Valley. •  If you’re not in a tech hub, the odds are stacked against you •  There are about two dozen tech hubs in the world  •  Silicon Valley is a more forgiving place to invest •  The best indicators of a startup hub are exits and later-stage investors Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/hub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/hub</a>

Living in a Tech Hub Is Half the Battle

Invest in people with high energy, intelligence and integrity.   Transcript: http://spearhead.co/nice

Invest in people with high energy, intelligence and integrity. Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/nice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/nice</a>

You’re Not Investing in Nice People

If the market never shows up or shows up late, your brand is shot. • Top VC firms rarely specialize • Mistimed or unrealized markets cost investors a lot of money Transcript: http://spearhead.co/vertical

If the market never shows up or shows up late, your brand is shot. • Top VC firms rarely specialize • Mistimed or unrealized markets cost investors a lot of money Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/vertical" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/vertical</a>

Don’t Build a Brand in a Narrow Vertical

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‘First-Time Founders’ Often Have Been Tinkering for Quite a While

Repeat Founders Don’t Really Want to Start Over From Scratch

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Blitzfail: Why Startups Go off the Rails

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Moving Fast May Mean You're Not Really Moving at All

I pitched growth hacking to Twitter; they passed on it—but they let me invest. • Ryan Hoover and Patri Friedman have interesting brands Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/started

I pitched growth hacking to Twitter; they passed on it—but they let me invest. • Ryan Hoover and Patri Friedman have interesting brands Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/started" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/started</a>

My Original Brand Was in Growth Hacking

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Your Reputation Is Built by the Companies That Are Doing Poorly

There’s no better place to invest today than technology. •  There are tax benefits to angel investing •  The less efficient the market, the better you will do •  Few people can play at angel investing •  You should be doubling down on tech Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/gold-mine

There’s no better place to invest today than technology. •  There are tax benefits to angel investing •  The less efficient the market, the better you will do •  Few people can play at angel investing •  You should be doubling down on tech Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/gold-mine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/gold-mine</a>

You're Living Inside the Gold Mine

The airwaves are too crowded for undifferentiated content and distribution. • You’re not going to build a brand simply because you want to Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/ape

The airwaves are too crowded for undifferentiated content and distribution. • You’re not going to build a brand simply because you want to Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/ape" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/ape</a>

You Can’t Build a Brand by Aping Someone Else

You’re not going to become a great tech investor by reading TechCrunch. Transcript: http://spearhead.co/scientists

You’re not going to become a great tech investor by reading TechCrunch. Transcript: <a href="http://spearhead.co/scientists" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spearhead.co/scientists</a>

Invest in the Smartest Scientists in a New Field

You need to raise money, develop judgment over time and gain access to the right deals. •  Capital is the hardest or easiest to get—depending on your circumstances •  Apply the same judgment to investments as you do to yourself •  Good investors are more pessimistic than good founders •  Everybody has dealflow—the challenge is getting in the good ones  Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/capital-judgment-dealflow

You need to raise money, develop judgment over time and gain access to the right deals. •  Capital is the hardest or easiest to get—depending on your circumstances •  Apply the same judgment to investments as you do to yourself •  Good investors are more pessimistic than good founders •  Everybody has dealflow—the challenge is getting in the good ones Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/capital-judgment-dealflow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/capital-judgment-dealflow</a>

Investing Takes Capital, Judgment and Dealflow

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Startups Are a Race to Get to Scale

As the hits get bigger, it makes more sense to invest and a little less sense to start companies. •  Founder, employee or investor?  •  As the hits get bigger, it makes more sense to invest •  Angel investing is something you can do until the day you die •  Every founder should learn angel investing Transcript: http://blog.spearhead.co/life

As the hits get bigger, it makes more sense to invest and a little less sense to start companies. •  Founder, employee or investor?  •  As the hits get bigger, it makes more sense to invest •  Angel investing is something you can do until the day you die •  Every founder should learn angel investing Transcript: <a href="http://blog.spearhead.co/life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.spearhead.co/life</a>

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