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Skin in the game: Fixing higher education's student debt problem(anandsanwal.me)
2 points by asanwal 2y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 2y ago
Didn't consider this for many reasons: 1. Most importantly, we didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz requires a set of generalist biz skills and the company was comprised of specialists. They could tell me about
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by asanwal 2y ago
Gotcha and thanks. I just started getting a few texts from friends saying 'your post is on HN' and was confused. Prob been 10 years since anything I wrote has been on here so was an unexpected surprise especially as the comments a
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by asanwal 2y ago
Thanks. Dad was a specialist on the engineering/science side. He learned and grinded enough over time to become quite dangerous on the business stuff. I guess he'd be what some folks would call T-shaped. https://en.wiki
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by asanwal 2y ago
Unfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.
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by asanwal 2y ago
I set this blog up 24 hours ago and just started moving old writings to it and still have another 200ish to go. So the honest answer is I don’t know. Tbh, getting on HN today was completely unexpected. I believe you can subscribe via email
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by asanwal 2y ago
Hi, Having founded and run CB Insights certainly helped mostly cuz I had some sense of where to focus. In this case, we had product-market fit to use a tech term. My dad's product was great. And so I didn't need to worry about tha
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by asanwal 2y ago
Thank you. I don't think there is an Indian social contract but having been born and brought up here in the USA, I'd be talking out of my a$$ on that topic :) This was maybe more of an implied or expected contract I had with my da
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by asanwal 2y ago
Author here 1. He died suddenly so would have been a good thing to explore and do with time. It certainly would have made my life easier :) 2. Building a business that is small to medium-sized with no brand recogntion in a tier 2 city in In
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by asanwal 2y ago
Hi - author here. This is a big question tbh and the lack of a succession plan is a function of many things: 1. This was my dad's baby. He loved the engineering and the science of it and so the idea of retiring from it was difficult fo
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by asanwal 3y ago
The analysis largely holds tbh even if the ARR is higher. At some point, euphoric private market valuations don't hold when there are public comps (of which there are many for Airtable) And the company if you compare to those public co
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Mistakes made while building a SaaS company(docs.google.com)
2 points by asanwal 3y ago|1 comments
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86% of unicorns have grown headcount in the last 12 months(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 3y ago|2 comments
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A map of FTX's private company investments(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 4y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 4y ago
Downturns cure prosperity-induced blindness very quickly.
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Signs your startup equity won't be worth anything(twitter.com)
9 points by asanwal 5y ago|1 comments
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by asanwal 7y ago
Love this idea. And congrats Alex - CB Insights Mafia! Things that I think folks (aka me) would find interesting: 1. Impressions/views on tech markets (what they're entering, their views on growth of markets, etc) 2. Views on comp
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Uber – The Ponzi Scheme of Ambition(linkedin.com)
6 points by asanwal 7y ago|0 comments
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How does Uber make money?(cbinsights.com)
1 points by asanwal 7y ago|0 comments
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Challenges of creating an algorithm to identify company competitors(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 8y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 8y ago
Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson - amazing book about US criminal justice system. Read it. The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt - a management novel. Oddly engrossing and educational at the same time The Everything Store by Brad Stone - about Amazo
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Guide to Corporate Innovation: 19 strategies to “look” innovative(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 8y ago|0 comments
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Business lessons from Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters(cbinsights.com)
1 points by asanwal 8y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 8y ago
Would you say you have a specialization or are you more of a generalist? Bigger orgs often tend to want specialists while early stage cos love generalists who can do a bit of everything. Also, scale invites challenges that someone in compan
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How large is the market? Determining TAM using the wisdom of an expert crowd(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 8y ago|0 comments
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Memes That Kill: The Future of Information Warfare(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 8y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 8y ago
We do at CB Insights (and we are hiring)
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Apple is going after the healthcare industry(cbinsights.com)
1 points by asanwal 9y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 9y ago
More proof that if you lose money on every transaction, you can't make it up in volume. The on-demand valet parking space has been a great place to lose money. Zirx pivoted, Caarbon failed and now this acqui-hire of Luxe which was some
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Google and Microsoft Are Building Software to Identify Influencers and Trendsetters(cbinsights.com)
1 points by asanwal 9y ago|0 comments

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