CoFounder Weekly is a Twitter-powered slightly silly newsletter about startup culture.
This week: 🔥 Is print making a comeback?, ❄️ Eating alone at Sweetgreen, 🤑 Why it’s hard to be a great VC.
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By Greg Kubin
🤔 Thought Starters
(Five Tweets this week that made us think )
🔥 Hot: Print edition
I love reading content in print, whether it’s the Sunday Times, a zine, or a hardcover book (just finished reading Mean Genes, reading The Everything Store now).
So it’s exciting to see startups embracing the ye’ old paper format.
Here are a few examples:
Buzzfeed
Stripe
Stripe Press publishes books about economic and technological advancement. Published books include Dream Machine (about J. C. R. Licklider Lick, an early visionary in computer science) and Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments, which explores how today’s decisions affect our distant descendants.
Could the trend towards print publications be the result of the pendulum swinging too digital in the last decade? Kind of like startups embracing a retail presence after saturating the direct-to-consumer channel.
📊 Poll: Should a future CoFounder Weekly be in print?
👍 Click to vote YES | 👎Click to vote NO
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Last week, we asked whether you consider yourself a contrarian, here are the results:
❄️ Not: Eating solo at Sweetgreen
It’s true. Moreover, many solo diners are slouched over and lost in their Instagram feeds (or reading CoFounder Weekly 🙃).
But there’s two sides to every salad…I mean story.
For example:
📊 Poll: Do you eat meals solo?
👍 Click to vote YES | 👎Click to vote NO
🏢 Three hot takes on three big co’s
👩💻 FOUNDER & 🤑 INVESTOR STUFF
(Interesting bites for startup nerds)
Jason Lemkin shares his biggest learnings being a VC for the past 5.5 years.
tl;dr: It’s really freakin’ hard to be great, it’s really hard to be differentiated, it’s only getting harder since so many new funds are popping up, and you don’t know if you’re good for 10 years. But if you are great, it’s really great.
🔗Read entire thread here.
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VC Amy Sun shares her experience transitioning from operator to investor at Sequoia. She highlights three big differences:
Startup: “Move fast and break things” —> VC: “Measure 100 times and cut once”
Startup: One “north star” —> VC: Dozens of different industries and metrics at the same time
Startup: From short feedback cycles —> VC: Long feedback cycles
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😸 FUNNIES
(LOLs from this week)
⚗️Experiment
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