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By Greg Kubin
🤔 Thought Starters
(Four Tweets this week that made us think )
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🚨 No free lunch
Entrepreneurs get no diversification.
Early employees don’t get enough upside.
BigCo employees are well compensated but become a cog in the wheel.
Investors don’t make money unless they see deal flow like Sequoia.
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👩💻 FOUNDER & 🤑 AND INVESTOR STUFF
New ideas often start out as unthinkable, then are considered radical, until they become accepted by popular culture.
Taylor Pearson explores this concept in The Overton Window and How Creative Business Ideas Arise. The Overton Window is the window of acceptability.
If an idea is unthinkable, it will be tough to commercialize given the time horizon to acceptability.
What ideas do you think will become integrated in the Overton Window in the next 5-10 years?
Bitcoin? Psychedelics as the next cannabis?
Reply with your predictions and we’ll publish responses in an upcoming issue.
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😂 Funnies
(LOLs from the week)
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