Boot Ventures

17/06/2024

Simple sabotage for software

How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA

01/09/2023

Advice on doing something great (i.e. a successful startup)

15/05/2023

What's holding you back from success?

Want to listen to this week’s edition of Ultra Successful? Click here or scroll to the bottom of the post to tune in. Success comes in many forms, but it happens internally first. Everything is decided in your mind and will extend outward in every action you take (or don’t). These decisions are ...

30/01/2023

How could you make your company/product better by thinking differently?

It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term competitive moat.

15/08/2022

On how Tesla operates

The main reasons behind Tesla’s success analysts and short sellers overlook, and what competitors should look at to avoi

11/01/2021

If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough

Chris Dixon's blog.

28/11/2020

Jessica Livingston goes over what you need to start a startup.

This was the talk I gave at Y Combinator's Future Founders Conference for women. I've given a lot of advice to startups over the past 15 years, but today I'm going to focus on just the advice...

21/09/2020

Go-to-market strategy for engineers

Roughly, a go-to-market strategy is the answer to the question "how will you sell what you've made?" Roughly, but not quite.

19/04/2020

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decad…

24/01/2020

Marc Andreessen gives us some interesting insights in regards to the future of the internet

Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the begi...

27/06/2019

Bill Gates highlights how William Wu changed his career to help the poor.

25/06/2019

Bill Gates on Startups, Investing and Solving The World's Hardest Problems

There are few opportunities more rewarding as an early-stage venture firm than allowing your portfolio founders to meet one of the most successful entreprene...