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Have an “edge”
Why should you make this investment, not someone else? A good investment, that you cannot execute with excellence, isn’t a good investment for you.
What’s your edge?
In financial or startup investing, the edge is often your ability to evaluate the risk. You might understand that a certain execution in a certain product in a certain market carries lower risk than others believe. This is an edge, though it is a rare one, in part because even experts are bad at evaluating risk (and the majority of VC funds lose money, and Angel investors are even worse).
Deciding Whether an Investment Is Worthwhile
longform.asmartbear.com
People who score low on extroversion just seem more chill. Such people have slower and less volatile emotional responses to things. They are often creative, thoughtful, and intentional. They like having deeper relationships with fewer people. Their way of experiencing the world is not lesser than that of high-extroversion people, just different.
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
As Ben Thompson once told Tyler Cowen:"The reality is — particularly when it comes to consumer products — is that in the long run, convenience always wins."
Airbnb Is WeWork
drorpoleg.com
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