Startups

TagLast edit: 1 Aug 2020 20:01 UTC by Adam Zerner

Posts related to startups.

Exams-Only Universities

Mati_Roy6 Nov 2022 22:05 UTC

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Arbital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

227 points

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Write a business plan already

bfinn25 Mar 2021 0:13 UTC

17 points

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Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

AnnaSalamon9 Dec 2015 18:59 UTC

94 points

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What Surprised Me About Entrepreneurship

lsusr5 Apr 2020 9:18 UTC

80 points

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Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusr28 Dec 2021 7:32 UTC

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The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC

93 points

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What’s the most annoying part of your life/job?

Liron23 Oct 2016 3:37 UTC

25 points

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[Linkpost] Paul Graham 101

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Nov 2021 16:52 UTC

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Retrospective: Lessons from the Failed Alignment Startup AISafety.com

Søren Elverlin12 May 2023 18:07 UTC

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The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC

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Cohesion and business problems

Adam Zerner19 Apr 2024 0:45 UTC

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How To Get Startup Ideas: A Brief Lit Review and Analysis

Adam Zerner30 Mar 2023 20:33 UTC

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Microstartup Stories: Initial Thoughts

Adam Zerner27 Nov 2022 1:22 UTC

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Slack Group: Rationalist Startup Founders

Adam Zerner3 Apr 2023 0:44 UTC

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YCombinator fraud rates

Xodarap25 Dec 2022 19:21 UTC

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[Question] What does it look like for AI to significantly improve human coordination, before superintelligence?

jacobjacob15 Jan 2024 19:22 UTC

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Startups are like firewood

Adam Zerner5 Mar 2023 23:09 UTC

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How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC

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Morale management for entrepreneurs

John_Maxwell30 Sep 2012 5:35 UTC

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Passive income for dummies

John_Maxwell27 Oct 2012 7:25 UTC

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the uni wheel is dumb

bhauth1 Dec 2023 16:36 UTC

24 points

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(www.bhauth.com)

Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 4 - Smaller things that I’ve learned

Adam Zerner11 Oct 2019 1:26 UTC

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Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 3 - What I’ve learned

Adam Zerner11 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

27 points

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[Question] How often do series C startups fail to exit?

Jessica Shu21 Sep 2020 19:37 UTC

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Think like a consultant not a salesperson

Adam Zerner22 Jul 2023 19:31 UTC

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[Question] Would you pay for a search engine limited to rationalist sites?

Conor2 Aug 2023 18:06 UTC

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Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day

Zvi12 Sep 2023 13:20 UTC

38 points

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 0:42 UTC

46 points

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Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 2 - Deciding to call it quits

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 4:17 UTC

41 points

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Learning-Intentions vs Doing-Intentions

Ruby1 Jan 2019 22:22 UTC

51 points

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Develop skills, or “dive in” and start a startup?

Adam Zerner26 May 2017 18:07 UTC

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Salary or startup? How do-gooders can gain more from risky careers

Adam Zerner5 Feb 2014 22:54 UTC

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story-based decision-making

bhauth7 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC

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Preparing for ambition

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2021 6:13 UTC

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Who decides what should be worked on?

Aglaya Ivanovna1 Aug 2021 17:26 UTC

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Appropriately Gray Products

Adam Zerner6 Oct 2021 0:56 UTC

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Be less scared of overconfidence

benkuhn30 Nov 2022 15:20 UTC

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(www.benkuhn.net)

Good businesses create epistemic monopolies

Logan Kieller15 Nov 2023 14:04 UTC

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(logankieller.substack.com)

Suggestion: Read Paul Graham

katydee23 Mar 2013 3:23 UTC

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MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2013 13:16 UTC

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On Cutting Wages

Zvi24 Dec 2015 21:11 UTC

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In a world… of venture capital

Zvi15 May 2015 14:02 UTC

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Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?

ShannonFriedman16 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC

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[Question] Titan (the Wealthfront of active stock picking) - What’s the catch?

Liron6 Aug 2020 1:06 UTC

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Quixey—startup applying LW-style rationality—hiring engineers

Liron28 Sep 2011 4:50 UTC

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Why AI may not save the World

Alberto Zannoni9 Jun 2023 17:42 UTC

0 points

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(a16z.com)

Evaluating GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Graham’s philosophy

VipulNaik12 Apr 2014 14:04 UTC

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How Lesswrong helped me make $25K: A rational pricing strategy

kareemabukhadra21 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC

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How & when to write a business plan

bfinn15 Apr 2021 15:45 UTC

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[Question] Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?

Siddhartha Gautama27 May 2021 8:20 UTC

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Who wants to run a B2B SaaS startup?

jefftk17 Jun 2021 13:40 UTC

12 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Fixing Moral Hazards In Business Science

DavidLS18 Oct 2014 21:10 UTC

50 points

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A proposed system for ideas jumpstart

Just Learning14 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC

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Abundance and scarcity; working forwards and working backwards

Quinn18 Feb 2022 19:05 UTC

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[Question] What Should I Do Today?

Cui18 Mar 2022 16:36 UTC

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The Nature of Technology Book Review

Asindu5 Mar 2024 17:05 UTC

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Entrepreneurship ETG Might Be Better Than 80k Thought

Xodarap29 Dec 2022 17:51 UTC

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[Question] What area of the digital domain seems safe from AI in the next 5-10 years?

Adrien Chauvet24 Jan 2023 1:16 UTC

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Introducing Leap Labs, an AI interpretability startup

Jessica Rumbelow6 Mar 2023 16:16 UTC

99 points

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