evancharles

You're going to get a ton of skepticism, but I think it's possible in a dense area to find enough people who have enough overlap in the staples they consume who are willing to pay for this. I would try to focus on quality first, proving that you can get super high customer retention and unit margin, before trying to be cost-competitive with a larger grocer.

The funny thing is this is more functional (and took longer to create) than the first version of DoorDash.

Entering the working world does not mean you have to give up diving deeply into new topics!

Our real estate and land markets seem hyper fragmented, not close to being a monopoly? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

When I've seen founders try to keep investors at arms length it seems to result in mistrust, leaving investors feeling like they can't get the real story, and thus decreasing the likelihood they invest further. So rather than keeping insiders at arms length, I'd suggest being direct about wanting to meet other investors. I suggest uncomfortable candor over comfortable misdirection.

My guess is he means that VCs don't make decisions out of friendship.

thx so much for showing an example, very helpful. btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.

I agree, but the opportunists are within that set

One trick to catch opportunists: start with those looking to increase their headcount faster than baseline (as any good opportunist will attempt), and then see if they will adopt an opposing logical argument as long as it leads to the conclusion that their headcount should grow.

This is a flavor of looking for those who make different arguments depending on the audience, which in general is a helpful warning signal.

Although it's impossible to entirely route out opportunists at a high quality, quickly growing company, as the author notes, I still find it is worthwhile to maximize the number of leaders in your company whom you trust to make arguments in the service of making the business work.

I think you underestimate owner costs of turnover. Risking an empty apartment for even a few weeks can erase your yield for the whole year. Landlords, then, are only likely to hike rent aggressively if it's worth that risk, in other words, when the market price is dramatically higher than the current rent rate.

Thanks for sharing! I was just searching github for something like this for my own wedding.