Christopher Laughlin

@claughlin

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Investing - MIT Sloan & Melbourne Business School

Cambridge, MA
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  1. 3 hours ago

    “Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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    Aug 31

    Many people delay taking action because they hope to avoid suffering. They keep searching for a path that won’t involve pain or sacrifice or tradeoffs. But some form of suffering is always inevitable. The process of taking action is the process of choosing your pain.

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  3. Aug 31

    “If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.” — Jeff Bezos

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    Aug 28

    Recorded this pod w/ a year ago, finally published today. We cover a lot in short time & Brad (obviously) is an expert at the game: -how to crack into VC -how do VCs mentor -why writing was critical -tactical mistakes made -helping new managers

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    Aug 28

    Rockets. Brain Implants. Pigs. Suddenly I realise what Elon is working towards.

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  6. Aug 28

    friends - who should I vote for and why: or ? Thanks!

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    Aug 22

    Love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than darkness. This is our moment. This is our mission.

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    Aug 21

    Finding breakthroughs at large companies: A/B tests at Bing show most tweaks have tiny benefits requiring large tests to identify. Instead, run more small & less accurate tests: the top 2% of ideas are responsible for 74.8% of the gains. You can screen for radical ideas quickly!

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    Aug 21

    Ted Cruz knew. Rand Paul knew. Nikki Haley knew. Marco Rubio knew. Kellyanne Conway knew. Mike Pompeo knew. Glenn Beck knew. Rick Perry knew. Susan Collins knew. They all knew.

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    Aug 15

    The costs of homogeneity in venture capital: ❌If the VC partners are all from the same school: 11% lower performance ❌If the VC partners all have the same ethnicity: around 30% lower performance ❌If the partners are all men: around 20% lower performance

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  11. Aug 14

    This is such valuable insight for aspiring VCs and entrepreneurs alike.

    I often hear founders telling me they plan on raising $50,000 to then can hire a X to do Y to get them to the next milestone. Unfortunately, if you tell a VC this, they will pass 10/10 times. Here's why you shouldn't raise too little money. A thread 👇
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  12. Aug 14

    This is surprisingly good - and not just about how to eliminate presentations, but how to do and use them better.

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    Aug 13

    Think about decision making & frameworks a lot. For me it is two fold: 1.) Is this a sink the boat decision? If yes, think hard. If no, move fast. 2.) Is this a 1 way door decision? If yes, think hard. If no, move fast. So non-sink boat & 2 way door = move fucking fast

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    Aug 12

    Normalize disagreement as early as possible. If your team can just say “no, I disagree” and have someone take basically zero offense to that, at scale, is tremendously valuable.

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    Aug 12

    Live on a Crowdcast now with and talking about The Startup Community Way -

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    Aug 10

    Grateful to have take our NYC teams through her Investor Pipeline methodology (even while running her accelerator!) last week. It's an exponentially helpful tool to take control of your fundraising process.

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    Aug 8

    The best thing about in 2020 is that you don't need to wait for permission. Here's how you can follow in the footsteps of to build your career in venture.

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    Aug 7

    What do venture capitalists do all day? Mostly talking to people! A survey of 885 VCs at 681 firms find the average workweek is 55 hours, of which 23 is sourcing deals/networking & most of the rest is working with portfolio companies. Hope you future VCs like breakfast meetings.

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  19. Aug 4

    When hiring , value ability to learn higher than what one already knows.

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    Aug 2

    Interestingly, startup founders and investors do look for hot trends, where there are lots of funding & exits, like the below. However, this paper shows jumping on trends is bad strategy. Founders entering hot markets (and investors backing them) do worse than iconoclasts.

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