I’ve just re-read Ben Horowitz’s excellent book, Hard Thing About Hard Things. One of the things that Ben was talking about is diving the stages that a start up goes through. For example, for a well established company, having more than 3 initiatives per quarter will probably be too much. On the other hand, if […]
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I’ve started learning solidity for fun. There seems to be endless possibilities from making smart contracts for Flash Loans to creating NFTs which I’ve found very exciting. It turns out that just as in (legacy?) financial markets, you have similar opportunities for making money like carry trades. There are many DeFi protocols you can choose
I’ve been thinking about small things that can have a disproportionately large impact. For example, buying options against potential Black Swans. The cost of an option for an unlikely event occurring is generally small but if it happens, the upside can be huge. Conversely, you can have the opposite happen. Credit Suisse made $17.5m in
Verizon has announced that it sold off Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for about $5 billion. As I consider Yahoo’s history, I think about lessons that we can learn from their fall from grace. As Charlie Munger once said, “All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There.”
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I’m the kind of person that likes to dive head first into ventures, getting bored of things quickly and then moving on to the next thing. These include blogging, affiliate businesses (paid traffic & SEO for SaaS and eCommerce businesses), eCommerce businesses, digital courses, self-publishing books under various pseudonyms, trading arbitrage situations, and bought 2
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SaaS can be an extremely competitive field, even more so when search volumes are low. For example, some B2B SaaS keywords only have a few hundred searches a month but they’re so valuable that companies are sometimes paying $150+ per click on Google Ads. However, the one consistent thing I’ve found is that there’s almost
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SEMRush announced on Monday that it plans to IPO under the ticker SEMR and will raise $100 million. According to its S-1 statement, SEMRush has $144.2 million in annual revenue with over 67,000 paying customers. Rand Fishkin said recently that SEMRush has gone from 3rd or 4th place in SEO software to a clear number
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A Boston-based eCommerce group called Thrasio has just raised $750 million to buy up small FBA businesses, raising its total capital raised to almost $2 billion. Thrasio has been buying $1.5 million in FBA revenue per day, according to Joshua Silberstein, their co-founder, in an interview with the FT. There’s a lot of copycat firms
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More and more software companies are recognizing the importance of affiliate marketing and having a strong SaaS affiliate dashboard. The affiliate industry has been growing very rapidly and is estimated to be worth over $8 billion by 2022. The growth has been a mixture of different industries including in eCommerce and software with brands expecting
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