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Feb 3

If you want to start a business but you’re struggling to come up with a great idea...

Here’s a tactical approach for idea generation:

This approach leverages one of my favorite business frameworks:

Clayton Christensen’s Model of Disruptive Innovation

In simple terms, it says that innovators can win market share by serving a segment of the market that is over or underserved by the big incumbent’s offering.

Basically, upstarts can win market share by serving one sub-segment of a big market extremely well.

Provide the exact level of product/service needed and use it as a wedge to expand.

Ok, now let’s get tactical.

Here’s how you can use the framework to generate business ideas:

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Sahil Bloom

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Feb 3

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Y Combinator has been in the news a lot lately...

In the latest episode of Where It Happens, Eight Sleep founder @m_franceschetti tells us the crazy story of being rejected from YC twice and how he finessed the system to win.

It was epic…

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

Other links to listen or watch!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6wZDP3…

YouTube:

And join the conversation in our discord with 4,000+ others! discord.gg/P8EJhjk8

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Sahil Bloom

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Feb 2

Stock splits are interesting—psychologically more so than technically.

Google parent Alphabet just announced a 20-for-1 stock split and the share price is surging.

Here’s a (very) simple breakdown:

1/ There are two types of stock splits:

(1) Conventional
(2) Reverse

Let's focus on (1), as it’s the type that $GOOGL announced.

In a conventional split, a company issues more shares. Its share price is now lower, but the actual value of the Company does not change.

2/ Alphabet announced a 20-for-1 stock split.

So what happens?

You own 10 shares at a pre-split price of $3000 per share.

Post-split, you own 200 (10*20) shares at $150 ($3000/20) per share.

You have more shares, but there are more outstanding.

Your ownership did not change!

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Sahil Bloom

@SahilBloom

Jan 30

It’s 5pm, freezing outside, and I’m two whiskies deep.

A few thoughts and hot takes (on a wide variety of topics):

Every single person should write more. Becoming a better writer is the most sure fire way to level up in your career and life.

Elegant writing is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Some writing is just…beautiful.

Write for 15 minutes a day, on any topic.

Most of the people you look up to and admire are remarkably unremarkable.

There are clear exceptions, but as a general rule of thumb, this is an empowering realization.

Their success is not due to some intrinsic difference, but some stellar combination of effort and luck.

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Sahil Bloom

@SahilBloom

Jan 30

Having a decentralized friend group who will give you no-nonsense, zero BS feedback and advice is a real competitive advantage.

• Unconnected to your other groups
• Different backgrounds
• Range of experience sets
• Novel perspectives

Enormous value unlock.

The separation from your day-to-day circles is critical.

Their perspectives are “clean”—not influenced by outside factors, other relationships, etc.

Digital/pseudonymous nature of some of these relationships makes it even easier to provide unfiltered feedback in a safe setting.

My guess is that most people that have these decentralized friend groups are running them through group chats, Discord servers, Slack channels, etc.

I wonder if there are any infrastructure or “rails” to be built around optimizing decentralized friend groups.

I’m intrigued…

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Sahil Bloom

@SahilBloom

Jan 29

“Razors” are rules of thumb that simplify decisions.

The most valuable razors I’ve discovered:

The Smart Friends Razor

If your smartest friends are all interested in something, it’s worth paying attention to.

If that something seems crazy, it's worth paying a lot of attention to.

The passions of the smartest people in your circles are a looking glass into the future.

The Rooms Razor

If you have a choice between entering two rooms, choose the room where you are more likely to be the dumbest one in the room.

Once you are in the room, talk less and listen more.

Bad for your ego, great for your growth.

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