Why are so many institutions failing? - Sam Lessin
Slow Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, CA 8,663 followers
Ideas for the long term.
About us
The most powerful ideas, companies, and industries aren’t created overnight. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
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http://slow.co
External link for Slow Ventures
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2011
- Specialties
- venture capital, software, engineering, design, science, culture, society, strategy, capital, ideas, innovation, creativity, adventure, experience, curiousity, empathy, hardware, brand, bitcoin, crypto, cryptocurrency, and venture
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1006 Kearny
San Francisco, CA 94133, US
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20 University Road
Cambridge, MA 02138, US
Employees at Slow Ventures
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What are smart, hungry, ambitious entrepreneurs doing now? Real world entrepreneurship (for cashflow, independence, and self-governance). - Yoni Rechtman
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Slow Ventures reposted this
Five tarpit ideas that are worth building There's some obviously bad ideas that could be really great and might justify working on them. 1. Ag tech 2. Duolingo for mental health 3. AI travel agents 4. local, offline marketplaces (events, dating, etc.) 5. Content discovery Obviously these are all really hard and probably never work but it's worth studying history and figuring out how to do it anyway.
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Do you really need co-founders at the earliest stages of your company? - Will Quist
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this really is the greatest website of all time... it is perfect, down to the manually made geico ad, and the copyright... no notes. zero. the perfect expression of true success.
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Turning text into podcasts is a fun parlor trick... not a serious product. - Sam Lessin
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How venture capital can innovate in the financial and legal structure and align with founders. _ Yoni Rechtman
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We’re hiring (http://Slow.co/jobs) right now. Yoni Rechtman explains the job of a VC a lot. Here’s the skinny on this very weird “profession” - good, bad, and other. On one hand, you spend all your time with awesome people. OTOH it's a super lonely job. On one hand it's not a very hard job. OTOH almost everyone is bad at it. One one hand you switch quickly between ideas. OTOH it's a maddeningly slow pace. On one hand you get to be close to lots of cool companies. OTOH you don't work at any of them.
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Who do you need on your team to run your startup experiment quickly, efficiently, and with high signal? Will Quist
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You Should Always Fund Revenge Companies… - Sam Lessin
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