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The Bad Startup Advice Everyone Loves to Give

Yes, even your favorite VC. — Intro Let’s face it, we’ve all heard it: “You can’t have a solution in search of a problem” “You have to start with the problem first.” — All startup advisors, circa all of humanity While this isn’t exactly untrue, I’d like to provide some nuance here that I think will help…

Entrepreneurship

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The Bad Startup Advice Everyone Gives You
The Bad Startup Advice Everyone Gives You
Entrepreneurship

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How to Know You’re Onto Something

Tips for ideating startups and seeing through the fog — So you have an idea. You’ve shopped it around a bit… and unfortunately met some resistance. Is it time to give up? Well, that’s what I’ll be talking about in this blog post. How do you know if you’re onto something despite others not believing in you? Before we go…

Entrepreneurship

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How to Know You’re Onto Something
How to Know You’re Onto Something
Entrepreneurship

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May 18

The Different Types of Product Managers

What exactly is product management? If you quickly Google search (or ask Chat GPT nowadays), you’ll likely get multiple different definitions all with different skills they say you’ll need. So I decided to break it down a little differently than you normally hear. Here’s a beautiful chart I made in 2 minutes: The Product Management role is a spectrum…

Product Management

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The Different Types of Product Managers
The Different Types of Product Managers
Product Management

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Mar 16

What I read this month

This month I had some more downtime than usual — so, I decided to make haste with the little downtime I had to read a few books. True to my character, two of them were about startups and entrepreneurship and the other was about problem-solving. …

Startup

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What I read this month
What I read this month
Startup

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Nov 16, 2022

Product Perspective: Apple

How I’d prevent Eve Jobs from wanting to share memes about Apple’s lack of innovation. — Is Apple really that far along its S curve? Is it time for a new market entrant to take over? …

Startup

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Product Perspective: Apple
Product Perspective: Apple
Startup

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Nov 9, 2022

Will AI Impact Your Future?

My hot-take on how AI will shape the futures of engineers, academics, and PMs (oh, and creators too). — How close are we to machines taking over? When will the terminator exist in the real world? Who is going to make it through the inevitable AI apocalypse? I’ll be answering none of those questions today (or probably ever). I will, however, talk briefly about my take on how AI will impact a few categories of jobs including computer science, academics…

Venture Capital

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Will AI Impact Your Future?
Will AI Impact Your Future?
Venture Capital

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Nov 2, 2022

What questions are you not asking?

How to ask better questions as a VC or entrepreneur. — There definitely is such a thing as asking a stupid question, contrary to what some people might tell you — and asking questions is essential for both venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. …

Startup

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What questions are you not asking?
What questions are you not asking?
Startup

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Oct 26, 2022

Is it possible to be too curious?

Come on… aren’t you a little bit curious??? — So we know that curiosity killed the cat, but can it kill you? More specifically, can it kill your career, future, or startup? Over the past few months, I’ve thought about creativity and having many interests in a few different lights — from being able to code-switch, becoming a polymath…

Startup

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Is it possible to be too curious?
Is it possible to be too curious?
Startup

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Startup Stash

·Oct 19, 2022

Product Pitstop: Google, Let me Help You Out

My product idea is to raise productivity through the roof — Hello and welcome to my latest Product Pitstop! In this edition, I’ll be talking about one change to Google Docs that I would LOVE to see. Have you ever had two separate Google Docs open? Maybe it’s even the same document that you opened twice because you want to look…

Google

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Product Pitstop: Google, let me help you out
Product Pitstop: Google, let me help you out
Google

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·Oct 12, 2022

Product Pitstop: How to fix BeFake

My feature idea to fix the hottest app out there: BeReal — BeReal has taken the world by storm. Well, let me rephrase: BeReal has taken Gen-Z by storm. But it’s of no importance what generation this new social media app has entranced, we can all agree it’s a big deal when TikTok starts copying it. Let’s look at the graph below…

Social Media

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Product Pitstop: How to fix BeFake
Product Pitstop: How to fix BeFake
Social Media

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Luca Traverso

Luca Traverso

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Partner @ Crescent Fund and Student @ UCLA. I love brainstorming, new tech, and startups.

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