Mazen
Founder of Kindling Capital • @mazen • http://maz.io
First Principles
“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution.” — EinsteinAt Kindling Capital, we like to say that the most important thing we look for in a potential investment is a valid first principle problem. In this essay I’ll attempt to explain what we mean by that and how we think about first principle problems as they relate to startups. To understand what a first principle problem is, we must first understand what first principles are. The concept of a first principle has been around a long time, and is used across a wide range of sciences and disciplines…Mazen10 min read