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Marc Andreessen on how to de-risk a startup.

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Amit Misra2 years ago

What you want to do is systemize your risks, and attack them one by one. To do that, use the onion. This comes from Marc Andreessen, who says he got it from Andy Rachleff.

Newtonian2 years ago

The R in startup stands for Risk

Kairatka2 years ago

onion approach is when you crying during startup development 🧅

Abdalla Omari2 years ago

This is a very good summary on how to plan out risks for start ups and small and micro enterprises. A whole MBA class in 2 minutes :)

Joy Muballe2 years ago

@bwsloet

brian graven2 years ago

@SentosIan

molson 🧠⚙️2 years ago

Ironic to me that someone who has a whole portfolio of companies is so worried about risk when the founder is all in on one company

Bob Walker2 years ago

Simple and logical

BULL DOG2 years ago

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•2 years ago

interesting

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