Co-Founder @Coolershare, a proptech communication platform; Advisor @Pointer_Network, a location-based data exchange and enhancement platform

Moscow
Joined April 2009
This guy is on a roll…Touche…great stuff
Isn't Ukraine just a separatist Russian province? Many foreigners ask themselves this question. The same way many Eastern Slavs think that all British Isles are just England. And yet, dynamics of Russian-Ukrainian relations are different from the dynamics of Anglo-Celtic ones🧵
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I gathered the best business tools for startups. Save 100+ hours researching. A thread:
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I’ve spent 1500+ hours learning about cognitive biases and heuristics (AKA the stuff that drives *your customers* to buy) Here are the top 19 concepts that marketers need to know:
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8 mental models to master startups:
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In 2006 I was meeting with Jeff Bezos to discuss acquiring Audible when he described their founder Don Katz as “a missionary, not a mercenary.” I later learned Jeff got this framing from John Doerr, and it struck me as a good distinction when evaluating people. Here's a 🧵:
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I asked, “What’s the best chrome extension for startups?” I received 100+ replies. Here are 10 chrome extensions you must install:
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Today's Twitter thread is on fake investors. Unfortunately, there are a TON of fake investors out there. How do you avoid them? What do you do? Read on >>
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Great read in the comments about @CoStarGroup and their clients. #PropTech
Costar is like that bouncer at the club who holds all the cards and knows it’s his way or the highway. Can we please open a better club so we can humble that dude?
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Weave debuted on the NYSE yesterday. This is how my wife and I celebrated. Quietly outside. Passersby, took our photo without knowing we started the company on the banner. 1
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I spent the week with two former CIA agents. They blew my mind. Here’s what I learned that everyone should know:
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4 trends identified by @wearevts for office landlords to consider ➡️ 1/ Tenant experience technology 2/ Flexibility 3/ Increased subletting space 4/ Online marketing
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In a couple decades, I think we're likely to view 1993-2025 as a brief and unusual period of "open internet." Before 1993, most people were on intranets like AOL, imo, we're heading back there for a long list of reasons I'll explore in this thread.
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This is not just a new approach to venture capital, it's a new approach to business and the structure of corporations. I dive into it here: drorpoleg.com/betting-the-fi…
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Some companies take ten months to find product/market fit; some companies take ten years. I don’t care how long it has taken you. If you think you have it, please reach out to me.
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Does anyone want to start companies anymore? My Twitter feed is increasingly full of people who want to invest in companies, or crypto, or DAOs, or NFTs, or blah. And then shill for them. But few seem to want to actually do stuff. – at Guildford, England
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A critical but easily overlooked early hire is someone to drive customer storytelling. Interviewing customers and consistently publishing their stories is a full-time job. Time intensive but builds trust, drives demand, and makes hiring a lot easier.
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Any company not rethinking their real estate needs and how they operate post pandemic.
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The best way to learn is to walk around sticking forks in electrical sockets and adjusting accordingly. This one hurt. A lot. I'll try to keep sharing my screw ups as they happen. Follow me at @awilkinson.
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Coolershare in the news (Russian): cre.ru/news/82738
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