<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Startup on Bruno Pedro</title><link>https://brunopedro.com/tags/startup/</link><description>Recent content in Startup on Bruno Pedro</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 10:00:15 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brunopedro.com/tags/startup/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Do small experiments, often</title><link>https://brunopedro.com/2013/01/03/do-small-experiments-often/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:11:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brunopedro.com/2013/01/03/do-small-experiments-often/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41380738@N05/4419380931">&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4419380931_2a4d782e99_m.jpg" alt="A Rainbow of Tubes" title="A Rainbow of Tubes">&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>A long time ago, I realized that every successful business was a continuous process of small experiments that operated in the context of a long-term vision. When an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment" title="Experiment">experiment&lt;/a> worked, you did more of it. When it didn&amp;rsquo;t, you ended it and moved on. &amp;ndash; &lt;em>in &lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/01/01/the-100000-experiment/" title="The $100,000 Experiment">The $100,000 Experiment&lt;/a>, by &lt;a href="http://www.feld.com/" title="Brad Feld">Brad Feld&lt;/a>&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote></description></item><item><title>Without dissent there is no creativity</title><link>https://brunopedro.com/2012/11/06/dissent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:23:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brunopedro.com/2012/11/06/dissent/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dissent_develops_democracy_sticker.jpg">![Sticker advocating dissent: &amp;ldquo;dissent deve&amp;hellip;](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Dissent_develops_democracy_sticker.jpg/300px-Dissent_develops_democracy_sticker.jpg &amp;ldquo;Sticker advocating dissent: &amp;ldquo;dissent deve&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo;)&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>The founders that make a dent in the universe are &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissident" title="Dissident">dissidents&lt;/a>. They are not afraid to tell their bosses they are idiots or tell their schools they been teaching the wrong thing or to tell an entire industry to think different. And more importantly they are not afraid to tell their country it&amp;rsquo;s mistaken. &amp;ndash; &lt;em>in &lt;a href="http://steveblank.com/2012/11/06/entrepreneurs-as-dissidents/" title="Entrepreneurs as Dissidents">Entrepreneurs as Dissidents&lt;/a>&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote></description></item><item><title>Black Swan Farming</title><link>https://brunopedro.com/2012/09/11/black-swan-farming/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:34:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brunopedro.com/2012/09/11/black-swan-farming/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;a href="http://paulgraham.com/swan.html" title="Black Swan Farming">Black Swan Farming&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>The total value of the companies we&amp;rsquo;ve funded is around 10 billion, give or take a few. But just two companies, Dropbox and Airbnb, account for about three quarters of it.&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote></description></item><item><title>What is branch.com?</title><link>https://brunopedro.com/2012/08/14/what-is-branch-com/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:28:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brunopedro.com/2012/08/14/what-is-branch-com/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;a href="http://branch.com/" title="What is branch.com?">What is branch.com?&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A mix between Convore, &lt;a href="http://https://plus.google.com/" title="Google+">Google+&lt;/a> circles and some of &lt;a href="http://friendfeed.com/" title="FriendFeed">FriendFeed&lt;/a>&amp;hellip; Their killer feature is called &lt;em>branching&lt;/em> and it lets you create your own version of a conversation starting from a specific entry.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>