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Assertion Supported
Mycroft: Scheduled batch delivery makes Booster Fuels cheaper than gas stations
“This allows us vast levels of efficiency in our operations that we wouldn't have if we were trying to do this purely on demand, and that helps us keep our costs very low, and it lets us actually be more affordable than a gas station.”
Frank Mycroft Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 9:06 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
Insight
Mycroft: Copying successful business models into new verticals leads to failure
“I think that any entrepreneur, any starting company that is trying to simply apply what was a successful business model in a different space to their new vertical is setting themselves up for failure.”
Frank Mycroft Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 7:02 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mycroft: Parking lots will become hubs for refueling, servicing, and grocery delivery
“We view parking lots as an underutilized asset, especially in this day and age with real estate prices being as high as they are and mobile technology allowing you to Pinpoint locations very precisely, and so we believe that there will come a day where you can…”
Frank Mycroft Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 26:56 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
Insight
Mycroft: Starting a company is irrational unless driven by deep obsession
“You should never start a company. It's actually a pretty irrational thing to do from a probability of outcome perspective, so only do it if it's rubbing at your soul and eating at you every day that you're not going out and creating this idea.”
Frank Mycroft Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 4:19 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
Insight
Mycroft: Outsider founders require deep naivete to disrupt unfamiliar industries
“For those entrepreneurs who don't know the industry players, don't know the complexities of the business that they're trying to disrupt, you need a lot of naivete to actually jump in and do that.”
Frank Mycroft Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 5:51 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
Assertion Supported
Booster Fuels founder Frank Mycroft previously worked on refueling satellites off comets
“The entrepreneur is super special, Frank Mycroft, Literally, before this was figuring out how to refuel satellites in space off of comets.”
Rebecca Kaden Mar 23, 2016 ▶ 23:43 20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
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