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Taggar: If You Question Having Product-Market Fit, You Don't Have It
“If you have to question whether you have product market fit, you probably don't.”
Taggar: The startup idea is almost the only thing that matters
“I've actually started to believe now that if you're doing a startup, almost the only thing that matters is the idea. I used to be one of these people that believed execution was everything and the idea didn't matter.”
Taggar: Product-market fit drives hard work, not vice versa
“I actually often think that success or having product market fit causes you to work hard versus, you know, working hard, causing you to get product market fit.”
Taggar: Real Estate Tech Startups Find Better Investor Understanding in New York
“There was a bit of a difference between pitching and fundraising on the West Coast and in New York. And I think it's the LP base with the East coast investors. A lot of them are all very familiar with real estate. Often they've made a lot of money out of real …”
Taggar: Gary Tan Saved Instacart and Wired Money to Coinbase
“I think it was he who accepted Instacart into Y Combinator after the deadline had passed for applications, and similarly with Coinbase early on, I think this is public, but there was a moment where they were having a bit of a liquidity crunch, and Gary just wi…”
Taggar: Founders Can Validate Product-Market Fit in a Few Weeks
“You can actually figure out or get to product market fit even within a month or a few weeks and use language and positioning to really test how receptive people are to your ideas.”
Taggar: Silicon Valley's bragging culture and vanity metrics are counterproductive
“I think I would like to change the bragging culture. I found this kind of difficult to adjust to when I came out here, where everyone's kind of crushing it, or, you know, in the press, it's like, I raised this much, and you throw these vanity metrics out there…”
Taggar: Thinking long-term would have made Auctomatic more successful
“And I actually think if we were thinking on a longer term horizon, we would have done better.”
Taggar: Tech-Enabled Physical Startups Are Harder to Scale Than Software
“It's harder to scale than a pure software play because we are acquiring and creating physical things. You know, we can't just add servers and increase our database size. When we rewrite code, we also have to rewrite processes in the real world with how we do t…”
Taggar: Zeus Living Secures Captive Inventory via Direct Master Leases
“The way I would offer this is I would offer to Sign a lease with the homeowner, and then I realized I would have captive inventory, and I could solve the problem on the demand side.”
Taggar: Early Zeus Pitch Yielded 20 Follow-ups Out of 25 Investor Meetings
“And I remember of those 25 meetings, I had 20 follow-up meetings set up after just sort of talking through the idea in the market.”