Starting a Company in the COVID Era with Ann-Miura Ko
b'Ann-Miura Ko (@annimaniac), joins Erik on this episode. It was recorded as part of an On Deck Fellowship event.
They discuss:
- Her perspectives on what it was like to start a company in the last several downturns and why this one is different from the others.
- Why they are telling their portfolio companies that they need to be \\u201coutlasting, not outspending\\u201d their competitors.
- What a \\u201cminimal viable company\\u201d means and how to avoid \\u201cfake growth.\\u201d
- What will continue to be different when the pandemic is over.
- Which spaces she\\u2019s excited about.
- Her theory on the new social contract emerging between workers and employers.
- How startups should think about competition.
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