20 Lessons for Crypto Founders (Breakpoint 2024)

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

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*SPONSORED CONTENT* Did you miss out on Breakpoint 2024? In partnership with Solana, Real Vision is releasing the best talks from Breakpoint 2024. In this talk, Imran Khan of AllianceDAO gives his top lessons for how to build a startup, live on the Breakpoint 2024 stage. Breakpoint is the annual gathering of the worldwide Solana community, hosted by the Solana Foundation. Breakpoint 2024 was held Sept. 20-21 in Singapore. For more information, go to https://solana.com/breakpoint. DISCLAIMER The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor. Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaim any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities. 🍌 Get your Banana Zone swag at the Real Vision merch store: https://shop.realvision.com About Real Vision™: We arm you with the knowledge, the tools, and the network to succeed in your financial journey. Elevate your brand with Real Vision. Connect with us at [email protected] to explore advertising possibilities. 🔥 Get 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 to Real Vision https://rvtv.io/3Y4t5Pw Connect with Real Vision™ Online: Twitter: https://rvtv.io/twitter Instagram: https://rvtv.io/instagram Web: 🔥 https://rvtv.io/3Y4t5Pw Disclaimer: https://media.realvision.com/wp/20231004185303/Disclaimer-1.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. As you know, Salana is one of the ecosystems I'm the most interested in. I've been
0:07.2	incredibly bullish. I love to see the vibrancy of what is happening in the space.
0:12.1	Unfortunately, I couldn't make Breakpoint this year, but the stories have been amazing.
0:17.5	I heard the talks are incredible, and we're really proud of Real Vision to give you
0:22.0	talks from Solana Breakpoint, 2024 in Singapore. I really hope you enjoy them. How's everyone doing?
0:39.3	All right, so over the past four years of building alliance, what we've realized is the fact that founders need two key areas of focus.
0:53.3	One is be relentless on their vision, but two, also be flexible as they're building their startups.
0:59.8	Paul Graham once famously said, building a startup is a lot like building a rocket ship in parallel to writing it.
1:08.9	The key is to stay closer users, iterate, be stubborn on your vision, but also be flexible
1:15.6	on your details.
1:16.6	So I know I have five minutes, but I want to give you 20 key lessons that I've learned,
1:20.6	building a startup, and also alongside that building startups with founders like Tenzer,
1:25.6	pump, and many others.
1:31.3	As you know, Alliance has been around for about five years now.
1:33.8	Here are some of the startups that we've incubated.
1:38.5	We've had about 150 startups that have came through our accelerator program and about $11 billion in valuations.
1:42.3	And so what I want to spend that next four minutes on is talk about the 20 lessons that I've learned and many of our founders have learned.
1:49.0	And if I could, and if you could take away one lesson out of this whole presentation, I've done my job.
1:55.0	The first is always start with a small problem.
1:58.0	Don't go after the, you know, VCs always will tell you, go after the biggest market ever,
2:04.9	you know, give me the total addressable market, blah, blah.
2:09.0	Usually that's wrong.
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