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In case of food-based botulism, it feels just like food poisoning. Very fine muscles will get a small dose of the toxin, causing double-vision, discomfort, and weakness in face muscles.

Justin and his wife were spearfishing and diving in the Sonoma County as strong choppy water started to come in. They started trying to get out, but the waves was keeping them in the water to the point of crying for help and getting really tired from staying in the water. Justin thought he was going to die.

Matt says he doubts himself all the time, not just at the beginning of the business, but on the daily basis. This doubt helps to keep himself in check. He would be very skeptical about anyone who claims to have no doubts.

In a now competitive field like code schools and lessons, people shop around and have more preconceived expectations, especially around pricing. One Month is often asked how they are different from Udemy, and why One Month courses cost more. Chris and Mattan have to constantly defend their value proposition. Meanwhile, in a more niche field, where there's no competition, schools can offer anything and sell it with ease.

Chamath thinks the next crisis is coming in 3-5 years in the debt markets. When companies start defaulting on their debt, the LPs are going to lose a tremendous amounts of money. When huge loses come in, those LPs are going to start liquidating, starting at hedge funds with easy redemption cycles. It won't be enough because the loses will outpace the bills. At that point the LPs are going to sell their venture investments, and that's when they will start asking hard questions around valuations, and why their money was actually put to play in these worthless companies. This impending crash is why venture capitalists are accelerating their fundraising and investments, raising more and investing more, while they still can.

She would love to be a dancer or in something related to sports or entertainment. She likes to be "front of the house" versus "back of the house" as she is extroverted and loves people.

Don't talk negative about your competition, but instead flip it around and show what you and your company can do.

Always assume that you are not the only person your prospect is talking to, and help them understand why you, and no one else is able to do the work.

Educate your prospects and help them understand the questions they should know to compare you with your competition, where your answers would come on top.

Your attitude, your personality, the way that you do business, is what is going to sell them first.

1- Regularity is the most important. Go to bed at the same time, and wake up at the same time.

2- Keep your house dark, and start turning lights off early on so you are not artificially forcing your body to stay awake.

3- Keep your house cool, but do keep your hands and feet warm while in bed.

1. They probably get 200 emails a day
2. Their best deals come from a dozen different sources.
3. They may miss out on great deals from cold email, but the effort to find these deals are not worth sifting through all of them

Note, this generalizing. Some VCs like cold emails.

You can either figure out a different business, one they do want to invest into, or figure out a way to self-fund a business or fund it through customer revenue. Most investors want to invest in a business that will run with or without them anyway.

Steve shares that he always knew he wanted to start his own business.

His parents were really into businesses, and just some years after starting to work at corporate, he realized that he wanted to get into entrepreneurship.