Blitzscaling Lesson 1: highlights – Reid Hoffman

Key points

  • Triaging of problems to solve – absolutely ignore the ones that don’t matter at this stage
  • Network of learning – talk to all the smart people around you to get their inputs so that your decision making becomes more crisp
  • Trade offs between being efficiency and being adaptable
  • Need to be judicious as to when to step on the after burner
  • Focus on key elements that will get you to the market opportunity faster than your competition.
  • Networks are important
    • Capital
    • Professional people
    • Learnings