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Monopolizing a Niche
Did Donald Trump follow Peter Thiel’s Advice for Start-ups? In the start-up and entrepreneurship world, Peter Thiel is an icon. One of his oft-quoted pieces of advice is to “monopolize a niche.” When Donald Trump announced his candidacy and came out against the immigration status quo, I was advising a few start-ups and my first Read.
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Lunch
I had lunch today with a former student, David Stoughton, from my first year as a teacher. David has turned his high school landscaping business in Maryland into a burgeoning real estate enterprise in the Triad area of North Carolina. He started it out in his parents’ garage of course. Our lunch was in the Read.