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Choosing Between Opportunities


Just a quick ask of advice. Over winter break I've gotten two projects that've gone swimmingly well:

- fun-ish ed tech startup w/ traction. (50k LOI, likely to have 200k end of next month)

- Project I am super, super confident about & excited to work on. Decent customer feedback so far

my goal is to break into silicon valley so I can work on my own projects for a living with the smartest people. I have two years of college left. Winter break is ending and I have to pick between these two.

Help. How do I decide?

  👤 james-revisoai Accepted Answer ✓
What's the Ed Tech startup?

50k-200k LOI* in January would be unusual for an EdTech startup given the timing of semesters and university/locality/school contract signing periods.. is there more to the story, a distribution channel, or hyper-local focus?

I'm the technical founder of Revision.ai, feel free to email for a chat or advice. An AI Ed Tech startup made widely available in 2019 with traction. I had a similar choice at one point.

*(Letters of Intent? For seats? or is this MAU?)

👤 bhag2066
"The regret minimization framework is a decision-making technique that was popularized by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. The idea is to imagine yourself in the future, looking back at your current decision, and ask yourself which option would cause you the least regret."

I think Bezos imagines himself as an 80-year-old when looking back.

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For context, I own ~15% of the ed tech thing as a co-founder joining in.