Author: tremendousblog
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Yesterday, I was chatting with a wonderful young founder in New York. I mentioned trolling Crunchbase to find startups. “Wow, we need to get on there,” he replied. Today I’m going to show you the simplest way to get investors contacting you. It’s free, and it only takes about 15…
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I started investing in startups in April of 2021, like a lot of other angels. But looking around 3 years later, many of them seem to be gone. I found an interesting data set from Jason Saltzman at Live Data Technologies. It shows a huge slowdown in new angels. The…
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I spent most of last week in Elizabethtown, Kentucky visiting my grandma. It’s a cute little town full of flowering trees — but you wouldn’t believe what it costs to live there! Killing some time in the Airbnb one night, I decided to pop onto Zillow. “These numbers can’t be…
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On Monday, February 5th, a young Cuban woman landed at Tampa International Airport. She brought with her something rather unusual: $100,000 in cash. Mirtza Ocana, 38, was no tourist. Under questioning, she admitted to smuggling cash from Cuba to the United States several times a month. Flight records show 45…
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“Is that construction? What the heck are they doing?” I thought. Then I realized what it was: an earthquake. The NYC area just experienced a medium-sized earthquake. It was a 4.7 magnitude, according to the US Geological Survey. An Unusual Type of Earthquake There’s something very unusual about this quake.…
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Last night, I scrolled through Amazon, entranced. You can buy a whole house for only $30,000! Some were as cheap as $15,000. But being Mr. Fancypants, I had my eyes on one for $72,000. I better hurry — there’s only 10 left in stock! 🙂 But as exciting as manufactured…
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+ Bay Area, Construction, Finance, Government, Housing, Money, New York City, Palo Alto, SF, Silicon Valley, YIMBY, Zoning+
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As I stroll down the waterfront in my beloved Hudson County, NJ, I see apartments sprouting up like mushrooms. It makes me proud. But it’s nothing compared to New Zealand. YIMBY Is Kiwi New Zealand just might be the world capital of YIMBY. This beautiful nation has spent the last…
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My heart just about jumped out of my chest when I saw this data. NYC now has more founders building than SF! Is It Real? This new data comes from Live Data Technologies. Their data is comprehensive, covering over 7,500 founders. It’s hard to know how meaningful this information is.…
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Remember the bar in Cheers, “where everybody knows your name”? Onieals feels like that. They don’t know my name yet— but after Saturday’s dinner, they’re gonna learn it! My friend Tim and I continued our Jersey Food Tour this weekend. And although we dearly love Karma’s curries or Grimaldi’s pizza,…
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+ Burger, Dining, Eating out, Friends, Friendship, Manhattan, New Jersey, New York City, NJ, NYC, Seafood, Soho+
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“Cynicism is the coward’s way out.” Jason Calacanis Last week, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be awesome to be on This Week in Startups some day? Maybe many years from now.” A couple days later, it happened! Jamming with JCal Host and angel investor Jason Calacanis was doing a Q&A session…
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Tremendous 