Category: Business
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“Don’t meet with junior VC’s…only partners.” This is terrible advice. Those junior VC’s are the key to closing your round. Every founder wants to meet the famous VCs. That’s the problem: there aren’t enough hours in the day for them to meet everybody! If you message them, odds are they’re…
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You need to learn 2,000 characters to read Japanese. This morning, I built an app to teach me with Base44. In just 6 minutes, I had an amazing app up and running! Designing an App to Teach Me Kanji I need a flashcard app to help me learn Japanese characters…
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What if you could control your computer with brain sensors in your hat? What if you could share the joy of having a pet with others? What if human technology could help your pet live longer? These are 3 startups I’m looking for now… Removable Brain-Computer Interfaces On these cool…
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+ AI, Animals, BCI, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Finance, Founders, Investing, Pets, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital, Veterinary Care+
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Our industry creates mountains of craplets. I’m looking for the opposite: startups that make our country safer and our people healthier. Here are 3 kinds of companies I’m searching for now… Cheap Replacements for Patriot Missiles In just a few months of fighting in Iran, the U.S. has used the…
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What if an AI agent could find my next investment for me? Today, I used Grok Bot to search for startups. The results blew me away… Setting Up My New Agent: “Startup Sleuth” I find that with AI agents, a very detailed prompt really helps. So I turned on Wispr…
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When you think of AI data, what do you picture? Rooms full of people labeling cat pictures? That’s so 2022! Let me explain how this market really works… AI Data Isn’t “Data Labeling” Anymore “Isn’t data labeling a commodity?” I’ve heard that 100 times. People picture workers in the developing…
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+ AI, AI Agents, AI Data, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Finance, Generative AI, Investing, Silicon Valley, Training Data, Venture Capital+
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You just signed a monster customer. They’re most of your revenue. Now you’re walking into a VC meeting…how do you explain this? My Advice to a Great Founder One of my investments is dealing with this issue right now… “How did you wind up with a lot of revenue concentrated…
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Off-the-shelf email agents draft nonsensical replies that sound nothing like me. So I built my own… My new Grok Automation is saving me serious time managing my inbox. The key: giving Grok extremely specific instructions with examples. The Problem With Email Agents Tons of different tools claim to manage your…
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+ Agentic Tools, Agents, Agents AI agent, AI, AI Agent, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneur, Startups, Tech, Technology+
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I’ve looked at thousands of founder pitches. Here are 5 mistakes I keep seeing, and how you can avoid them… Don’t Ask Investors to Sign an NDA. No investor worth their salt is going to sign an NDA. Every year I look at thousands of decks. Can I sign thousands…
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+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Founders, Fundraising, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital+
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