Category: Technology
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You started your own business. But your family and friends aren’t buying it — why not get a real job? If no one believes in you, here’s what to do… Stop expecting them to! It’s not other people’s job to believe in you. That’s your job. People Don’t Believe What…
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Are you spending a fortune on tokens? How does $0.05 per million sound? This morning, I tried one of the cheapest LLM’s in existence. Turns out, it’s surprisingly powerful. Llama 3.1 8B on Groq costs just $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens. That’s over 100x…
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If you’re old enough to have had a flip phone, you probably remember that images looked terrible on that tiny screen. But a friend of mine, Jesse Bray, figured out how to stream HD video to those little screens as early as 2005. How he did it is the story…
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Do you have a list of customers or prospects you want to monitor news for? Here’s how to build an easy automation with Grok Projects… For me, my founders are my customers. And since I’ve got 42 investments now, it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on with all…
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Alibaba claims that its new Qwen 3.8-Max is second only to Fable 5. In my testing, the new Qwen excels at coding and customer support. But ask it about Tiananmen Square, and it suddenly shuts down. Here’s where Qwen performs well, and where it seizes up… Round #1: Building a…
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+ AI, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Founders, LLM, Qwen, Startups, Tech, Vibecoding+
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China is crushing the US on open weights models. But Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, is striking back. Today, I put her new Inkling model through 3 real world tests. Inkling does a solid job on coding and web scraping. But compared to the leading models, its results are less…
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Token costs killing you? Google may have the solution. Gemini just dropped their fastest, cheapest models ever. This morning, I took them out for a test drive. Gemini’s new models excel at parsing documents, but still lag a little when it comes to coding. Let me show you what these…
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Ever have a great conversation with a VC and then…crickets? If a VC is ghosting you, here’s what to do… Nothing Is Real Until the Term Sheet Hits A founder on Reddit is having this problem right now. He had a good conversation with a VC who promised to get…
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“Who is Francis, and why is he in my DM’s?” I’m not waiting around for the next unicorn to fall in my lap. So you might be getting a message from me soon… Investing in one of the Top Engineers at SpaceX Last fall, I saw something wild: a former…
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I have something special for you guys today: a guest post by one of my favorite founders! This is the story of how Jesse Bray went from being an animator to the CTO of an AI startup, Hoplon. Hoplon helps construction companies automate timecards and track their workforce using geofencing.…
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Tremendous 