Category: Technology
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You’ve worked really hard on your pitch to investors. But what if some of the things you’re saying are actually turning them off? Here are several things that can be a negative signal to investors: 1) No clear growth trend. If you don’t share information about month over month revenue…
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You’ve run through your deck a hundred times. You’ve practiced pitching to your cat. He declined to invest. Startup founders work incredibly hard to pitch their dream to investors and get funded. As an angel investor, I see a lot of presentations. So, I thought I’d share the 3 biggest…
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If you’re a startup founder raising money, you’re going to be sending cold e-mails. Lots of them. So what pitch gets angel investors and VC’s excited, and what turns them off? Here’s the e-mail I’d like to get: From: travis@ubercab.comTo: jim@filthyrich.vc Subject: UberCab intro – everyone’s private driver Hi Jim,…
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Lately, I keep seeing startups running into the same problems. As an angel investor, I work hand in hand with numerous startups. I also see presentations and deal memos from hundreds more. Let’s dig into some of the biggest challenges they have in common: Recruiting The labor market is red…
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What would it be like to not have ears? Unfortunately, for patients with microtia, this is no hypothetical. Microtia, or lack of a fully developed ear, is a congenital condition affecting about 1 in every 6-8,000 people. Some patients have a malformed outer ear. Others have almost no ear tissue…
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At its recent earnings call, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. CEO Adam Aron revealed that the company may create its own non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These unique pieces of digital art are exploding in popularity, per DappRadar: In Q3, the NFT space generated over $10.67 billion in trading volume. This represents an…
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+ Blockchain, Crypto, Finance, Investing, NFT, NFTs, Reddit, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Wallstreetbets+
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Breast cancer killed 685,000 women worldwide last year. But the Cleveland Clinic has a new drug that could change that: Cleveland Clinic researchers have opened a novel study for a vaccine aimed at eventually preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease. Triple negative breast…
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If you’re a fellow New Jerseyan, you know a big election is coming up. We have the constant barrage of commercials and junk mail to prove it. Doing some research on the races today, I came across an interesting initiative Governor Phil Murphy recently passed. It’s called the NJ Innovation…
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Everyone loves Ethereum, right? It’s widely used and has a ton of code already out there for developers to slot into their projects. But there’s one problem. Ethereum can only process about 15 transactions per second. And the huge amount of computing power needed has gotten expensive. Some transactions can…
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Tremendous 