Tag: Business
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You just signed your first customer! Is it time to raise a pre-seed round? A founder on Reddit is in this exact situation. He just made his first revenue — $3,000 from one client. That’s a huge milestone! But it’s probably not enough to raise a full pre-seed. Here’s what…
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You and 100 other founders are cold messaging the same investor. Here’s how to stand out…. You want your message to be short and compelling. The longer it is, the less likely the investor will read it. First, let’s cover three critical components of a great cold message. Finally, we’ll…
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Five companies. $9.47 billion. These are the most valuable startups in Japan now. I’m scouring Japan for the next billion-dollar startup. So I wondered: What are the most successful Japanese startups so far, and what can I learn from them? Japan’s Biggest Startups I focused on the top 5 private…
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+ Asia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Japan, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tokyo, Venture Capital, Yamagata+
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You’ve seen the headlines: startups hitting $100M ARR overnight. You’re not one of them. So how do you raise money? We’ve all seen the headlines about startups with ridiculous growth. But the reality for most founders is a lot less glamorous. Grinding out growth bit by bit. Trying not to…
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Jon McNeill took Tesla from $2 billion to $30 billion in revenue as one of Elon’s top lieutenants. His secret? Total focus on a few goals, and obsession with the customer. McNeill recently gave up his secrets in The Algorithm. This slim volume explains how Tesla went from struggling startup…
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+ Business, Elon, Elon Musk, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tesla, Venture Capital+
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Grok Connectors: Elon’s New Agentic System Excels on Simple Tasks, Falls Short on Complex Operations
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Elon recently dropped Grok Connectors, a new tool to manage your email, calendar and more. Grok excels at basic tasks like email summarization. But for more complex operations, it falls short. This morning, I ran Grok Connectors through a three round test. I had it do everything from inbox management…
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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, Writing+
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I’ve spent 10 days meeting amazing founders here in Tokyo. I keep seeing the same strengths, and the same challenges. And I have a solution: The US-Japan Hybrid Startup. Move the founders to the United States. Keep the rest of the team in Japan. This gives a startup the best…
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+ Asia, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Japan, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tokyo, VC, Venture Capital+
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Last week, I landed in Tokyo and put up a single tweet: “What founders should I meet?” It blew up, getting thousands of views. Ever since, I’ve been fielding a flurry of messages from awesome Japanese founders. These are some amazing companies! Here’s what I’m seeing in the Japanese startup…
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Every investor is throwing money at AI. But if you’re building in an unsexy area, is raising money even possible? A frustrated consumer hardware founder recently posed this question to Reddit. He’s seeing VC’s rip huge checks into AI while he’s struggling to raise any money at all. But there’s…
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Demis Hassabis pitched countless investors when he started DeepMind. Almost everyone said no. Why did these VC’s miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime? “Finding initial funding for this was very hard,” Demis later recalled. Demis and DeepMind are leading the race to AGI. They won the 2024 Nobel…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, ChatGPT, DeepMind, Finance, Google, Investing, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital+
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