Tag: Business
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Lots of founders mess up calculating their Total Addressable Market (TAM). Here’s how to do it correctly… Calculating TAM Correctly You need to do what’s called a bottoms-up TAM. Take the number of potential customers and multiply that by what you charge for your product. The figure you get is…
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Founders are using AI to build incredible products. And now, I’m using it to evaluate their businesses. Here’s how… When I was researching a startup in the past, I had to Google a hundred things and hope I’d find the right info. Team, possible competitors, market size, you name it.…
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Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. But there’s another competitor creeping up the charts: Qwen from Alibaba. Most people haven’t tried it. So today, I decided to see if this model can compete with the best from America. I used the new 32B model and fed it the same…
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+ AI, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneurship, Grok, LLM, Qwen, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital, xAI+
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“For two decades, no Secretary of Defense even bothered to set foot in Silicon Valley…” In 2015, Ash Carter finally changed that. This was the beginning of a wave that launched a thousand defense startups. In 2016, Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchoff took control of Defense Innovation Unit X (DIUx).…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Defense, Department of Defense, DoD, Founders, Military, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, War+
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Why does one startup raise millions and another raise nothing? Let’s go through 4 deals I looked at this morning so you can see how an investor thinks. I scrambled up the details of these deals a little so you won’t be able to identify the companies. But there’s enough…
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VC’s love to make fun of Europe. But here’s what most of them won’t tell you: they’re doing more investments there. America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates. Cue the picture of the bottle cap. I know, I make fun of Europe too! But I’m also doing more investments there. And…
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Demo day is coming up for YC’s W25 batch. This morning, I picked out the coolest startups in the group. Let’s see who I need to meet! Pave Robotics This one is insane — robots that fix cracks in roads! We could certainly use this here in Jersey, which has…
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YC recently released its Request for Startups. This morning, I decided to do my own. Here are the top 5 startups I want to see: 1. Easier Ways to Navigate Zoning. Housing costs in this country are obscene. Restrictive zoning is the main factor driving these costs. I want to…
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Valuations for early stage startups jumped in 2024, according to a new report from AngelList. Pre-seed valuations are up 20% while seed prices rose 18%. Median pre-seed valuations hit $10 million pre-money. Seed reached a heady $20 million. This marks a big increase from 2023, when the median pre-seed was…
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This weekend, I was chatting with a friend who’s a psychiatrist. She often deals with patients in crisis. I sometimes deal with founders in crisis. So I got to thinking… How can I apply what psychiatrists do to my work investing in startups? Some founders I meet with are in…
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Tremendous 