Tag: Business
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After 18 long months, the product was finally live. Customers poured in. And then, all hell broke loose. Held Hostage By a ‘Tech Partner’ This founder had launched a LinkedIn Content Creator app. Early users loved it, but the project had an Achilles heel. The founder explains what happened next…
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Rippling has accused Deel of putting a spy inside their business. With moles infiltrating companies, should startups be worried? The truth is, if you have an early stage startup, it’s almost impossible to get anyone to care about it. Spies? You should be so lucky! At least that would mean…
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Make a simple product that users love and you have a great start. But how do you grow that into a major, money making business? Let’s use the example of an interesting startup called Trellis. Trellis is an app that combines workout coaching with your favorite music. The founder recently…
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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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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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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startup, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital, Y Combinator, YC+
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Tremendous 