Tag: Entrepreneur
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GitLab is a $5 billion company with over 50 million users. But in 2015, it was just a tiny startup. Today, I watched their original YC application video. It’s one of the best pre-seed pitches I’ve ever seen. Founder Sid Sijbrandij does an incredible job of selling himself. In less…
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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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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Pre-seed, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital+
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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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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Startup, Startups, VC, Venture Capital+
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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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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, VC, 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 ended up putting $10 million into SolarCity, $70 million into Tesla, and $100 million into SpaceX. I literally had to borrow money for rent. It was a close call.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is the world’s richest man. But in 2008, he was almost broke. Both Tesla and SpaceX…
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+ AI, Elon, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Investing, Politics, Reading, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Tech, Technology, Tesla, TSLA, xAI+
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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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+ Business, Asia, Japan, Tokyo, Technology, Investing, Venture Capital, Tech, Startups, VC, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Founders+
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My favorite breakfast spot in Tokyo is Jonathan’s. This chain serves some of the best eggs and pancakes around — with almost no human workers. I’ve been coming to Japan and Jonathan’s since 2014. In the past, it operated like other restaurants, with service entirely by humans. I arrived in…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, China, Entrepreneur, Japan, Robotics, Robots, Startups, Technology, Travel, VC+
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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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+ Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Business, Consumer, Engineering, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Hardware, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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