Tag: Entrepreneur
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I’ve never been a founder. This gives me one advantage: I’m never tempted to tell founders what to do. The Problem Board Member A while back, I was chatting with a great entrepreneur I know. We’ll call him Hal. Hal is crushing it. His SaaS company is growing rapidly with…
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If you want to know where technology is headed, look at what the smartest founders use. Here are the tools my startups are loving right now: Delve Delve automates compliance for SOC 2, HIPAA and more. Delve can get you compliant and ready to close big deals. I first heard…
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Everybody forgot about Mistral. But I just used their new model and let me tell you: don’t sleep on these guys. This morning, Mistral released its most powerful model yet: Magistral. Today, I took it on a test drive. I asked 3 questions using Magistral Medium via Mistral’s Le Chat.…
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Can AI help us live decades longer? How should businesses adapt to AI? I dug into that and more on a panel at the Single Family Office Summit in New York City. Here are some of my favorite moments: 8:07: How AI plus biotech will change human health: KJ’s story.…
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Are you sick of getting those automated messages on LinkedIn? So am I. AI Sales Development Reps is one of the 5 hot categories I’ve never invested in. Each cycle has a hot idea that 100 startups pursue. Most of the time, they all flame out. Here are the hot…
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People buy your product for 2 reasons: you make them money or you save them money. If you want to grow fast, make that value proposition crystal clear. A clear value prop is one of the biggest things I look for when I meet with founders. It needs to be…
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They wanted $100,000, minimum. I politely bowed out. This is how startups sabotage their funding rounds. How Investment Minimums Work Against You Some startups insist on a minimum check size. This excludes helpful investors and makes it harder to close the round. At $100,000, this startup was excluding most angels.…
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YC has a new Request for Startups. Here are my 3 favorite ideas, plus one of my own… AI for Scientific Advancement Group Partner Diana Hu is looking for new ways to apply LLM’s to scientific research. I agree that AI plus bio is going to be the next big…
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The robot flails wildly as human workers run away in fear. This isn’t a new sci-fi movie: it’s a real video from a factory producing robots. The video shows a robot suspended from a crane as human workers mill around it. Suddenly, it starts flailing its arms uncontrollably. Any contact…
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“It’s a lot tougher to be an operator. I mean it is. It’s easier to sit in a room like I do and play around with money. It’s just an easier life.” – Warren Buffett Warren is the greatest investor of all time. But there’s one job that’s too hard,…
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