Tag: Entrepreneur
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Alibaba claims that its new Qwen 3.8-Max is second only to Fable 5. In my testing, the new Qwen excels at coding and customer support. But ask it about Tiananmen Square, and it suddenly shuts down. Here’s where Qwen performs well, and where it seizes up… Round #1: Building a…
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Token costs killing you? Google may have the solution. Gemini just dropped their fastest, cheapest models ever. This morning, I took them out for a test drive. Gemini’s new models excel at parsing documents, but still lag a little when it comes to coding. Let me show you what these…
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Ever have a great conversation with a VC and then…crickets? If a VC is ghosting you, here’s what to do… Nothing Is Real Until the Term Sheet Hits A founder on Reddit is having this problem right now. He had a good conversation with a VC who promised to get…
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I have something special for you guys today: a guest post by one of my favorite founders! This is the story of how Jesse Bray went from being an animator to the CTO of an AI startup, Hoplon. Hoplon helps construction companies automate timecards and track their workforce using geofencing.…
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I invested $10,000 in Verustruct last fall. $500,000 more came from my intros. Lesson: use your first investors to get more investors… How My $10,000 Helped Close Another $500,000 Last September, I invested $10,000 in a startup called Verustruct. Founder Nick Callegari is 3D printing houses out of concrete to…
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+ Construction, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Real estate, Robotics, Robots, SpaceX, Startups, Venture Capital+
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Is your landing page getting a little stale? I just built a beautiful new one in less than a minute with Grok 4.5, Elon’s new coding agent. Elon Challenges Dario On His Home Turf: Coding Claude has ruled the coding world for a long time now. But now that Elon…
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You haven’t signed a customer yet. Is your startup on the right track…or heading off a cliff? Here are 5 signs you’re building a startup the right way, even if you haven’t made a dime yet. 1. You’re Building Product. This is the most important factor. You don’t need a…
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Public SaaS companies are trading at 3.2x revenues — the lowest in 14 years. Is SaaS finished? Some SaaS companies are slowly dying. But others are growing faster than they have in years. The difference: product velocity. The Good Bucket and the Bad Bucket I put SaaS companies into 2…
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+ Agents, AI, AI Agents, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, NASDAQ, SaaS, Silicon Valley, Stocks, Venture Capital+
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A founder on Reddit just closed his $1 million pre-seed. Jealous? Don’t be. He’s waking up at 3:00am, panicking… Before he raised money, this was a fun project. Now, people are counting on him and there’s serious money at stake. He’s not alone. One of the most successful founders I’ve…
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Here’s how my latest deal came together: 431 companies, 74 meetings, 1 check. Raising money is brutally competitive. Here’s how to win… A Look Inside My Deal Funnel I wired for a new investment on June 29th. To find it, I looked at over 400 companies and did 74 Zoom…
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