Tag: Entrepreneur
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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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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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I want to meet as many awesome founders as I can. So I’m automating the busywork. Here are the automations I’ve got running my investment business… Summarizing Decks I built a great little tool in Grok Projects to summarize decks in the exact format I like: Instead of paging through…
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YC S26 kicked off last week. 56 startups have already launched. Here are my top 3 so far, from robot maids to cheaper healthcare… Prescience Just this morning, my Christian health share emailed me. My discount for staying fit? Gone. Traditional insurance is even worse. Premiums through the roof, no…
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I just missed out on $157,000. Last year, I passed on a startup that is now raising at 25x the valuation. Here’s how I blew this deal, and what I’ll be doing differently next time… Why I Passed We’ll call this startup Supercorp. In April 2025, I had an opportunity…
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Yesterday, a founder nailed a cold message in just 38 words. I put him on my calendar first thing the next morning. Here’s why short messages win… Investor Time Is Very Limited You only have 60 seconds to make an impression. Investors, big or small, get tons of inbound. I…
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Friction is killing your fundraise. Here’s how to remove it and close out your round, fast… Take the example of an awesome founder I spoke with recently. “An investor told me to require an e-mail address to see the deck,” he said. “What do you think?” “Don’t require anything. Remove…
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Pattern I keep seeing in AI agent startups: > announce super powerful agent> ship agent> tons of sign-ups> insane revenue growth> massive funding round> product simply does not work> what now?> heavy churn likely Customers bought the dream of an agent that does everything. But the product fundamentally does not…
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