Tag: Entrepreneurship
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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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If you trade on inside information in the public markets, you go to prison. In the private markets, all we do is trade on inside information. Here’s how to do it… How to Get Exclusive Startup Data Last year, I met with an amazing founder we’ll call Jim. The company…
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Everyone has an opinion on accelerators. But where am I actually investing? This morning, I dug into my portfolio to find out… To be clear, I think these are all fantastic programs. A founder will do great in any of them. A Peek Inside My Portfolio Now, let’s do the…
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YC’s X25 batch is in full swing. 94 companies have launched so far. Here are my 3 favorites… Zeon Systems I only see a company this exciting a couple times a year, if that. Zeon Systems is automating scientific research. You type in the experiment you want to do in…
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I missed a $40 billion opportunity because I ignored a simple truth: everything comes down to the founder. This is my biggest lesson in 4 years angel investing. Missing a $40 Billion Opportunity Two years ago, I had the opportunity to invest in the seed round of Figure, the robotics…
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I was at a demo day last week. The entire time, the lady sitting next to me was on her e-mail. Investors, never do this. That presentation could be the most important 5 minutes of that founder’s professional life. You owe it to them to pay attention. If you’re too…
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“This guy is like caffeine personified,” I thought to myself as I nibbled from the cheese plate. “I’ve never met anyone like him.” Two years later, he’s the most successful founder I’ve ever invested in. As soon as we sat down at the table in the restaurant in Hudson Yards,…
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Andreessen Horowitz is raising a $20 billion fund. Getting a decent return on this money will be almost impossible. To understand why, we have to look at how venture funds make their money. How VC’s Make Money Big funds like a16z lead rounds in a startup, typically from Series A…
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VC’s will diligence the heck out of you. But you should be diligencing them too. Here’s how to do it… Don’t ask the VC for references. He can just cherry pick the founders in his portfolio that are the most likely to say something nice about him. Instead, go to…
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Tremendous 