Tag: Finance
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“Who is Francis, and why is he in my DM’s?” I’m not waiting around for the next unicorn to fall in my lap. So you might be getting a message from me soon… Investing in one of the Top Engineers at SpaceX Last fall, I saw something wild: a former…
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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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+ Investing, Venture Capital, Finance, Startups, Real estate, Construction, Entrepreneur, SpaceX, Robotics, Robots+
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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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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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Tasklet was one of the hottest companies in YC P26. This morning, I used it to build an agent that preps me for my founder meetings. The hype is justified! Automating One of My Most Annoying Tasks: Meeting Prep Digging through emails to find information on the folks I’m meeting…
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+ Agentic, Agents, AI, AI Agents, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Finance, Investing, Startups, Tech, Technology, Writing, Y Combinator, YC+
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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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Some founders raise millions with a single text. You’re struggling to get one check. The reason? It comes down to traction or track record… Track Record We’ve all heard crazy stories of founders raising millions in a weekend without even a deck. Behind those headlines, you’ll usually find a founder…
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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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+ AI, Angel Investing, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, Finance, Grok, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, Writing+
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