Tag: Finance
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We just had YC Demo Day. But 57 companies in YC F26 have already launched! Here are my 3 favorites so far, from robots for data centers to Duolingo for social skills … Lambda Robotics — Robots to Run Data Centers I recently went past one of the world’s largest…
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“Don’t meet with junior VC’s…only partners.” This is terrible advice. Those junior VC’s are the key to closing your round. Every founder wants to meet the famous VCs. That’s the problem: there aren’t enough hours in the day for them to meet everybody! If you message them, odds are they’re…
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What if you could control your computer with brain sensors in your hat? What if you could share the joy of having a pet with others? What if human technology could help your pet live longer? These are 3 startups I’m looking for now… Removable Brain-Computer Interfaces On these cool…
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+ AI, Animals, BCI, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Finance, Founders, Investing, Pets, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital, Veterinary Care+
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Our industry creates mountains of craplets. I’m looking for the opposite: startups that make our country safer and our people healthier. Here are 3 kinds of companies I’m searching for now… Cheap Replacements for Patriot Missiles In just a few months of fighting in Iran, the U.S. has used the…
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What if an AI agent could find my next investment for me? Today, I used Grok Bot to search for startups. The results blew me away… Setting Up My New Agent: “Startup Sleuth” I find that with AI agents, a very detailed prompt really helps. So I turned on Wispr…
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When you think of AI data, what do you picture? Rooms full of people labeling cat pictures? That’s so 2022! Let me explain how this market really works… AI Data Isn’t “Data Labeling” Anymore “Isn’t data labeling a commodity?” I’ve heard that 100 times. People picture workers in the developing…
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+ AI, AI Agents, AI Data, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Finance, Generative AI, Investing, Silicon Valley, Training Data, Venture Capital+
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You just signed a monster customer. They’re most of your revenue. Now you’re walking into a VC meeting…how do you explain this? My Advice to a Great Founder One of my investments is dealing with this issue right now… “How did you wind up with a lot of revenue concentrated…
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I’ve looked at thousands of founder pitches. Here are 5 mistakes I keep seeing, and how you can avoid them… Wrap-Up Fundraising is sales. When I meet a founder who’s good at fundraising. I picture him crushing one sales meeting after another. If you want to get good at fundraising,…
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The 0 to $100 million stories only happen in AI infra. What about the rest of the economy? You can still build an amazing business while growing more slowly. You just need to do things a little differently… Building In a Boring Industry A while back, I met with a…
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“We went from 120 people down to 12. Laying them off was incredibly hard.” We’ll call this founder “Jim.” When I spoke with Jim recently, he looked tired but determined. Jim was doing everything to keep his company alive. That meant getting rid of most of his team. Cutting Off…
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