Tag: Finance
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Valuations for early stage startups jumped in 2024, according to a new report from AngelList. Pre-seed valuations are up 20% while seed prices rose 18%. Median pre-seed valuations hit $10 million pre-money. Seed reached a heady $20 million. This marks a big increase from 2023, when the median pre-seed was…
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This weekend, I was chatting with a friend who’s a psychiatrist. She often deals with patients in crisis. I sometimes deal with founders in crisis. So I got to thinking… How can I apply what psychiatrists do to my work investing in startups? Some founders I meet with are in…
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I usually help startups by introducing them to other investors. But lately, I’ve been working on a new way to help… It started when I got an e-mail from the founder of one of my companies. He asked the investors to test the product, a great SaaS tool. “Hmm, that’s…
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“From this moment on, America’s decline is over.” Watching President Trump’s inauguration today, I felt an incredible sense of relief. I felt comfort and trust. But I also felt trepidation. “Will this work?” Our country faces huge problems right now. Fixing them will take enormous effort. We have to believe…
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I used the world’s largest computer cluster to make a picture of Donald Trump eating ramen. Good thing engineers worked day and night on this. But seriously, xAI’s Colossus computing cluster is an incredible sight. With 100,000 GPU’s, the cluster is 2-4x larger than anything else on earth. A computing…
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In April 2021, I started the world’s tiniest venture fund. In the next few months, I’m about to close “Fund 1” and open “Fund 2.” My goal for my startup investments is to learn and to make returns that beat the stock market. The best way to learn is with…
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If you send me your company, what should you expect from me? Here’s how my investment process works… Qualification I focus on meeting companies with these characteristics: I qualify startups like this because I don’t want to waste anyone’s time. If the business is something I know nothing about (biotech,…
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“China’s past thirty years of economic growth has been impressive, but they’ve also left the People’s Republic with roughly the per person income of Mexico. Nobody worries about Mexico dominating twenty-first-century power politics or asks how we’re going to stop them from winning the future. The difference is there are…
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In my best meetings with founders, we have a back-and-forth discussion. In the worst, only the founder talks. Here’s how to avoid those bad meetings… Take a Breath! Some founders talk very fast and never pause. Instead, pause after an important point. Let it sink in, and leave a space…
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You’re about to get on a Zoom with an investor. On this call, there’s one thing you must not do: just show up and talk. Many founders “show up and throw up.” They come onto the call and give a long, unfocused monologue. They quickly lose their audience. And they…
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Tremendous 