Tag: Finance
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“What is your moat?” This is the most pointless question investors ask pre-seed founders. Picture two guys in a tiny apartment, sleeping on mattresses, living off food from sponsored tech events. What moat do you expect them to have? Speed Is the Moat At this stage, it’s all about moving…
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“We’re raising an angel round. Minimum check $250k.” Here’s why that’s a mistake… I get messages like this every now and then. These founders don’t understand how most angel investors operate. Lessons From a Billionaire Angel Two years ago, I invested in a round that included a multibillionaire. He wrote…
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I used to burn a full hour each day just prepping for founder meetings. The messages are scattered across Gmail, X, and LinkedIn. This morning, I finally automated it with Perplexity Comet. My meeting prep is down to 5 minutes. And the questions Comet came up with were better than…
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Digital Ocean is worth $18 billion. This morning, I dug into their original seed round deck from 2013. Here’s what you can learn to help you in your fundraise… Clearly Framing the Problem Digital Ocean’s value proposition is simple: we let you deploy to the cloud quicker and easier. See…
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One of my favorite things as an investor is dreaming up startups — then hunting for founders building them. Here are 3 startups I’m looking for right now… Making Seawalls Cheaper and Faster to Deploy The Philippines and Japan recently suffered another tsunami. Seawalls can help reduce the damage from…
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VC horror stories are flooding my timeline on X. Founders getting ghosted, dismissed, and disrespected. How do we investors behave better? Here are four simple rules we should all follow… Rule #1: Show Up On Time Founder time is the scarcest resource in the universe. Don’t waste it. Be sure…
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OpenAI may be building a humanoid robot. Anthropic is still selling to the Department of War. These are just a few things I learned from digging into 1,000+ open jobs at the two labs. If you want to learn what a company is really up to, skip the press releases.…
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I see it in deck after deck: the founder waits until slide 27 to tell me about himself. Big mistake. Here’s how to do it right… Right after your title slide, put a slide about yourself. Tell us your biggest accomplishments. Before we care about your idea, we have to…
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GitLab is a $5 billion company with over 50 million users. But in 2015, it was just a tiny startup. Today, I watched their original YC application video. It’s one of the best pre-seed pitches I’ve ever seen. Founder Sid Sijbrandij does an incredible job of selling himself. In less…
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You just signed your first customer! Is it time to raise a pre-seed round? A founder on Reddit is in this exact situation. He just made his first revenue — $3,000 from one client. That’s a huge milestone! But it’s probably not enough to raise a full pre-seed. Here’s what…
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