Tag: Finance
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“Can I have something to eat?” “Sure thing.” The man’s friend hands him an apple. His friend is not human — it is a robot. This is the latest demo from Figure. Figure is developing an android, with the goal to produce one for every human on the planet. This…
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“Every waking moment I’m not spending with my family or in church, I’m thinking about this. Most of my sleeping moments too.” That’s Zach Barney, Founder and CEO of Mobly. Mobly makes it easy for outside sales teams to capture info about leads and turn them into customers, fast. Ever…
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+ Conferences, CRM, Events, Finance, Investing, Money, SaaS, Sales, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Utah, Venture Capital+
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More than anything else, I need to know these 2 things about your startup. What do you do, and what’s your traction? This morning, I was looking through a ton of decks I just got from Mercury Raise. This is an awesome program that connects founders and investors. Some of…
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+ Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, VC+
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“If you don’t know that, then I know more about this market than you do. And that’s a problem.” I sat in the audience at a demo day in New York last year, cringing big time. A VC was criticizing a founder onstage, and I had had about enough. The…
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What if we had an AI Copilot for the economy? Yesterday, Anthropic released what amounts to a beta, and it’s already got amazing capabilities. Check this video out: In the demo, Anthropic uses its AI to project the GDP of the US and other major countries into the future. Everything…
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+ Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, Claude, Economics, Economy, Finance, Government, Money, Policy, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Shares of New York Community Bank are plummeting, down 24% today so far. NYCB is in serious trouble, but it’s highly unlikely to spark another banking crisis. The stock is tanking because NYCB discovered “material weaknesses” in tracking loan risks and replaced its CEO late last night. It’s been a…
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+ Banking, Banks, Finance, Investing, Money, New York, New York City, NYC, NYCB, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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I’ve usually been a SaaS or marketplace guy. But then something interesting happened at Duolingo… A year ago, I looked at the consumer subscription market and I didn’t see a lot of big winners. What I did see were crowded markets, high advertising costs, and scary churn. But Duolingo’s rise…
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+ Duolingo, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Coinbase is the world’s 2nd largest crypto exchange. But in 2012, the company was barely getting off the ground. Let’s dig into the deck they used to pitch investors at YC Demo Day… Explaining What Coinbase Does Right on slide #1, founder Brian Armstrong makes clear what Coinbase does: it…
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+ Bitcoin, Coinbase, Crypto, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital, YC+
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Warren Buffett started out buying businesses at the lowest possible price. One day in 1965, a young man named Charlie Munger told him he was doing it all wrong. Buffett had just bought Berkshire Hathaway. At that time, Berkshire was a struggling textile mill, not the conglomerate we know today.…
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+ Berkshire, Buffett, Finance, Investing, Money, Munger, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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The best founders in the world have their choice of investors. So I’m not waiting for them to contact me — I’m going to them. When I started as an angel in 2021, I let the deals come to me. These days, I’m doing a lot more outbound. Here’s how…
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Tremendous 