Tag: Investing
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Here’s how I know I met a great founder: he’s at a customer site when we talk, sitting next to the Pepsi machine. Too often, investors look for the wrong things when they meet a founder. Did he go to Harvard? Is he in San Francisco? Is a big name…
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I recently had a founder offer to pay me for advice. I said no and gave him the advice for free. Advice from an investor is one thing you should never pay for. Here are a few others: 1) Accelerators. No legitimate accelerator charges you money. Real accelerators give you…
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Masa’s first fund was tiny: about $300,000. Years later, he raised $98.6 billion, the largest venture fund in history. How he grew to become the world’s largest technology investor is the subject of the new book Gambling Man. Skipping the Line Masa didn’t operate like Sequoia or Kleiner. Those firms…
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“‘At night I would cry on my own in the hospital room — the treatment [to reduce inflammation of the liver] was really horrible. I kept on asking myself why I had to die at a time like this…’” Masayoshi Son was 24 years old and on top of the…
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If you’re a founder in Europe, you should move to the US. At every stage of your company’s life, your odds of success are better here. Let’s take a look at all the advantages an American company has, from day one to IPO… Day 1: Getting Funded A key first…
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After 18 long months, the product was finally live. Customers poured in. And then, all hell broke loose. Held Hostage By a ‘Tech Partner’ This founder had launched a LinkedIn Content Creator app. Early users loved it, but the project had an Achilles heel. The founder explains what happened next…
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Rippling has accused Deel of putting a spy inside their business. With moles infiltrating companies, should startups be worried? The truth is, if you have an early stage startup, it’s almost impossible to get anyone to care about it. Spies? You should be so lucky! At least that would mean…
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It’s been a quiet 2025 for me investment-wise. But every once in a while, you see something truly exceptional. Sent.dm is exactly that. Sent is an API to send messages to whatever platform your customers prefer – iMessage, WhatsApp, RCS, SMS and more. Sent can save you 80-90% on your…
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Lots of founders mess up calculating their Total Addressable Market (TAM). Here’s how to do it correctly… Calculating TAM Correctly You need to do what’s called a bottoms-up TAM. Take the number of potential customers and multiply that by what you charge for your product. The figure you get is…
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Founders are using AI to build incredible products. And now, I’m using it to evaluate their businesses. Here’s how… When I was researching a startup in the past, I had to Google a hundred things and hope I’d find the right info. Team, possible competitors, market size, you name it.…
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