Tag: Investing
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“$800k ARR…is that contracted or live?” Most investors never ask this question. They’re making a big mistake. Whether you’re an investor or a founder, you have to understand the difference between contracted and live revenue. Tl,dr: Contracted ARR is signed revenue, live ARR is actual money you’re billing. Focus on…
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I never show this spreadsheet to anyone. 54 top investors. This is my secret weapon. My money is no greener than anybody else’s. So if I want to invest in the best founders, I need to bring something else to the table. This spreadsheet makes it happen. Meet “The Sheet”…
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Figma goes public today. Seed investors were locked up for 12 years. That’s a long time to wait! But here’s why we should be grateful for lockups… Every company goes through hard times. If we were allowed to dump our shares, we probably would! Then, we’d miss out on enormous…
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The startup world has a million metrics. CAC, LTV, ROAS. But here are 3 key metrics many founders aren’t looking at… Burn Multiple How do you know if the money you’re burning is producing any results? You won’t, unless you calculate your burn multiple. Here’s how to do it… Burn…
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Every pre-revenue startup is raising at $30-40 million right now. Making money on these bets will be next to impossible. A year or two ago, a company with little or no revenue might have raised at a $10 million cap. Not anymore. The price is going to be over $30…
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At $447,054, median home prices reached another record in June. Americans are priced out. But could technology save the day? This afternoon, I’m meeting with a startup that promises to make building a house way faster and cheaper. But before I do, I wanted to research the current state of…
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All the greats in business studied the greats in business. Books are the best way to do that. Here are my favorites… Founder — Founder is the story of the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mayer faced bigotry that most of us could not imagine. Like…
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I just cut 16 hours of work down to 151 seconds…a 400X productivity improvement. Let me show you how to do it yourself… This afternoon, I’m meeting a startup that makes self-driving forklifts. I want to be well-informed for my meeting, so I did a little research. I don’t know…
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“If I did growth stage, I’d be all over this.” I invest at the earliest stages. But every now and then, I see a late stage startup that makes me salivate. Here are 4 of my favorites… Loyal — Loyal makes longevity treatments for dogs. Their first drugs are nearing…
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Cyan Banister is one of the greatest investors of all time. She’s backed SpaceX, Uber, and more. This morning, she put the word out: hackers could be coming for our brains. Cyan calls it CogSec, and I think the name will stick. Robert Scoble, the earliest of early adopters, seconded…
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