Tag: Silicon Valley
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“I think you can scale to $1 billion ARR without adding any additional products.” That’s what a VC at a top firm told one of my companies recently. He’s right. Many early stage startups keep releasing one product after another. But if you’ve chosen your product and market well, you…
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Sam Altman and Satya Nadella say that energy is the biggest constraint on AI. My latest investment will fix it. Brick uses hardware and AI agents to cut your energy use by up to 35%. Itdoes this without compromising comfort or the function of your facility. Founder Sebastian Sheng lived…
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We just had YC Demo Day. But 57 companies in YC F26 have already launched! Here are my 3 favorites so far, from robots for data centers to Duolingo for social skills … Lambda Robotics — Robots to Run Data Centers I recently went past one of the world’s largest…
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“Don’t meet with junior VC’s…only partners.” This is terrible advice. Those junior VC’s are the key to closing your round. Every founder wants to meet the famous VCs. That’s the problem: there aren’t enough hours in the day for them to meet everybody! If you message them, odds are they’re…
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What if you could control your computer with brain sensors in your hat? What if you could share the joy of having a pet with others? What if human technology could help your pet live longer? These are 3 startups I’m looking for now… Removable Brain-Computer Interfaces On these cool…
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+ AI, Animals, BCI, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Finance, Founders, Investing, Pets, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital, Veterinary Care+
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When you think of AI data, what do you picture? Rooms full of people labeling cat pictures? That’s so 2022! Let me explain how this market really works… AI Data Isn’t “Data Labeling” Anymore “Isn’t data labeling a commodity?” I’ve heard that 100 times. People picture workers in the developing…
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+ AI, AI Agents, AI Data, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Finance, Generative AI, Investing, Silicon Valley, Training Data, Venture Capital+
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You just signed a monster customer. They’re most of your revenue. Now you’re walking into a VC meeting…how do you explain this? My Advice to a Great Founder One of my investments is dealing with this issue right now… “How did you wind up with a lot of revenue concentrated…
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I’ve looked at thousands of founder pitches. Here are 5 mistakes I keep seeing, and how you can avoid them… Wrap-Up Fundraising is sales. When I meet a founder who’s good at fundraising. I picture him crushing one sales meeting after another. If you want to get good at fundraising,…
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The 0 to $100 million stories only happen in AI infra. What about the rest of the economy? You can still build an amazing business while growing more slowly. You just need to do things a little differently… Building In a Boring Industry A while back, I met with a…
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