Tag: Startups
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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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Our industry creates mountains of craplets. I’m looking for the opposite: startups that make our country safer and our people healthier. Here are 3 kinds of companies I’m searching for now… Cheap Replacements for Patriot Missiles In just a few months of fighting in Iran, the U.S. has used the…
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What if an AI agent could find my next investment for me? Today, I used Grok Bot to search for startups. The results blew me away… Setting Up My New Agent: “Startup Sleuth” I find that with AI agents, a very detailed prompt really helps. So I turned on Wispr…
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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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Off-the-shelf email agents draft nonsensical replies that sound nothing like me. So I built my own… My new Grok Automation is saving me serious time managing my inbox. The key: giving Grok extremely specific instructions with examples. The Problem With Email Agents Tons of different tools claim to manage your…
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+ Agentic Tools, Agents, Agents AI agent, AI, AI Agent, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneur, Startups, Tech, Technology+
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I have a new personal trainer: Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I’m finally having fun in the gym! For the last 16 years, I’ve designed my own strength training programs. The results: a mediocre physique. A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post from Arnold Schwarzenegger on X. He was running…
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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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+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Founders, Fundraising, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital+
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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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“We went from 120 people down to 12. Laying them off was incredibly hard.” We’ll call this founder “Jim.” When I spoke with Jim recently, he looked tired but determined. Jim was doing everything to keep his company alive. That meant getting rid of most of his team. Cutting Off…
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The right images can get millions of eyes on your startup. This morning, I used the new Grok Imagine 2.0 to make creative for a fake startup: Chamath’s sweater emporium. Round #1: Making an Ad for the Grand Opening I’m picturing blonde wood, Nordic design, and endless piles of buttery…
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+ Ads, Advertising, AI, AI Images, Artificial Intelligence, Creative, Entrepreneur, Founders, Grok, Marketing, Startups+
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