Tag: Startups
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If you’re selling sausages door to door, you don’t go to the vegan co-op. If you’re trying to find great founders, you don’t go to a tech event. When I first started as an angel investor, I went to tons of tech events. For a year, I made sure I…
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“If people weren’t so often wrong, we wouldn’t be so rich.” Charlie Munger Very few investors beat the market long term. Those that do tend to have one thing in common: they’re value investors. In 1984, Warren Buffett wrote a fascinating article about these top performing investors. Today, I dug…
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+ Berkshire, BRK, Buffett, Finance, Investing, Money, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital, Warren Buffett+
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There’s one problem that will make me pass on a startup faster than anything else: not being incorporated properly. When it comes to incorporation, there’s only one right answer: the Delaware C Corp. The Delaware C Corp is the perfect form for tech startups. It lets you do things that…
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+ Enterpreneur, Finance, Founders, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Taxes, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Scrolling Twitter last night, my jaw dropped. What the heck is that? It looked like a human skeleton moving itself around — I’d never seen a robot like this. The new Torso by Clone Robotics is unlike any robot you’ve ever seen. Instead of being made of steel and motors,…
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+ AI, Android, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Investing, Robot, Robotics, Robots, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Founders ask me all the time how to improve their pitch. Here’s what I tell them…focus on the Big 3: Vision, Team and Traction. Every day, I see lengthy decks and memos that get mired it detail. Exhaustive market analyses, 10 year projections, and long lists of “advisors.” Ditch all…
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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Small Business, Startup, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“This is so cool!” Whenever I find myself saying that, I usually want to place a bet. PodcastAI makes podcast production automatic. Just drop in an episode and you get show notes, chapters, viral clips to post to Twitter and Youtube, and a lot more. This spring, founder Edward Brawer was telling me…
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Adyen processes payments for a billion shoppers worldwide. Its market cap is over $46 billion. In a great talk at the All-In Summit, Co-CEO Ingo Uytdehaage tells the besties what it’s like to expand internationally and how AI is revolutionizing payments. Boosting Profits with AI “Where’s the real world business…
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+ Adyen, Europe, Finance, Investing, Money, Netherlands, Startups, Stocks, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Investors are obsessed with pedigree. Today, I made a list of where every founder I’ve invested in went to college. So, do the top schools produce better founders? Let’s find out… To be consistent, I looked at where the Founder & CEO of each of my investments got their bachelor’s…
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+ Business, College, Education, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founder, Founders, Investing, Money, Startup, Startups, Tech, University, Venture Capital+
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“We’ll see if this works.” Elon Musk Last night, Elon took the stage and unveiled two of the most amazing new products I’ve ever seen: the Cybercab and the Robovan. Our cities are about to look very different. ‘What the Heck Is That?’ “You see a lot of sci-fi movies…
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+ AI, Artifcial Intelligence, Business, Elon Musk, Finance, Investing, News, Robot, Robotics, Startups, Stock Market, Tech, Technology, Tesla, TSLA, Venture Capital+
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Tremendous 