Tag: Startups
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Cyan Banister is one of the best investors ever, backing SpaceX, Uber, Flexport and more. To find the next great startup, Cyan asks an unusual question… The Human Behavior Question When she sees a new product, she doesn’t just calculate the Total Addressable Market (TAM). She asks herself “Does it…
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You just finished pitching that big VC. Did you bomb? Did you nail it? Here’s how to tell… The Weird Way to Gauge Investor Interest There’s a way to tell, but it’s counterintuitive… The more questions they ask, the more interested they are. Mr. Moneybags interrogating you like a murder…
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GPT-5 sucks. I tested it Friday, bad. I tested it again today, even worse. Stick a fork in it. Let me show you how flawed this model is. When I tested it on Friday, OpenAI was having routing issues that may have caused GPT-5 to underperform. So this morning, I…
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Can GPT-5 beat the reigning champion, Elon’s Grok 4? I ran them through 3 tests to find out. When Grok 4 came out last month, I asked it 3 real world questions that I actually needed the answer to. Grok 4 crushed it, scoring an A-. Can GPT-5 do even…
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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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106,036 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant. 17 of them die each day. But what if we could give them pig organs? From the Seventeenth Century to Modern Science The first attempted xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplant, was done in 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave sheep’s blood to a 15 year…
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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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Open source dominates server environments and databases. But will open source win AI? This morning, I investigated which models are most popular among developers… America’s Next Top Model There’s no one place to go to definitively determine which models are most popular among developers. But one strong indicator comes from…
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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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