Tag: Tech
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In 2008, Brian Chesky was trying to raise $150,000. For this sum, you could’ve owned 10% of Airbnb. His friend Michael Seibel introduced him to 7 top investors, but Brian didn’t get a single check. Today, that 10% stake would be worth about $5 billion.* Let’s look at the reasons…
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Yesterday, I was chatting with a wonderful young founder in New York. I mentioned trolling Crunchbase to find startups. “Wow, we need to get on there,” he replied. Today I’m going to show you the simplest way to get investors contacting you. It’s free, and it only takes about 15…
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I started investing in startups in April of 2021, like a lot of other angels. But looking around 3 years later, many of them seem to be gone. I found an interesting data set from Jason Saltzman at Live Data Technologies. It shows a huge slowdown in new angels. The…
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My heart just about jumped out of my chest when I saw this data. NYC now has more founders building than SF! Is It Real? This new data comes from Live Data Technologies. Their data is comprehensive, covering over 7,500 founders. It’s hard to know how meaningful this information is.…
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Coinbase is one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. Its market cap is $64 billion. But in the summer of 2012, founder Brian Armstrong was in a dimly lit Silicon Valley office, practicing his pitch. Let’s dig in! What the Heck Is Bitcoin? Brian does a wonderful job of explaining…
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In 2008, Airbnb was near death. Founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were living off dry cereal. If they didn’t raise this $500,000, it was probably over. This morning, I dug into the pitch deck Brian and his team used to raise that crucial round of funding. Framing the Problem…
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“Can I have something to eat?” “Sure thing.” The man’s friend hands him an apple. His friend is not human — it is a robot. This is the latest demo from Figure. Figure is developing an android, with the goal to produce one for every human on the planet. This…
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“Every waking moment I’m not spending with my family or in church, I’m thinking about this. Most of my sleeping moments too.” That’s Zach Barney, Founder and CEO of Mobly. Mobly makes it easy for outside sales teams to capture info about leads and turn them into customers, fast. Ever…
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+ Conferences, CRM, Events, Finance, Investing, Money, SaaS, Sales, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Utah, Venture Capital+
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Note: This is not medical advice. I have absolutely zero qualifications in medicine. I’m only writing about this for general interest and entertainment purposes. Do you want to get microchipped? Patri Friedman just did it — and it even unlocks his Tesla. Getting Branded Patri got the chip in Prospera,…
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+ Bio, Biohacking, Futurism, Hardware, Prospera, Proxmark, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital, Wearables+
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“If you don’t know that, then I know more about this market than you do. And that’s a problem.” I sat in the audience at a demo day in New York last year, cringing big time. A VC was criticizing a founder onstage, and I had had about enough. The…
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