Tag: Tech
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“Make it new.” Ezra Pound Uber and Airbnb are the biggest winners of the last cycle. Their markets are very different, but here’s what they have in common: both were fundamentally new. Until Airbnb, no one had ever made it easy to rent someone’s spare room. And the first time…
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Series A may be the hardest round to raise. But new data shows that cutting burn can give you a huge advantage. Startup advisory firm Kruze Consulting released an extensive report yesterday based on data from about 100 seed stage startups. All tried to raise a Series A in 2023.…
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VC’s have over $300 billion of money they haven’t invested, also known as “dry powder.” But you may never get it. What Is Dry Powder? Let’s say I’m running investments for Francis University. I decide to invest in ABC Ventures. I promise to invest $100,000,000 — so that means I…
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When I first started investing, I dreamed of seeing one of my companies on a billboard in Times Square. I thought it would take 10 years. Turns out, it only took 2. Micro1, a startup I invested in last year, was just featured on the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square!…
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+ Angel Investing, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Money, NASDAQ, NYC, Stock Market, Tech, Times Square, Venture Capital+
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“We did 200 user interviews before we built a thing.” Mike, startup founder Mike* is the founder of an awesome new SaaS company. The product he showed me was far better than most. But what really excited me was the way he built it. “Make Something People Want” Y Combinator’s…
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The FTC has launched an investigation of several big tech companies’ AI investments and partnerships. The investigation could spell trouble for big tech and cut AI off from a major source of funding. From a new report by CNBC: The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it will conduct an extensive…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Investing, Money, OpenAI, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Just about every day, a startup raises hundreds of millions to build an LLM. But the real winner in the LLM race won’t be a startup. LLM’s Are Becoming Commoditized Every morning, I launch a browser set to open to 3 tabs: GPT-4, Bard, and a model from a startup…
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“I love this team and your product is amazing! I just couldn’t get my partners there. We’ll be cheering from the sidelines!” How many times have you heard that? Well, you won’t hear it from me. “They Never Give a Reason” I recently spoke with Mike*, the founder of a…
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Travis Kalanick’s first company got him sued for $250 billion. Time to quit the startup game, right? Wrong. Third Time’s a Charm Travis is known as the brilliant founder of Uber and CloudKitchens. But his first company, a file sharing service called Scour, was a disaster. Angry about music being…
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Your next car could be made by a robot. Humanoid robots from startup Figure will begin working in BMW factories over the next two years in a major step for robotics. From Reuters: Robotics startup Figure said it has signed a partnership with BMW Manufacturing to deploy its humanoid robots…
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+ AI, Artificial, Artificial Intelligence, BMW, Manufacturing, Robotics, Robots, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Tremendous 