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A surprise rally this year has hit short sellers hard. Losses total nearly $17 billion already in 2023: From a report out this morning in Bloomberg: Ten of the most-shorted stocks this year delivered almost $17 billion in combined mark-to-market losses for bears through Thursday, according to data-analytics firm S3…
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I recently met with a startup that’s dead broke. They’re convinced that if only they could raise another round, everything will work. It won’t. Here’s why… Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Some startups are negative gross margin businesses. Think of this as the old cliche, “We lose money on…
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CalPERS did everything right. It won access to some of the finest venture firms: NEA, Khosla. The returns? Terrible. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! New data is pulling back the curtain on VC returns. For the $440 billion California pension fund, many venture investments have notched poor results. From…
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I think I just saw the future. A new tool called Bifrost can turn any Figma design into code instantly using AI. The alpha was just released yesterday, and already Twitter is blowing up. Bifrost lets you take a graphical design for your product and make it real. First, you…
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Every day, there seems to be a new AI chatbot. But what if one bot could query any of them — one chatbot to rule them all? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Enter Poe, a new chatbot from Quora. Poe can query three different chatbots to help you find…
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Selling to consumers is hard. They can be fickle, hard to pin down, and just plain cheap. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! As an investor, I’ve seen some business models work better than others. Let’s break down what works and what doesn’t in consumer: Marketplaces Marketplaces have been my…
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Many startups I invested in are coming back and asking for more. So how do I decide to double down — or cut my losses? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Here’s how I approach follow-on funding: Performance I want to see startups triple revenue year over year after I…
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“As a start-up CEO I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.” Ben Horowitz Today, Ben Horowitz is the billionaire co-founder of a16z and one of the most important people in tech. But 20 years ago, he was the CEO of a penny stock startup…
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I just passed on a company growing 80% month over month. Instead, I chose one growing more slowly. Have I lost my mind? Not yet. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! These two companies illustrate one of the most important principles in venture capital: market size matters. Without a large…
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In a brutal year for hedge funds, few have suffered more than Light Street Capital. The fund lost 54% in 2022, over $1 billion. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a report out last night in Bloomberg: Light Street Capital Management’s hedge fund tumbled 54% in 2022, according to…
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Tremendous 