Tag: Tech
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Markets are hot. And your startup is growing fast. Time to raise money at the highest price you can get…right? Wrong. Lately, I’ve seen companies raising seed rounds at valuations of $125 and even $150 million. A few years ago, a typical seed round valuation was more like $5 to…
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In what’s begun as a tough year for cryptocurrencies, Solana has attracted more investors than any other coin. The high speed network landed $6 million in inflows so far this year. Larger competitors like Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen outflows in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. What…
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I came across some truly bizarre information today. Hedge fund Citadel LLC is a major funder of Rumble, a video website known for promoting conspiracies on vaccines and elections: A simple search for the word “vaccine” on Rumble’s homepage returned three times more videos with misinformation than accurate claims, according…
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I was blown away when I read how fast Solana can process transactions. But there’s a new kid on the block: Fathom. Fathom is even faster than Solana on one important metric: Solana averages 50,000 transactions per second, versus 14 per second on Ethereum. Fantom is not as fast as…
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Not that kind of angel! You’ve heard of angel investors and their big brothers, venture capitalists. But what does an angel investor actually do in a day? I thought I’d break down my day today so you can see how the sausage is made: 1) Read deal memos in inbox.…
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Venture capital funding is growing at an incredible rate. The money pouring into early stage startups, my playground, has increased by billions of dollars per quarter just since 2020. I see the perverse results of this cash flood every day. Here are a few, from just this week alone: 1)…
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Last week, I was talking with a young founder who is just starting to pitch investors. She wished she could find a good example of a 3 minute pitch. So I figured if she was having this problem, others probably were too! This morning, I made a little video of…
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Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley legend. After selling his startup to Twitter, he helped the company scale from 90 to 1500 people in under 3 years. He’s also had enormous success as an angel investor, investing in startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, Square and Stripe. So I was very excited…
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GameStop Corp. is now accepting dozens of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Dogecoin, per a report from Investor Place yesterday. These cryptocurrencies can be used at any one of GameStop’s locations or online. GameStop is using the Flexa network, which supports a wide variety of cryptocurrencies. This comes shortly after AMC…
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You’ve been meeting with investors day after day. You get a lot of “very interestings” but no actual checks. What are these people looking for? Today, I thought I’d explain what I look for in a startup. As an angel investor, I invest in about 1-2% of the companies I…
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Tremendous 