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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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+ Angel Investing, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Public Speaking, Startup, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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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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You’ve worked really hard on your pitch to investors. But what if some of the things you’re saying are actually turning them off? Here are several things that can be a negative signal to investors: 1) No clear growth trend. If you don’t share information about month over month revenue…
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+ Angel Investing, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Softtware, Startup, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Tremendous 