Tag: Technology
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Tasklet was one of the hottest companies in YC P26. This morning, I used it to build an agent that preps me for my founder meetings. The hype is justified! Automating One of My Most Annoying Tasks: Meeting Prep Digging through emails to find information on the folks I’m meeting…
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“Get back to us when you have more traction.” Bet you’ve heard that before! But what the heck is “traction,” anyway? Traction is evidence your company is succeeding. Traction comes in many forms. Some types of evidence are more persuasive than others. Here are 6 common types of traction, from…
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I want to meet as many awesome founders as I can. So I’m automating the busywork. Here are the automations I’ve got running my investment business… Summarizing Decks I built a great little tool in Grok Projects to summarize decks in the exact format I like: Instead of paging through…
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+ AI, Angel Investing, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, Finance, Grok, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, Writing+
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YC S26 kicked off last week. 56 startups have already launched. Here are my top 3 so far, from robot maids to cheaper healthcare… Prescience Just this morning, my Christian health share emailed me. My discount for staying fit? Gone. Traditional insurance is even worse. Premiums through the roof, no…
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China just dropped the first open source SOTA model: GLM 5.2. It crushes the benchmarks, but struggled in my real world testing. Today, I ran GLM through a three-round test: building a pitch deck, teaching me about data centers, and designing a website. GLM showed some powerful capabilities. But it…
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Friction is killing your fundraise. Here’s how to remove it and close out your round, fast… Take the example of an awesome founder I spoke with recently. “An investor told me to require an e-mail address to see the deck,” he said. “What do you think?” “Don’t require anything. Remove…
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+ Business, Technology, Investing, Venture Capital, Finance, Startups, VC, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Founders, Fundraising+
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Pattern I keep seeing in AI agent startups: > announce super powerful agent> ship agent> tons of sign-ups> insane revenue growth> massive funding round> product simply does not work> what now?> heavy churn likely Customers bought the dream of an agent that does everything. But the product fundamentally does not…
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+ Agentic, Agents, AI, AI Agent, Artificial Inteligence, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligene, Business, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, Founders, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology+
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Elon just dropped Grok Imagine 1.5, his most powerful video model yet. Instead of hiring influencers and rigging cameras, I used Grok to create marketing videos out of nothing… I tested the new model in 3 realistic startup marketing scenarios. Here’s what works and where Imagine still needs some polish……
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+ AI, AI Video, AI Video Generation, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Finance, Grok, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, Writing, xAI+
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“What is your moat?” This is the most pointless question investors ask pre-seed founders. Picture two guys in a tiny apartment, sleeping on mattresses, living off food from sponsored tech events. What moat do you expect them to have? Speed Is the Moat At this stage, it’s all about moving…
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“Things being impossible is really to be determined by breaking the laws of physics.” Jacob McKenzie, VP of Raptor, SpaceX SpaceX is worth $2.7 trillion. But the real story is how they operate: massive responsibility given to young engineers, rapid iteration, and learning from failure. SpaceX’s new documentary Test Like…
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Tremendous 