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Tough times in startupland show no signs of ending. Venture funding fell 67% in December from a year earlier, according to a new report by S&P Global: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The number of completed rounds fell by 57%. These grim stats match what I’m seeing in the…
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Many founders work incredible hours. So what’s all this for…just to make someone like me money? Hardly. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I know startups can change lives because I’ve seen it happen. My mom lives in a small town in Wisconsin. Getting around without a car is nearly…
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“Kid, haven’t you heard of Friendster? Move on. It’s over!” VC Jeremy Levine passing on Facebook, 2004 (speaking to Eduardo Saverin). Ouch. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Bessemer Venture Partners passed on Apple, Google, Facebook and countless other highly successful companies. In what they’re calling an “anti-portfolio,” the venerable…
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Every time I get the monthly update, I’m confused. Did I really invest in this company? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! There’s a disease that will kill a startup faster than anything else. It’s called Entrepreneurial ADD. This deadly condition involves a founder who gets distracted too easily. Rather…
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Like many investors, I love a good SaaS business. But have we flooded the market with so many startups that customers are about to rebel? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I was amazed when I saw how many subscriptions this founder was paying for…just for himself! That leads us…
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It was a rough 2022 in tech — layoffs, shutdowns, and stocks falling off a cliff. But 2023 promises to be a golden age for startup investors. Here’s why I’m more excited than ever to invest in 2023… Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Valuations In 2021, you could raise…
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There’s a law in Silicon Valley as basic as F = ma: milestone-based funding. It’s why you can’t raise $100 million on day 1. It’s also why my positions in my strongest companies are many times larger than my weakest ones, as if by magic. Get the blog before anyone…
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Founders should launch an MVP as soon as possible and iterate their way to success…right? Wrong, according to billionaire Peter Thiel. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The controversial venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal lays out a very different view in his book Zero to One. As I headed…
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Every morning, I have dozens of new LinkedIn messages from founders. I seldom have time to reply. But what if there were a better way for founders and investors to meet? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Enter my latest investment, Seedscout. Seedscout is an awesome new platform for founders…
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Every day, sales reps go to meetings across America to land that big deal. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Their managers hope they absorbed the lessons of training and can bring in the sale. Unfortunately, they rarely have the time to go along. But with cutting edge AI, sales…
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Tremendous 