Tag: Venture Capital
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I’ve never been a founder. This gives me one advantage: I’m never tempted to tell founders what to do. The Problem Board Member A while back, I was chatting with a great entrepreneur I know. We’ll call him Hal. Hal is crushing it. His SaaS company is growing rapidly with…
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If you want to know where technology is headed, look at what the smartest founders use. Here are the tools my startups are loving right now: Delve Delve automates compliance for SOC 2, HIPAA and more. Delve can get you compliant and ready to close big deals. I first heard…
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Everybody forgot about Mistral. But I just used their new model and let me tell you: don’t sleep on these guys. This morning, Mistral released its most powerful model yet: Magistral. Today, I took it on a test drive. I asked 3 questions using Magistral Medium via Mistral’s Le Chat.…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, France, LLM, Mistral, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Can AI help us live decades longer? How should businesses adapt to AI? I dug into that and more on a panel at the Single Family Office Summit in New York City. Here are some of my favorite moments: 8:07: How AI plus biotech will change human health: KJ’s story.…
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If you trade on inside information in the public markets, you go to prison. In the private markets, all we do is trade on inside information. Here’s how to do it… How to Get Exclusive Startup Data Last year, I met with an amazing founder we’ll call Jim. The company…
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Are you sick of getting those automated messages on LinkedIn? So am I. AI Sales Development Reps is one of the 5 hot categories I’ve never invested in. Each cycle has a hot idea that 100 startups pursue. Most of the time, they all flame out. Here are the hot…
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+ AI, Artifcial Intelligence, Artificial I, Artificial Intelligence, Business, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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DeepSeek just dropped a new model, R1-0528. Has China leapfrogged the US? This morning, I tested the model to find out. DeepSeek shocked the world with its R1 release in January. But when I put it up against the best from Gemini, DeepSeek lost. Let’s see how DeepSeek’s latest release…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, China, DeepSeek, LLM, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital+
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People buy your product for 2 reasons: you make them money or you save them money. If you want to grow fast, make that value proposition crystal clear. A clear value prop is one of the biggest things I look for when I meet with founders. It needs to be…
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They wanted $100,000, minimum. I politely bowed out. This is how startups sabotage their funding rounds. How Investment Minimums Work Against You Some startups insist on a minimum check size. This excludes helpful investors and makes it harder to close the round. At $100,000, this startup was excluding most angels.…
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YC has a new Request for Startups. Here are my 3 favorite ideas, plus one of my own… AI for Scientific Advancement Group Partner Diana Hu is looking for new ways to apply LLM’s to scientific research. I agree that AI plus bio is going to be the next big…
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+ AI, Artifcial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Business, ChatGPT, Entrepreneur, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital, YC+
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