Tag: Venture Capital
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Are LinkedIn InMail messages driving you nuts? Turns out there’s a way to stop them — forever. These random messages were driving me to the brink of insanity. So I complained on Twitter. What happened next shocked me. The kind folks at LinkedIn stepped in to help! Here’s how to…
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Scott Shleifer, Tiger Global Management’s head of private investments, is out. Founder Chase Coleman will now oversee the struggling unit, according to Bloomberg: Months before Scott Shleifer stepped down as head of Tiger Global Management’s private investments, Chase Coleman had already begun to reclaim control of the firm’s $34 billion…
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“A whole new world is opening up to you.” That was what my grandmother told me when I learned how to read. This year, I explored worlds including Weimar Germany, Sand Hill Road, and small town Japan. Here are my favorite books of the year, along with summaries of the…
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“I have never cheated any honest men, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.” Joseph “The Kid” Weil, early 20th century con artist The lure of easy riches is hard to resist. In 2021, I had the opportunity to invest in countless crypto projects.…
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+ Bitcoin, Blockchain, BT, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investing, Money, Startups, Tech, Tether, Venture Capital+
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“It’s like the narrative would be way sexier if it was like, ‘Holy s—, this is the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme.’” Sam Bankman-Fried As markets ripped in late 2021, the total value of all cryptocurrency approached $3 trillion. Just 12 years prior, crypto didn’t exist. The boom created a wave…
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+ Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Finance, FTX, Investing, Money, SBF, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is not your typical CEO. He doesn’t have a corner office. There’s no executive dining room. In fact, shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon slept on a couch in the company library. A typical meal: cereal out…
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“As the situation got more desperate in the fall of 2008, Musk pleaded for money from friends and family to meet Tesla’s payroll.” Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson In 2008, Tesla was in the depths of production hell. And with the world on the verge of another Great Depression, a…
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Major VC firm OpenView Venture Partners has abruptly laid off most of its staff and stopped making new investments. The departure of two top leaders under murky circumstances appear to have led to the firm’s sudden downfall. The Collapse of OpenView OpenView’s leaders departed suddenly after a recent fundraise, leaving…
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“We have reason to believe Elon is retarded.” That was Elon Musk’s elementary school principal. Young Elon stared out the window and ignored his teachers, leading them to assume he could not learn. Perhaps Elon found their lessons irrelevant. Or maybe he was tormented by what was going on at…
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+ Biography, Elon, Elon Musk, Reading, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Startups, Tech, Tesla, Venture Capital+
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Venture capital investment in the middle of the country tripled in the last decade, according to a new report from Heartland Forward. Investment reached $55 billion by the end of 2021. We’re used to thinking of startupland as reaching a few dozen miles from San Francisco to San Jose. Maybe…
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+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, MIdwest, Money, Rural, Silicon Valley, South, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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