Been meaning to post this for quite a few years -

Founders often struggle to decipher true level of investor interest coming out of a first VC meeting. Here's a dead simple system: If you hear from them within 0-3 days with next steps, they're interested. If you don't hear from them within 0-3 days, they're not interested.

One in five workers is a government employee. Should Canadians be worried? The answer is YES. https://t.co/MpSIX99ag8

Crazy that a glass of Guinness has fewer calories than OJ and Skim Milk.

Good insights into @clay's unique GTM (h/t @edsim)

HOT CHOCOLATE CEREAL that actually tastes like a packet of hot chocolate I don’t know how we did it but it’s incredible

CIA losing a nuclear generator is next level … 🤯

This pitch has been funded to the tune of $70M+ multiple times. Path launched in 2010 with the exact same positioning: friends-only, calm design, 50-person limit based on Dunbar’s number. Google tried to buy it for $100M. Valued at $500M at peak. Shut down in 2018. BeReal tried

I saw @thisisgrantlee post this on Linkedin and thought it was VERY good: Slack’s founder noticed something weird as they grew. Every young PM they hired immediately wanted to hire someone. When he asked why: "That person would do the product management, and I would do

YC taught us to never take a sales meeting without asking these 7 questions first: 1) What made you decide to take this call 2) Tell me about the problem. How long have you had it 3) How bad is it? Who else does it affect? 4) How do you quantify the cost/impact of this problem

Instead of adding more features, do this: 1. Launch everywhere (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube etc.). Spend a week giving your MVP its best shot. 2. (if #1 didn't take off) — Rebrand. New name, new logo, new design, new landing page, new headline. Same

There comes a time in nearly every rocketship startup’s life when it hires a bunch of highly charismatic optics-obsessed executives with A+ resumes too quickly. It typically takes the founder(s) 1-2 years to see the mistake and at least 1 year to unwind the mistake. This is

Three ways a spot a top 1% startup 1. Ambition bordering on “ludicrous” @bobmcgrewai (early Palantir, OpenAI): “Both Palantir and OpenAI were considered ludicrous when the companies were first started." @soleio (early Facebook, Figma, Dropbox): "I was surprised by the ferocity

Let’s take a walk down memory lane and see where all those bold 2025 Bitcoin targets ended up. • JPMorgan: 170,000 • VanEck: 180,000 • SChartered: 250,000 • Tom Lee: 250,000 • Robert Kiyosaki: 350,000 • BlackRock: 700,000 • Chamath: 500,000 • Michael Saylor: 1,000,000 •

The IRR on this fund is going to be insane … a monopoly on an essential service in a Top 10 city 💰

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New Michael Burry interview on $PLTR: “There are 5 billionaires that came out of Palantir... and the revenue was $4b - so the billionaire to revenue ratio was greater than one and I've never seen before..."

From 2010 to 2023 the average income of a household increased from $96,900 to $111,600. An increase of 15.2%. This is less that half the rate of increase of their income tax burden which grew a whopping 41.4%

This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving

Bending Spoons just bought Eventbrite for $500m. These guys are on an absolute heater buying up 20 year old Silicon Valley companies with no growth. AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, Meetup and now Eventbrite. Everyone talks about the tech PE playbook. They're actually doing it.

Founders are selling this much equity to VCs per round: Seed: 19.5% Series A: 18% Series B: 14% Series C: 10% Series D: 7.5% But those medians obscure really wide ranges. All data from software startups on Carta, deep tech typically has to sell a little more at seed and A.