A current lack of merchant acceptance of cryptocurrencies at points of sale and online means that consumers are required to exchange cryptocurrencies into local currency in order to make everyday purchases.
Enter STACK! 😎👍
@STKtoken
#ICOs
#Investing
Can we please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, stop saying:
"onboarding the next billion users to web3"
Thank you 🙏🏾 😭 🤮
Can we please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, stop saying:
"onboarding the next billion users to web3"
Thank you 🙏🏾 😭 🤮
How can you boost your chances of securing funding by 16%?
Be an attractive woman. 😅
“Attractive female entrepreneurs are 16% more likely to receive start-up business investments from men, a new study from the University of St. Gallen has shown.”
Not the headline I was
Which of the largest accelerators are most successful at producing unicorns?
By a significant margin,
@ycombinator
produced a higher percentage of unicorns than other well-known accelerators such as
@Techstars
,
@MassChallenge
,
@500GlobalVC
&
@SOSV
In the 2010-2015 YC
OK, here goes ...
1. Do. Not. Install. Telegram.
2. Ready for sleepless nights?
3. Read up on "counter party risk"
4. Whether you make FU money or not, you'll still develop some form of ADD
5. Surround yourself with 8 LOYAL partners
6. Web3 is global, get ready to travel
Most (un)surprising piece of insight today.
"Of the 2023 Fortune 100 CEOs, ONLY 11.8% attended an Ivy as undergrads, and only 9.8% hold an Ivy League MBA."
I guess college elitism in business doesn’t exist to the extent that it does in academia?
Thoughts anyone?
Join our betting pool sir. We're taking wagers, currently ranging between:
1. Dude Walks, lives long and prosper, sipping fresh Pina Colada in Bali. Raise 100M after 1yr for a AI startup to detect true EA.
2. Max 5yrs in a low sec prison, with daily Kale salads and fresh Thai
Why are Harvard's grades inflating over time? 👀
The Flynn Effect?
or, Goodhart's Law?
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Now, grade inflation has been going on for a while now.
Between 1890 and 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was 2.5.
In
"Almost one-third of all foreign profits reported by U.S. corporations in 2003 came from just three small, low-tax countries: Bermuda, the Netherlands and Ireland.”
🥳
Bubbles are an essential part of who we are as a society, however they're criminally misunderstood.
We just need to reframe how we view them...
Often when people use the term, it's to discredit or discard whatever new wave captured the airwaves.
But, if you spin it around for
Crypto 101
1. Survive, counterparty risk is REAL.
2. Stay at the table long enough to get lucky.
3. Diversify out, you're going to donate your gains back to the house.
4. Nothing is what you think it is.
5. Read
#1
again.
6. Do network, you're solving a puzzle, everyone has a
Asking yourself WHY you want to get ahead of 99% of people gets you more insights on life than HOW to accomplish that. I wish more YouTube Hustle influences talked about this ...
(Source: Trust me bro)
The outcome of a great brainstorm session is not a long list of great ideas, it's disciplined action... (and of course great food)
Happy Easter everyone 😉
Modern man, privacy loving libertarians, celebrating public bankaccounts being displayed on big G.
I guess Crypto solved the Panama Papers problem. Smh...
(spectacle of the bizarre.)
🚀🚀🚀 It's fully launched now! You can search any Ethereum address in Google and you'll see the Ethereum balance right in search results (alongside a link to Etherscan)
After a 5 day conference:
- take the day off
- no calls
- book a spa
- read some fiction, ideally cartoons
- full body massage
- 50m walk
- 45m yoga
... got tips to decompress?
The downside of crypto success?
Insomnia, carpal tunnel syndrome and sounding like a deranged weirdo at family gatherings.
Anyway, gm my web3 besties 👋🏽
"At age 5, she defeated a family friend without looking at the board. After the game, the friend joked: "You are good at chess, but I'm a good cook." Judit replied: "Do you cook without looking at the stove?"
Looking for an intern [unpaid] for a side project. Here are some of the must-have prerequisites:
- 5 years of experience with CUDA 12
- 7 years of experience working with DGX GH200
- 10 years of experience with Vision Pro
- 12 years of experience with GPT4
Ping me if interested
(DeFi Security Summit Day II)
Overheard a group of founders
Founder 1: "we're building what your building, your threat detection is compelling but we took a different approach"
F2: "oh cool, let's collaborate, what stage are you guys?"
Stunned 👀
Incubators should consider a "Wall of Great Intentions & Happy Accidents". Just to signal deep appreciation to all the founders who didn't make it but who taught us so much about what works and what doesn't. We salute you 🙏🏽 🥂.
For every
@gitlab
we probably need 87 matchstick