Our @YesVC Partner @Caterina is a SuperForecaster, one of the 30 most successful early-stage startup investors in the world according to TRAC. What do these SuperForecasters have in common? Most are in their mid-40s; it takes up to 10 years of active investing in startups before an investor will qualify as a SuperForecaster. They probably didn't go to business school and were likely math, computer science or engineering majors. Almost two-thirds have started one tech company and almost half have started two startups. They rarely make follow-on investments. The SuperForecaster follow-on rate is close to just 3%. They seldom invest in startups with a single founder. SuperForecasters rely on their own judgment. The same two rarely, if ever, co-invest in the same startups.

In landmark legislation, Finland is changing its laws to allow small, modular nuclear reactors to be located within cities. Removing the 5-kilometer safe zone requirement will enable @YesVC portfolio company Steady Energy to build SMR-powered heating plants for Helsinki’s utility @EnergiaHelen and other Finnish municipalities. The reactors will most likely be placed underground, enclosed in bedrock. This alone can reduce Finland’s carbon dioxide emissions by up to 8%.

Video of my 20-minute talk from this week's @BoardmanOy event in Helsinki: 1. Difference between Valley and non-Valley entrepreneurs 2. The best founders think like investors (dual-threat CEOs) 3. You begin to see opportunities where other people see a crisis 4. Things most startup founders wouldn't think of become normal: SPVs, buyouts, etc. 5. You find yourself in multiple companies 6. Legendary entrepreneurs compound not just one, but many businesses (multipreneurship)

Five reasons why @YesVC is investing in deep tech 1. It's highly profitable 2. We are in a new cold war 3. The climate imperative 4. Health necessity: our fertility and longevity are in decline, but breakthroughs like RNA therapies and GLP-1s are changing how we live, love and eat 5. Its venture studio fit

@jyri highlights the difference between Finnish and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs raising funds. Finns start with a product (that solves a problem) and Americans with a market that no-one is serving and then come up with products or services for them. @boardmangrow #boardmangrow

Our new @YesVC portfolio company Flexnode builds high-performance GPU-compute data center modules that can be broken down into parts, carried inside existing buildings, and assembled on-site like Lego

Power utility @EnergiaHelen and @YesVC portfolio company Steady Energy announced plans to build the first small modular nuclear reactor-powered heating plants in Helsinki