In this week’s Venture Trends Newsletter,
#5
-Bill Gurley on Startups — doing too many things
-The Rise of Debt as a Funding Mechanism
-10 Life Changing Lessons from Paul Graham
-6 Proven Ways to Increase your Startup Valuation
-4 Tricky VC Questions
@eldsjal
I disagree with Rogan on many things. But asking a platform to de-platform him and taking yourself off are 2 different things. Rogan is entitled to his views and Spotify are entitled to host him. Young is entitled to leave. But Young is wrong to want Rogan removed.
In this week’s Venture Trends Newsletter,
#6
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-Why VCs love SaaS businesses
-7 traits of successful founders
-10 life changing lessons from
@naval
-Ashton Kutcher - lessons of early stage investing
-7 tensions every leader has to navigate
I'm impressed by the vision of Worldcoin. Sam Altman wants to create a coin that can be distributed to every person on earth regularly. It is Universal Basic Income using a new currency.
@sama
@a16z
@khoslaventures
@vkhosla
@pmarca
@karaswisher
You are totally right on the men as the problem for women part (not sure cis is required, TBH). But it feels that ignoring women's wish for biological female-only lockers and bathrooms and sports is tone-deaf.
It would be super easy for non-binary bathrooms and locker spaces
Added live captions and cleaned the audio on this Sergey Brin talk about AI from a Google team hackathon yesterday. I can't remember who posted the original, but thanks.
@Google
#SergeyBrin
In this week's Venture Trends Newsletter (paid subscriber version)
-How to get US and UK VCs to invest in overseas startups
-How to be an angel investor
-How to raise a VC Fund
-How to make people care about you and your story
-Why Passion is not enough
My weekly newsletter is now at Issue
#4
60 top stories this week for startups and Venture and Angel investors.
In this week's issue:
--Is there a "founder personality"
--Paul Graham on why startups fail
--Machine learning and funding data
@hunterwalk
No change there except newsletters (1990s - Release 1.0); became web sites and events (web 2.0) which became blogs (TechCrunch 2005) which became aggregators, which became Tweets and FB posts, which became notifications and alerts, and now back to Newsletters. Same 10,000.
Facebook opened applications to their London based accelerator - LDN_LAB. It's a 12 months programme starting in November, dedicated for startups using Deep Tech to drive positive impact in our world. Apply here -
@bencasnocha
I spoke at the US Embassy in Moscow when
@McFaul
was Ambassador. About 1-200 VC’s from Moscow as the audience.
@RunaCapital
was one.
@AlmazCapital
(Sasha), and more. I’m no expert but the chances they work for the state are about the same as for
@rabois
being CIA. Just sayin’
@Jason
Human beings find it socially hard to remove the mask unless others do. It’s politeness. I’m double vaxxed and still carry one for moments when others feel discomfort because I am not. It will go away eventually.
After 3 years commuting back and forth from Palo Alto to London and helping establish ADV, I can now focus on sourcing UK companies in the Valley, partnering with Valley funds for co-investment and helping our portfolio traverse the Valley ecosystem. And I get to be at home more!
We’re really excited to establish a permanent presence in the USA and announce
@kteare
as our first US Partner 🇺🇸 . He’ll be supporting expansion of our portfolio and partners, building on his relationships with US investors:
Mike Arrington and myself have resolved our disagreement in an adult and friendly way. Nothing more to see here - . Our 20+ year friendship is more important than a small disagreement. Thank you
@arrington
.
Infarm closes $100M Series B to scale its 'urban farming platform' via
@techcrunch
- 4 years after I met the founders
@INFARMBerlin
raises $100m. The next phase will scale to global food production. Congrats.
My last day at
@AcceleratedDV
was Friday. All the best to my former colleagues and to the companies we invested in. Back in Palo Alto full time. Feeling groovy ;-)
@paulg
There are no rules. Everybody is different. I was an idiot until 32. Did EasyNet at 40 and RealNames at 44 and invested in TechCrunch with Mike at 51 and at 56 and ADV at 62 and now working with InFarm at 66. I might still be an idiot ;-)
@paulg
@gortok
It is important to distinguish between “good techies” and good founders. They are not the same. Good techies are everywhere. What the Valley brings is expectation of big thinking, good execution, and the possibility of success, and filtering everything else out.
It's very un-English to give strong praise, But
@BenedictEvans
your "10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)" is a Fu*$
#ng
masterpiece. A Must watch for anybody thinking about investments that will pay out in the next 5-15 years. via
@YouTube
@pmarca
If you read this - and this - you will understand what Venture Investing has to become to be successful. You'll also gain great insight into how
@AcceleratedDV
thinks about its tasks. Thanks
@Bonanzinga
and Alex Graham
@eastdakota
@Cloudflare
@zatlyn
I still remember the room at Sequoia where you and Michelle prepped for Disrupt. Great memories and what a great job you have all done 11 years later. Congrats
@Cloudflare
@AnthonyTWilson
The TV deal for the EPL gives £4.5 bn for 3 seasons. The value of over 700 games (only assuming £1 per game per fan or £38 a season) is over £70 bn. The League should do direct to fans streaming and charge us direct. Money goes to teams. Teams get the revenue, not TV ads
@SenWarren
1/
@SenWarren
, Elizabeth. I think it is important to understand that Trump is campaigning here. This is a loud dog whistle to the base. However, his prejudice will extend beyond his base. The response needs to be a considered defense of LGBTQ+ issues as important to all of us.
This is a big deal from
@MillicastRTC
- interactive clubhouse like streams with video for main speaker. Great execution in record time due to its mature WebRTC platform as a service.
Beta version of the
@MillicastRTC
API to implement massive clubhuouse-spaces-like-applications and demo app/server are ready!
Ping me if you want early access to give it a try!
As a plus, it also allows main speaker to be on video too!
@Samirkaji
Samir, this justifies an aggregation approach to early-stage managers. It needs to be based on quality managers that make up the aggregation.
This could be a fund of funds. Or an Allocate-like aggregation and quality control platform.
At Signalrank, we have taken a different
@avichal
This is normally a signal to lean in. When “rational” and short term money leaves the real building takes over. Think Amazon, down 90% circa 2002. Read this piece by
@arrington
- good articulation of this.
@HarryStebbings
To add perspective here. This is the result of the growth investors moving lower in the stack, doing A rounds and sometimes Seed. The space for traditional venture is shrinking fast. Seed needs to be redefined to address these trends. What is seed now? What is pre-seed?
@DavidSacks
I was right there with you until Lenin was worse than the Tsar. Now…if you had said Stalin, I’d be back. Requires reading the history of the Russian Revolution to know why.
@arrington
@ThePonderApp
This is a personal matter, but for the record.
Mike is absolutely right that I did not work at TechCrunch. I was a founder not an employee. Initially I was actually the major shareholder 75-25. Mike gets all the credit for the work.