Host of The @unsexystartup podcast / Operator & Investor / Helping Founders Build Resilience

Joined May 2009
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Today we're releasing Isaac 0.5: 36B dynamic MoE, open weight 🤗 embodied foundation model. Isaac combines multimodal video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control into a single, sparse backbone.
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A new breakthrough is coming. Stay tuned.
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From Private Equity to Founder of a fast growing company, @ahirsen, Co Founder & CEO of UPshow , talks about the struggles of bootstrapping and scaling his company at seed stage.  #entrepreneur #founder  lnkd.in/dCCbVey aca.st/48eb02
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Bitcoin is “a hedge against the whole world falling apart” - @peterthiel
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Phenomenal piece here by @davidbeisel @NextViewVC on the fracturing of the seed round and why Series A is always post traction! Thanks to @robgo for suggesting! bettereveryday.vc/the-atomiz…
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A VC may well say No simply due to sheer capacity issues VC plates get full -- and also less full -- over the course of a year, and it's very hard to tell from the outside how "full" any partner is at the moment
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Last week we had the privilege to host @UMCFE for a workshop and interactive entrepreneurship challenge. Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all of you for spending the day with us at Greenhouse! #GoBlue
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Following episodes with @hanstung @CrystalHuang @GGVCapital stoked to have @glennsolomon on @twentyminutevc in 15 mins! Special thanks to questions from @justindross @Opendoor special episode to come! #startup #vc #founder
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No one is you and that’s your super power. Are you living in someone else’s reality or yours? Will you take charge of YOUR life or allow the world to do that for you? The choice is yours. Love you all and use your DIFFERENCE to make a DIFFERENCE!
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I generally don't believe in "seasonality" in SaaS. Yes it exists, but in a fast-growing startup, the growth should mask it Except in Europe. In the Summer. My one exception.
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Speaking to a friend today who tells me: "I let my kids choose University or offer them a $75K seed check from me to start their own business and run with it". Thoughts on this?
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Why does @zapier Co-founder & CEO @wadefoster believe that founders need to put in place traditional management sooner than they normally do? [Podcast] buff.ly/2oqHkwn
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Fascinating to hear @mgodley21 @LeadGenius on @saastr on the quick flip approach to startups in the valley today and reminds me of conversations with @quinthar @expensify buff.ly/2EScZgh #saas #startup #vc
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Tune into The @UnsexyStartup for an episode on scaling a product in the seed stage of a company, and how challenges around product when you are scaling a company w/ @tilleryj @BuildoutInc #startups #VentureCapital aca.st/1fb9b7
There are two types of unsexy: Bringing sanity and tech to the unsexy industry and doing the boring bolts and nuts work that is necessary to get a start-up off the ground. #resilience #startup
In start-ups most of the work day to day is kind of shitty and it is not something you will get a lot of appreciation for doing right. #resilience #startupgrind
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It was 6 months of frustration. We believed in what we were doing but we couldn’t get anybody to invest in it. #frustration #resilience
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