Nibi By @MapleVCFund. A startup foundry for the discerning. We're on the edge: Dissenters, Builders, Doers. e/acc
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nibi foundry retweeted
After a decade of investing, I noticed the best founding teams all share the same pattern. I call it The Talent Arbitrage—a framework for understanding why some teams build enduring companies. Take the quiz to find your archetype: maplevc.com/talent-quiz
nibi foundry retweeted
Confusing vision and a dream is one of the most common ways early founders end up lost.
@jedgar wrote about what a great pitch actually shows and why "we'll iterate" is a red flag dressed up as humility. maplevc.com/blog-john-edgar-…
Who will step up?
So many timelines, so little time.
Real money, Real experience, Real results.
The future won't build itself...
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M is for: Maple, Money, Montreal.
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MMM, we'll take you to 500MM
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Seeking ambitious people, come join us in Montreal for Cohort-01. Applications open Q3.
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Are you world class?
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MAPLE - MONEY - MONTREAL
In person.
Not an accelerator.
Not an incubator.
Not a bootcamp.
Real money. Real experience. Real results.
Full details - May 21st, 2026.
Cohort-01 applications open Q3 2026.
IPO or bust.
Apparently this is not normal to take on vacation however that seems odd, how else would you get all your work done all day every day while on holiday otherwise???
Goals are not things you set.
The Oxford English Dictionary’s first citation is from John Palsgrave’s "L’esclarcissement de la langue francoyse" (1530):
"Gol of a sportrynge felde.”
Goal names the pair of boundary posts that complete a playing-field or running course. The second occurrence appears in William Forrest’s Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise (1548), again meaning the finish line in a race.
By the later sixteenth century the sense had generalized to “the point or line which a ball, puck, or runner must reach to score,” and from there to “a score itself”.
You don't have the goal till you score a goal, so:
figure out the score you want, then get to practicing.
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If you back a founder who goes to "game nights", go ahead and write that investment to zero.
IF BILL GATES HAD TAKEN TIME OFF TO PLAY GAMES, WE'D STILL BE WAITING FOR WINDOWS XP RIGHT NOW.
GET BACK TO WORK.
You're standing there nodding along.
Everything they're saying sounds so right.
You smile. Genius you think.
This advice is amazing. Why didn't I think of this sooner...? It sounds so easy, you think.
... anyway, that's what the guy on shark tank thinks they say.
Unless you know what someone has done to know what they know: presume they don't know and read your horoscope instead.
