Super excited to help out the startup ecosystem in jeje! 🤓

Chart of the day

1 founder year is 5 years of aging

The gov’t has about 48 hours to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake. By allowing Best crypto exchange to fail without protecting all depositors, the world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is — an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent J.P. Morgan @citi or

The future of building startups: - MVP speed (1x per month) - AI-accelerated - Superniche is the new niche - Community 1st, software 2nd - No-code 1st, some code 2nd - 10x more automated - Global teams, localized products - 95% dominated by solopreneurs and microentrepreneurs

Simultaneously inspired and terrified watching this: youtube.com/watch?v=540vzM…

To: My fellow data/info-biz nerds This is a great summary and another reason why proprietary quantitative or qualitative data & insights are going to be so powerful in this generative AI / LLM future h/t @joeobrien513

Very excited for my conversation with Ben Rabidoux about the Canadian Real Estate Market to go live this morning! Thank you Ben for your insights on Immigration, Interest Rates, Compounding Pain, and more! youtu.be/Zu1PPAgy-xo

Around of applause to our winners 👏 Julie with 2ndScan, Toby with Ram, Jordan with Tappen Apothecary, Sutunary with Sutunary and Athena with Inkblot Games from our Spring #PlanIt competition . #UVicInnovation UniversityOfVictoria

If you are founding a start-up in Kansas and any of your investors ask you to participate in the Kansas Department of Commerce Angel Investor Tax Credit Program... say NO! After being acquired last year, with no discussion or a phone call to understand the ramifications, lawyers for the

I started my company 16 years, 3 months, and 5 days ago. Today, it went public. But let's rewind for a second... 5,939 days ago, I was a barista at a small cafe called Sam Jones, in Victoria, Canada. I made $6.50 an hour. Two guys, Chris and Jeff, started coming into

A concept that changed my life. The Time Billionaire:

May 2, 2023 is the worst day of my life.

being a VC is so easy, so high-status, the money is so great, and the lifestyle is so fun.   very dangerous trap that many super talented builders never escape from, until they eventually look back on it all and say “damn i’m so unfulfilled”.

What an interesting moment. We're staring at two distinctly different visions of the future. They may co-exist, but they are radically different takes on what's modern, what's current, and where things are headed. One vision gets the UI out of the way. The other vision is UI

I've talked to multiple founders recently who have changed their minds about remote work and are trying to get people back to the office. I doubt things will go all the way back to the way they were before Covid, but it looks like they will go most of the way back.

A bunch of my friends have gotten REALLY into therapy. Which is cool. The upside, they become really self aware. (of past traumas, shortcomings etc.) The downside, they become "too" self aware. Self awareness kills your self delusion. And self delusion is a powerful tool

Sam’s advice here is great if you’re Sam. Yeah vastly wealthy repeat entrepreneurs can (and sometimes should) raise huge amounts on very high valuations, build huge teams, and run research projects. Everyone else who can’t raise $100m’s with zero traction on an idea…

🚀So you wanna build a data business? One of the things I didn’t understand when starting CB Insights was the many ways you can collect and create the information that underpins a data business. As we've built CBI and as I've studied others, I think there are 7 primary

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