👀 Fast scaling has massive downsides: startups that scale more quickly fail more, but are no more likely to succeed than those that scale slower. Why? Because scaling marks the end of experimenting. Startups that scale after lots of experiments succeed. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I’ve been saying for a while that stagnation is a policy choice: the UK can choose to be rich! Sam Bowman Ben Southwood + Samuel Hughes lay out the case in brilliant, horrifying detail. Read it, send it to your MP and ask them what they’re going to do about it

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade? The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Today we release the results of our UK Growth Survey, as exclusively covered by Archie Hall The Economist UK Day One polled 44 pro-growth economists, think tankers and researchers to ask them what the new government should do to pursue growth. Some of the key insights ...🧵

The five hardest-to-land pieces of advice for founders: 1. Raise less. 2. Cut deeper and faster than you think you need to. 3. Smaller teams can outperform bigger teams. 4. Never ever take venture debt. 5. (For B2B) Don't be afraid to raise your minimum price & fire customers

Europe – we need your help. Please sign this petition to create a pan-european legal entity and promote it as much as you can: eu-inc.org We got RIGHT NOW a once in a generation chance to improve Europe for startups. 🔥 We got 6 weeks until the new comission sets

Everyone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a plot to privatise British healthcare and sell your data” should be forced to read the dozens (hundreds?) of case studies like these bbc.co.uk/news/health-67…

Many such cases. The union at a big public sector org recently blocked digitisation measures that would have allowed staff to do their jobs more efficiently, because the staff didn’t want to lose the overtime pay they get as a result of tasks taking longer 🙃

Lots of early-stage companies get stuck between servicing mass-market SMBs and larger Enterprise customers, and it causes them a lot of pain. If you can sign Enterprise customers, there's a bunch of stuff you don't really ever need to automate. Onboarding and customer service

if you had only two slides in a pre-seed deck cover these two things 1. how your product is 10x better than current products 2. what is your distribution trick to get the first 1000 customers

Expected dilution in SAFE rounds for founders raising this year. 1. Dilution is 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 sensitive to round size. You'll sell more of your company in percentage terms for a higher amount of cash. 2. The ranges are wider in SAFE rounds than we see in priced rounds.

There are many charts in energy/economics but few as important as this from Rob West. Developed economies like to think we've delinked growth from energy/materials (green line). What we've REALLY done is offshore energy consumption. Adjust for that & u get the yellow line

💥💥 EU Inc goes to Brussels! We sent the petition with your 13k signatures to the EU Commission. We managed to make this an urgent matter in Brussels. Now we need to make sure the implementation is right. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Contribute to the open-sourced proposal below ⬇️

Today in nature, we’re presenting GenCast: our new AI weather model which gives us the probabilities of different weather conditions up to 15 days ahead with state-of-the-art accuracy. ☁️⚡ Here’s how the technology works. 🧵goo.gle/49trAOv

Fascinating data on EU's rise in tech - 35,000 early-stage startups (most globally) with untapped €9T pension assets. This isn't about EU vs US; it's about unlocking potential everywhere. When both ecosystems thrive, we all win. The opportunity for global investors is enormous.

Today, we’re launching Explore, an entirely new way to interact with your data. We’ve been testing Querio Explore with customers of all sizes for months, and we’re excited to share it with the world!

1/ Introducing ⚪️CircleGuardBench — a new benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models. Here’s why it’s cool: – Tests harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency – Covers 17 real-world harm categories – First benchmark designed for production-level

Introducing Amy - The AI Agent for Private Market Investors Stop wasting 30% of your week on busy work. Amy handles sourcing, diligence, ops, admin & research 24/7, remembers every interaction, and sharpens over time. Are you ready?

Every investor is asking: "How is this defensible?" Vedika Jain created a rubric to stress test a startups AGI-proof moat.

If you are Pre-Seed, do these things before you pitch VC's and you will be 10x more successful at fundraising: 1. build an MVP and get it in hands of customers. have a clear product wedge. 2. talk to 50-100 customers, have all notes in an AI chatbot, summarize customer pain