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Jan 18, 2022

Some personal news today... Introducing $67M

Fund II lead by

Please read the thread below for all the details and help spread the news. 🙌 twitter.com/2048vc/status/ 🚀 🔥 💰

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2048 Ventures

Jan 18, 2022

We got some news! We’ve raised @2048vc

$67M Fund II to Lead Pre-Seed rounds in technology startups across

US and

Canada!

2048.vc/blog/2048-vent

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Russ Wilcox

@Russ_Wilcox

19h

The better the business, the tighter the pitch.

May 16

One of the tricks when negotiating that I learned from my friend and mentor

@jdrive

is: Get a little hard to get a hold off... Let them cool off... Works like a charm. Every single time.

May 15

📚Blog Post: How to effectively use mailing lists to update mentors, team, current and prospective investors on your startup startuphacks.vc/blog/2017/01/0

How to effectively use mailing lists to update mentors, team, current and prospective investors on...

// #startuphacks // #VC

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Mailing lists can be a simple yet powerful tool to set cadence and keep people up to date on your progress. The advantage of having several mailing lists is that you can share the right kind of...

May 15

Drops of God on AppleTV is the new Queens Gambit.

Founders who are ALWAYS ON win!

Trust your gut.

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Noah Kagan

@noahkagan

In fewer than 5 words, what’s the best piece of advice you can give to a first time entrepreneur?

Zelensky European tour ahead of the counter offensive shows him & his crew as shrewd politicians. This leaves no doubt of ongoing and even increasing support. It also demoralizes the enemy and energizes the troops. Ukraine 🇺🇦 knows this is their shot to end this conflict.… Show more

You see, the universe is uneven. Nothing is ever quite the same.

Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of...

Awesome future of Personal AI podcast with

@mustafasuleymn

@eladgil

@saranormous

overcast.fm/+_C9f7E7tc Particularly enjoyed insights into Google as well as many AIs - many personal agencies optimized for different purposes.

overcast.fm

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, joins Sarah and Elad to discuss how his interests in counseling, conflict resolution, and intelligence led him to...

Happy Mother’s Day to all mom entrepreneurs! 👏 🔥

Caitlin Leksana

@0xCaitlin

Marvel Studios Founding Chairman David Maisel Is Plotting a New Universe

Marvel Studios Founding Chairman David Maisel Is Plotting a New Universe It's an honor to be working with this team 🙏

hollywoodreporter.com

With a nine-figure valuation and investors including billionaire Ron Burkle and the company behind BTS, Mythos Studios is working on bringing late comic book artist Michael Turner’s creations to life.

If you are a startup in any industry who is creating a truly new, reimagined AI-based workflow I would love to learn more / meet you! ✌️

So what does a startup need to win in a vertical category? They need to REIMAGINE entire workflow, UX through AI. That is instead of just using AI in UX you need to create a whole new AI based UX. 👇

Final example - Notion has a menu item - Use AI. This is a simple but clear example of how incumbents will win in a near term - they just stick AI in. 👇

Another example - generating e-commerce photos and video. If you are just calling AI api, even if you created or tuned a proprietary model, it’s not good enough.

@soonastudios

already has a huge customer base, brand trust and distribution and is positioned to integrate AI. 👇

For example - it’s obvious that AI can be built into a help desk.

@Zendesk

@gorgiasio

etc already have the distribution and can easily use APIs to plug in AI. If you are a startup who is launching new help desk just with idea that it will use AI you will not win. 👇

If you are a startup, a new comer working in generative AI you need to think hard about both your innovation and GTM. If you are not re-imagining the entire workflow through AI but instead just plugging into existing workflows you are very likely to lose to incumbents. 👇

And the winner 🥇 goes to …

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𝘽𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙮

@realBobbyHealy

Replying to @alexiskold

"what part of the UK is Ireland in?"

Founders, this is pure gold 👇

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Todd Saunders

@toddsaunders

Our Q1 board meeting was yesterday. It was my 33rd board meeting as CEO of @Broadlume Coming from @Google I had never run a board meeting beforehand I kept notes for myself after each meeting starting in 2015. After 33 meetings, here are the 10 big lessons learned

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I sometimes offer people to chat on a weekend to test them / their eagerness. Not a lot of them cease the opportunity.

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Jason Shuman

@JasonrShuman

Offered up 8AM slots every day for interviews to potential hires...0 people have signed up for one of those slots

What’s the biggest concern / reason why not / push back you are hearing from angels and VCs about your startup?

Rachel Soper Sanders

@rachelssanders

May 11

Longevity is hard to understand Healthspan is easier We all want to be healthy, thriving, and mentally sharp for as long as possible What are you doing today that will help your health in the long term?

May 11

Agree with

@SamHarris

that US, the THINKER, is an emergent phenomenon - like everything else on the Universe. The Thinker emerges and is made out of thoughts. What’s the SO WHAT of that observation? Curious to know what you think.

2048 Ventures

Many founders don’t capture and don’t report their enterprise sales pipelines correctly. The most important piece is to have a snapshot of stages, with logos, number of companies, and $ amounts at each stage. Second - speed of motion through the pipeline. Let’s unpack this👇🧵

May 11

Why is

@CNN

giving this clown, liar, and a criminal a platform again?

📚Blog Post: How a seed-stage company can run a simple and effective board meeting startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/10/1

How a seed-stage company can run a simple and effective board meeting — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold

// #startuphacks // #VC

startuphacks.vc

I am a fan of having a formal board right after the company raises seed financing. I've seen how helpful the boards are and how lost and disadvantaged the founders can often be without the board. To...

Simple self-care hack: Go on a morning walk every morning to walk and think for 20-30 minutes and only breathe through the nose. Nasal breathing is up there with sleep, diet, exercise and light exposure but few understand how simple and powerful it is.

When will Siri 1. Stop randomly piping in 2. Actually understand anything 3. Be useful ?

Hooman

@hoomanradfar

May 9

Everyone is sure of everything until they're not.

May 8

📚Blog Post: 25 Epic, Must-Read Posts About Fundraising startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/02/0

25 epic, must-read blog posts about fundraising — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold

// #startuphacks // #VC

startuphacks.vc

In my capacity of Managing Director at Techstars NYC, I spend a lot of time with founders attempting to get funding. Raising money is a complex and rigorous process. It requires preparation and...

May 8

What are you building this week?

May 8

Building is the most purposeful and exciting thing one can do here on Earth 🌍. Impact through creativity is 🔥

May 7

Really want to try BluSky - anyone has an invite ?

May 7

A VC right before suggesting a down round.

May 6

Just noticed that

@Tesla

has bio weapons defense mode. 🤔

May 6

Raising Capital or Getting Grants IS NOT traction. PR coverage IS NOT traction. Traction is one thing and one thing only -- CUSTOMERS AND REVENUE.

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The memo that leaked from Google (which is real) makes the case for an open future for AI. I have increasing conviction that aspects of this future will unfold but I disagree with the conclusion. I...

Fraser

@Fraser

May 5

Here are some of my thoughts on the future of AI, in response to the leaked google memo: The case for open ai tl;dr: there will be an oligopoly and a vibrant open ecosystem.

moreentropy.com

The case for open AI

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May 5

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