Agency and Soft Skills in the AI Era
With each passing day, it becomes clearer that AI is making the intelligence side of startups and entrepreneurship more accessible, distributed, and abundant. As that happens, the real differentiat…
With each passing day, it becomes clearer that AI is making the intelligence side of startups and entrepreneurship more accessible, distributed, and abundant. As that happens, the real differentiat…
Last week, I was talking with an entrepreneur who shared how he was using AI to do a much better job of identifying which prospects he should pursue. It is easy to get a list of names and companies…
There’s a phrase in startup land that really resonates with me: stay close to the problem. As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to become enamored with ideas, visions, and what could be. While all of thos…
Recently, I was talking to an entrepreneur who shared that one of his side projects was building a personal AI brain. The goal was to process information across every area he cared about, automate …
One of the recurring debates I have encountered is around the role of founder-led sales. Founder-led sales is the idea that, in the early days and even the early years of a startup, the founder sho…
If you read the startup blogs and listen to the most popular startup podcasts, it is easy to think that the only way to raise money in the current climate is with an idea that can become worth tens…
I’ve always enjoyed learning about different business best practices, strategy documents, and ways of thinking through a company game plan. One example I’ve seen more frequently over the last year …
Last month, I was talking to an entrepreneur about his upcoming fundraising round, and he shared an approach that I hadn’t heard before. His ultimate goal for the funding round was to secure …
Over the last week, I’ve enjoyed reading some of the different VC horror stories sparked by Greg Isenberg’s tweet. There’s everything from crazy bad behavior to unusual interactions to a variety of…
Recently, I saw a headline in The Wall Street Journal that said, “$3.6 Million an Hour and Other Ways to Measure Musk’s Fortune.” A catchy headline like this definitely grabs your attention. It als…