Tag: VC
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Calling For A Moratorium On Calling For A Moratorium On AI
The AI industry is heavily capitalized, and reliant on smoke and mirrors. Calls for regulation and open letters asking for a pause in AI research from leaders of AI companies make headlines every few months. These are not circulating out of genuine fear, they are self aggrandizing, and honestly monopolistic. In under a year, artificial […]
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How Gawker Media Once Kept Silicon Valley In Check
At one time, Valleywag part of Gawker served as a tattletale hall monitor for the startup community. But since Peter Thiel sued the publication out of existence, the startup world has run amok without media coverage until hundreds of millions of dollars are involved. That’s a problem for the entire ecosystem.
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Partner Or Employee With Extra Steps?
This morning I saw a post by Paul O’Brien titled “A VC is asking 6% for acting as an advisor…” – My first thought, that is some b******t – O’Brien agreed. His post is well worth reading, and it lead me down another thought pathway. When you give out a lot of equity, you are […]
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What I Learned Failing Three Side Hustles Last Year
Last year I started a few projects outside of my day to day at Push ROI. I wanted side hustles, the kind of small businesses I could actively help grow, but that didn’t require funding beyond what I could bootstrap. Some of those failed pretty epically, for reasons I was sure were in no way […]
