Free Post On The Ontology of Win-Wins Win-win arrangements exist because lose-lose ones do. For every business guru who effortlessly parrots this axiom, there are countless who roll their eyes at the concept. Nevertheless, charlatans and skeptics
Free Post When should one start a business? Aspiring entrepreneurs should start their business within 18 to 36 months, regardless of the “idea.” Business forecasting accuracy drops tremendously beyond 2 to 3 years. In addition, new businesses need
Free Post SeatAssignMate (November 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/seatassignmate/seed Decision Yes. Why Investing 天时地利人和—Feasible problem, with demonstration traction, backed by the investment arms of their customers and worked on by a
Free Post Smilelove (November 2018) DealSmileloveDirect-to-consumer clear aligner treatment for straightening teeth.SeedInvestDecisionYes. Why InvestingHard to argue with a business that went from $0 to $1MM in revenue in a year.Super boring business model
Free Post SapientX (November 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/sapientx/seed/ Decision Yes. Why Investing White label AI solution seems inevitable. Just like banks collided together to make Zelle to combat Venmo, it makes
Free Post iSport360 (November 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/isport360/seed Decision Not yet. Why (Not) Investing (Yet) Acquired 1800 teams using the app in 18 months. The average league is 500 players or
Free Post Cool vs. Cash, 2018 Edition Updated with companies and businesses form 2018. Click or tap the graph above to expand. Some notes: 1. Why did I make this? Upon finishing my two year fellowship with
Free Post 20/20 GeneSystems (October 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/2020.genesystems/series.b Decision Yes. Calacanis CheckPass/Fail1. Ssyndicate lead has >5 years investing and >1 unicorn investmentFail: Uncertain, this question may
Free Post Pongalo (October 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/pongalo/bridge Decision Yes. Calacanis CheckPass/Fail1. A syndicate lead who has been investing for at least five years and has at least one notable,
Free Post DoneGood (October 2018) Deal https://www.seedinvest.com/donegood/seed Decision Not yet. Calacanis CheckPass/Fail1. A syndicate lead who has been investing for at least five years and has at least one
Free Post Peter Thiel & Blake Masters: Zero to One I recently reread Peter Thiel and Blake Master’s Zero to One. This was my second time reading it: first time from the perspective of a builder, this time
Free Post KingsCrowd (September 2018) KingsCrowd wants to provide the infrastructure for startup investment decision making. This means: Education: We provide expert editorial content in addition to “how to guides” and toolsAnalytics: We offer standardized
Free Post On the nature of being and startups http://skibinsky.com/godel-incompleteness-for-startups/Mathematical proof for why startups exists. Uses Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems to demonstrate the infinite limitations of any defined system. Applied to the individual, demonstrates
Free Post Windchime Health (August 2018) UPDATE: Windchime was unable to raise their target minimum of $500k on SeedInvest, so the investment is canceled. Such a shame, I think this company would have done well.
Free Post HyperSciences (August 2018) “Rocket science” engineer creates a new form of digging: instead of using drilling, HyperSciences has designed a bullet to be shot at Mach 5 speeds shoots and pulverizes