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Month: September 2023

Who Doesn’t Enjoy a Good Tech Bro Pissing Match?

Who Doesn’t Enjoy a Good Tech Bro Pissing Match?

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There was a recent, er, exchange of words between that grandaddy of accelerators, Y Combinator, or rather CEO Garry Tan, and Ari Partovi, founder and CEO of relative upstart accelerator, Neo. During a keynote he gave at HackMIT, in “his 15-minute speech, Partovi says he mentioned YC once, saying: “The mentor ratio: we have as many mentors as Y Combinator, except they’re serving 20 startups rather than 250 startup,” TechCrunch reported.

“The comment seemingly infuriated (Tan), who took to X… to write: “Competition is good. What isn’t OK is when competitors like Neo slander Y Combinator by saying ‘YC does not offer personalized advice’… YC has 12 group partners including me: When we fund you you get 1:1 advice for the life of your startup.”

Boys, boys, boys!

Tan’s are fightin’ words – and Partovi’s, from Tan’s point of view, possibly tortuous, in the legal sense. Or, as the TechCrunch headline put it, Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? Read More...

How to Blow It At an Investor Meeting

How to Blow It At an Investor Meeting

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We were recently approached by a potential new client, who wanted feedback on his pitch deck, a rewrite and assistance with reaching out to the appropriate investors.

We liked him and his product and decided to take him on as a client.

An investor friend called us a few days later, and asked what we were working on, meaning was there anything in our pipeline that might be of interest to him and his fund. We gave him the broad strokes on the software that our new client had built, and which already had some traction in the market, knowing full well that it was in his sweet spot. Read More...

And the Winner of this Year’s Darwin Awards of Tech is…

And the Winner of this Year’s Darwin Awards of Tech is…

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It’s time to offer something of a Darwin Award for Tech, which we will call the SOSy Awards – for SOS, of course, bestowed on people who are so off base in their pursuits, they clearly need help. Or a serious intervention, at the very least.  Our suggestion for this inaugural winner is none other than everyone’s favorite doctor, even though he has no medical degree, received a C+ in organic chemistry, and is a college dropout…

Bill Gates!

We’ve chosen Gates as the premier recipient for many reasons, not the least of which is his latest foray into pseudoscience: Bill Gates Funds Plan to Chop Down, Bury Millions of Trees in the of climate change, of course. You know, those things that convert carbon into oxygen, which are necessary for carbon-based species such as people to survive.

“MIT Technology Review reported that Kodama Systems had raised around $6.6 million, a hefty sum, from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, billionaire Bill Gates’s climate fund. Trees will be cut down in California and buried in Nevada for this “stealth effort,” which Kodama characterizes as “biomass burial,” PJ Media reported. Read More...