Middle of August reads for ya . 😭 or 😂: Do Your Emojis Make You Look Old? [multiple authors/NY Times] The subhead tells you everything you need to know: When it comes to emoji usage, we’re all just following teen girls. Teenagers now tend to use 🔥 where older people use 💯 and other pieces of fascinating/hilarious data/decoding, including Fastest [ ]
Hot August URLs coming right up! Picking Rocketships Is a Bad Career Strategy [Molly Graham/Lessons] We all know the legendary advice from Google s Eric Schmidt to Sheryl Sandberg, When you’re offered a seat on a rocketship, you don’t ask which seat. You just get on. While it certainly worked well for Sheryl, Molly suggests [ ]
TLDR: I m fanboying for Junova because it uses AI to claim $$ credit when an airline ticket drops below the price I ve paid for it This Bloomberg article basically sums up why I keep pushing Junova on you all: Bargain Flights on Busy Routes Face Squeeze Due to AI Pricing. From the report: artificial intelligence [ ]
When I grew up on the East Coast, August was still summer, but here on the West Coast the kids start school so early! Anyways, some July URLs for you. Salty, Buttery, Astonishingly Lucrative: The $100 Million Market of Popcorn Buckets [Nicole Sperling/New York Times] I don t go to movies often and I rarely [ ]
When we started Homebrew in 2012/2013 the conventional wisdom was that early stage funds hold 20-50% of their total capital for follow-on pro rata. Mostly to double down on their winners [offense!] and sometimes to help bridge promising companies to their next financing or maintain ownership in pay-to-plays [defense!]. This best practice was based on [ ]
Wired, Tired, Expired was a fun feature of Wired Magazine back in the day. It would take a general concept and give you three variations one that was of the moment, one that was recently popular but long in the tooth, and one which needed to have a stake put through its heart. Well, [ ]
But what will weigh on you the most is just how bad it will feel until you find product market fit. It feels like pushing a boulder uphill while wondering whether the boulder wants to move at all. This is how Sam Gerstenzang describes the pain of finding Product Market Fit within a startup. I [ ]
Susan Wojcicki, Om Malik both people I was fortunate enough to call a friend. Both died too early. Susan almost two years ago. Om just a few days. See the outpouring of love and respect for them as humans? See how people can be wildly successful but also kind, giving, approachable? They were role [ ]
Here s how we did it is one of my favorite phrases to hear in a healthy startup ecosystem. Collaborative learning benefits everyone and the startup which initiates the discussion gets the potential benefit of the smartest folks *outside* of the company improving the work. Ambrook, a startup building financial tools for ground level independent American [ ]
Father s Day! A time for Dad to open and close browser tabs People-First Hiring: Implementing AI Without Losing Connection [MCJ Newsletter] Climate-oriented venture firm MCJ published their readout of how AI has been integrated into their talent workflow, which include everything from sourcing founders to helping portfolio companies with hires. I m a real fan [ ]