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“Building an AI-native firm in 30 days” is a great LinkedIn AI slop bait title. We are not AI-native. We are roughly 10x more AI-enabled than we were on April 1st. Those are different sentences. The gap between them, between AI-enabled and AI-native , is most of what I want to share, because it is the thing every VC, CTO, and partnership-led firm I now talk to is getting wrong. For 30 days in…
Fixer Are you facing a challenge? A new product to kickstart, a unique customer that you need to win, maybe you are behind on the data / AI train. Or perhaps it’s something less obvious, like a tricky board issue, co-founder concerns, a difficult situation with an executive, a tough decision that needs to be made, or just a feeling that something isn’t quite right. No matter what the…
Execution speed is the most powerful tool a startup has against competitors, against the market, and against incumbents. Execution speed shows quickly. Not in delivery, but already in the earlier planning phase. Execution speed shows when asking “when” or creating plans: where large companies create yearly plans or roadmaps with quarterly deliverables, others plan not for “next…
Venture capital (VC) is traditionally a people-based, non-scalable business. Do you want to do more deals? Hire more people. Want to do deals in a new region? Open a new office. Want to provide better support to your founders? Hire an ops team. For an industry that invested billions of dollars in technology companies, the venture capital industry lacks proper technology adoption. It is one of the…
2025 will be the year of the revival of the blog. …or at least it will be for mine. Not for a particular reason; I’ve been blogging on and off since 2003, back when Blogger was still a thing, Twitter did not exist, and personal blogs didn’t receive spam but 10+ comments on every post, and that with only 20 visits. I stopped and restarted on different platforms to play with the…
TL;DR “The internet” would be the answer if you ask me what my hobby is. But “the internet” has also been the red line throughout my career. I helped offline retailers with my web agency in the 2000s by using the power of the internet to build their first e-commerce sites. I brought the internet and, with that, access to a global market for farmers and the fresh produce…