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Great time on the Embracing Erosion podcast w/Devon O'Rourke! We talked about: 🚀 How to scale a company from concept to 9-figure exit 🔄 How to break away from the traditional consulting model and apply product approaches ⏩ Why it’s important to iterate quickly and often with messaging 💸📈What signals are important to pay attention to when investing in startups and much more!

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Hey folks, I think you might be aware that what we're building at DeepCast includes a podcast discovery and exploration platform for listeners at www.deepcast.fm. We also recently unveiled www.deepcast.pro -- a promotions, marketing, and monetization platform for podcasters (and folks like networks and agencies who support them). "You make the shows, let us help you with what comes after." Shows claimed and processed via DeepCast Pro are also published for listener consumption on DeepCast. High value all around! If you're a podcaster, claim your show at www.deepcast.pro to get started. Free speaker-labeled transcripts for all your episodes as well as generated insights for each (key takeaways, quotes, topic & keyword sets, summaries, and more) plus many more features—and growing daily! We're shipping fast over here! (Thanks to Rachel Perez Hosna Qasmei Kim Burgaard Benjamin Moon Rachel Magana Hari Ramachandran!)

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Some great new additions to Wing Venture Capital's Founder Docs project today! These are from the one-and-only Christopher Lynch, a veteran serial entrepreneur, currently CEO of AtScale, previously with Vertica, DataRobot, Accomplice VC, Acopia (where we worked together in the 2000's), Arrowpoint (where we first met in the 90's) and many other great ventures. I've worked with Chris in multiple companies across multiple decades. Anyone who knows him knows he tells it like it is (even when it may be hard to say it or hard to hear it!), which I have infinite respect for. In his Founder Docs, Chris talks about: - The dangers of overcapitalizing your startup - What it means to be a "transparent founder" - The power of long-term, authentic relationships in an entrepreneurial career Read Chris's stuff and you will come away wiser!

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Excited to be working with William Ashford as he builds Truestate. So far some of the biggest winners in the AI hype cycle have been overpaid consultants. But the excitement from the AI hype train is quickly being replaced by frustration as corporations struggle to deploy new AI technologies safely and reliably - even with an army of these consultants. Fortunately AI can also help solve this problem, as it will increasingly be used to automate away the role of these expensive consultants. This is what Will and the TrueState team are building with their first product: an integrated library of AI components that can automate the work of building AI solutions that would take consultants six to 12 months to do. Check them out below.

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Huge thank you to Jay Kapoor & Vijay Chattha of VSC Ventures for putting on the #DirtyJobsSummit in San Francisco a few weeks back. 😎 Things sure ran smoothly, for an inaugural event, and I hope this becomes a permanent installation! It was a blast catching up with the VSC crew, Jonathan, Dr. Yvonne, Bilal, Aymerik, Iván, Eve, Justin, Zal, Cory, and many more friends to discuss the exceptional founding teams and brilliant innovations (robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, advanced materials, etc.) tackling core problems in dirty, dangerous, and difficult industries like mining, manufacturing, mobility, construction, and more. 🤖 ⛏ 🚛 🏗 🏭 Jay's recap: "There are BILLIONS of dollars worth of challenges, inefficiencies, and problems that need to be solved in our most critical but overlooked industries. We believe the first step to accelerating that change is opening the dialogue between the critical people who actually make that change possible." 💪🏼 https://lnkd.in/g8diuX2v There's no event/takeaway summary better than Jonathan Healy's: 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gFUYf-sW

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Seed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms Alpha Partners, SignalRank and now SaaS Ventures help seed VCs pay for shares when big VCs try to price — or push — them out Lee Edwards, partner at Root VC, has a saying at his firm that “pro rata rights are earned, not given.” That may be a bit of a stretch since pro rata refers to a term that VCs put in their term sheets that gives them the right to buy more shares in a portfolio company during consequent funding rounds to maintain an ownership percentage and avoid dilution. Still, while these rights are not exactly “earned,” they can be expensive. One of the latest trends in VC investing these days are funds dedicated to helping seed VCs exercise their pro rata rights. https://lnkd.in/dRM3RvdA By Christine Hall

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