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  • AI start ups in the next 90 to 360 days…

    UPDATE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-market-stock-prices

  • Focus on the goal…

    One of the things I battle with constantly is people who get distracted by the new hotness… “We’ve got to be AI enabled!” When told “no” they get their knickers in a knot. Roll forward 6 months and it’s proven that their hyperventilation was a waste of time. Seth Goldin said it best today: The…

  • Oh the Humanity – Why You Can’t Build Apple with Venture Capital

    An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, “I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way.” As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way…

  • The Grey Goo

    …the forces of mediocrity are now microprocessor-powered, heavily funded, and determined to hold on to the middle of the market. More grey, more goo. It’s hard to make a great sequel. Better to spend our time to make a remarkable original.

  • We want to be the X of Y

    VC is pattern-matching. Because of this, less competent players fall into the trap of pitching themselves as the X of Y … Tell me you don’t know what you’re doing with out telling me you don’t know what you’re doing.

  • It’s not “tall poppy” syndrome, people don’t like dealing with you

    There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…

  • Eight marketing maxims

    These are lessons I learned from Seth a loooooong time ago. I’ve put them into play with 2 businesses and they are now my guiding principles in marketing.

  • Adam Neumann’s apartment startup is here

    There is that moment in any new relationship where you’re in or you’re out. They fart, pick their nose or treat wait staff badly. At that moment you make a call on whether or not you’re in for the long haul (for the record, treating wait staff badly is the only “hell no” for me).…