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Requests for Startups: Fall 2026 Edition https://www.vccafe.com/requests-for-startups-fall-2026-editi... - new post, I think you'll like it

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts" - General Omar Bradley

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

- Winston Churchill

MCP and Agent2Agent are just the beginning to create the connectivity between AI tools

“To find a needle in a haystack, it’s helpful to know what a needle looks like. To find the right investor, know exactly what you’re looking for in a partner.”

My latest post on VC Cafe

The battleground for consumer attention and engagement is fiercer than ever

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But it's also worth noting that peak hype doesn't mean the potential of these technologies isn't real - as I write in my blog post on the topic https://www.vccafe.com/2023/08/16/now-its-official-gartner-c...

Obviously he took his own advice when it comes to bringing OpenAI to the market!

For example: in consumer subscription models, keeping over 50% of revenue after 1 year puts you in the top quartile. For B2B SaaS, conversion from trial to paying customer needs to be at least 7% to reach the industry benchmark. More in the post.

Will platform dependency, high competition and IP concerns turn away investors or are we at the dawn of a new AI-powered startup boom?

1. mobile gaming bounces back 2. Metaverse finds its mojo in enterprise use cases 3. Streaming and cloud gaming offer new gaming monetisation 4. AR, VR and XR have their 'iPhone moment' in Apple's new headset launch 5. Generative AI enters gaming in a massive way

whatever makes you happy man. You'll be glad to know that I also had salmon once ;-)

This article is so futuristic that the publish date says Dec 1st, 2019 ;-)

Found this list - https://www.slideshare.net/SOSv/deep-tech-trends-2019/13?src...

Interestingly, I didn't find a handy list... here are a few US funds focused on Deep tech DCVC - https://www.dcvc.com/ ARCH Ventures - https://www.archventure.com/ Defy Ventures - defy.vc Eclipse Ventures - eclipse.vc Grit Ventures - https://gritventures.com/

I tend to agree with you. Even though there are specialist funds in deep tech, the available capital is less than traditional SaaS. The cycles are longer in deep tech, and require a bit more 'patient capital. That said, deep tech startups know to access a range of subsidies and grants that are equity free in a way that more traditional startups don't.

These are the most popular uses reported by IFTTT https://ifttt.com/recipes?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=popular

If you change your Facebook profile pic > change twitter Text me the weather every morning Star ★ a Gmail, send it to Evernote

As a follow up question - did anyone use IFTTT in a way that helped them make money?

Vendorstack created an info graphic of the top startups for startups tools, I spiced it a bit more and posted a super tools list on VC Cafe link: http://www.vccafe.com/2013/01/24/startups-startups-top-b2b-t...

From Twitter: Naval Ravikant ‏@naval @ediggs not about VCs being followers but rather that outcomes are nonlinear - so funding is as well. The problem with pithy quotes :-)

via email (anonymous): "From my experience only the best European investors that have the confidence to go first, so you need to find the combo of the right firm and the right partner if you dont want to get stuck in a waiting game."

Feel free to chime on Quora too: https://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/Companies-are-unfundab...

Via Twitter: Tom Samodol ‏@tomsamodol @ediggs Because VCs are lazy. Lemming effect: scared missing on next big thing, so they all plough into the same start-up

Evernote, MobileIron, Pure Storage, Marketo, DDS and SurveyMonkey... what do they have in common?

It's a really interesting investing scheme for Hmexx, but this is no co-founder partnership... The HN Proposition compelled me to write "Indecent proposals" for startup founders - http://www.vccafe.com/2013/01/17/indecent-proposal-for-start...

If you haven't launched yet, how are you making $20-30K a month? ads?

"If you want passive income, you need to create something of real value, then work out how to sell it"

Can you give a few examples that are doable on a small budget online?

Just to qualify this further - what if you're not selling a service on top of your blog? (i.e. design services in your case) - could you still create a labor of love, like a blog and pay rent with the cash it generates? how?