Eh what do you know about venture fundraising anyway
@packym
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Venture Capital Struggles Predicting Quality Over Funding Signals
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"The market has optimised around funding signals, which are legible earlier. It hasn't gotten better at recognising quality / predicting outcomes. If the latter were true, there would have been a noticable lift in venture returns, rather than a noticable decline." Still may be
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Seed Valuations Rising: A Venture Capital Market Perspective
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Some spicy takes on venture capital: – Saying that "seed has gotten expensive" or something and then pointing to a valuation – like "they used to be $10 million and now they're $20 million" – is bascially the same thing as people who say Stock A is more expensive than Stock B
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Dad Built YC Startup Idea and Got Rich Fast
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Mom how did we get so rich? Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list. x.com/ycombinator/st…
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Dad Built YC Startup Idea and Got Rich
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Mom how did we get so rich? Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list.
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AI’s Most Impressive Achievement: Carrying 2001 Finals Roster
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Game time. Took this opportunity to explain to the kids how insane it was that The Answer carried that roster to the 2001 Finals. Still the most impressive thing an AI has ever done.
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Claude Distorts Topics to Match User’s Assumed Interests
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Me: Can you tell me about [thing]? Claude: ah, yes. You’re probably asking because of your interest in [other thing], and honestly, those two things have more in common than you even realize. [Bastardized version of [thing] that contorts it to fit [other thing].]
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Weekly Optimist Roundup: mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Robot Bio Labs
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results
SpaceX buys Cursor option
Fervo files S-1
Humble unstealths cabless truck
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Weekly Tech Breakthroughs: Geothermal, AI, Water, and Neuroscience
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Quaise 1st superhot geothermal plant
Panthalassa wave-powered lollipop AI DC
Vital Lyfe Access drinkable water in a box
Sabi hat that can read your mind
Prophetic dream lucidity
Salk Lab gets $41.3M Sonogenetics +Science Breakthroughs + Friedberg What a week for the optimists. -
AI Companies Drive NYC Office Space Leasing Surge
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My friend and broker from the Breather days, Ramsey Fehrer at CBRE, shared NYC tech leasing data they pulled for a client recently. AI is eating NYC office space.