5 Aug 2026, 21:59 UTC47 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
🏍️ One spot just became available for this founder/investor adventure.
My friends at 12 Scrappy Founders are hosting a dirt biking experience this Saturday, Aug. 8, in Los Gatos.
It's a small group of Seed to Series B+ founders and investors. No experience is required—it's beginner-friendly, with professional instructors. In fact, several attendees have never ridden a motorcycle before.
I was planning to join, but…
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5 Aug 2026, 19:46 UTC54 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
This never works.
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5 Aug 2026, 02:33 UTC63 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The new reality of my laptop power consumption.
3 Aug 2026, 23:35 UTC73 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Last Friday I joined a VC Happy Hour in Palo Alto, where Ali Moiz introduced his new book, 3 Startups, 40 Pivots: How to Not F*cking Give Up.
The book isn't another startup playbook. It's the story of Ali and Murti Hussain's 20+ year entrepreneurial journey—building three startups, making more than 40 pivots, raising venture capital, navigating failures, and ultimately building successful companies. The central mess…
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3 Aug 2026, 22:58 UTC65 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
This McDonald's post went viral because it did one thing exceptionally well:
It turned a shared customer experience into an inside joke.
We've all pulled up to the drive-thru and said,
"Can I get... uhhhhhh..."
McDonald's simply acknowledged it. That made people feel seen.
The best brands don't just sell products—they create moments their customers instantly recognize and relate to.
Ask yourself: Are you just se…
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31 Jul 2026, 17:02 UTC92 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
It's Friday FUN time.
Peak Apple.
A $199 metal claw to stop your MacBook from going to sleep while your AI agents keep working.
It's called the iClaw. 😂
The funniest part is that people actually looked for it in the Apple Store.
And if Apple ever released it, it would probably outsell most AI startups.
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27 Jul 2026, 17:08 UTC120 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
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Someone drew this about life. It works just as well for startups, or enterprise strategic initiatives.
Birth on one end. Death on every branch. In between, a lot of choices.
Both work the same way. Every junction is a decision, and most of the deaths on this map are avoidable - the risk was there to be seen before anyone committed.
So success is mostly not dying. Every avoidable risk you catch keeps the ventu…
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24 Jul 2026, 18:31 UTC119 viewsread 7 August 2026 Video
Unitree Super Athlete AS2-W. Look at that mobility, amazing.
Fluid movement. Supports a continuous 16kg payload, with 30+ km unloaded driving range.
23 Jul 2026, 18:29 UTC114 viewsread 7 August 2026 Video
The Vision BMW ALPINA - unveiled at Villa d'Este this spring.
It's the first car since BMW took full control of the Alpina brand this year. A 5.2-meter grand tourer with a V8, positioned above M and aimed straight at Bentley. Production starts 2027.
The car is beautiful. The strategy behind it is better. Alpina spent 60 years as a small family operation making BMWs better than BMW could. Instead of letting that fad…
23 Jul 2026, 17:56 UTC103 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
YC published its Requests for Startups for Fall 2026. Thirteen ideas they want to fund.
Read it twice.
Founders read it as a menu. But if you're a corporate executive, read it as a warning: each line is a market where funded teams will show up within a year, moving faster than your planning cycle.
What jumps out to me: almost nothing on the list is about better models. Data centers on ships. Sensors for factory fl…
22 Jul 2026, 18:32 UTC79 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Saw this cartoon in a post by Andreas Horn. The comments mostly agree on one thing: AI fails at execution.
I've been around too many of these projects to buy that. By the time execution starts falling apart, the failure already happened months earlier, in a boardroom, when the decision was made on assumptions and gut feeling instead of deep research and expertise. The landmines were all there from day one.
And it's…
21 Jul 2026, 23:41 UTC78 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Hi all,
We’d like to invite you to the first webinar of our INSIDE THE 2% series: De-risk the $10M+ Strategic Initiative - Thursday, September 17, 9:00 AM PT, on Zoom.
98% of growth ideas never pay off. Professor Pedram Mokrian - INNOVERA CEO and Co-founder - will walk through the go/no-go framework for committing capital with confidence: why strong business cases fail, what evidence actually matters, and how to mak…
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