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Building Better Startups: Inside the Venture Builder Mindset
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Jun 2025
Building Better Startups: Inside the Venture Builder Mindset
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Jun 2025
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Edward Hu - Inventing LoRA, MuTransfer & The Compute Revolution
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May 2025
Edward Hu - Inventing LoRA, MuTransfer & The Compute Revolution
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May 2025
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Distribution Advantages
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May 2025
Distribution Advantages
One of the most important things we look for is founders with distribution advantages.
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May 2025
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Edward Hu from LoRA to Compute Exchange
Edward Hu’s next act: math, compute, and creative reinvention
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May 2025
Edward Hu from LoRA to Compute Exchange
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May 2025
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The Age of Illusions
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May 2025
The Age of Illusions
Investors are trapped in an age of illusions.
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May 2025
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Frank Li, CEO Stately Bio forecasting biological outcomes
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May 2025
Frank Li, CEO Stately Bio forecasting biological outcomes
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May 2025
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Finding the Right Problem
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Mar 2025
Finding the Right Problem
All startup companies need to solve a problem. Choosing the right problem to solve is the first
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Mar 2025
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A conversation with Andrew Pannu
Mark Jacobstein interviews Andrew Pannu, founding CEO of Sleuth Insights
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Mar 2025
A conversation with Andrew Pannu
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Mar 2025
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Don’t step on the flowers
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Feb 2025
Don’t step on the flowers
As fractured as Silicon Valley may be, I think we can all agree that no one thinks that “there isn’t
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Feb 2025
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From Autonomous Vehicles to Autonomous Agents with Dr. Marco Pavone
Dr. Marco Pavone—professor at Stanford Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Jan 2025
From Autonomous Vehicles to Autonomous Agents with Dr. Marco Pavone
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Jan 2025
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The Solo Entrepreneur’s Manifesto
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Jan 2025
The Solo Entrepreneur’s Manifesto
It’s tough to be a solopreneur. Much maligned, wandering Sand Hill, hat in hand. Can’t apply to YC, can’t raise, no co-founder shoulder to cry on…
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Jan 2025
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The Swiss Cheese Model of AI
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Jan 2025
The Swiss Cheese Model of AI
AI needs a business model that allows companies to try before they buy, without requiring massive upfront investment and payback periods measured in years.
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Jan 2025
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How to use AI to improve your Customer Research
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Nov 2024
How to use AI to improve your Customer Research
The first step in building a company is understanding your customers. Here is our AI powered playbook to help you do it faster.
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Nov 2024
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Inside the mind of Mark Jacobstein
Mark discusses his career as a founder, CEO & Executive and how it led him to start Near Horizon.
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Game Thinking TV
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Nov 2024
Inside the mind of Mark Jacobstein
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Game Thinking TV
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Nov 2024
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A New Model for Solo Entrepreneurs
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Oct 2024
A New Model for Solo Entrepreneurs
We’re venture builders. And we’re here to move your solo venture forward.
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Oct 2024
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How can Venture Capital firms help you?
Sean talks Near Horizon's unique model and how it can help founders on The Startup Helpdesk podcast.
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The Startup Help Desk
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Aug 2024
How can Venture Capital firms help you?
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The Startup Help Desk
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Aug 2024
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The LLM Opportunity Model
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Jun 2024
The LLM Opportunity Model
A simple framework that we use to evaluate the most promising applications for LLMs.
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Jun 2024
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Switching Costs
Your productivity isn’t based on the hours in the day.
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The Breaking Point
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May 2024
Switching Costs
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The Breaking Point
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May 2024