09
Jul
Cheerleaders and Advocates
Some of the best emails and texts arrived in my inbox in the last few days were from friends and
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Joyce Shen
08
Jul
Capitalization Table (cap table) Basics
In my experience, I have found that even with founders and entrepreneurs have various levels of understanding of capital structure
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08
Jul
Security Robots
I recently learned that a Santa Fe high school is testing autonomous robots with multiple cameras to monitor the surrounding
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04
Jul
Machine Learning and Audio Data
I was excited to see WSJ featuring Shazam. The 6-minute video explains how Shazam works, albeit in a simple manner.
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03
Jul
Making meaningful investments
As a technology investor, people ask me what I invest in. After talking about thematic focus areas, I point out
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03
Jul
CEO Self-Reflection
Originally posted on June 11, 2022
Self-reflection is an important skill. In startups, CEO self-reflection can be very hard to
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03
Jul
How to build A+ team?
Originally posted on July 23, 2022
Recent article in WSJ about Tour de France provides a good reminder of how
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03
Jul
Approaches to Strategic Financial Planning for Startups
Originally posted on September 7, 2022
I want to turn to a different topic: approaches to strategic financial planning for
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03
Jul
AI Generative Models are eating the world
Originally posted on September 21, 2022
My Berkeley co-instructor David Steier and I have been talking about large transformer and/
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03
Jul
A note on due diligence as a VC
Originally posted on November 23, 2022
I wrote about due diligencing ethics in my last post; I want to follow
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