This Week in Startups Weekly Recap Jan 10-14
Jason Calacanis
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We kicked off this season of “Angel” with RareBreed Venture’s Mac Conwell. Jason’s conversation with Deep Sentinel CEO Dave Selinger explored a new security camera paradigm (human-in-the-loop). Our “Ask an Angel'' session with Zach Coelius answered 12 listener questions on startups and early-stage investing.? To wrap, Producer Rachel talked with Alex Masmej about his experience selling a “personal token.”
My favorite startup education moment this week was our breakdown of Y Combinator’s new $500K deal. Jason still thinks this is a great offer for startup founders and digs into what it might mean for other early-stage investors. Molly’s questions really helped us go deep in this analysis.
*** Producer’s note: Our episodes are increasingly a variety show. We always put time stamps in the episode description and show notes. On podcast players like Apple and Overcast you skip to the part that interests you most. On Spotify and YouTube you can click the hyperlinks in the show notes. If you want a walkthrough of how to do that, just comment and I’ll happily show you.
Mac was an outstanding show as the first guest for Angel Season 6 to share his story and how he invests. While raising his fund Mac took 1,100 meetings in the first 3 months of his 13-month fund process.?
It was a great episode, but don’t take it from me, here are some testimonials from twitter:
“ok fangirling because i just heard @MacConwell on @TWiStartups and am blown away”- Julia Kahy of Panoramic VC
"Founders: If you need motivation to reach out to that next investor, Look no further…A MUST LISTEN!” - Darrel Frater of Visible Hands VC
Jason uses Deep Sentinel to protect the Launch office and This Week in Startups Studio. It's an amazing camera system that blends AI detection with actual human monitors who review the footage and can even talk through the camera at guests. Dave is an energetic, hacker-type that would have made for a great interview even without this company (we didn’t even get a chance to talk about his time as the co-founder CTO of Redfin!).?
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Zach Coelius joined for an Ask an Angel session, where they answer 12 audience questions about investing and startups. Topics included their perspectives on node-code,? how to make the best pitch possible, working with startups as an investor, current seed valuations and more.
In an "OK Boomer" segment Producer Rachel talks with Alex Masmej a French entrepreneur about his experience raising $20,000 in 100 hours by completing the first Ethereum “personal token sale.” He sold off 10% of the $ALEX token supply. Token holders are entitled to a portion of his future income for the next 3 years, similar to “Income Share Agreements” that have been popularized by coding bootcamps and career accelerators.?
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2 年The Zach Coelius one is a must-see! very helpful.
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