Tech Themes AI Alone: Will Start Unlocking Lucrative Business Opportunities How hard would it be to beat an AI "entrepreneur" in the business game when it has all the data, analysis, and predictions inside its head?
Thinking about Featured The Power of Solitude: Unleashing the Symphony of Self-Reflection Power of Solitude is Underrated in our society that glorifies constant social engagement and external validation
crypto Paypal's stable coin (PYUSD) is not getting the credit it deserves PayPal has launched its US dollar-backed stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD). It's bringing crypto-native representation of fiat money to its global user base of 400+ mil. people while adding credibility to crypto finance.
startups Fundraising for health-tech Summary of main points and differences between fundraising for European health-tech hardware startup and SaaS startup based on my discussions with founders and VCs.
founders Is being a co-pilot or engineer worth it? You can't come up with all great ideas so sometimes is good to join others, and you don't live on an island with no people so it's good to have some friends.
Thinking about Why Adopting New Second-Brain App is Challenging: Unraveling the Top Barriers to Entry Lately, I've been thinking a lot about why it's such a challenge to start using most apps designed to manage work and knowledge, aka second-brain apps. I mean start using them effectively, not to "try it out".
startups What are VCs looking for in your pitch Quick summary of what are VCs looking for when going through pitch decks and the most glaring differences between US and European VC glasses.
Tech Themes Tech Themes: Reflecting on the First Half of 2023, Predicting What’s Next Let's talk about the recession that's not happening, LLM's infiltration everywhere, AR/VR hopes revival, biotech, robotics, and autonomous transportation advancements.
Tech Themes My Tech Themes: Reflecting on 2022, Predicting 2023’s Trajectory I think 2022 was the year of fear paralysis, and 2023 will be the year of economic reshuffling. It is all about the climate, broader economy, and new AI-enabled services, businesses, and innovation.
Tech Themes My Tech Themes: Reflecting on the first half of 2022 and Predicting the rest My technology reflection for mid-2022 talking about crypto winter, recession proof big tech, remote work reset, virtual collaboration, biotech and robotics surge.
NFTs are not evil - just better tokenization technology This is a follow-up note on the "Blockchains are here to stay", where I argue, for all my not-yet enlightened friends, that blockchain is just an inevitable evolution of technology. As more and more data sharing needed to happen for businesses to run smooth and efficient operations it
crypto Blockchains are just better public databases and are here to stay If you are reading this note you've probably heard about blockchain technology and its most known representative chains (products) like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and maybe even Solana. I'm talking blockchains as underlying tech here, not currencies attached to them. For the purpose of this note, I will
mindset When they say to You, what You should do, don't believe it! It never stops to amaze me how certain some people with large online following pretend to be advising what you should or shouldn't do. Frankly, I think it's dangerous and stupid. I'm not sharing my experience so you would believe that it is the
NFTs How I discovered NFTs In short; I suddenly watched parts of my Twitterverse typically focused on #Startups #VCinvesting #ProductManagmenet #Finance #ValueInvesting and #Trading mutate into ape pictures (like BAYC [https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/]), pixel faces (mostly Crypto Punks [https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks]), and other weird characters. With prices flying high around these "overpriced
Tech Themes My Tech Themes: Reflecting on 2021, Predicting 2022 Reflecting on 2021 and predicting the first half of 2022. Talking about usual suspects like web3, crypto, startup funding, remote work, virtual worlds and renewables + AI regulation.
startups Why you should spend time creating a believable business plan? Business plans may have a bad reputation recently but it is good to go through a business plan like exercise before you start a business
founders Is NASA or SpaceX mentality closer to your heart... TL;DR Focus on speed, results, costs will get you different results than focus on not making a mistake, keeping my job while time and costs don’t matter that much. It’s environmental choice - you choose environment you want to work at. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like to demonstrate it
crypto Crypto - be investor, not trader TL;DR: You should think about crypto as a long-term investment. It means making sure you see the interesting team and project usefulness in 3-5 years' timeframe. It's your money you are betting on projects to survive and thrive. Whether you do it through coins, tokens, NFTs,
crypto Crypto mass adoption... I believe that we are close, very close, but we are missing usability and quality curation which are crucial components for mass adoption. Such mass adoption app would also need smooth (= invisible) cross-chain operability. By mass adoption I mean that anyone can use it and benefit from it. I imagine
startups Is Big Co. or Startup good place for me? TL;DR: "What is the biggest difference between working for a big company or a startup?". Large question with very variable answer. No matter what they say, it can feel almost the same in Big Co. and in Startup. It usually means there's something wrong happening
crypto Advice to a friend starting on crypto journey I used this as a great conversation started with people of different experience levels and I thought you might find this useful. It’s for you if: 1. you own some crypto and it sits on an exchange (like Coinbase or Binance or Kraken) and you think about doing something
crypto Should I buy some crypto TL;DR: Think before you jump. Most of what you hear and see online about crypto riches is created to get you into FOMO state and you will take action which makes money for someone else. You mostly spend the money. That's not a problem. Just be aware
founders Featured Do you need passion to do a startup TL;DR: You need to be passionate about the topic and the problem you are trying to solve. But not only that. You also need to be passionate about the community you are solving it for and people you are solving it with. And many people forget about the last
founders 10 questions if you should think about starting a company This is a question which haunts me pretty regularly. I don't want to pretend I have a clear answer to this question. It might be different for each one of us. But I have done it a few times and after my second company I started using this
mindset Being entrepreneur is a mindset I say it often and I believe it more and more - being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You don't need to start a company. You don't need venture capital. You don't need a business card. Being and entrepreneur is a mindset. Mindset which
