James McDaniel
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James McDaniel
@JamesMcD007
3x Founder | Building @monora (observability for Rev Intel Platforms powered by AI) | Demo Engineer @Peopleai
Denver, CO Katılım Ocak 2022
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The biggest cost of a startup is not the servers but
the time you spend on things that do not matter
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@MitcheIl How can we Scale this 10x 🤔 asking for a friend of course
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Met a guy making $100k a month w AI
Asked him how he does it
He just tells AI to find $100k and send it to his bank account by the end of the month
No work needed on his end
Pretty cool
However he's now in prison for money laundering so idk if this strategy works that well
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Anyone else feel like n8n and Workato hit a ceiling when you need real idempotency or any kind of true agentic/feedback loop logic? Been experimenting with LangGraph/Chain + BullMQ for something sturdier. Curious what stacks others are leaning on.
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VCs in 2016: Sorry, we don’t invest in hardware
VCs in 2026: Sorry, we don’t invest in software
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@TurnerNovak Time could've been spent trying to figure out how optimize the business in a way that doesn't require Venture Capital to grow
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He’s on the fifth call with us and has spent 40 hours fulfilling data requests.
Now reveal that we don’t lead rounds but would love to take a look if he finds a lead.
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@TTrimoreau False dichotomy: people using but refusing to pay.
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What scares you more?
- nobody using your product
- people using it and leaving
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I’m telling you right now someone could build a $1B company that’s a full video editor that connects to codex, Claude code and cursor etc. A super app native video editor. Don’t even build the standalone app with an ai agent side panel. Waste of time. Just make it a plugin that works inside codex.
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@thedevchandra Quit my job and start an only fans? Instructions not clear
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@ColinGardiner @ColinGardiner , If founders actually had Tier 1 VCs leading their round, why would they want you on their cap table ? What value can you provide that A16Z or Sequoia can't sir ?
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And I find myself having to repeat this…
Founders, don't tell people you have a Tier 1 VC lead when you don't.
Every time I see this in a teaser email, they eventually tell me who it is, and it's not Sequoia, A16Z, etc.
You lose credibility immediately.
Just say who your lead is and let your business speak for itself.
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@julianweisser @eoghan Is there at least 1 exception to this idea ?
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If you talk to 100 seed funds and they won’t invest in your company you’re actually wrong.
Was reminded of this conversation I had with @eoghan.
Miles 𓂀@milesgr_
30 partners already passed on the same deck and the founder is still asking for warm intros. intro 31 isn't going to read it any differently than intro 30 did. "we just need more intros" gets thrown around like a fundraising strategy. it isn't. it's what you say when you don't want to look at why the first 30 didn't bite. the work nobody wants to do at month 4 of a stalled raise is rewriting the pitch. asking for another intro feels productive and costs nothing. rewriting the pitch is the work that actually moves the round, and it's the work most founders avoid until month 6.
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yc tried to make cambridge happen
speedrun tried to make LA happen
both gave up and stuck to SF
lesson in that
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@sama Native video/audio context ingestion would be huge!
Give GPT a URL or video, have it extract + understand the transcript/script, then keep the conversation going with that context.
We built a solution for exactly this.
Acquire us and let’s make it native 😏
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As a founder, what should you optimize for: Being n of 1 in discovering new tech or building something 10% better than the current hot startup?
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@geoffreywoo As I've said before, Venture Capital is the only profession in which a 95% error rate is the norm.
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