Austin Berke

@hwchase17 Had a chance to test this early. It’s a game changer for high variance agents

🚀Launching: LangSmith Engine LangSmith Engine is an agent that sits on top of your traces It runs in the background and automatically identifies issues It then proactively suggests action items (code changes, evaluators to add) Try it today: smith.langchain.com

#iOS engineers - I am hiring the first Staff iOS engineer for harmonic.ai Come bring Scout (seen below) to mobile :- DM's are open! #hiring #ai

Scout 2.0 is live. Most of our users made it their daily driver before we even finished building it. An analyst that doesn't sleep, knows every startup, every founder, every round, your entire network, and soon everything your firm knows too 👀

Harvard : 34 Yale : 3 This isn't a prediction for Saturday's rivalry game – it's the number of alumni-founded startups that have raised a VC round in the last 30 days. Who's bringing more innovation to the table? 🤔

Which NYC AI Startups are trending? We used our data engine to find AI startups that are growing quickly in headcount, website traffic, and social following in #NYC harmonic.ai/companies/tren…

Say hello to Harmonic's AI-powered Relevance Scoring! This new feature allows you to have Harmonic's universe of 15M+ companies ranked according to your individual preferences. Looking to invest in a B2B SaaS startup founded by a former VC-backed exec? Well, per Harmonic there are 5.4k of those. Yesterday, you'd have to use our filters to narrow that down to a reasonable size, and then parse through all the results to make sure you don't miss anything promising. Today, you can have your most thesis-aligned companies surfaced on page 1, and never miss the needle in the haystack. Tune your personal score over time, share a score across a team, or generate one-off scores for research projects that help you navigate the entire company universe. Want to find more relevant deals in less time? Reply below if you're interested in trying it out!

@MikeMacCombie Interested!

3/ It is curated to a degree - all members are 1 of the following: -Working at/on a VC-backed company -Have generated non-trivial revenue -Previously worked at a VC backed company If you want to join and meet one of the criteria, comment below and I'll DM you :0

🚨 If you are an NYC founder/operator, this is for you 🚨 NYC Founders/operators deserve meaningful community/connection Accelerators/VCs help. Frankly sometimes we just need a place to socialize and not feel so on our own. I launched a community over the summer- it is... 1/

There's $500b+ of dry powder in VC - curious where it will go? Harmonic search trends are a leading indicator for capital deployment. Here’s where investors are looking to cut their next check (hint: not crypto) harmonic.ai/blog/where-wil…

👋, we’re Harmonic. We make startups discoverable. Proud to announce on @TechCrunch that we’ve raised $30 million to date to help investors and teams source startups faster than ever before. techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/har…

😥 Layoffs.fyi got you down? 📉 🏀 Check out Layups.fyi for a live feed of rapidly growing and recently funded startups 🚀

@__catapult ayb.sol

We are building permissionless giveaways on Solana. But first, let's do this the old fashioned way. 10 SOL GIVEAWAY July 1 2022 RT + Follow @__catapult To Be Considered ( Drop SOL Address Below ) #NFTs #NFTCommunity #NFTGiveaway #NFTshill #Solana

@mbxyz_ No

Imagine VCs take 80% of your company for funding, make you payback the funding through your first profits, and all they mostly do is help you find some hosting for your website. That's basically the music industry for artists. One day there will be an unimaginable reckoning.

I'm a bit skeptical when I come across a platform for creators that tries to "do it all". In my mind, the future of web3 social looks like a graph of web2 and web3 platforms where each does one thing really well.

@punk6529 The greatest investors in the space won’t do much trading at all. They will be creating, building and contributing to the culture, not trading it.

I’ve had several “work calls” this year with pseudonymous creators who are raising funds or starting companies. They don’t share real names or turn on video during Zoom calls. Even so, the convos have a high level of trust because they’re able to be so authentic online.

@austinberke Clarity is key. One green flag is if you can describe the project in 30-seconds ("wagbtc"; "we're going to buy a basketball team"; "this NFT gives me access to fwb irl"; etc). Effective communication & marketing in crypto is the same as c&m in web1 and web2 comms

5/ Flipping the script, communities of 1-percent projects are electric. They are laser-aligned on a common mission and confident in their ability to adapt to changing conditions. What makes these projects stand out? What #GreenFlags suggest a web3 project is bound to succeed?

4.1/ But if your goal is to build a longstanding web3 project with true utility and a committed user base — make a conscious and deliberate effort to distance yourself from these Red Flags.

Two harsh realities in 2022: - 90% of startups will fail. - 99% of web3 projects will fail. Here are three Red Flags I've noticed that web3 projects in the promising 1-percent tend to avoid: 👇👇👇