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When someone shows a lack of interest in communicating with you or has communication problems, cut ties immediately. People don't change, and life is too short to waste time on those with problematic personalities, characteristics, or traumas.

Check out this essay about AI. One of the most informative ones so far. You'll realize that 99.9% of people, including me, talking about AI are actually bullshitting with useless excitement and no foundation. ca.news.yahoo.com/researcher-fir…

I would attend ZERO startup events if I were a first-time startup founder. They are a total waste of time. They often distract from what truly drives success: building the product and engaging with users. Founders should prioritize these core activities over events or etc.

@kevinleeme Knee to chest & lower back rotational stretch are the best. Congrats Kevin!🎉👏

1 month into taking care of a newborn and bending over constantly to change diapers and pick up the baby is killing my lower back. New dads, what exercises or ergonomic changes did you make to protect your back?

@aklen Clearbit has been my favorite tool for marketing and customer acquisition campaigns across various B2B startups-since 2016 :) Hubspot has become stronger by acquiring them.

@sertacyakin 👏

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. -Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive

When you're successful, numbers are only a side effect. Money is largely made up of numbers.

Growth is what you get when you put in both hard and smart work. It's a pleasure to be part of the company.

@TBaltacioglu Great team, great founders 🎉👾

It's an exciting story to tell... Headline: Slowly, slowly and then suddenly! ⚡️💜

📱🕹On the fairy tales about the economics of the mobile gaming industry. What happens in the Mobile Gaming Industry is not a downturn, but increasing competition where the new beats down the old, with many skilled founders taking down games with less skilled founders and HR.

A regulated, centralized blockchain makes more sense. The Citibank will allow its institutional clients to send money across borders quickly. "The technology will use a private blockchain—not a public one like Bitcoin or Ethereum." decrypt.co/197602/citigro…

Interesting story.. from 2 billion to bankruptcy. techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/the…

Several countries, led by the United States and China, are competing for supremacy in artificial intelligence. Does rest have a chance? Really low.

The AI boom will be 'very good' against bad investors. It will mean that many more startups they fund will fail, and the good VCs who succeed will be those who come from technology and specialize in technology. One could say that survival of the fittest is likely.

They have no chance with AI because they know nothing about it, and they have no chance because the supply of founders who can build the AI technology is extremely limited and this group is supported by the top five to ten VCs in the world.

Bad investors are already making bad investments because they don't know what they're doing, but they occasionally get lucky for some reason.

98 percent of startups that call themselves AI companies are MLs, and if controls. Bad investors will invest in them.

@TBaltacioglu You have an excellent BS detector. 80% of venture capitalists speak garbage...

I will end the call immediately if I hear another " I'm in the arena" quote from a VC again. They literally think they are in an arena while their only job is to allocate capital, support founders and make the right introductions. I mean, come on! What arena?

Anyone who got too excited about ChatGPT's text creator AI should look into Google's Duet AI, which does more than I do on any given day. Specifically, time-consuming tasks that optimise and improve my work or how I work.

4/ VCs does not like bootstrap, but it is an excellent alternative for startups.👾

3/ Then, as the company grows, you may sell its shares at a higher price to a group of strangers who do nothing but profit from its effort and success because they once invested/provided some money. (It may still sound like a horrible deal.)👩‍🚀🪩💲

Startup founders should consider less 'expensive' alternatives to selling company shares (fundraising), such as borrowing (bank loans) or investing personal savings (less popular, but why not) to provide the cash the business requires