This sign should be up in every sports field.

So we quickly looked at our data to see if DPI in year 5 is a good predictor of final performance. We analysed 71 funds from vintage years 2005-2008. The correlation between year 5 DPI and current DPI was just 0.22. /1

To sum up, since I'm about to put down the phone. 1/ Taxing unrealized cap gains introduces perverse incentives, and is bad policy. 2/ The Harris/Biden proposal, while being bad policy, is pretty narrow and wouldn't have much impact on VC funding of startups.

strong agree

I didn't have service during today's event here in Asheboro, NC, but former Pres. Trump's comments below on the significant downward jobs revisions released by BLS today were almost entirely - and intentionally - untrue. Egregiously so. I'll take them one by one.

You're handling things better than you used to.

Amazing that a startup keeps winning EVERY public transit system bid it has made that has been decided!!! That's why we need entrepreneurs to do upend traditional wisdom! Far superior to self-driving vehicles as it increases street capacity 10x. And for investors who are

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Why are there so many b2b back office saas companies named after simple machines? Ramp Pulley Lever (YC S12) More importantly, where are Wedge, Screw, and Wheel-and-axle?

A few things that concern me as a dad, and that I think about daily when raising our three boys:

Americans have a very distorted perception of how safe a city is.

this surprised me a bit

Join me tomorrow for a live Q&A about the TinySeed accelerator program (applications are open now) 👇

In 1984 Thomson Reuters Westlaw produced a boardgame to showcase their "full text plus" search system. Here it is!

“We estimate that if Trump wins in a sweep or with divided government, the hit to growth from tariffs and tighter immigration policy would outweigh the positive" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Has any new startup come along that replaces the "here's an email with intel on the next person you're meeting with in your calendar" void left by Charlie App (pivoted away) and Accompany (acq and killed by Cisco)?

Jessica: Goldman Sachs came out today and said that the GDP will significantly decrease under Trump and it will continue to increase under Kamala Harris

It happened to me first — headlines portraying me as a “toxic leader” when I had to make the same, often unpopular, decisions that my male peers did without critique. For them, it’s called Founder Mode, and it’s celebrated (a proper noun! With its own merch! And trademarks

“What’s clear is that being a passive “first check writer” who can’t lead, doesn’t have the capital to follow-on, and isn’t about to provide differentiated advice and connections to Founders isn’t going to cut it anymore.”

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill was stopped by police and put in handcuffs on his way to the game today. But Trump wants to bring back stop-and-frisk, give police immunity from prosecution, and fire players who protest police brutality.