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T minus 5 minutes! Today we're kicking off the 2024 year as a team at Intellectual Strategies by talking about our vision and strategy. We're following the framework from Traction by Gino Wickman. It's such a simple framework and aligns with lots of the things we've already been talking about over the past few years. Today is an opportunity to make it more official. And trackable. And accountable. And even more successful. #innovatewithconfidence

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Just boosted a Techdirt article on Mastadon titled: "New Year’s Message: Moving Fast And Breaking Things Is The Opposite Of Tech Optimism... from the it-ain't-optimism-if-you-ignore-reality dept" Really good read! Mike's views resemble my own when it comes to not leaving an apocalyptic level of scorched earth in your engineering wake just for the sake of "moving fast". A few memorable quotes “the most effective way to bring about more tech innovation and progress is to recognize that bad shit can happen, and to work to limit that bad shit, rather than solely focusing on more more faster faster.” “I don’t see Andreessen’s vision of “techno-optimism” as that optimistic at all. It strikes me as the opposite. It seems mostly pessimistic, in that it feels the need to promote recklessness and danger in support of the benefit of a few.“ “Optimism is not blind faith, but actually working on the real challenges. I understand why people like Marc might wish to avoid those inconvenient realities, but it’s not optimism he’s presenting. It’s an attempt to dump the costs of his solutions on those least prepared to deal with them. And that strikes me as counterproductive.”

Founders who didn’t have ‘Web3’ in 2022 or ‘Generative AI’ in 2023 in their pitch deck will never succumb to peer pressure and should be protected at all costs! 😀 But seriously, it’s astonishing to see founders constantly re-strategizing their entire deck and business around the latest tech hype. Having seen many hype cycles and bubbles in my investing journey, one piece of advice I’d give founders is to solely focus on your underlying fundamental business at all times and use new-age tech as enabler tools to further your primary vision instead of the other way around.

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Building on a convo I had with Teddy Blank and Michael Campos the other day—One barrier to traditional VC comfort with clean tech/deep tech sometimes seems to be the lack of easy metrics for benchmarking performance (like LTV/CAC, ARR milestones and growth rates in SaaS, etc). At this point there are enough clean tech /deep tech startups across enterprise and b2b sectors that we should be able to start to build some set of relative/universal-ish benchmarks. These metrics can operate as a shorthand to help understand relative tech performance, maturity, etc, in a way that could reduce investor learning curves. I’m sure some of these exist—at Clean Crop, as an electrochemical decarbonization tech, we use $ revenue/kWh, for example, as a (imperfect) data point capturing our relative economic and environmental efficiency. Any others that could apply across the space?

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Went There. Did That. Got The Socks. 🧦 Yesterday I had the honor to speak to a number of my technology peers at Data + Donuts LA about one of the more innovative technology deployments happening in the Public Sector today. The goal was to have an honest conversation about the things that went right, some of the things that went less so, and some of the moments that weren’t as pretty as we’d like them to be. Or, in other words, the things that happen with every transformational technology project that I have ever seen or been involved with. Finding ways to better serve the public using the technology and the tools that are widely available today is something that I passionately believe in and building solutions that are easy to understand (in geeky terms, with a minimalist and intuitive user experience), uses Commercial-Off-The-Shelf, Open Standards Solutions (COTS), and is supported by teams and leaders that understand how to pro-actively adjust and refine these solutions to meet the Public’s needs in a quick and responsive manner, must become more of a common thing. But getting there means we also must Learn to Learn. We have to ask good questions, we have to discuss our course-corrections, we have look outside of the professions we are the Subject Matter Experts in and seek out the best ideas and solutions we can. Which means that we also will on occasion have uncomfortable conversations. Ones that can lead to change. So, a quick Thank You to Compiler, who encouraged me to have this conversation, The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) who was kind enough to provide the venue, Data + Donuts LA for promoting this, Nina Kin for being the gracious host, and Anthony Rollins & Milo Green for coordinating all the behind-the-scenes stuff that makes something like this happen. And of course, as always, a BIG shout out to all of the folks at Monterey-Salinas Transit, who make great public transportation for the Public we serve happen every single day. You continue to inspire me to push for more. And seriously... THANKS FOR THE SOCKS!!! ❤️❤️❤️ (Video of the presentation can be found here BTW - https://lnkd.in/gGCbMd-s )