Academic research can look like a perfect innovation pipeline for VCs, but publish-or-perish incentives often favor polished narratives over reliable signals. This essay explains p-hacking and lists concrete red flags — missing limitations, vague jargon, borrowed novelty — investors should watch for before betting on a research-backed claim.
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Many people view venture capital as the top of Silicon Valley’s career food chain. But the reality is far less glamorous: intensely competitive, performance-driven, and transactional. Happiness, it turns out, is not found at the top of any career hierarchy, but in the present.
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I’d dare to say that in every working environment, there is some “great lie.” That one thing they tell you to control you. My feeling is that, in the startup world, the great lie is ”get yourself funded.” Getting funding in itself is often treated as success in itself, and taken as a stamp of quality.
Twenty-five hard-won lessons on networking in San Francisco: how to find the hubs, adjust to the tribe, net-weave at meetups, make yourself useful, protect your reputation, and play the long game. Plus a few brutal truths about extractors, void communities, and why the city rewards those who stay different.
If You Are Going To San Francisco… My 25 Tips and Tricks on Networking in the City Read More »
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