Anthony Fiedler
@fiedlerfyi
Anthony Fiedler
Alternative Finance Platforms or Related
Wine:
Liv|Ex - fine wine marketplace / buy and sell. trade against indices and data for wine services https://www.liv-ex.com/
WineFi - building a curated wine portfolio. Transport, storing and insuring assets https://www.winefi.co/
Wine Searcher - price checking wines (spirits, too) and different vintages https:
... See moreFor anybody starting a business, here's all of the tools that we use at aragon.ai. (We hit $1M ARR in 4 months, $4M+ ARR in 1+ years):
Admin:
• Clerky - incorporation
• Brex - credit card and banking
• Notion - personal task management, team kanban board, and company documentation
• Google Workspace
• Stripe - payments
• Slack
• Rippling - payroll
• Deel -
Startup Building and Writing and AI Creation
Tech stack for software as a service AI generator
Careers and Interviewing
Coach Erika on Lenny’s Newsletter (free article) to Discuss How to Pass Any First-Round Interview
Sections of example frameworks and interviews for phone and first interviews
Laid out STAR examples and difficult times
Keeping things brief, within 2-4 past years of projects
Staying clear, concise and detailed
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times
PE moving from LPs to bring inhouse on investments to be able to draw capital whenever they want - Blackstone / Berkshire with access off the balance sheet on permanent capital.
Interesting that as PE has been open to 401k individual investors, it has also become more opaque as governance will typically lack without the intermediary relationship of GP/LPs.
Gordon Bell, Computer Scientist at Microsoft and author Total Recall - what if you never had to forget anything?
Bell kept a digital “surrogate memory” using what was called SenseCam for recording anything sound-wise.
Becoming easier and easier to keep track and log what we have. Now it is more about distillation of key things at the key times.
Memory and
Writing Books not a good idea, unless weekly or some demand necessary
M&A and ETA - Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
Decada Group - Utah Holdco (stumbled onto it from Michael Girdley’s newsletter)
Community-based holdings, acquisitions and growth around building forever
The Rise of Permanent Capital (Part 2)
capemaywealth.beehiiv.com
Closed-end funds and evergreen funds, investing off the balance sheet.
Alternative investments