Jacob Smith
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Jacob Smith
The 2025 Fundraising Guide - Backed by Research, Facts & Figures
The article provides a comprehensive guide for startup founders on fundraising strategies, emphasizing the evolving capital requirements across different growth stages and the importance of aligning financial goals with investor expectations.
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A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent, une... See more
Nix 🕊 • things that take time
mmm.page — Dead Simple, Drag & Drop Websites
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How do we resist the pressure to follow established playbooks? How do we embrace the periods of relentless action before results? How can we navigate periods of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt without being irritable?
Somewhere along the way, we decided creativity should be efficient.
We gave it a workflow. A checklist. A deadline.
And that’s when it started to die.
The problem is not process. It is how we use it. We turned creativity into something that fits cleanly inside pr... See more
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hawaii.eduContradictions between a desire for material change, yet a found positionality in unintentional class conflict for social justice
But one person's altruism may be another's prison.
Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Speaking from personal experience, however, it feels clear that for our brains, the act of reading and reflecting on a book is not all that different from the act of writing one. In both cases, we are seeking out novel connections, combining existing concepts to produce new ones. So why do we think of the act of consuming, as opposed to producing, ... See more