Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
- Over 20% of energy in the US comes from a nuclear source. Up to 70% in France. Yet it's not a technology that has been widely accepted, primarily due to concerns of historical safety risks and storage + a dependency on coal and gas.
from C5 Capital - Next Generation Nuclear Technology by C Capital
- Simultaneously, we are facing a technological revolution the consequences of which we are only beginning dimly to grasp, let alone understand. The evidence seems to be growing that this revolution – which is more accurately a revolution in how information is generated, collected, processed, analyzed, shared, consumed, and understood – may be fundam... See more
from The Upheaval by N.S. Lyons
- If that were unavoidable it would be one thing, but Chris thinks we’re nowhere near communicating existing knowledge as well as we could.
from Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree by Robert Wiblin
- smrs are designed for easy manufacture and transport broadening their potential geographic reach and they offer five times the fuel efficiency of traditional nuclear reactors. Traditional nuclear reactors only extract about four percent of the energy that you could feasibly get out of uranium fuel leaving 96 percent as waste. That's an incredible n... See more
from C5 Capital - Next Generation Nuclear Technology by C Capital
Some concepts to pay attention to:
- Deceptively Small Markets
- Larger Adjacent Markets
- Watching the Hobbyists
- Timing and Inflections
- Compounding and Patience
from Quaint startups become the next big thing. by Julian Weisser
- Graduation Rate Assumptions: Individual company dilution needs to be factored into fund performance. One way to do this is to make some assumptions around the percentage of total companies raising subsequent financing rounds, as well as assumptions on the size and pre-money valuations of those rounds. Some funds may assume that of all the seed inv
... See morefrom Venture Fund Portfolio Construction | Journal | Kauffman Fellows by Kauffman Fellows
- Polymath is the Greek word for a Renaissance person like Leonardo Da Vinci or Ben Franklin who excels in many disciplines.
from The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov… by Vinnie Mirchandani
- And we’re going to show that — if you have the privilege to have options — you can probably increase the impact of your career not just by a little, but by a huge amount.
from This is your most important decision by .hours
- Fund Structure
Traditional Fund
Traditional funds typically do a “big bang” fundraise and begin deploying capital after the First Close. Once the fund is officially closed, they’re unable to accept new LPs.
That said, it’s not uncommon for fund managers to leave their fund “open” for several months while deploying and raising additional capital.
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... See morefrom VC terms you need to know by Weekend Fund