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Inside My Upcoming Congressional Briefing open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #M&A #anti-trust #startups #VC
Inside My Upcoming Congressional Briefing
Tech M&A in 2025 is rebounding in value and shifting toward innovation-driven, capability-focused deals—especially in AI, infrastructure, chips, cloud, and cybersecurity—amid strong tailwinds but cons...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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PMF Isn’t the Finish Line
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PMF Isn’t the Finish Line
Finding product-market fit isn’t the finish line—it’s the moment the real work begins, when founders must choose whether to grow into leaders capable of scaling something enduring rather than walking ...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Status of the Blockchain, 2025: From Speculation to Infrastructure
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The Status of the Blockchain, 2025: From Speculation to Infrastructure
Blockchain has moved past its speculative phase into a more mature stage where real infrastructure, institutional adoption, and practical use cases are taking hold, even as speculative pockets persist...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The Coming Compute Glut and What Happens After the Data Center Boom open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #AI #DataCenters
The Coming Compute Glut and What Happens After the Data Center Boom
AI infrastructure is being built faster than near-term demand can absorb, echoing the late-1990s fiber overbuild, meaning today’s speculative rush in data centers and GPUs may ultimately pave the way ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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When Worlds Collide: Bridging the AI Culture Divide
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Culture Is the Real Operating System of AI-Driven Companies
The “AI Culture Clash” explores how the real challenge in AI transformation isn’t technical but cultural—bridging the gap between disciplines, definitions, and decision-making to build truly AI-driven...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Angel Investing in 2025: Resilience, Realism & Renewed Opportunity
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Angel Investing in 2025: Resilience, Realism & Renewed Opportunity
If venture capital is a boom-and-bust spectacle, angel investing is where conviction still meets craft.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Can America’s #IPO Engine Restart? open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #startups #VC
Can America’s IPO Engine Restart?
Reviving America’s IPO engine is essential to sustain innovation, recycle capital, and reaffirm the nation’s commitment to open and forward-looking capitalism.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Big Tech’s $350B Bet on #AI #Infrastructure open.substack.com/pub/douglevi...
Big Tech’s $350B YTD Bet on AI Infrastructure
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are projected to spend $350 billion on AI in 2025—mostly on data centers—consolidating critical infrastructure in the hands of a few firms and raising concerns abou...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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From #SEO to #AEO to #GEO: Optimizing for the GenAI Era open.substack.com/pub/douglevi...
From SEO to AEO to GEO: Optimizing for the GenAI Era
For years, marketers, founders, and operators lived and breathed SEO—crafting content to rank higher on Google. Today and into the future, it’s AEO and GEO driving GenAI productivity.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The Physics of a Balanced Startup Life open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... @thestartupstage.bsky.social
The Physics of a Balanced Startup Life
Startup life is chaotic and draining, but founders can endure and thrive by applying physics-inspired principles—conserving energy, balancing rest with momentum, turning friction into traction, resett...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The Art of B2C Product Ideation
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The Art of B2C Product Ideation
Successful B2C product ideation comes from tapping into basic human drives—framed by Reid Hoffman’s “seven deadly sins” framework—by identifying a dominant motivation, designing features and monetizat...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#Startup Journey and The Valley of Doubt open.substack.com/pub/douglevi...
Startup Journey and The Valley of Doubt
Every startup begins with a spark of possibility, evolves through prototyping, and must navigate the Valley of Doubt—where validation, funding, and resilience are tested—before reaching product-market...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The Future of Multitasking open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #AI #futureofwork
The Future of Multitasking
Multitasking is shifting from juggling distractions to orchestrating AI systems, where glasses, agents, and super intelligence extend human presence and productivity across parallel contexts.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The Research Imperative: From Ideas to Solutions
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The Research Imperative: From Ideas to Solutions
The session emphasized that the startup journey lies not in the initial spark of an idea, but in the disciplined research that validates, refines, or discards it to shape evidence-based solutions capa...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Today’s Venture Paradox
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Today’s Venture Paradox
Venture capital has inverted from risk-taking to risk-averse banking, creating an “innovation hollow” where bold early-stage ideas struggle for funding despite abundant capital.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Does It Make Sense for a Startup to Remain in Stealth Today?
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Does It Make Sense for a Startup to Remain in Stealth Today?
Startup stealth has lost effectiveness due to AI-driven information leaks, the need for early community and funding visibility, fast copycats, talent challenges, and weak NDAs—though it still fits har...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The Art of Picking a Co-Founder open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #founders #startups
The Art of Picking a Co-Founder
Choosing a co-founder is among the most critical entrepreneurial decisions, requiring trust, shared vision, complementary skills, and intangible chemistry to sustain a partnership through years of unc...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Trump’s H-1B Crackdown: Outsourcing Rises, Indian Wages Surge, Visa Demand Holds Steady open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #startups
Trump’s H-1B Crackdown: Outsourcing Rises, Indian Wages Surge, Visa Demand Holds Steady
Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown—culminating in a proposed $100,000 petition fee—has shifted outsourcing strategies but not diminished demand, leading to more U.S. hiring, expanded global delivery centers,...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Are Stock Options Still an Incentive to Startup Employees?
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Do Stock Options Still Matter?
Stock options still matter as incentives, but their power depends on company stage, transparency, and employee risk tolerance given dilution, liquidity uncertainty, and shifting compensation trends.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The Angel Advantage: Thriving in Today’s Institutional VC Era open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #startups #VC #AngelInvestments
The Angel Advantage: Thriving in Today’s Institutional VC Era
Angel investors, unlike institutional VCs, thrive by leveraging speed, conviction, and judgment to capture early-stage opportunities, differentiate through specialization, and embrace AI tools without...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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10 Reasons Founders Shouldn’t Handle Accounting in Today’s Startup World
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10 Reasons Founders Shouldn’t Handle Accounting in Today’s Startup World
Founders shouldn’t do their own accounting, as it wastes time, risks errors, and undermines growth; instead, startups need professional bookkeeping and early finance leadership to build credibility an...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Problem Refinement, Storytelling and Non-Consensus Insights open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #HBS #entrepreneurship #shartups
Problem Refinement & Storytelling for Early Stage Pitches
Session 5 emphasized refining a single Problem Worth Solving and crafting clear, compelling storytelling to build conviction in early-stage pitches.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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How AI Agents Have Evolved and Who’s Winning open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #AIAgents
How AI Agents Have Evolved and Who’s Winning
In just a year, AI has advanced from conversational assistants to operational agents that plan, execute, and self-correct across enterprise workflows, with market leaders differentiating through capab...
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September 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Flight to Scale: Why Investors Are Concentrating Bets open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #startups
Flight to Scale: Why Investors Are Concentrating Bets
The 2025 deals market is defined by “fewer but bigger” transactions, as capital concentrates in large, proven players while early-stage ventures face headwinds.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Nvidia’s $100B Play: Underwriting the Infrastructure of Intelligence open.substack.com/pub/douglevi... #nvidea #openAI
Nvidia’s $100B Play: Underwriting the Infrastructure of Intelligence
By underwriting $100 billion of OpenAI’s infrastructure, Nvidia cements itself as the backbone of AI compute, securing dominance over its most valuable customer while sidelining traditional cloud play...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM