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Alex Iskold

@alexiskold.bsky.social
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Pre/Seed VC 🧬🤖⚙️ @2048vc | Pitch me 2048.vc/pitch-alex | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog startuphacks.vc | Systems Thinker

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Really enjoying The Brain Energy book 📕 The message that all mental disorders have common roots and are all step from metabolic disorders of brain 🧠 deeply resonates. a.co/d/0xN0x99
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Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health-and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More: Palmer MD, Christopher M.: 9781637741580: Amazon.com: Bo...
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health-and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More [Palmer MD, Christopher M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shippin...
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New Blog Post via startuphacks.vc: Understanding Startup Board Control www.startuphacks.vc/blog/underst... @2048vc // #startuphacks // #startupboards
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Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold
Startup Hacks is a collection of over 70 blog posts covering vision, founding team, fundraising, metrics, product, marketing, productivity and self-care, and business introductions written by Alex I...
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Content is what’s called in Economics a stable equilibrium. That’s why Immigration is an essential force that propels America forward.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Thinking how people stare at you intently to detect if you are lying. A lot VCs do this. While this works, a much better way is to be friendly and relax the person you are analyzing. You want to understand how people are when they are natural.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Just finished the latest Murakami book - The City and Its Uncertain Walls. A masterpiece. He really should win Nobel prize for his works. a.co/d/0I1CO2K
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel
The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel [Murakami, Haruki, Gabriel, Philip] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Thank you 🙏
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Today is my book 📕 planning day. Going to review a ton of best of and other lists to build my list to consume over the holidays and into 2025. The explorer in me never rests but my job doesn’t afford a ton of time to read new books, so holidays is the time to catch up!
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some of the best founders I know has the most sever case of happy ears. They just want to bend reality their way but reality has its own way too. Use reflective listening to make sure you are headed in the right direction and not wasting time.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A few days in Zurich and Lucerne
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Just jaywalked in Zurich and the look 👀 of pure horror in the eyes of the person standing across the street from me.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A few days in Milan
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
His prose gets under your skin, inside your soul and moves it in subtle, powerful, heartbreaking ways. It unlocks and teaches you the mysteries of our existence but not in ways you can explain, only in ways you can only feel.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nothing ever makes me feel the way Murakami books make me feel. His latest City and its Uncertain Walls is another masterpiece.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What near term future technology inevitabilities do you believe in?
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
To every VC out there who thinks they are better than founders, who don’t treat founders well - you are badly mistaken. We only exist because of founders. We aren’t all that special. Founders are.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Mine is In my Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger. www.amazon.com/My-Time-Dyin...
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife - Kindle edition by Junger, Sebastian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Best book 📕 you read in 2024 ? 👇
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
One thing I proposed was to completely buy out the coal industry. For about 36b , you could buy all the coal plants (at a nice profit for owners ), give their customers 5 to 10 yrs to transition and give all employees full pay till retirement. Take out coal and other paths get simpler Thoughts?
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Excited for this!
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
When are we going to get intelligent skip to next chapter / topic in podcasts / podcast apps and video / video players? The books have simplest thing we can do - go to next chapter. With all the tech we have why can’t I do this with podcasts and video?!
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Whats the best thing you got this black friday?
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Do yourself a favor and watch Emila Perez on Netflix. It will blow your mind.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🤣
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 everyone! Grateful to be here. To have the opportunity to connect and learn. Grateful for you all. Grateful to be not (yet) AI generated.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
You told me the muscle memory thing :) I think of you every time Tesla releases a dashboard upgrade and you can’t find stuff in your car while driving 🤣
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What are those ? :)
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Jerry Neumann @ganeumann.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The plateauing in performance of LLMs was inevitable, and predictable, for logical reasons reactionwheel.net/2023/08/ai-a...
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AI and the Structure of Reasoning
Generative AIs can do some things better than people: they can code faster in many instances, they can write junior high school level essays faster, they can create detailed images on demand no mat…
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
An example of over complex design and muscle memory violation :)
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Katie Roof @katieroof.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Forgot to post this here but Stripe is doing *another* tender offer. This time for EX employees. $70B valuation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Stripe to Buy Shares in Tender Offer at $70 Billion Valuation
Private fintech giant Stripe Inc. is again buying back some of its shares and at a roughly $70 billion valuation.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Epic nonsense
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Our thesis on Sensors www.2048.vc/blog/our-the...
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Our Thesis on Sensors
We seek to find businesses that use low-cost sensors to capture proprietary and valuable data.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I love meeting repeat founders who start again in the same space.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Tetsuwan is building the future of bio lab automation. Stellar team, incredible vision. www.2048.vc/blog/our-inv...
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Our Investment in Tetsuwan Scientific
Tetsuwan creates autonomous AI scientists that are capable of performing high sophistication tasks, reacting to data, reasoning, and making decisions.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am obsessed with people who are impossible to understand at 2x speed.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I now occasionally check Fox News - just - you know - to see what’s going on. This is a screenshot with an actual advertisement they are running. 🤔🤔🤔
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I observe two dominant behaviors in business: - People who always do what they say they are going to do - People who never do what they say they are going to do. The middle is rare. 🤷
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Trump only cares about getting rid of his personal deficit. Musk naively thought Trump might let him call some shots.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We aren’t looking for logic here. Just trying to stay sane and survive.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I think he is going to ditch Musk soon. The rest is true.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tweets. Claim back the name :)
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If only they would make this automatic 🤦
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
That’s just ego talking. Followers are overrated. It’s all about just posting and letting it out.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We don’t need any more dopamine. Looking for a place for calm and peace!
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The only thing that matters for moving onto to Blue Sky is community. Make it super easy to move followers and who you follow and you win. Make it hard or focus on other things and you won’t win.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Let’s call them Tweets !!!
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Emilia Perez on Netflix is a must see. Absolutely incredible. g.co/kgs/zG6Yg9H
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Emilia Pérez - Google Search
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 16/11/2024
18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉 bsky-users.theo.io
18M user count
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Correct. However it is also stupid to not teach sleep, sun exposure, nasal breathing and nutrition in medical school.
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Founders pay close attention to this and I wrote about it years ago. Don’t focus on Minimum in MVP focus on more on Viable! www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2015/10...
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Your MVP is minimal, but is it viable? — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold
In this day and age, when startups talk about MVP the emphasis is always on minimum . Everyone encourages founders to not wait too long to launch, to get it out there, to get feedback, and to start ...
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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The vote against Trump was simply because he is to many a crook and a criminal mad unbearable. The vote for Trump was not for him but against status quo. Same reason why people voted out Trump last time - they weren’t happy and wanted change.
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