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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

4 years

Not my image. But what gets me out of bed every morning.

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@JasonHise64 Only possible if you’re an American taking a shower in Europe. Be careful.

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6 months

@andruyeung where are you finding "luxury apartments" for $5,000? every new yorker wants to know...

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@peterboghossian Need an option for those who did criticize but want to see the results!!

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6 months

@aniwilc cornell actually has 'double secret probation'...amazing!

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11 months

@pitdesi in unrelated news - study finds not drinking alcohol leads to weight loss

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JJ Kasper

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4 years

@AOC Totally agreed. And if we become more like a Denmark, we are going to need the extra cash too to be able to pay for all the increased costs for restaurants, gas, groceries, etc. We need more of this forward thinking

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1 year

i am absolutely shocked that jordan belfort - ie the wolf of wall street - has been implicated in yet another get-rich-quick, ponzi scheme

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@ChrisRobichaud3 @zerohedge it's their own damn fault!

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@Jason a swing and a miss - a UPS driver delivers on average 50 packages per hour

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JJ Kasper

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4 months

@seanonolennon When the media exposes me for liking “alt-right provocateur” Sean Lennon’s tweets, I will know that you were the source!

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JJ Kasper

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@RampCapitalLLC Always Miele. I enjoy vacuuming with my Miele. It sucks hard - but only literally.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

i have now been on the receiving end of the worst pitch ever founder: can you tell me about what you do? me: we do early stage VC (chatter chatter) founder: wait, i thought you did emergency bridge loans? me: no, we do VC founder: oh, then let me change my pitch... 🤦‍♀️🤦🏻🤦🏾‍♂️

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JJ Kasper

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@jefielding Yeah I get it. Have same gripe. I always use stock response of “that’s really not a question for me - that’s a question for (insert founder’s name)”

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

The More connected we get, the more alone we become. #savethelivingroom http://t.co/UaYsWbTi7x

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@paulg @waitbutwhy yes, but if you drank one of these in 2009, it is still working its way through your intestinal system...still relevant

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@zerohedge One of the primary drivers of inflation over last 2 years and ain’t no one saying a word about it …

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

8 years

Life's too short to waste in email. Clean up your inbox today.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Not possible. Certain. Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president

Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president

He didn't rule out supporting Hillary Clinton.

www.politico.com

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@RetirementRight 2007 - the sub-prime bubble cracked and yet everyone kept saying "things are gonna be A-OK!"

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

8 years

I'm gonna admit. I think I like the Nexus better than the iPhone. TBD....

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

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@cremieuxrecueil I worked in cattle breeding ages ago. It has claim to being the original AI (artificial insemination)

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

7 months

a forbes 30 under 30 VC guy has been 'illegally' accessing our firm RocketReach account and using our credits... not a shocker, right?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@PaulTassi this annoys me immensely and i cannot come up with any good reason for why they designed it this way other than to give them longer 'time spent in game' metrics...

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@mattyglesias @SpecialPuppy1 what he said - it's the solution to man-made climate change and we've had it since 1954...shame we're not using it

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

The Milky Way Index: How Much Sugar Is In Your Food?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

4 months

@wanyeburkett Agreed. We have lost perspective on the power of shame in society. And we have removed shame from nearly all aspects of society in last few decades. Shame can be good and is necessary.

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JJ Kasper

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@PezeshkiCharles @AmerigoChattin @angrybklynmom @vlal42 @mamasaurusMeg @ComputerUser3 @EWoodhouse7 @karenvaites @ProfEmilyOster @Emily_Burns_V @ebennett74 @DrJBhattacharya @jhaskinscabrera Speak up. Please. We have a malfunction in govt and society currently that unfortunately includes but extends far beyond masks bc people who know are not speaking up and people who don’t are.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@RichardHanania I too could get top scores on these tests if I were allowed to have the textbooks open in front of me with the ability to search them quickly….

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Startup CEO Joe Du Bey: “Most kids in their 20s don’t know how a company works or how to solve its problems."

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@itsmarkmoran isn't that the lead singer of Phish?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

iPhone users. When u r wearing headphones with microphone attached, there is no need to hold the phone up to your mouth. #wastedmotion

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@cenkuygur Finally Cenk with the win. Yes. Stick with this angle.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@jspujji Damn! You deleted that tweet from a few weeks back where you said you enjoyed paying taxes bc it was like a subscription for the great US govt services! I was gonna do a “how it started - how it’s going” post…

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JJ Kasper

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@cremieuxrecueil this explains the appeal of nassim taleb too...

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

I was playing D&D at this time. I turned out ok ;-) When D&D Set Off a ‘Moral Panic’

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@jefielding @jpmorgan Chase is starting a VC unit … as of this week.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@Trace_Cohen the investor always pays when with entrepreneurs. the investor always pays when with LP's. the investor with more AuM pays when with fellow investors. i was taught this 'rule' super early on by another investor when starting in investing. it's a good 'rule'

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

if i hear one more person brag to me that they're now 'sober' - when they were never a gd alcoholic to begin with - i'm going to start drinking heavily!

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@RichardHanania similar-ish to playing poker if you know how to play. your biggest risk of loss is to people who don't play poker. it's why first-timers frequently tend to have a lucky night. the best poker players know how to change strategy to accommodate folks who don't play by the rules...

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@RoKhanna No. 1. Get states to re invest in vocational and trade schools 2. Get fed govt out of biz of backstopping student debt - let schools and lenders handle it 3. Allow bankruptcy as a way out of student debt There are so many better ways to handle this than wasting more of our $$$

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

To all those reading VC takes on First Republics collapse, a quick reminder again - being a VC in no way qualifies a person as an expert on the US banking system or developments therein. Which is to say disregard all the VC hot takes. >99% are hot garbage.

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@mattyglesias maybe he's using the word 'decimated' properly

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@RichardHanania Probably the biggest cultural change over last twenty years measured by % of population

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

A great company has a 1. Great strategy 2. Great product 3. Great economics 4. Great people You’ll notice that nowhere on this list is “Great VC dollars raised” or “Great VCs”

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@business I’ve been drinking 10 cups a day for 20+ years. Call me the Mocha Methusaleh

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@VCBrags the moment you realize you are about to spend $150k over the next 2 years to go on a series of booze cruises in the Dominican Republic

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@WKCosmo even re-tweeting is a form of plagiarism steeped in colonialism and privilege...

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@jspujji Yes. HVAC is a better people biz and has better margins on time & labor. (I am not being sarcastic)

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Great example of inferring the wrong causation from correlation. Why letting teens sleep in could save lives @CNN

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@saraledterman or just email us jjkasper @bluecollective .com we respond 2 all cold emails we invest pre-seed and seed (or earlier) all verticals, all categories, all industries we just care about finding great founders

Home

Venture Capital and Private Equity - Investing in phenomenal people building phenomenal businesses - Reach out to discuss your business

bluecollective.com

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@levie Not if you type like this

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JJ Kasper

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3 years

@minal_hasan Ridiculous 🤦🏻‍♀️I think you’ve gotta shoot back something snarky though … “omg….you have to get permission from your spouse to work? that sounds horrible…”

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Good article albeit long. What Most People Don't Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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JJ Kasper

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8 years

So much for jeans Fridays...

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@wagieeacc If Elon used all his 200 billion net worth even he could only afford 2.3 dosages. This is crazy.

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JJ Kasper

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9 years

I love this...Bard, please expand program. Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates http://t.co/KjeBTcV5JZ

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

a wait list better than the product. Maybe ;-)

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

A cool visualization of 'The Careers of Founders'

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JJ Kasper

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2 years

@tdkayode add us to the list...we need associates! we don't care what you look like or where you came from ... and no VC / investing experience required (we prefer none) ... we just want well-rounded, curious, principled people ...

Blue Collective

Blue Collective is a multi-strategy investment firm based in Brooklyn, NY. We invest in phenomenal people building phenomenal businesses.

apply.workable.com

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JJ Kasper

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4 years

@Vixalify @fermatslibrary it's probably more appropriately visually "proving" that (1+2+3+...+n) * 2 = n^2+n

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1 year

@paulg Whatever cameras Fulton county uses for mugshots are obviously the same model used worldwide by ufo and Bigfoot hunters.

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JJ Kasper

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10 years

Enablers vs. Disruptors...let the battle begin.... http://t.co/NUNIb4iCL8 http://t.co/TBQ0Z3jC07

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

@HarryStebbings Weekly or biweekly calls are more of a chafe for a founder than a quarterly board meeting. That feels like overkill…

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@danprimack where is the emoji for 'straw man'?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

10 years

Cold, colder, coldest President's Day in NYC but feeling warm. #PresidentsDay #nyc http://t.co/Jty8OP6eFq

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@C_Sommerfeldt i have tried to link to this article directly now 5 different times in 5 different tweets in the last 30 minutes...twitter blocking every post...anyone having same problem?

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@friedberg don't want to tie our heads in the event of war or something else cataclysmic. if we have to have an amendment process in an upcoming ww3 to reverse a balanced budget amendment, that's going to be a gigantic waste of time... there are other ways to accomplish this

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JJ Kasper

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10 months

is anyone keeping a list of all the unicorn companies that have failed in the last year (eg hopin, convoy, farfetch, etc.)?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

1 year

A simplified cheat sheet for private market investors Also an explanation for what’s going on now currently in VC world: over last 10 years, far too many VCs have invested in businesses in box 1 mistaking them for businesses in box 2. Category error that will cost a lot.

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

8 years

These are fine tasting but gross. 12 g of sugar in 1 serving. Eat one and just end your day. GO CUBES®

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@JoePitts__ @andruyeung I’m getting ripped off then. I live in Brooklyn and pay more than 5k and I ain’t living in luxury!

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@paulg Corollary. When someone cares nothing for prestige, they are more likely to be honest and likable.

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9 years

Always frustrating when you realize 'altruism' is just selfishness with a brilliant disguise...

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@MJs_Burner @Jason yes. 1. they deliver multiple packages per address and 2. the routes are highly optimized. majority of routes are in suburbs where you go house by house (<1 min per house)

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@Jason @LondonBreed the leopard changing its spots...a classic story

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JJ Kasper

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9 years

Disregard doom stories about robots. This is what matters. New prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches http://t.co/daxIEZx7Jy

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JJ Kasper

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VC is dying. Very few VCs talking about it. Typical PE dying too. Zero PE guys talking about it. Typical too.

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JJ Kasper

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8 years

How to tell if your golden retriever is stoned....a useful skill

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

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The Case for Bad Coffee

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JJ Kasper

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@Tyler_Okland_MD this is not unique...of the nearly 400 VC-backed companies that went public last year, 80% are now at their private market valuations 5 years ago...

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JJ Kasper

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Accenture Launches Intelligent Automation Platform....wow more biz jargon in one article than I've ever seen

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JJ Kasper

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9 years

I really hate the acronym "KPI" ... of course you've got to have them but it's so non-descript. It's = saying "gotta eat food...yeah food"

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@mysteriouskat Didn’t Michael Jackson do this decades ago in Black or White…it was cool then.

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

@rrhoover @paulg @tylercowen Agree with the sentiment. But I don’t think he understood Tyler’s format. Tyler asks random questions of every guest - most often in areas they know nothing about. The guests that make for an entertaining interview attempt an answer. PG didn’t make for a very good Tyler guest

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

This is helpful b/c I find I do this manually all the time....latitude orientation http://t.co/4th5Zfinol http://t.co/DFA3ODtewv

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Setting up a tv studio in the coffee shop DETRACTS from customers' morning experience. Come on ... @BklynRoasting

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JJ Kasper

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2 years

just got a pitch deck for a company that has raised $130 million in venture capital and is doing $110k / month in revenue...why don't LP's get more upset at GP's who invest $130 million of their dollars in this stuff?

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

As if we needed any more reasons not to trust what we hear in the news...China’s covert global radio network

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

I'm not a golf fan but this is great. The Secret History of Tiger Woods

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

Not much 'thought' in this piece. Just sentiment. Is Silicon Valley in Another Bubble . . . and What Could Burst It? http://t.co/cmbxIhHU3H

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JJ Kasper

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2 years

@NYPDnews @NYPDTips A daycare center? Good lord…can you guys arrest the daycare operators too? Geez.

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JJ Kasper

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3 years

@paulg irl > phone > zoom

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JJ Kasper

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@darrenmarble really? i heard greater than 100 m funds are hurting real bad. they deployed too quickly, big institutional LPs are cancelling commitments, and big-name GPs are struggling to raise follow-on funds...

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

8 years

My friends at Suitable have rebranded to @SENEstudio . They like sharing stories and have asked me to share #mySENE

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

9 years

I'm ready to drink smarter. Who's with me?

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JJ Kasper

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1 year

airbnb adding klarna is another impending sign of the economic apocalypse...

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JJ Kasper

@JJ_Kasper

2 years

@mtaibbi This

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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Sweden finds explosive traces at Nord Stream blast site, confirms sabotage

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Can you imagine looking back on your life on your deathbed and remembering how you walked out of your college graduation bc you were a budding Nazi at the time?

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Duke invited a Jewish speaker to graduation and Pro-H @mas graduates walked out. The speaker? Jerry Seinfeld.

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JJ Kasper

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If you're a cowboy boot lover, check out Tecovas. Lucchese-quality that doesn't kill the wallet

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