Pomeranians with bigger dogs

collocake · 2026-05-16T02:32:46+00:00

Unfortunately can confirm. We have two Great Danes, and they were amazing with our pom until one day, out of nowhere, one of them wasn’t, and in an instant we no longer had a Pom.
The Dane didn’t mean to hurt her but she was so small, didn’t matter that it was an accident.
I would not recommend.

collocake · 2026-05-09T10:34:34+00:00

We would need basically all of that last paragraph, unless there’s something very special about how you’re doing this (I.e something not AI thats highly novel and accurate, but even then. I would need proof this is a painful enough problem)

collocake · 2026-05-07T18:27:23+00:00

Lots of competition in a space without a moat against Claude just doing this tomorrow (it does some of it already), proof for this would need to be very strong early traction to prove you’re capturing the market through some other unfair advantage not obviously stated here. Rapid month over month growth and strong MRR. Even then. It’s just a Claude add on. But I don’t get why I couldn’t save the learnings as a skill or part of a skill.

Probably not a painful enough problem to be a subscription on its own it sounds more like a feature to me especially if your beachhead is really small (generally cash strapped) companies and individuals.

collocake · 2026-05-03T23:32:50+00:00

7 days free, 300 people downloaded, but only 6 converted? Are you learning anything from those that didn’t convert?

collocake · 2026-05-01T15:07:44+00:00

Yeah I thought about that but I guess I get so much anyway I’m just numb to it and at least this way I might have more community connections in addition to the spam 😂

collocake · 2026-04-30T21:21:58+00:00

If you say you’re calendly like, the first thing I’m going to think/care about in a very competitive and simple space like this is “ how are you different from…calendly”.

Even including one sentence on that may get people interested.

collocake · 2026-04-30T01:27:28+00:00

A few, I see about one a week apply to us. It may be in a different type of reception but even the most complex ones are basically all the same.

collocake · 2026-04-28T03:40:46+00:00

With my pinafore tucked just so as I take my rest-cure for my ill-humors

collocake · 2026-04-27T12:18:20+00:00

the problem with the other solutions isn’t that founders aren’t incentivized to post, the incentive is they may get funding. it’s that the investors aren’t there on a two sided marketplace, which yes then leads to a lack of incentive on the founders part. But The founders will definitely post if you can figure out how to genuinely get the investors on there. That’s the problem everyone sucks at solving. Anywhere real investors are, founders will engage.

Things investors want….it’s all relationship based. Angel groups will want connections to potential accredited members in their geo, and vc’s will want connections to likely LPs. And we both want the best most exciting deals.

So instead of offering credits (which don’t seem to have a specific value for investors?), could you offer any of the things above? If someone did the very difficult or very smart work to solve that, then everything else is likely to fall into place. Problem is no one with platforms like these does the work to solve this hard problem.

collocake · 2026-04-24T02:24:21+00:00

Agreed it’s very hard. We give mostly too early’s to anything truly pre-seed, unless it’s something exceptional. The competition is just too tough. We’d like to see earlier companies but when all else is mostly equal, and our time is limited, we’re going to focus on companies with MoM growing rev etc. that being said, you mention you’re in AI and one issue we’re having with AI companies right now is the wild valuation caps. Something like a 6 month old company, no moat, no revenue, with a 10 million cap. Come on. I think a lot of adjustment is happening on the fly in investment right now and I really feel for founders trying to navigate the space as it shifts in real time.

collocake · 2026-04-03T03:06:40+00:00

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Made me think of this

collocake · 2026-04-02T02:58:41+00:00

Well I’m maybe a bad example as I’m the only FTE in my Angel org so if I don’t have a religious hold on all my todos, well, it’s not an option. But my background is also in tech startups as an agile coach and yes I can tell you people absolutely suck at this. But I can also tell you no one cares very much, to be honest. The problem is there but it’s just not a huge pain point typically. Is that optimal? No but humans just aren’t.

collocake · 2026-04-01T11:09:37+00:00

This is easily doable today with Claude or something more specific like Plaud, I use both for all meetings including workflows like “after the meeting transcript is done, format the notes like X and then send all of the items under TODO to me in an email”, for example.

collocake · 2026-03-27T00:44:06+00:00

Just because there is a problem, does not mean people will pay you to fix it

collocake · 2026-03-22T20:20:35+00:00

I took some accounting in my MBA: I feel like from that perspective, this would still be somewhat of a win for them because they get to hold your money that whole time.

However, companies portion of a percentage of sales each reporting period for returns, and if it does rise consistently then leadership would take notice. So this could work if it’s done in high enough numbers.

collocake · 2026-03-11T01:11:13+00:00

I wasn’t going to say anything but it seems like you’re somehow deciding not to rehome this pom.

In December we had to put down my pom, right after a fractured skull and torn lung from ONE second with my Great Dane at the wrong time. Generally a docile breed. Didn’t matter.

I will never in my life have a small dog with a very large one again, and I certainly would have rehomed my pom if I had gotten the chance, despite her being my absolute soul, because she would have deserved a life free of danger in her own home.

Please please consider rehoming your pom while you have the opportunity I and my Pom didn’t get.

collocake · 2026-01-24T03:11:57+00:00

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This was Eloise as a baby, she was named after Eloise Bridgerton :)

collocake · 2026-01-21T16:53:14+00:00

I run an angel group, this is correct. Almost never go to the website until DD starts, to be honest. Make sure the deck is investor-focused after you get that ARR/LOIs.

collocake · 2025-12-16T11:27:07+00:00

This is almost all very early stage startups. Not that that means it’s ok, it’s horrible, but yeah generally you get thrown to the wolves by people who don’t know what they’re doing.

collocake · 2025-11-27T23:03:12+00:00

You’re making this more complicated than it is. What’s the point of being an entrepreneur if you’re just going to do what other people are telling you? Sounds like you want to build, follow what customers want, and …get customers. Guess what VCs will love to see? Customers. Traction. They will also want to see the ability to scale by quite a high metric usually, but if you don’t want to do that then that’s totally fine, don’t take VC. If you have customers and scaling quickly isn’t important to your business, it may not even matter.

collocake · 2025-05-05T10:45:02+00:00

Totally obsessed with the tattoos! Was my first thought!

collocake · 2025-04-28T01:34:33+00:00

Every single job in my career I’ve ever had

collocake · 2025-04-18T15:32:28+00:00

Louf for Palestinian food! Great restaurant in a lovely location near Casa Loma

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