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Accelerated Startup: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Startup Dreams Come True from Idea to Product to Company

Accelerated Startup: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Startup Dreams Come True from Idea to Product to Company

Navigate startups from idea to exit: team building, fundraising, customer growth, with proven accelerator lessons.

2017

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Nov 4

An Open Letter to Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

Senator-elect El-Sayed,

An Open Letter to Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

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Sep 16

The $18 Billion Receipt

Meta has just paid for what social media did to a generation of children. The AI industry wants the same immunity, from the same Congress…

The $18 Billion Receipt

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Sep 10

Dust and Stars

Notes from forty years of dust, and one week that keeps calling me back

Dust and Stars

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Aug 13

The Report Button Is a Placebo

Content moderation on social media is not failing. It never worked. And the people exploiting that fact are not trolls, they are states.

The Report Button Is a Placebo

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May 5

Tokens Are the New Oil

Every era has a commodity that decides who wins. In the twentieth century, it was oil. Whoever pumped it cheapest, shipped it fastest, and…

Tokens Are the New Oil

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Apr 20

The Social Gravity Model: A New Valuation Framework for the Attention Age

On April 1, 2026, SpaceX confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC. Codenamed Project Apex, the offering targets a valuation of $1.75…

The Social Gravity Model: A New Valuation Framework for the Attention Age

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Mar 10

The Unit of Thought

Walter Ong spent his career proving a single uncomfortable idea: that writing didn’t just record what people thought — it changed how they…

The Unit of Thought

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Dec 1, 2025

The Weight of Tinsel: A Letter to Those Who Carry December

The world dons its festive mask again. Lights strung like promises along every street. Carols piped through speaker systems in lobbies…

The Weight of Tinsel: A Letter to Those Who Carry December

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Sep 8, 2025

Burning Man: Beyond the Desert’s False Prophets

A week has passed since I returned from the playa, and I wanted my impressions to settle and marinade before sharing. The desert doesn’t…

Burning Man: Beyond the Desert’s False Prophets

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Jun 3, 2025

The Virtual Reality We Didn’t Expect: How Social Media Became Our Dystopian Digital Reality

When “Ready Player One” came out in 2018, like many in Silicon Valley, I viewed it as a prescient vision of our technological future. We…

The Virtual Reality We Didn’t Expect: How Social Media Became Our Dystopian Digital Reality

Vitaly M. Golomb

Vitaly M. Golomb

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Managing Partner @ Mavka Capital & Mavka Ventures | Silicon Valley VC and banker | Keynote speaker in 30+ countries | Best-selling author of Accelerated Startup

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