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Ali Afridi
2026 Posts

AI tools to turbo-charge hiring

We're hiring up aggressively at Equal and across many of our portfolio companies in 2026. As much as I love
05 Mar '26
2025 Posts

Market shifts in the investor zeitgeist

Insights from 150+ podcasts w/ top investors, insiders, and executives Podcasts can be an incredible medium for uncovering insight about
09 Nov '25
2025 Posts

Winning in Vertical AI: The 2 Pathways for Success

Originally published on the Equal Ventures newsletter As we highlighted in our recent Insurance x AI and Logistics x AI
07 Oct '25
2025 Posts

2025 Construction Tech Request for Startups

Where insiders would like to see more startups and innovation This post is a collaboration with Last Week in ConTech,
25 Sep '25
2025 Posts

Logistics x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI

The AI innovators transforming the U.S. logistics sector Co-authored with Chelsea Zhang & Christo Ritter. Initially posted on the Equal
21 Aug '25
2025 Posts

Insurance x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI in P&C

Co-Authored with Christo Ritter & Adam Chadroff. Initially appeared on the Equal Ventures Blog. The $800 Billion U.S. property &
17 Jul '25
2025 Posts

Share Donors in Retail & eCommerce

Over the last few weeks, I shared a series of posts signaling opportunities and industry shifts across the retail &
13 Mar '25
2025 Posts

The Major Forces Transforming Commerce

A couple of weeks back, we highlighted the major problems and opportunities in the retail & eCommerce industry that investors
05 Mar '25
2025 Posts

The Grand Problems & Opportunities | Retail & eCommerce Edition

This post originally appeared on The SandHill Newsletter here. It is Part 1 of a 3 part series – Part
20 Feb '25
2025 Posts

What to Expect from VCs if the Downturn Persists

This post originally appeared on the SandHill Newsletter here. Around this time last year, I was getting ready to re-enter
08 Jan '25
2022 Posts

Studying the Fastest Growing Companies

Whether you’re a founder, an operator, or an investor, studying the markets around us can be an extremely valuable activity.
02 Feb '22
2021 Posts

Mapping the Insights that Drive Startup Ideas & Theses

Over the past 6 years, I’ve been fortunate to work across multiple VC firms that have active incubation and thesis-driven
14 Oct '21
2021 Posts

Mental Models for Startup & Thesis Ideation — Visual Reference Guide

A few months back, I published a compilation of 20 mental models that entrepreneurs and investors leverage to develop new
14 Jan '21
2020 Posts

Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses – Part 2

20 Mental Models for Idea Generation Part 1 of this post can be found here. 11 — Digitizing Behaviors and
10 Sep '20
2020 Posts

Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses

This post originally appeared on Medium here As thesis-driven early-stage VCs, one of the activities that we’re frequently engaged in
10 Sep '20
2014 Posts

How much does it really cost to build a web startup?

$1,000? $10,000? $100,000? This post originally appeared on Medium here. Earlier this year, I decided I was going to take
17 Sep '14
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