Hey, I'm Dan! I'm the CEO of Plus and a venture partner at Madrona. I write the DL, a newsletter about tech in the Pacific Northwest

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What's going to happen to startup fundraising

The stock market is down over 30% since its peak earlier this year, and investors are selling everything. So what’s going to happen to the startup market? Here are my thoughts:

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The empty stores of the future

Last week, Amazon announced they are going to start selling Amazon Go’s “Just Walk Out” technology to third parties, and the first retailer to roll it out will be...

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The three most important COVID-19 charts

The three most important charts for understanding the current state of coronavirus:

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How are software investors weighing the impact of coronavirus?

Over the last few weeks, the S&P 500 dropped over 10%, with the largest one-day declines in nearly a decade. You’ve probably seen lots of articles about individual stocks that have been heavily impacted by coronavirus...

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🔥 take of the week

One thing I love (hate?) about tech Twitter is everyone LOVES the idea of being “contrarian,” but when someone actually brings up a contrarian idea, people FLIP OUT...

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February 2020 PNW Venture Deals

Here are the PNW startups that announced new fundraising rounds in the month of February. These 29 companies raised ~$325M last month!

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How to raise money, according to the pros

Last week, YC published their guide to raising a Series A - great, practical advice combined with data from their companies. Some of the highlights:

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🤑 <-- Seattle tech workers

There were a bunch of headlines last week on how the 125K “information workers” in King County make an average of $279K per year according to BLS data. That's $35B a year...

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Consumer brands and marketplaces that VCs love

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on why VCs love SaaS businesses, and some readers thought the takeaway was marketplace and consumer businesses are bad. Not what I meant! The takeaway was that SaaS startups should be...

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Find your perfect job

Ever wonder… if I weren’t a _______, what would I want to do? Well here’s some research showing which jobs are most closely related to one another based on the personality profiles of people in those professions...

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