Forward This is written by us. Specifically, Joseph Alalou and Maddi Holman, the co-founders of Daring Ventures.
We write about companies, software, venture capital, how we run the firm, and whatever else we feel like talking about.
One way we distinguish a point solution from a wedge into a much larger company.
How we think about where value moves when the work itself gets easier to produce.
Thoughts about what it actually means to be early at pre-seed.
One reason we think the future of software may involve using less software.
Why we’re skeptical of the founder signals venture has learned to recognize.
One way we test whether useful software is actually becoming harder to replace.
About Daring Ventures
Daring invests at pre-seed in the markets that open where software used to stop.
AI is moving that boundary. Work that once depended on scarce expertise, expensive labor, or complex coordination can now be delivered as software.
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Forward This changes with what we’re working on. There are essays about investing and software, notes from running Daring, occasional arguments about venture capital, and plenty of things that do not fit neatly into any of those categories.
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