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Steve Crossan

Funding RealTech

TLDR: as we move into the era of RealTech classic venture capital patterns may need to be adapted.

6 min readJan 23, 2024

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Funding RealTech

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Steve Crossan

Why are LLMs so good at everything ?

LLMs are incredible chatbots. But they are also super impressive at a wide range of tasks, from writing code to predicting the properties…

3 min readMar 23, 2023

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Why are LLMs so good at everything ?

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Steve Crossan

OKRs HowTo

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a standard tech industry tool that teams use for quarterly goal setting. Despite the mangement-speak…

3 min readJul 21, 2021

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Steve Crossan

A Neural Network example: English pronunciation

Summarising a previous post: What is a Neural Network?

3 min readFeb 4, 2021

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A Neural Network example: English pronunciation

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Steve Crossan

What is a Neural Network?

Computer programs come in many shapes and sizes, but have a few things in common. We provide them with input, and they provide us with the…

5 min readFeb 4, 2021

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What is a Neural Network?

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Steve Crossan

Exponential Challenges respond Exponentially to Early Action

TL:DR; as we discovered addressing Ebola in West Africa in 2014, early and apparently extreme action significantly reduces the chance of…

2 min readMar 16, 2020

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Exponential Challenges respond Exponentially to Early Action

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Steve Crossan

I’m a Venture Capitalist but I’m not scared of the Left

It’s election time in the UK, and a feature of the campaign this time has been a steady stream of articles from business figures warning…

3 min readDec 11, 2019

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Unreasonable Effectiveness

Abe Othman writes: should seed investors follow on?

I’ve been thinking about rational follow-on strategy for a long time, and how to use portfolio simulations to decide when to make…

3 min readNov 5, 2019

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Abe Othman writes: should seed investors follow on?

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Unreasonable Effectiveness

Every great startup is a great product startup

How to embrace your inner product manager.

7 min readSep 23, 2019

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Every great startup is a great product startup

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Unreasonable Effectiveness

Power laws with pooling: a more realistic model of venture returns

TL;DR: In the last post I built some models of venture portfolios of different sizes based on the idea that venture outcomes are powerlaw…

5 min readApr 17, 2018

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Power laws with pooling: a more realistic model of venture returns

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Steve Crossan

Steve Crossan

Research, investing & advising inc in AI & Deep Tech. Before: Product @ DeepMind. Founded Google Cultural Institute; Product @ Gmail, Maps, Search. Speak2Tweet.

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