Don Stein

▶️ Watch Now - Live on X Special Guests Today It's not often that we're able to bring a top tier VC investor to hear pitches from some of the world's best CEOs! Bonus I'm also giving away three free gifts at the start help those with startups, VC, and raising capital! Watch Live on X

🎟️ VC Pitch Opportunity + RSVP Mercedes Bent @ Lightspeed Ventures (July 30th) Mercedes will be listening to pitches from our founders on Wednesday, she's been a top VC for years and is a venture partner at Lightspeed. She's bullish on Meta Smarglasses, which have built-in camera, open-ear audio, microphone, Meta AI, and Livestreaming capabilities. Read more below on how to attend or apply. Why Meta Smart Glasses? Let me repeat, because it's critical, we are looking for CEOs of startups...

🔍 AI takes a backseat, All Eyes on Crypto in D.C. 🔍 Convo #1 @ 12:00 PM ET We're doing a private session with /don Skool members, RSVP within our Skool Calendar. Fundraising VC +Angel: Please bring questions and updates Traction TipsQuiz!: How do the best founders get traction in 2025? AI Growth ToolsWhich should we test as a group? [ACT 1] 🪙 GENIUS Act This bill already passed the Senate last month (68–30). Now it’s heading to the House for a final vote on Thursday morning. Stablecoins are...

📈 16 Mega VC Deals impacted by AI Investors poured $25.7 billion into venture-backed deals in June 2025 AI implementation is required to raise VC funding. 50% of the largest 16 funding deals in 2025 are pure AI, 25% are AI native, and the remaining are on-boarding themselves to AI. In other words, if you want to be a top funded company, you need to implement AI intelligently, and correct, and, fast. 🎟️ VC Pitch Opportunity + RSVP Mercedes Bent @ Lightspeed Ventures (July 30th) Mercedes will...

🧠 Companies Are Hitting $100M ARR Faster Than Ever Before Because of AI. And that's not even mentioning names like Perplexity, Character AI, Synthesia, Descript and more. Business is all about speed right now. AI is changing how fast you can scale. Here’s how I used it to save my own business this past month. 💥 Saving My Business with AI I’ve been in VR and VC for 10 years. But the VR market sucks. So I built a new growth engine with AI. Here’s what I learned: How to code 25 landing pages...

Who is Gene Munster? Maybe this photo below will spark your memory: Apply to Pitch Gene, May 14! He's been nice enough to agree to listen to the startup pitches of 15 CEO's. Are you one of them? Apply here This is a rare chance to pitch a finance icon, ~Don Stein Founder https://www.uglystartups.com/

You're Invited to Pitch Top VC's on May 14th You're invited to pitch Gene of Deepwater & Bradford of SignalFire Ventures at our Demo Day. RSVP to Pitch Bradford Jones invests from SignalFire's $3B fund. Previous to this he was at Insight Partners until 2023, deployed $600 million across application software, data infrastructure, security, and consumer internet. Focuses on early-stage investments in applied AI/ML and vertical SaaS companies. He's on the board of UpRound Ventures at the...

Apply to Pitch at our Shark Tank style Demo Day on May 14th The Sharks (Two Top VC's) The Founders (could be you) I'll be selecting 15 founders to come pitch these Sharks, apply below BEFORE MAY 6TH. You must apply in order to pitch them. APPLY TO PITCH See you next Weds! ~Don Stein Apply here: https://o7no1n5re70.typeform.com/to/ZEI4AVvn 336 E. College Ave. Suite 301, Tallahassee, FL 32301Unsubscribe · Preferences

SHARK TANK x UGLY STARTUPS Apply to pitch two of the world's top VC funds Live on ZOOM on May 14th Apply Now The Sharks The Founders Apply Now This is going to be fun! Hope you win a chance to pitch them. ~Don Stein don@virtualrealityinvestment.com Www.LinkedIn.com/in/donstein

We do calls every Wednesday, you can get a 50% discount here for anyone who wants to join our early-stage founder group. p.s. Here's three more cool founder stories to inspire: -Don