Managing Partner @JME_Ventures

Madrid, Spain
Joined November 2007
si estás levantando una seed/preseed y quieres maximizar tus probabilidades de levantar una serie A, who you gonna call?
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La semana pasada @izuriaga se unió a nosotros como COO. Conozco a Inés desde hace un montón de años. Desde entonces nos hemos seguido la pista y mantenido en contacto, hasta que por fin ha surgido la oportunidad de hacer algo juntos. Es un verdadero lujo poder contar con ella en el equipo. Estoy seguro que nos va a ayudar a dar un salto de calidad en todos los ámbitos, pero especialmente en todo lo que tiene que ver con nuestros inversores y emprendedores. ¡Bienvenida, Inés!
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ARR nowadays is neither Annual nor Recurring nor Revenue
ARR = Annual Recurring Revenue 95% of the time I see ARR nowadays it’s non recurring revenue. Recurring used to refer to sticky contracted revenue now it often refers to token or payments revenue Should we redefine ARR as Annualized Revenue Rate rather than fight the usage?
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está super lúcido últimamente
Hay más verdad, valentía y honestidad en estos 93 segundos de Stallone que en toda la filosofía de ____________.
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Samuel Gil retweeted
Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. " People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.
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#280 El gran peligro del mal uso de la tecnología en la educación, by @samuelgil open.substack.com/pub/samuel… | "Procura dar ejemplo en casa con el móvil"
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Qué tíos estos del VDS…no sólo organizan el mejor evento de tech en España sino que además hacen buenas fotos!
💼 Your cap table tells investors more than your pitch deck @natmaxabit, @Cathayinnov, @samuelgil, @JME_Ventures and @Aquilino, @KiboVentures share how to de-risk it for global investors, with Laura Iriarte, @0100conferences Powered by @bancosantander 📊 #VDS2026
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Samuel Gil retweeted
The comments 😂😂😂😂
The clocks go back by one hour on 25 October at 2am, which means you’ll gain an hour ⏰ What will you do with the extra time? Let us know below 👇
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What a lede from @TheEconomist
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About pre-seed/seed Real Madrid can buy almost any established star in the world. That doesn’t mean they are automatically the best academy for discovering a 15-year-old before anyone knows his name. Those are different muscles. Pre-seed and seed aren’t Series A with smaller checks. But calling ourselves specialists isn’t enough. Only the best will survive!
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“I wish more of life was like this, where it's just like, you put your head down and you work. You do the right work. You figure out how to do the right work. You see results. A lot of life is that way but it seems like less of life is that way and that's frustrating for me and probably many other people. The honesty of life has almost been taken from us in this get-rich-quick slop, slot machine world. Running is just the opposite. It's almost old school. It's analog. It's honest and I love it.”
Catching up with a friend who asked me how my running is going. Here’s my long!!! response (thanks wispr) I currently look forward to a run more than tennis or hoops. running has a clear process. I know today's either going to be an easy day and I need to keep my heart rate between or under 135, or I get to run fast. Running fast is fun. Also there are no expectations but there is a process. I just love waking up every day and pouring into the process and just not being so nitpicky on results whereas in tennis and basketball it's all about results. It's all about if I win or lose. And as you know losing tortures me. Every day I show up and run, there's no winning or losing the run. Inevitably the progress shows up and that part is so cool. For now It's all about: are you putting in the work or are you not putting in the work? Right now I am putting in that work . I am running slow 5-6x per week. I'm doing 45 minutes of really easy cycling. I’ve totally changed the way I’m lifting. Lots of it is boring as fuck, I'm getting passed on the streets by people in my neighborhood and it's all part of the process baby. It’s the discipline muscle I’m building. Same when I’m doing isometrics or prehab instead of squatting heavy . I can even feel it translate into other areas of my life. I'm just becoming more disciplined. I'm becoming more focused because it's like I have this muscle that I've had before but I've never really had to flex it this hard. Running slow will change a man. There's something about just lacing them up, warming up, just putting one foot in front of the other, and just going. Eventually all these slow runs are going to become a little bit faster and a little bit faster. And I’m starting to see and feel progress. Progress is crack. Even today doing strides I was like, wow I'm faster. I’m floating. This is working. It's so fun. This + my body feeling great are coming together and it rocks. I wish more of life was like this, where it's just like, you put your head down and you work. You do the right work. You figure out how to do the right work. You see results. A lot of life is that way but it seems like less of life is that way and that's frustrating for me and probably many other people. The honesty of life has almost been taken from us in this get-rich-quick slop, slot machine world. Running is just the opposite. It's almost old school. It's analog. It's honest and I love it. Running is all I can think about. And when I do run I almost pinch myself and say "You're doing the thing that you wanted to do." It's a good reminder for me to be in the moment. Make sure when you're doing the thing you think about you feel that excitement and gratitude. I hope this feeling for running will last forever and I'm able to continue to run for as long as I live. If I can't, I hope that I could look back on this time and remember how much fun I'm having
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pensaba que hablaba de vetusta morla
Vaya cosa tan pretenciosa, maniquea, grandilocuente y a la vez tan poco emocionante, que además manipula burdamente a un artista tan importante como Lorca. Cuando el arte se pone al servicio de un mensaje, pasan estas cosas. Os la han colao!!
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Most people would see more improvement than they would believe by doing all of their runs at less than 75% of max HR, with strides a couple times a week, for a few months.
I have exclusively run at paces > 6:30 min/km (<140 ppm) with some strides at the end during the last 6 weeks. Today I raced at 4:46 min/km. No workouts. No race pace training. I enjoyed every minute of traning. No suffering whatsoever.
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I have exclusively run at paces > 6:30 min/km (<140 ppm) with some strides at the end during the last 6 weeks. Today I raced at 4:46 min/km. No workouts. No race pace training. I enjoyed every minute of traning. No suffering whatsoever.
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Volume isn’t crazy either (3 runs/week)
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«Heme aquí, un hombre Anticuado dinosaurio Portador de agravios Merecedor de condenas Frágil soñador Más no pierdan su fe En este poeta triste Que está intentando escribir Un poema feliz»
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da que pensar
Anthropic is offering a 145k salary for a personal assistant in London. Responsibilities include: "Scheduling and managing calendars for leader(s) and their organization" "Building and maintaining organizational systems for tracking and managing inbound requests" "Managing the leader's inbox and communications with precise attention to detail" "Handling travel logistics" Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.
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Samuel Gil retweeted
Montar una empresa debería ser el primer paso, no el primer problema. Hoy lanzamos START: un único sitio desde el que crear tu empresa y empezar a operarla. 100% digital. Great ideas START here 🚀 #seguimos y no pararemos
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cada vez me da más asco el asfalto
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In the Intelligence Age, capital allocation will be the *most* important executive skill
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In 2025, the two biggest GLP-1 drugs generated ~2x the combined revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic.
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