Ben Pidgeon

I like talking about strategy and entrepreneurship, food, and my family. A forever student. Executive Director @visiontechangel

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Let me help rephrase for you Bernie.

Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it.

Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it.

For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment !

Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ?

You are on your own 😤

Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums

And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation.

You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position

And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency.

If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ?

And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now.

Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?

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#2 - Routora - An app that helps government entities plan their service and inspection routes

https://t.co/xNfsslaJq3

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Ok, I attempted to post every company I reviewed for a year. I failed. Let's see how long I can keep it up this year.

First up for 2026 #1 - Cygnusmed - a Pressure Monitoring System for Endovascular Procedures. https://t.co/BP5nar37Pi

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On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes

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@DocStaples @flapprdotnet @grok make the PDF easier to read.

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@galeforceVC Yup, use cases and customer pain points with budgets are what I want to know about. It's great that you are building something.

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@elonmusknews30 A. Yes

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@elonmusk Reminder - your Beneficial Ownership Interest filing with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is due in 3 weeks.

Can we get #DOGE to put a stop to this required filing?

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#Founders Don't bury the lead. If you have good news, please share it at the beginning of the conversation!

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Thanks for posting!

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🧵Wow the @FTC did the most comprehensive BIG TECH acq overview I've ever seen...

Non-HSR Reported Acquisitions by Select Technology Platforms, 2010–2019: An FTC Study

https://t.co/mKvAU2IM06

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#EarlyStageInvestors - What's your reaction to a founder who invests in the company they own and puts a loan on the balance sheet?

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@chrissyfarr Part of the problem with our health care is that an in person visit is a billable event for the physician. I wonder what the other severe diagnosis could be if it's not pink eye? Plus how many parents WANT to give their kids extra antibiotics?

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#foundinsideafortunecookie I will let you know in a day if fortune cookies expire!

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@HarryStebbings The current persona for meal kit svc is driven by healthy cooking and meal prep but is time constrained, probably not changing behavior. Opportunistic bc meal kit svc can pick up the persona that wants to cut back discretionary spending and is time constrained.

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@jefielding Vision changes so much in early stage, it's easy to come up with many ideas, and a large % of the ideas aren't valuable. I would go with execution because of the challenge to stay focused once the vision gets funded and resonates with customers.

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Purchase Moore Hamann & Bacon!

[Ben Pidgeon @btpidgeon]

Productivity

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Partnerships between founders and investors > the alternative

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The nuclear winter of fundraising for startups seems to be thawing.

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My curiosity with a founder around a pitch presentation: What validation has been done with the business model regarding paying clients? Who pays for it, why do they pay for it? What is the hypothesized ROI? If an increase in efficiency, how do you measure that outcome?