Aug 12 → Nov 12, 2026 · Friday review · score each KR 0.0–1.0 · 0.7 = ambitious-but-met · one bottleneck at a time
North Star
By Nov 12: earn the VP title + a clear full-time path by (a) landing the compute cluster, (b) bringing new founders in, and (c) meeting & building real relationships with every founder + LP — plus a ship list that proves things just go live. Judged on real progress (a founder/LP/partner gets further), not activity.
Ship list — just online (days, not months)
ideas.juniperventures.xyz
Idea board + voting
live
juniperventures.xyz/deck
LP deck — P0
in progress
jobs.juniperventures.xyz
Juniper Hiring — jobs db
planned
research.juniperventures.xyz
Field-map (cos/nonprofits/investors)
planned
admin.juniperventures.xyz
Internal admin / ops panel
planned
Metric = live / not-live, not feature-completeness. All on Cloudflare Pages + Squarespace DNS → immune to host outages. Earn the right, ship one, iterate.
Objective 01 — Compute cluster in place
421 Tehama house cluster
0.2
0.3KR1 David (Wilson) go/no-go + structure by ~Aug 31; if go → buildout plan + PG&E application filed (pitch + budget built)
0.0KR2 Real B200 vendor quote → budget from estimate to committed number
0.0KR3 Cluster operational or on a dated buildout plan w/ confirmed 208V 3φ
Objective 02 — New founders in
Sourcing → pipeline → capital deployed
0.0
Nick's #1: "find good founders." My co-authorship surface — I built Apart's.
0.0KR1 JPV sourcing/watchlist CRM live in Airtable (mirrors Apart) with ≥[100] qualified founders + warm-path mapped
0.0KR2≥[15] founders I sourced → partner first-meeting; ≥[3] into serious diligence
0.0KR3 Carry 3 SPVs (Apollo, Lucid, Asymmetric) → $[X] committed via my intros; fund deploys to ≥[N] startups
Objective 03 — Relationships with every founder & LP
Meet + build real relationships
0.05
Not one-touch — real relationship + ongoing contact. Log each in the rolodex/CRM.
0.0KR1 1:1 with all ~[15–17] portfolio founders (coverage %); each with a logged relationship + next touch
0.0KR2 Met all core LPs (Reid, Woj, Eric Ries, Geoff Ralston, Jan Leike + Fund II LPs incl. David/Yanda) — [X of Y]
0.1KR3 Deck shipped + used in ≥[5] LP/investor conversations (Liz Yin et al.) — P0
Scoreboard
O1 · Compute
pitch + budget ready, waiting on David
0.2
O2 · Founders in
CRM not built yet
0.0
O3 · Founder + LP relations
deck is the way in
0.05
Ship list
ideas live · deck next
1 / 5 live
Co-authorship tracker: ○ at least one thesis-shaping move documented. Visibility: ○ VP title · ○ LinkedIn + X · ○ launch post.
This week's bottleneck (one at a time)
Deck (P0 — Nick + Liz Yin waiting) → O3-KR3 + ship list
ideas.juniperventures.xyz — shipped ✅; next ship item queued