so grateful for all the incredible people who continue to support us on this journey beehiiv 🐝

it's time to build 😈

techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/bee…

'Because Todd is sexy!'

-- Highly encouraging Wefunder investment memo just now.

CurlMix recently concluded their second Wefunder raise.

Kim and her team have now raised over $6M
from 9,334 customers and community members.

Approximately 0.2% of conventional venture capital goes to black female founders.

But Kim's 9,334 customers aren't conventional VCs.

Some great wisdom in here.

Raising venture capital can be awesome, transformative, critical.

And it's also a bad idea (and not possible) for the vast majority of startups.

We need more options for founders. And more spotlight on those options.

Apparently our competitors made a website saying Fondo is small like that’s a bad thing

Early stage fundraising should join the 21st century.

It's fun! There's this platform called X, and stuff.

Find startups near you to invest in!

wefunder.com/explore/map

New record 'suggested tip' amounts.

$5.46 coffee.

Tip options:
$5(!)
$3
$1

'To support a company I believe in!'

-- a nice Wefunder investor note to start the day.

This is what it's all about!

'Invest in the change you want to see in the world'

-- Mahatma Gandhi (kind of)

communityround.com Wefunder

Congrats to Mercury on the personal banking announcement this week!

And congrats to their 2,453 customers that immad graciously let invest in their Series B back in 2021.

Startups that truly *delight* their customers will win.

🪄

mercury.com/blog/inside-me…

Startups that let their customers and community invest have a competitive advantage.

Hey beehiiv 🐝 — we've booked a billboard in Times Square just to ask you...

Will you let your community invest alongside VCs?

In 1996, there were 7.300 publicly traded companies.

Today there are 4,300.

This seems bad.

I went to the capital of Taiwan once.

Everyone was really ambitious.

Super Taipei.

Midmarket PE fund when a family-owned HVAC company hits the market

📈 $5B+ market cap.
💸 $58M loss.
🗑️ $4M revenue.

Ouch.

$DJT surely the best evidence that “we’re so back”.