Shouting from the rooftops - Renegade Partners II is here!!! $128 million to support groundbreaking startups with exceptional founders.

Thank you to our incredible team, the LPs & founders who believe in us, and my always brilliant co-founder Renata Quintini. Onward and upward 🚀

Absolutely spot on by Mark Suster

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What’s the best Chinese food in Lancaster, PA? Let’s crown 👑 them the best Chinese food spot of all time.

Sounds absurd right?

Until venture capital funds & funding spreads, all data is pointless because it’s incomplete.

Any startups, VCs, PEs, family offices, GPs, LPs, investors, or anyone generally in town for Berkshire this week, let me know. Happy to meet for a coffee. #berkshireweek #Berkshire #oracleofomaha #Omaha happy to host a bit.

When I first started angel investing, I spent some time hanging out with professional investors. The helpful ones were great. The unhelpful ones shared the following things: condescending, late to meeting, talked about how busy they were.

This is a pretty profound and slightly discouraging chart in the latest from Tomasz Tunguz

I had thought the # of M&A deals in software must have gone up the past decade. I thought it had.

But it hasn't. Only the dollar volume has really.

Deal count is basically flat at < 60

it's my first day as The Information's new financial analysis columnist!

i'll be crunching numbers shaping the tech world. if you want to help me cook, pls send hot takes, tough q's and musings on big tech, startups, and everything in between: anita.ramaswamyThe Information.com

One challenge I am seeing a lot in early stage companies is that the time to go from successful POC to $ is getting longer. As a founder, make sure you talk to your champion and be honest about the roadblocks and strategy to get to $.

I was part of startups that raised billions of VC in my 20s in Silicon Valley and didn't make much money:

1. VCs tell you to dedicate your life to the business, but they take August off.

2. VCs tell you that you need to go big or go home, but their business is a collection of

THIS.

You either have it or you don’t.

By the end of 2025 I want to train & compete in a boxing match. Pushing my body & mind as far as I can to be my best self.

By the end of 2025 I want to train & compete in a boxing match. Pushing my body & mind as far as I can to be my best self.

The concept of employee ownership is fantastic. The implementation in practice is incredibly broken. Big opportunity for someone to innovate.

To be extremely successful at the highest levels you need an insane amount of self belief.

You have to possess an innate ability to quiet all the noise (read doubt) that comes for you.

You’ll be called cocky, “too much”, a risk etc but that self confidence will pull you

To be extremely successful at the highest levels you need an insane amount of self belief.

You have to possess an innate ability to quiet all the noise (read doubt) that comes for you.

You’ll be called cocky, “too much”, a risk etc but that self confidence will pull you

My offer to fellow Chicago area real estate owners/investors

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You can't fake being in the details and doing the work.

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One thing I’ve learned that I hope can help others, don’t assign ideologies to individuals. When you attach certain POVs to people, you are less (or more) likely to disagree with it and close off your own thought process.