The VC slowdown is real But 400+ brave VCs still invested over $1M in seed deals last month If you're raising soon, maybe start with them? To help, I made a list of 418 investors who led round over $1M If you want it 1. Comment "Nov Leads" 2. RT + Follow so I can DM it

Congrats Monique!!

Was off Twitter for a second and came back to a bunch of new followers because of the responses to this tweet, thank you all!

If baby PR Elliot could see this in 2008 at my first job in SF, I'd be bawling. Wait, i am bawling, NOW. THANK YOU to all that mentioned me!

Ok I never go to Twitter to publicly shame, but United Airlines has “lost” my bad for last 2 days and now says pending delivery and I can see it hadn’t moved (thank you AirTags)!

Another banger from Matthew Rosenberg and the Welco.me team 🔥

My favorite time of the year is back - applications are now open!

100000%

Planning a trip to Azores (sao miguel) anyone been/ got any tips on things not to miss? Also, did you all know this European island chain is only a five hour and 30 minute direct flight from NYC? @_azoresairlines

Tune in this evening at 6:30pm ET (3:30pm PT) to NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas to see @WonderDynamics' latest tool, Wonder Studio, in action! The team had a lot of fun putting this together—if you can’t catch the segment tonight, it will also be airing at 7pm ET/4pm PT tomorrow on CNBC 🤖🎥

In 2011, Dippin' Dots, aka the "ice cream of the future", went bankrupt. After being swooped up for relative pennies at just $12M, they were acquired last year for $222,000,000. The crazy part? Most of the company's value wasn't from selling ice cream. Here's the wild story:

The Betaworks team will chat about the Apple Vision Pro announcement with our old friend Darrell Etherington today at 1pm et. Some founders building for AR/VR may stop by, too. Don’t miss it. x.com/i/spaces/1ynJO…

Amen

I’ve never used a pitch deck to fundraise. 👀🌶️ Instead, I kicked off every raise with a Memo. (And brought in over $42M for Rupa with 15+ term sheets 🤯) Here’s why I think founders should use memos more (and not always decks):

Phone calls are WAY better than Zoom. Zoom kinda sucks tbh. Computer glitches, having to look at your own face while you speak, not intimate. You can't walk around. It's super awkward if the doorbell rings. You have to deal with background notifications. I will die on this hill.

Lol this deserved a retweet (re-X? Ugh)