This thread is amazing!

If you are raising a pre-seed or seed round, we are open for business.

im helping some homies at Stanlay morgan find dope black founders to invest $250k in like/rt and i’ll dm u deets

A founder with no product market fit has raised more money than 90% of all Black venture capitalists.

What is the term for a startup that’s no longer a unicorn 🦄 but still exists? Horse? 🐴

Celebrate both. (Or hate on both.) but be intellectually honest and consistent. If they feel different, take a moment to reflect on why. That why is the bias women & minority founders feel daily. Defending your feelings vs exploring them is the problem. It is defending bias.

finding the right investors can be so hard so im hosting an async demo day to connect 50 black founders raising rn w 200 investors hmu to join demo day!

Got asked if an event with an all woman panel is about being women in tech. No, but from now on I will be asking every event with all male panels if their events are about being men in tech.

The “funding” we don’t talk about enough in startup land is the salary your significant other makes from their stable job to keep your founder ass afloat. The better halves of founders deserve their own award ceremonies and plenty of equity. Truly.

So true. These people who sue organizations doing GRANT WORK are truly deranged. Deeply disgraceful.

Some people talk about it. Others are out here doing it.

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.

The average age of people who founded high-growth startups is actually 45. s.hbr.org/3Uai4tT

Just crossed $20m AUM, with 199 investments on the AngelList platform. Just getting started. Here for you founder fam.

I used to get my hair cut at a place across the street from my office. 5 years ago, a group of stylists decided to rent their own chairs at another place downtown. The owner of the shop that the stylists had left sued the stylists for violating their noncompetes 1/3

Hey everyone, I'm the founder of a Black-owned coffee business, and we've been struggling with online sales for a while now. We donate to HBCU student scholarships and other causes with every sale. Your shares and RT's are much appreciated! 🙏🏿

Any founders interested in pitching Bread and Butter Ventures this week? They're a Minnesota based venture capital firm typically investing $1M checks globally into Pre-Seed and Seed companies building in Digital Health, B2B SaaS, and FoodTech. I'd love to get you connected.

The top pre-seed investors in my network: Elizabeth Yin 💛 (Hustle Fund) Turner Novak 🍌🧢 (Banana) Alex Pall (Mantis) Francis Santora 🐙 (Angel) Gaurav Jain (Afore) Kenny Tucker (Angel) Charles Hudson (Precursor) Eric Ries (Angel) Ryan Hoover (Weekend) Who else should I know in the pre-seed space?

Pre-seed is back. Seeing many more companies raise a $1M - $2M pre-seed followed by a $4M - $5M seed. More traction is needed to raise an A - and this is finally trickling through the pre-seed / seed world.