The Top 10 fundraising tips for any startup as told by the movie “Cocaine Bear” 🧵🧵👇🏻

Shipping is "FREE" but there's a "supply chain fee"

We're excited to release our first new episode since the pandemic started this week! Tune into Jeff Cardenas of Apptronik and @nick_spiller from Capital Factory ⚙️ discussing how to build the ultimate tool for humans. Listen now at capitalfactory.com/podcast

Annual reminder that Festival Saviors keeps you in the know about events during SXSW

Caught 🦦🦦 Mark Castleman (Intel), Kevin Burke (Sapphire Ventures), Lisa B. (HEARST), and JD Weinstein (Oracle) discussing Wartime Corporate Innovation - how to navigate corporate partnerships in light of the tumultuous past year #SXSW2023

left, entrepreneur (job) employing 15 people (jobs) trying to keep her business alive. right, writer for esquire who thinks the chance they lose their jobs is funny, because it means they have to… get jobs. the point is not to make sense. the point is to delight in human misery.

Live The Verge podcast from Slack at sunny #SXSW23

Networking events are boring. Join 500+ tech founders, investors, and startup employees at the 3rd annual Austin Tech Beer Pong Tourney. And now, I'd like to welcome Quai Network ⚡️💵 who will represent our Web3 division. Who's gonna take home the trophy 👀 bit.ly/atxbp

Startups will continue to have an edge by not making the office a requirement. x.com/ZoeSchiffer/st…

Something is very wrong with health care when patients are going bankrupt, hospitals are in the red, doctors are unhappy, costs are going up, life spans are going down, innovators are struggling & Big health insurance seems to be the only group that is consistently doing well

Prompt: Make our logo look enough like OpenAI’s to trick people, but not enough to allow them to file a lawsuit

What an origin story. Reminds me of Alexis Ohanian 🗽's repeated point: with an idea, a laptop, and internet access, any person is capable of building incredible things

Waiting to pick up my Erewhon smoothie and the guy next to me is singing to his girlfriend. What a magical place

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A Texas barbecue renaissance that began roughly 15 years ago has transformed a local tradition into arguably the most dynamic vernacular cuisine in the U.S. Now younger pitmasters are advancing the form using flavors from Black, Mexican and Asian cuisines. nyti.ms/3XzutY9

Margot… shall we?

All-time tweet that should never be forgotten

I read this speech 5-6 years ago on Reddit. I printed it on my wall as a reminder of how short life is. It was written by a 24-year-old diagnosed with cancer in 2014. The post is well written and very memorable. Today, I reread it. Beyond the ordinary, three things stood out:

📁 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says that at 19 he thought big tech leaders had everything under control, but now, being “the adult in the room,” he’s realized no one really has a perfect plan, everyone is just figuring it out along the way.