Always do reference checks on investors. You will be surprised by how transparent portfolio company CEOs will be.

LP (worth $380M), VC Associate ($215K student debt)

Team TIMIA is trailblazing at Dreamforce 2022! If you're a startup founder in attendance and considering your growth capital options, reach out to us to schedule a quick chat with one of our team members! #DF2022 Mark Bakker | B2B SaaS

It was incredibly kind of @timiacapital to think of FundStory with this holiday gift. It's a reminder of what great partnerships we've developed. Looking forward to continuing to work together to support more startups in the future.

So Andrew Wilkinson guilted me into coming to hang out with him in Vancouver. So looks like we're doing it... Mid feb. Wanna come? fl6myeqzzm6.typeform.com/andrew-sam-yvr

#NorthVan Grand boulevard blocked both ways, both sides. Not moving. #drivebc #ironworkers

Tiny announced its IPO with a near $1 billion valuation. I was the first employee. Here’s what I learned:

If it's considered an ‘asset' it’s too late. When we started investing everyone would look at us like we were crazy and ask if what we were buying was even a ‘real asset’. Job boards, plug-ins, Shopify apps, you name it. Easier to find a new pond than to be the best fisherman.

I'll be there tonight. Anyone else going?

I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀

My partner Einar Vollset 🇳🇴🇺🇸 recently gave a talk to a select group of B2B SaaS owners about when to sell your business... Some great insights in here: discretioncapital.com/articles/when-…

I started my company 16 years, 3 months, and 5 days ago. Today, it went public. But let's rewind for a second... 5,939 days ago, I was a barista at a small cafe called Sam Jones, in Victoria, Canada. I made $6.50 an hour. Two guys, Chris and Jeff, started coming into

Tenzing.co is hiring someone to do deals. Criteria: - Team player > star player mentality - Self Starter - Ability to make concepts simple for clients - Creative with structuring deals - Experience running deals front to back Email me: [email protected]

Entrepreneurs Don’t be fooled by Gary VeeDee or any other “personal brand" hustle porn star. It's all a lie to sell you BULLSHIT you don't need. 👊🏴‍☠️

Forest fire float planes #fire #bc #forestfire DistNorthVanFF's

According to HBR (not exactly dummies), the top 0.1% performing startups have 45 year old founders.  (let that swizzle around in your head for a sec)

"Smart Bear" was too dorky for Frank. He suggested "Software Test and Deployment Systems, Inc," or STDS for short. For real. Smart Bear was bought for nearly $2B in 2020. Still called Smart Bear. longform.asmartbear.com/bad-advice/?ut…

techstars shutting down hundreds of accelerators where they're the only game in town... ...to focus on the markets where they're needed least. good luck with that deal flow lol

techstars billion dollar outcomes by program: boulder: 4 seattle: 3 nyc: 3 boston: 2 r/ga: 2 kaplan: 2 cloud: 1 chicago: 1 austin: 1 london: 1 sf: 0 la: 0

For years, I've struggled to journal. Most people I know do. It's hard to just sit there with a blinking cursor and barf out your thoughts accurately every day. But my friend Charlie Grinnell (Charlie Grinnell 🔎) has cracked the code. He's built an amazing workflow that allows