Very well articulated 👨🏻‍💻☕️ - the value of early INDEPENDENT advice to a start-up is highly under-estimated and too lightly leveraged. hunterwalk.medium.com/most-startups-…

A good reminder of the need to always be planning/adapting/optimizing.

Well, Twitter does feel like an awkward early teenager. #MyTwitterAnniversary

The team Craft Ventures created a very informative and useful talk track on dealing with the downturn. Quality watch (yeah it's a tad dry, but this isn't a tiktok topic, dig in and listen/learn, founders!) youtube.com/watch?v=vBkzm4…

Sober POV - good descriptive of the impact of a venture valuation reset. Feels familiar and weirdly comforting with the return to realism.

Amen. The pursuit of venture capital should center on accelerating genuine value creation and always in alignment with stakeholder goals. Keep a clear-eyed view of your journey and intended destination.

🤯 I still don’t know what I just saw…

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Relentless execution required no matter the brilliance of the product vision!

Founders often don't get to deliver the most important pitch for their startup: the 2-3 line summary that a VC uses to socialize the opportunity with their partners. Here's how to help them craft one that will resonate: /1

Interesting thread with data insights into how TikTok compares to Google search results by query type. This would make for a great tracking study Neeva - use cases seem to be evolving rapidly...

I align with the genuine concerns over Musk's ego agenda for Twitter, but I can't disagree with the cringe factor of this business employing 7,500. A clean sweep and fresh POV is desperately needed. Musk will definitely put the bully in the pulpit. Watching from the sidelines...

At the 3 and Dallas Stars game when Cale Makar breaks the all-fucking-time NHL record for defensemen with 200 pts in less than 200 games. Crowd and announcer attention to the ice girls wins. #notahockeytown

Some day we will all look back at this time as that moment we all got giddy about #chatgpt and realize all we were doing was trying to escape from the need to adapt to the new normal of balanced rational exuberance.

An insightful POV. open.substack.com/pub/subconscio…

Great thread deconstructing the state of venture LPs. #notpretty

I'll be @ #startupfest in Montreal July 11-12. Reach out if you'd like to reconnect! Just ending my 4-yr adventures in PE/pubco scaled SaaS and Payments growth EverCommerce. New adventures on the horizon.

I'm hiring a CEO for a new B2C mobile startup focused on the loneliness space. Great opportunity to work with us + existing investors in our studio. Location: Anywhere Must have previous B2C startup experience. Link in the next tweet...

Join for free: a virtual conf with 1000+ LPs, Family Offices, Funds of Funds, & GPs of VC, PE, RE, & Hedge Funds – Nov 26 on Zoom. $100M+ & $1B+ Single FOs, LPs, FoFs & other investment firms have confirmed their participation. Like & reply "+" to get the invite in DM (we're at