HIGHLIGHTING FOUNDERS OF COLOR Founders of color only received 3% of capital in 2020. This needs to change if we want to achieve true racial equity. To highlight & increase exposure for these underrepresented founders I will be publishing a series on Medium highlighting them

Black Management Association invites YOU to kickoff #Innovate24 Pitch Competition, funding ideas into businesses with $100,000 prize! 🎉 Supported by @OGArabianPrince, Derek Powell & @SpencerGTyson coach teams for April 5th Finale.👏 #UCIMerage Register: https://t.co/g8CVeMJNSc

Yesterday, @YoeriDassen and I hosted a mixer for Founders & LPs. Founders rarely meet LPs behind their large VC checks and LPs rarely meet founders they’re invested in. Here are my biggest takeaways. 🧵 Thanks @kadvani @SpencerGTyson @JoshConstine for sharing these insights.

LA has to be the most creative tech scene in the US… Don’t @ me

We are hiring a Spring Intern to join our investment team at Visible Hands! - Part-time, 10-12 hours a week - Paid, $20/hour - Remote - Pathway to Full-time If interested, comment below and shoot me a DM. I'll send you the JD. RT to amplify for the right candidate to see!

Random tidbit for GPs raising capital... Dont belabor LPs with the credentials of your advisors We've heard 200+ pitches, and every fund manager has some combination of Ph.D./ Ivy League/ Research experts on their board. Not to say it's not impressive, but it doesn't stand out

Emerging managers raising, a slide that says who you invest with, with a page of logos, doesn’t do anything. Get rid.

It’s actually wild how much I eat McDonald’s. Like after a networking event with just appetizers… Guaranteed Mickey D’s stop otw home to hold me down

Being black in VC means being told “You can’t come to my events… but I still need a favor”

Join me, and a handful of others much smarter than myself as we talk about the challenges of Diversity in Private Equity. Register here: https://t.co/c4aC6xnz0G

We all had the same questions on how the SVB fallout would affect VCs and their portcos. Instead of throwing out our opinions, we decided to collect the data. In the last 24 hours, we surveyed 40+ GPs. What we found below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️.

For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.

At @Revere_VC we surveyed where emerging managers bank, and here are the numbers

Hey, @LastPass. These breaches be wildin’. Hmu, let’s talk.

In Tulsa, checking out this rebuild Black Wall Street movement with @ThirdSphereHQ

The SEC trying to regulate #VentureCapital sounds scary. But, grounds for suit aside, it does tug at a problem we have known all along: The information gap between LPs and GPs is real, and the asset class will always be viewed as “dangerous” until it's fixed. Thoughts? ⬇️

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Being popular doesn’t make a good investor

The only thing I learned about Louisiana is that Morris Bart is their king #MardiGras

#1 gripe with VC twitter is the extrapolation of a whole narrative around 1 data point (or, even worse, just 1 opinion) that gets recirculated until it's widely accepted as truth "I haven't checked, but [some bullshit]" is not an acceptable communication pattern

Venture fund metrics can get confusing. MOIC, TVPI, DPI, IRR … 🤔 Beyond formulas, we teach our analysts about when to use them⬇️ Fund still deploying? MOIC. Investment window closed? TVPI. Fund starts harvesting? DPI. Historical performance when fund is complete? IRR.

I see a lot of emerging fund managers breaking their own portfolio construction EVERYONE says "I can access any deal I want". If you want to be differentiated, show me you can secure your (self stated) target ownership Otherwise the 3x return you modeled out is broken