Cheryl Kellond
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Taylor-Swifting the angel economy. 3x Founder. 3x Ironman. 4x Mom. On a path to a $Billy at @letsplaymoney 💎. Helping founders find 🎤drop moments. 💛🦬🇺🇦
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Just saw a deck that claimed $100K investment from Amazon. It was actually the AWS credits they got for joining an accelerator. 😬 🚩🚩🚩
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I’ve recently talked to 3 friends. All repeat founders. All women. Between us we’ve raised ~$100M. All of us want to do our next
#startups
without VC. All of us are working on VC scale concepts. 🤔
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BREAKING NEWS: it is possible for two women to start a company that builds a solution that people of any gender will want to use.
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This ad is fire. And true.
“We wouldn’t let a kid adopt a kid. So why would we ever force a kid to have a kid?”
@MomsAGAbbott
@CalltoActivism
#StopTrumpsAbortionBan
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I just had a 38 year old guy explain to me that our brand vibe wasn’t going to appeal to women in their 50’s, like his mom.
I told him she had already written us a check.
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This week I set up 5 women over 45 with crypto wallets and today I lent out 3 of
@meta_angels
to help them explore. I have two more to lend. Who wants one?
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Founder quote of the day...
Me: Can you come pitch on the 16th?
Founder: “I am having my 3rd child on the 15th and probably won’t be in good enough shape to pitch the next day. Can we do the 9th instead?”"
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Ideas are dime a dozen. Execution is everything.
Work > hype
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Look mom, I am full-time Web3!
Super excited to be teamed up with the
@meta_angels
crew to launch
@AngelLabsIO
.
Today, we’re launching
@AngelLabsIO
, a 10-week curriculum-based web3 accelerator taking projects from concept to mint.
This first cohort is focused on experienced operators with NFT-enabled projects. 💪
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Fun fact: I love founders but I am also secretly an introvert. 20 founder calls today has me feeling rough.
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Piles of drugs to make dicks harder but my daughter just blacked out from Endo pain and it doesn’t even have its own diagnostic code.
“Abortion” is just a prong of the medical misogyny in this country. Words and ICD codes have baked it into the infrastructure.
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Do you know who isn't having to adjust their plans in this (week's) "new" fundraising environment?
Women.
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I’ve been sort of quiet about my adventures in Web3, but I got to hang out with some of the most amazing generous and smart humans and true
@meta_angels
last night because of this space.
I can promise there is more to come. Until then….
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The underlying report here is mind blowing. I am a full proponent of Defund/Abolish and still didn’t realize it went this deep.
When we investigated police union expenditures in California, we found 98% of all state legislators had taken police union money. Police unions also spent *9x more* in lobbying expenditures than the NRA did and spent far more than any social justice org.
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Why is the all-male team the baseline? I'd like to hear "all-male teams performed 63% worse". I bet it would sink in faster.
10 yrs of data from
@firstround
vc showed that teams with a female founder did 63% better than all male teams.
#WomensEqualityDay2017
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Just got off the most energizing startup pitch call.
Women writing angel checks are fundamentally changing what problems are getting solved. It's breathtaking to be part of it all in real-time.
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Just reviewed a deck with a revenue graph going from $140 in June to $3400 in December.
I 🧡 this founder. You know who else started with $140 in revenue? Every big company you know.
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Farcaster is super awesome but way way too male/non-diverse.
Who wants an invite? Looking for folks who will make the time to really start engaging over there.
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I am now employed by a DAO and taking part of my salary in BTC. Did not see this coming 12 months ago....
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A year ago today I was on a Board call finalizing the sale of my company while hitching a ride to Hanalei. Today my gold shirt arrived in the mail. iykyk
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ngl, this wasn't the worst week to be a bootstrapped pre-revenue startup.
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I can’t wait until we stop using the word utility.
What problem does your business solve and who do you solve it for?
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Giving back? She’s making bank. This isn’t charity. It’s business. And she sees what kind of founders and businesses deliver the returns. Her gain if everyone else wants to sleep on it.
Serena Williams is the owner of venture capital fund Serena Ventures! She highlights the importance of supporting underrepresented founders! 54% of her investments are women founders & 47% are Black founders! It’s so important our Black leaders give BACK!
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Angels only make money when a company builds a successful business and delivers a return.
VC’s make money when a company raises more money at a big markup.
These are not the same.
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@PallerJohn
@WellsFargo
all so ironic since Wells Fargo has been proven in court to be the actual criminals. Keep doing what you do.
@opolis
fan and member 2x over.
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First night of
@HustleFundVC
😇
#angelsquad
and my ❤️is full. This is my vibe!
Thx for having me
@dunkhippo33
@ericbahn
@haleymbryant
@b_nicks11
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What if the best way to “onboard more women to Web3” is to use the technology to solve real problems and just not let anyone know?
No, seriously.
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Todays vibe:
Every human on this planet is a result of women’s health. Other than climate, it’s the single issue that connects us all.
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Why am I only seeing women tweeting about todays SCOTUS announcements?
Please point me to any men activating to protect the human rights of half the country. I’d love to follow them.
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I could tweet a decade of xxfounder thoughts on Launch House or I could launch a solution from my house.
I chose the latter. Watch this space. We are “doing a thing” as they say.
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Once it finally sinks in with folks that web3 can be about abundance and not scarcity, this is going to get fun.
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What if our biggest competitive moat is understanding that women over 40 are fully actualized humans and not just the NPCs in tech’s “mom test”.
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What if taking 150 investor meetings to get a yes wasn’t viewed as right a passage or badge of honor but a sign of massive inefficiency in the system than needed to be fixed?
What if fixing that inefficiency allowed for 150 extra meetings with customers. What kind of value would
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Sending out notifications for
@AngelLabsIO
tomorrow.
• I have a thread to write outlining our eval inspiration.
• Plus I have a few more tough decisions to make. 😬
Headphones on. Notifications off. Wish me luck!
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What if we talked about investment not in terms of maximizing financial returns but in terms of creating the world as we want it to be?
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Came all the way to NYC and was not disappointed. Watched our girl bucket to wrap up the game!
@LibertyLeadSM
@JaylynSherrod
@CUBuffsWBB
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My Achilles heel is monthly updates to my investors and advisors. I suspect I am not the only one who falls into this trap. 😬
Who'd be up for a monthly Zoom co-working session to grind these out?
Drop a 👋🏽 below for an invite or to tag a founder friend.
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Just helped 3 women - all over 50 - in three different countries do their first NFT mints.
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Ok, last minute planner here.
Headed to NFT NYC tomorrow. Besides hanging w my
@AngelLabsIO
cohort IRL, who should I meet and what should I do that will 🔥🧡🙌🏽?
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I love days that remind me I am actually a really good founder. Today was one of those days (at least so far).
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If you are angel investing curious BUT don't have the time (or money) to make it a full-time hobby, can you drop me a DM or a 👋🏽?
I need painfully early product feedback on something.
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@SenCoryGardner
I can't get through on the phones either. Unpaid voter from zip 80303. No on DeVos and Sessions. Constituents above Party!
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Ugh. Startups are hard. Somedays I don’t understand how I’ve done this twice before. …or why i am doing it again.
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We are going to go down to the wire selecting the first cohort of companies for
@AngelLabs
.
With 297 applicants for 10 slots, there are no easy choices.
I want to shed some light on how we are making those choices.
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Is it really women that need to do more and speak up more now - or is it men?
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@sophiaamoruso
There is nothing wrong with us. We don't have a problem. We should be whatever the colossal fuck we want to be. In your face or under the radar.
It's the misogyny that is the problem.
Thanks for being unapologetically you, SA.
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In today’s company all hands we announced a minimum starting salary of $25/hr ($50k a year), promotions for over a dozen women, and Juneteenth as a company holiday. It felt good.
#Bcorp
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@Jillsoley
Dangerous to fall in love with your solution instead of the customer and their problems.
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@justingordon212
We (a few YC and Techstars OGs) just launched
@AngelLabsIO
, a new Web3 accelerator. (😇,🦮)
In a shameless shill: Experienced operators adding an NFT-component to their business should reach out. Applications for our first cohort are open through 4/18.
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Phew. I did it.
I just hit *send* on an accelerator announcement during probably the craziest week to launch a Web3 cohort.
If you are new to or skeptical of the space - especially NFTs - the thread is worth a read.
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.
@debsoon
is my fav thing about
@WoWPixiesNFT
and
@thehugxyz
. But today it's
@ayodeleaigbe
who inspires as she jumps fulltime into Web3 next week.
No better way to break her in than a Hug mint pass (and she gets to pick a pixie on day 1).
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The most valuable thing you can do for a founder is reply to their monthly update to cheer them on.
Not just one time - but every time.
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Charging startup founders to connect them with investors is the laziest-ass business model I’ve ever seen. Do better.
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Unpopular opinion: the best teams are so close to making Web3 onboarding invisible that existing projects operating 100% in Discord are going to get lapped. 😬
Shocked more projects have not invested in :
🔸 CRMs,
🔸 multi-channel comms
🔸 apps built for utility
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I am NEVER out of bandwidth for another woman up and coming in her career, another female founder, or any female investor. That is all.
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This summer I've had a handful of founders set up RUVs to bring angels onto their cap tables but then set $5k and $10K minimums. I want to cry. 🤦🏽♀️
"Aren't I leaving money on the table if I set it too low? There's no real benefit from a $1K check."
No. It's the opposite. =>
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@rileybeans_eth
Well, if the community is both the product and the customer, and you are running that community on Discord, it seems to me you are the GM of the business 👀PLUS vibe setter + security guard + part-time therapist/bartender at a bar with typing instead of drinks.
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I'm a loud and proud "baby check" angel.
But I just saw my name show up on a founder's list of investors as a sign of social proof, and I've already had two potential investors reach out to me to learn more.
Takeaways:
the ego effect of angel is real. 🤩
every check matters. 🤑
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Who are the best pre-seed and seed stage investors in climate and sustainability?
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I love this guy. Every thought out of his mouth is rich.
But for the record, my post-menopausal purpose is to put a fat BILLION of capital in motion for startup founders.
I am so out of fucks to give. And it's flaming fabulous!
#postmenopausalwomenforharris
NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”
He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a "weird, unadvertised
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Oof. Talked to a founder that feels potential customers aren’t buying because they aren’t smart enough to understand the product. Their proposed fix is to educate their potential customers more.
Thoughts on this strategy?
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My two teen sons and their pile of roommates and besties signed
@BoulderBedrooms
and are now activated for the local election in November. Thank you
#Boulder
Council for activating my crew’s vote. Don’t let it hit you on the way out, NIMBYs!
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Not any woman - THIS woman. I am choking back tears. It's finally our turn. Get out and vote!
#IVoted
#OhHillYes
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This is how it's done.
Unhappy crowd shows up at Mike Coffman’s regular meeting with constituents
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Guess what happens when a founder pitches less than a week before having her 3rd child? 👀
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She tells an energizing story, answers the tough questions like a boss, and hopefully walks away with a check. Nothing to see here folks. What did you expect?
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Are you a founder who also angel invests?
What is the one piece of advice you would give to a non-founder angel that you only know because you have been a founder?
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We just replaced all the images of women in our deck with movie-star white men.
Let's see how feedback morphs. It will.
(I was not allowed to add Tyler Durden though)
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What if investing felt like going to book club with your besties?
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Just updated my calendly so I am only taking founder meetings in the afternoon. I was giving away my most productive and creative time without realizing it. 🤦🏽♀️
Now it’s my turn to build.
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@OfficialBBrooks
@MartinGTobias
easy way to 🚩every female founder and 🚩🚩 if you aren't white.
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@clangwith
@schmafia
The goal is actually generating revenue and margin by solving a customer need.
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Mind blown. This is going to be my first mint and I can’t wait.
So excited to FINALLY announce this project that I am lucky enough to be the artist for. Working with an incredible team
@acav
@AllysonDowney
@randizuckerberg
@max_siegman
☄️ 2022 COME AT ME🔥🚀❤️🔥
#NFTCommunity
#nftart
#LFG
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Confession: 3 weeks ago when we opened up applications for
@AngelLabsIO
, I thought we'd have 70 companies apply.
I was off by 4x. 🤦🏽♀️
That was great because I love founders, but here's the rub....
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ngl waking up to our first
@letsplaymoney
press in
@FastCompany
alongside 3 of my favorite angel communities --
@HustleFundVC
Angel Squad,
@TheCouncilCap
Angels, and
@TheModernAngels
-- feels fairly fantastic. 🚀💎
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I am so confused. If I say "AI" in my pitch, folks roll their eyes, but if i don't say "AI" folks aren't interested because how could we not be AI-enabled XYZ?
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The best part of coming home from vacation is grading the high school party cleanup effort. Anna gets a C- .
Grant did better back in the day - and his party had 1M views on IG.
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+1 ....pull up a chair and pour yourself a tall one....
If you're shocked by Uber sexual harassment stuff, ask women (esp over ~40) to tell their stories. Why laws & enforcement matters.
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