Lee Carter
@leecarter90
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Investor @ WEX Venture Capital
Boston, MA
Joined February 2011
Every startup pitch starts with "X industry is broken". Are there any industries that people generally agree are "fixed" or "working great"? Genuinely curious
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Boston area folks let me know if you want an invite!
Hey Founders! We're excited to be co-hosting a founder dinner with EOVentures in just a few weeks-- March 9th at their space in Harvard Sq.! If you're an early-stage founder actively building & want to attend, DM us & we'll send the deets. It's bound to be a strong crew (:
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The more I meet with founders and VCs, the more I think we've lost the plot on the idea of "bootstrapping" a business.
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100% agree with this thread, especially for those with non-technical backgrounds who are interested in working with startups.
If I were a recent grad, I'd go after this job: Chief of Staff (for a badass entrepreneur) A 🧵:
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To recap, Trump couldn’t decide whether to endorse Eric Greitens or Eric Schmitt in the Missouri Senate race, so he just endorses “ERIC” the night before the election. Now both are graciously thanking him for his sincere support.
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One of my favorite things that happens on this app, especially in crypto, is when someone adds their bag to a sweeping statement in a super sneaky way. "Even in this downturn, a16z's fund shows that crypto, blockchain, and IOTA are here to stay". Got it...wait what?
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If you can be the 1% of people that doesn't do this, I'll take your deck far more seriously.
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Watching the F1 series for the first time. Really compelling and fun! What I don't understand: why do all the same-team drivers hate each other? Feels like they should be best friends but it seems like the drivers on every team are enemies.
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March Madness is great because it's a national communal experience where we all have fun watching kids have fun playing sports. There's no other event that can touch it when it comes to pure collective joy.
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Exciting to see Slack double down on the Ecosystem Fund approach.
Today we announced Slack Fund’s new $100M fund! Thank you to all the founders who have let us partner with them thus far, and super excited to be able to continue working with the brilliant minds leading the next phase of work! 🚀 https://t.co/7suaCC7rYH
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A table with all of your squares filled in green and everyone else missing some squares indicates you either don't respect or don't understand your competition.
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Something I would like to see more in startup pitches/decks: an admission that your competitors may have certain features that you don't have but you made a conscious decision to focus on a particular feature set that you believe will differentiate you in the long run
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It would be cool if your email's AI could suggest links when you type a proper noun that you've linked previously. I add a link to my firm's website in so many emails, seems like it would be easy for the algorithm to recommend adding a link to it?
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I find this odd, very odd. I guess I get the intent, but this is just a weird pairing https://t.co/y7BnZqIAIl
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In my experience these practices are also mostly targeted at founders outside of traditional startup ecosystems because, which makes the practice even more predatory and hurtful to founders who likely have less VC knowledge & connections already.
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+1, This drives me bananas. If you want to start a startup consulting business, fine, but to make money off people by putting out a carrot of potential investment is repulsive.
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This is my favorite internet oddity.
Nearly 6,000 people work at "Stealth Startup". Yet we never hear about this company.
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so the IEA urgently requests more demand response to deal with more renewable (& intermittent) grids – 500GW globally by 2030 up from 30GW today what's the most suitable and fastest growing industrial load for demand response? (h/t @ShaunEnergy) https://t.co/pJuhZZY7N1
iea.org
Like other forms of traditional flexibility, demand-side flexibility is largely centralised and restricted to large industrial or commercial consumers
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Just in time for the holidays, learn about how digitization of the supply chain can get your Christmas gifts there on time! Some context on solutions to the port congestion issues that came into the public conversation recently https://t.co/6Pn9v59e9q
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ML Model performance management is even more complex for Edge ML, with high consequences.
Putting an ML model into production is like giving birth to a child, 80% of the work starts there in monitoring, maintaining, and improving it. This is why every data scientist needs a Model Performance Management tool in their workflow. https://t.co/DPF215wVnD
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