Lolita Taub
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GP @ganasvc . Invests in community-driven cos. Passionate about changing the face of the startup-VC world. Prev @lightspeedvp @thecommunityvc @backstage_cap .
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I grew up poor & underestimated. My 1st home was a garage & ppl used to tell me that I'd be a HS dropout w/kids & on welfare.
At 33, I'm
#childfree
, have a BA/MBA, +10 yrs in a solid tech career & I invest in underestimated tech founders at
@Backstage_Cap
.
All is possible.
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💰Early-stage women investors: there are founders looking to add more of us to their cap tables but don't know who we are. Leave your deets for them to reach out.
💁🏽♀️Investor type
🔮Thesis
🌱Stage
💸Check-size
🌎Geo
✉️Contact
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I grew up poor. My 1st home was a garage + ppl used to tell me that I'd be a HS dropout & on welfare.
At 34, I have an MBA + 12 yrs in tech. I'm working on my dream, a world where tech is created + lead by our pop's diversity, as CoS
@catalyte_io
+ investor
@nextgenvp
.
Dream.
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💰Founders: here's an airtable with pitch decks from startups that have successfully raised capital. It was last updated a year ago, but it can still serve for inspiration.
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📚 Founders: While I figure out how to make LaaS (Lolita as a Service) a reality, I thought I'd create a "how I can help you" map. The goal: help you, help me, help you in a more scalable way.
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📏Founders: here's a handy chart of metrics VCs care about.
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💰Founders: I pooled together an airtable of +500 women angel investors in the US for you. Enjoy!
Get it here:
Add yourself here:
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Founders: what's in your pitch deck? Here are my must-haves:
✨Vision
💵Market size
☹️Problem
😊Solution
🏰Competition/differentiation moat
📝Go-to-market/business model
📈Traction/financials
🗺Roadmap/milestones to achieve
👛Fundraise/use of funds
👩🏽🎤Team/advisors/investors
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📢 Active early-stage investors: Share your deets for founders to pitch you.
Stage:
Thesis:
Criteria:
Check-size:
Contact:
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what's the best email marketing service for an early-stage startup?
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🔨Founders: here are over 350 tools & resources for your startup.
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🤔 Asking for a founder: My startup is pre-revenue. Every time I've approached investors who invest in pre-rev cos they've responded with something along the lines of, "sounds like a great idea but you're too early for us." What investors actually invest in pre-rev startups?
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💁🏽♀��Aspiring VCs who, like me, didn't come from money: today I was asked about my journey into VC and I want to share it with you. Why? Bc no matter what anyone says, I want you to know that it is very possible for you too to become an investor. /1
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🤔 Founders and investors: a reporter just reached out to get recommendations of badass early-stage female founders they should build relationships with. Who would you recommend?
No self-promotion please.
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🥳AWESOME NEWS! Today
@srcasm
+ I soft-launched The Community Fund, a $5M fund focused on early-stage community driven-companies. Yeah, I'm a GP now! Thx all. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
And, we’re looking for founding members for our investment team! Learn more + apply.
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🤔 Asking for a founder: how much salary should early-stage founders take? What’s too low and too high?
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🥳 BIG NEWS! I launched
@ganasvc
, an early-stage fund investing in Web 2 & 3 community-driven cos in the US & LATAM.
And bc we want to create generational wealth in community, I want to invite you to invest & join the Ganas LP fam!
Learn more 👉🏽
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👋🏽 Hi! I'm the child of Mexican immigrants & grew up in the hood. My parents taught me to dream. Our community taught me the strength in
#s
. Now, I invest in community-driven cos & aim to create generational wealth in community.
And, here's how I can help
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🤩Yay!
@Josh_Taub
& I are off to Latin America for a year! We're excited to explore, meet the twitter fam & back future unicorns!
Nov-Jan > 🇲🇽 Mexico
Feb > 🇨🇱 Chile
March-April > 🇦🇷 Argentina
May-July > 🇧🇷 Brazil
Aug-Oct > 🇨🇴 Colombia
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Hi founders, funders, and friends. I have big news to share.
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🤔 Asking for a founder: I'm a pre-seed founder. What should be in my data room?
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📣 Pre-seed and Seed investors actively writing checks through the end of this year: share your deets for founders to pitch you.
Stage:
Thesis:
Criteria:
Geo:
Check-size:
Contact:
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🤩 It's an honor to have
@NasdaqExchange
feature me and
@ganasvc
as first movers in supporting equity in venture capital!
🙌🏽 Thank you to the Nasdaq team and our community. It's going to take all of us to shift the needle. Let's go!
📸
@GS_VCactivist
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What century are we in? Women shouldn't have to think about this.
How to decide if you should wear your wedding ring to a pitch meeting
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🥳Latinx founders: I'm excited to share a guide I made for you!
Inside
💪🏽overview of our ecosystem
🤩founders + startups to watch
💸investors
📚resources
✨+ more!
PS I want to invest and support more Latinx founders.
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Founders: What's in your investor updates? Here's a sample of what I like to see
🙏🏽Asks
🤝Customer/Partnership Wins
✨Traction
- Product
- Sales
📈KPIs
- Acquisition
- Activation
- Retention
- Referral
- Rev
💰Financials
- $ in the bank
- MRR
- Burn
- Runway
👩🏽💻New Hires
📰Press
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I have a term sheet joke but it's not SAFE
I had a venture capital joke, but it’s not a good fit at this time
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I just published A Resource Guide for Black Female Founders
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🥳 Community-driven founders: surprise! I have a 200+ Community-Driven Founder Resources Guide for you. This is to help you succeed on your startup journey. The guide is created by and for the community.
You can get it here:
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If you're a founder who is curious about what corporate venture capital is all about, take a look at this primer.
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🚨 First-time founders: create your own first deck. Do not fall for predatory "consultants" that ask for thousands to do it for you. You cannot outsource your business.
🤦🏽♀️A founder this AM told me that he was charged $10K for a deck. This is not right.
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💰 Active investors (those not pausing & deploying capital despite the market), share your details below so founders can pitch you!
💁🏽♀️Investor type: Angel, VC, FO
🔮Thesis
🌱Stage
💸Check-size
🌎Geo
✉️Contact
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Underestimated founders: I want to help you get noticed by investors + I just had an idea.
Reply to this tweet w/👇🏽 + I'll RT tomorrow.
🐦Co handle
🌱Stage
🔨Problem you're solving
✨What's your product/service
📏Market size
💰Pre-revenue: Yes or No
🌎Country
#twitterpitch
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😢Watching the debate w/my mom. She just turned to
@Josh_Taub
+ me and said, "when Lolita was a baby the border patrol tried to take her away from me. I cried and held on to Lolita and wouldn't let them separate us. They kept me in a room for 2 days + only gave us a blanket."
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🤔 Asking for a founder: where can I find an affordable startup executive coach?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what are growth hacks all early-stage founders should do?
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😅🎉 For the last few weeks, I was worried that I had intestinal cancer. Today, I got the results from my biopsies and it looks like I just have parasites 🦠. Taking antibiotics and so happy I don't have to worry about cancer, again. Yay!
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🤩 Women founders: share your deets so we can all follow, celebrate and get you some investor love!
🦄 Co: [add your company handle or url]
🌱 Stage: [e.g., pre-seed]
📍 Country: [e.g., US]
🙌🏽 Team: [add handles]
📝 Blurb: [Co description]
💰 Fundraising: [Yes or No]
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🙄 I was triggered today by a successful founder/investor who told me they don't pay themselves; insinuated that I shouldn't either; & then, back-peddled, after I told him that I both 1) believe in paid work & 2) have to make $ to pay my team + bills. Check your privilege.
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🤔Asking for a founder: what's the best way to pick KPIs for my startup?
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🥳Yay!!! Just got off the phone with a founder who told me she's getting a check from an investor she connected with through the Startup-Investor Matching Tool.
💰That check brings us to 7 checks written to founders in the 3 months the tool has been around.
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💰 Founders: if you're fundraising, share your deets so investors can reach out!
🦄 Co: [handle/url]
🌱 Stage:
📍 Country:
📑 Structure: [e.g., Del C Corp]
🤩 Team: [handles/urls]
📝 1-liner: [description]
🙌🏽 Has a community? [Y/N]
🙋🏽♀️ Has an underrepresented founder? [Y/N]
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✨Working on a Latinx founders and startups to watch list. Who should be on it?
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👀Founders: here is an Airtable with +500 online and offline accelerators and incubators. Next application dates and duration of programs are included.
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🤔 Asking for a founder: can we force a VC off our cap table if after first investing $100K of a $1MM commitment, he lies to us for 52 weeks straight that the "rest of the money is coming next week?"
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what are the top 5 employees to bring onboard? We have a tech startup and it's just us co-founders now.
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🥰 Who are the nicest, smartest, and most-caring early-stage investors that you know of?
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💰Pre-seed and seed investors: there are underrepresented founders looking to add us to their cap tables but don't know who we are. Leave your deets for them to reach out.
💁🏽♀️Investor type:
🔮Thesis:
🌱Stage:
💸Check-size:
🙌🏽Leads or follows:
🌎Geo:
✉️Contact:
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💰 An awesome LP is looking to invest in female-led emerging funds that are intentional about investing in female founders. Who should she check-out?
No self-promotion please.
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Why are so few VC dollars going to underestimated founders?
🙄 Nepotism
🙅🏽♀️ Lack of meritocracy / old-school pattern matching
👎🏻 Homogeneous pool of investors
👁 Inability to see opportunity in problems/solutions observed by underestimated communities
💩Discrimination
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🥳 Founders:
@srcasm
and I are excited to launch
@thecommunityvc
, a fund investing in early-stage community-driven companies, alongside our incredible investment team! Help us welcome them and say hello!
Read more:
Visit us:
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🎉Woo! Dollars raised by women-led venture capital funds are up 59%, year over year. There’s still a long way to go but I want to take a moment and celebrate this.
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🤔 VC friends: some investors say they pass on startups bc "they don't have A+ teams" which is fair until you notice there's noticeable pattern matching bias that leave underestimated founders at a disadvantage.
🔑 What objective criteria do you use to identify an +A team?
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🎉Congrats to
@MelanieCanva
for raising funds for
@canva
at a $15B valuation and becoming a billionaire!
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🤩 Women emerging fund managers: share your deets so we can all follow, celebrate and pitch you.
🎯 Thesis:
🌱Stage:
🌎 Geo focus:
💰 Check-size:
🔗 Contact:
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🤔Asking for a founder: I raised a $2M seed round. All investment docs signed. The lead investor committed $1M, and filled the round with other VCs. When I closed the other money, the lead investor only sent $50K. What do I do? Sue?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what's your best advice for a first-time founder?
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🤔 Is anyone working on connecting underrepresented small check writers ($1K min) to founders who want diversity on their cap tables?
I'm getting more & more invites to invest + I don't want to hoard them - esp bc I want to see more of our community writing checks to 🚀 cos.
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I'm noticing a pattern in a subgroup of people who only reach out when they want something. I like people who care for humans (🙋🏽♀️), give and take. So, I'm starting a "they are takers, ignore them" list.
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Update: Startup-Investor Matching Tool
💁🏽♀️ 499 diverse founded + led cos
💰 170 pre-seed to series b investors
🌎 6 continents
💸 6 investments made
Founders: learn more + apply to get access to investors + capital that match your co stage and sector 👇🏽
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I'm on a call with 36 women emerging fund managers and the real talk is 🔥.
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✨I'm a huge believer in an abundance mindset. There's enough for everyone.
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🤔Asking for a founder: what are the key metrics VCs look at when assessing pre-seed VS seed VS series A investments? This stuff is confusing.
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🥳 Founders:
@Josh_Taub
+ I created a tool that allows me to share your co details w/investors - whose thesis you fit - for investment consideration!
S/O to participating funds
@Backstage_Cap
@HarlemCapital
@HustleFundVC
@WXRfund
+
Submit cos here:
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🤦🏽♀️"My $3.5M fund was the 2nd largest 1st-time fund by a Black woman VC in America ever. Contrast that to the largest debut fund by a white man, clocking in at $1.3B + you start to understand how big the chasm is."
@sarahkunst
via
@AllRaise
@AleezaHashmi1
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what are platforms that connect startups with other companies specifically for partnership purposes?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: what VCs are investing in pre-seed startups in Africa?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: if you could only recommend one business book to first-time startup founders, what book would it be?
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🤑 Pre-seed/seed underestimated founders: if you are looking for investor intros submit your company to the Startup-Investor Matching Tool.
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😅 So,
@KauffmanFellows
did not admit me to their program. On the bright side, I no longer have to worry about covering the $80K for the program.
✨ And le continuarémos a echar ganas, chin up.
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🔥Active investor allies: share your deets in the thread, if you're open to investing in founders WITHOUT a warm intro (and have done it before).
💁🏽♀️Investor type
🔮Thesis
🌱Stage
💸Check-size
🌎Geo
✉️Contact
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👋🏽VC friends: underestimated founders targeting underserved markets often hear "your market is too niche" or "too small" because mainstream investors don't see the market potential.
🤷🏽♀️How would you advise underestimated founders to plead their case?
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Check out this database! 👇🏽 These VC firms are investing in women entrepreneurs specifically.
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🤔 Asking for a founder: our startup has a few months left of runway (thanks to a personal loan I took out), our latest pivot isn't working out, fundraising isn't going well, and I'm not paying myself. Do you have any advice on whether I should keep going or close up shop?
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Excited to join
@backstage_cap
’s A-team and invest in the next generation of diversity-led tech unicorns! We’re changing the face of the space. 💥
It is my great honor to announce that Lolita Taub has joined Backstage Capital as an Investment Principal💥🦋Please join Christie, our Crew, Headliners, LPs and I in welcoming her to the family!💯
@LolitaTaub
@Backstage_Cap
@imchristiepitts
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.
@FastCompany
remove your $895 nomination cost, if you care about inclusion.
🗳Underestimated founders leading the most innovative cos: nominate your co for
@FastCompany
's Most Innovative Companies List!
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📚Underestimated founders + investors: what do you think about community-driven cos?
In this thread I explore:
🤔 What makes for a community-driven co
🥳 The benefits of community-driven cos
✅ Community must-haves
🧰 Tactics to build community
🙌🏽 Community-driven cos
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Working on something. Tag your favorite fund or company that's founded and led by a woman of color.
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🤯 The Startup-Investor Matching Tool is really enabling intros between investors and underestimated founders!
Updates
🥳We're 3 months old!
👩🏽💻240 intros have been made
🦄901 startups
👩🏽💼336 investors
💸7 checks written post-intros
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🙋🏽♀️I'm a first-gen Latinx investor/operator/speaker going on 14 yrs in tech on a mission to create a 🌎 where tech is created by and for the diversity of our population.
Reach/o for investment/speaking + other inquiries:
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🤔 Asking for a founder: where can I find a technical co-founder / CTO?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: I'm a pre-seed founder looking for a corporate lawyer that can help me with questions on cap tables, equity, and exit dynamics. What startup lawyers do you recommend I reach out to?
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😔 Feeling down today because I wish I could do more, I'm having some health issues, there's been an increase of people who want to use me, and I'm really over COVID life.
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I̶ ̶m̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶e̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶c̶h̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶g̶o̶a̶l̶s̶
I can collaborate to reach my goals
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✨Remember when I asked if you wanted to see me lead a fund and over 700 of you said yes? Well…🧵
1/
🥰✨🙌🏽💸 A friend just asked, "are you raising a fund? You need to!"
What do you think? Do you want to see me lead a fund?
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💰Founders: here is a list of 135 funds that are active amid COVID-19 and invest in underestimated founders!
h/t
@imchristiepitts
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🤔Asking for a founder: I’ve read where unethical VCs have stolen what they learned about a business and gave the information to competitors. As a founder how can I protect my company?
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🎉Congrats to us! We made the
@Forbes
Culture 50 List, the list of champions investing in Black and Brown communities, along w/friends
@ArlanWasHere
@ArianSimone
@IssaRae
& more!
Thx
@forbesthecultur
#culturemakers
@rashaadlambert
…
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🤔 Asking for a founder: got a rejection today that stung a little. What are tips to help overcome rejection and build resilience?
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🤔 Asking for a founder: is it normal for a VC to ask for advisory shares prior to considering your for investment?
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Let's reimagine what investors look like and what companies we invest in for outsized returns.
#ThisIsTheFaceOf
of a 1st-gen Latina from the hood who launched her own VC fund (
@thecommunityvc
) & believes in investing in underestimated founders.
h/t
@MacConwell
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🙅🏽♀️ VCs: don't ghost founders.
🙅🏽♂️ LPs: don't ghost GPs.
That's the tweet.
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🤔 As a content creator, I'm always looking for new platforms and tools I can use to improve, monetize, and distribute my work.
🤷🏽♀️ What startups are serving content creators that I should check out?
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