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Why I believe crypto native investors will emerge as this generation’s highest-performing managers in any asset class they choose to pursue 👇
Crypto has historically moved in 4-year cycles. For anyone that’s been in crypto since 2013, that's 3 full bull / bear cycles, with…
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Today in amazing things in NYC: This kid is playing perfect Chopin AND video games simultaneously.
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Psyched to continue the journey with
@alexlines
and all the founders we’re fortunate to work with…onwards!
Also check our new look :-)
Introducing Notation II - Our mission is to be “first check investors” and the best possible partners to technical founding teams on day zero of a new project.
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Four years now into
@notationcapital
w/
@alexlines
. Wow time flies! Still feels like the very (very) beginning of this journey…excited for the next four years and the four after that...
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OH two young VCs at Maman in NYC and they sound indistinguishable from bankers at JPM - talking insurance plays, verticals, deals, transactions, brainstorming sessions, the need to wear vests, etc. God save us all.
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Team Notation now 4 strong 💪 - A very exciting day for us. We're still at the verrrry beginning of what we plan to do here in the NYC startup ecosystem and beyond…
Welcome Katherine!!
Today is a special day for our firm —>
@katherineykwu
has officially joined Notation as our first principal. We are BEYOND excited to invest in and support Notation founders together for many years to come. Welcome Katherine!!!
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Almost exactly 17 years ago I met my best friend
@nkorzenko
. Last weekend I finally convinced her to marry me :-)
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Notation Moonlight is going to be awesome, a community and program for future founders based in NYC. Pls do share with anyone you think might be interested…
Cc:
@francium
@rrhoover
@joshm
@badboyboyce
@rebeccakaden
@ioates
@shanlynm
and others!
So this program will start small, because it just me, Nick, and Alex who are behind the scenes-- and we've also asked and enlisted the help of some absolute superstar NYC based founders, operators, investors 🌟
Please apply- RT/ shares appreciated! 🙏🏻
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1/24: Exciting news out of
@bisontrails
and
@coinbase
today! It’s a fantastic combination of two exceptional companies and products that will serve customers well.
1/ Today, we’re incredibly excited to share the news that Bison Trails will be joining
@Coinbase
as a standalone product line: the foundation of Coinbase’s infrastructure suite to advance the crypto ecosystem.
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[New Post] “Notation + Crypto” on how we’re approaching the blockchain space + special announcement re
@libovness
!!
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Big news today!
@alexlines
and I are welcoming Thomas to the
@notationcapital
team. The first of a few exciting announcements we have in store this summer ⚡️
Welcoming Thomas Bailey to Notation! We are incredibly excited to have him join our team in NYC.
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1) After eighteen years of friendship (and love too), I married
@nkorzenko
last weekend. It was the best night of my life.
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Looking for a great product person to lead the way for a (very) new NYC fintech startup focused on seniors. Holler if you know someone pls!
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Excited to finally announce that I’ve partnered with my close friend
@alexlines
to build
@notationcapital
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[New Post] “The Current State of ‘Seed’ Investing” -
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I’m really excited about this. We’re opening up Notation for the first time to a broader set of LPs - if you’re interested in getting involved or know folks that may want to, DM or send an email nick
@notationcapital
.com
The Notation III-A — Community Fund - Broadening access to Notation and venture capital -
AngelList Fund link -
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I did a scary thing and wrote a post about depression. It's been sitting in drafts for a while, but this morning I decided to press publish.
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I am so so excited about this, and for Nicola (my partner) on her next adventure, and for Podfund, and for all the podcast creators that get to work with them... ❤️
So thrilled to share my new gig
@podfunding
, the next chapter in my life-long mission to help making art financially viable
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1/ Can’t stop thinking about these two articles from this week…feels like the reaction to binary VC + expected growth is gaining momentum...
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😍😍😍
Getting ready for the
@notationcapital
annual meeting this week with our very own batch of LP Limited Editon coffee beans ☕️
Roasted by our very own
@alexlines
in Brooklyn, designed & packed at the Notation office.
TLDR we may not have VC vests but we got dope coffee
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OK honest question - Do founders want this? An LP once made us go on a hike with him while pitching and it was one of the worst LP experiences I can remember.
Pitch and Run NYC offers a workout—and a chance to pitch your startup. The tech jogging club, co-founded by tech investors, aims to connect founders and investors during the pandemic
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West 4th basketball is a rare precious gem in NYC that remains largely unchanged.
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Took all of about 16 minutes since wheels down in SF to overhear folks talking termsheets at the Deli. And here goes the next week folks!
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Thread 👇🏼 … I’m so fortunate to get to go to work every day w/ Katherine. She’s in a very short time become an absolutely critical part of our team, our firm, and our culture
@notationcapital
. I’m hopeful we can all root this stuff out in the years to come...
The majority of the men in my professional life whom I interact with on a regular basis are kind, paitient, and respectful.
But every once in a while I am reminded very starkly of the implicit sexist bias that exists from small gestures to more overt acts.
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In the past 45min watching the basketball game...FB, Wells Fargo, and Uber have each run commercials apologizing for things.
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So we've been out of the podcast game for a few months now, but launching SEASON 5 of the Origins pod today w/
@bryce
- Who is just generally awesome, and a really refreshing perspective on venture. Thank you Bryce for hanging!
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Long read, but a look into our crypto asset investing / messaging to our LPs. Curious to hear from other VCs and blockchain founders...
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Hard to argue there's any better city in the world than NYC on a morning like this. And we get 3 days like this a yr! Maybe 4
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It’s been fun y’all! Removing Twitter from my life again tonight. See you in a few years. Love you 😘
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(1) This was an exciting Origins moment for me. When we first started the pod, it was really difficult to get LPs to go on the record with us. We heard a lot of “No’s.” The idea that we could convince folks like UTIMCO to do an interview seemed near outlandish at the time
[New Episode] Origins Podcast with
@conradshang
of UTIMCO - ie. University of Texas Endowment. This is an incredibly interesting episode going deep inside the LP endowment ecosystem. Thx Conrad for chatting with us!
#openlp
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So --> "Always On" -
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1/ So this happened…a few thoughts below...
This conversation sorta blew my mind -
@thechainsmokers
are entrepreneurs through and through, broke out by making great music, but also hacking
@hypem
charts and pure grit...
[New Episode] Origins Podcast with
@thechainsmokers
on how they fell in love with music, built their career as artists and producers, began angel investing and now building
@mantisvc
. This episode was 🔥🔥🔥. Check it.
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5/ Hoping in the years to come that won’t be the case, and there are so many people, companies and firms now leading the way -
@timoreilly
@bryce
@indievc
@Mailchimp
@jasonfried
@shl
… inspired by what they and many others have started
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Yes! My partner
@alexlines
on
@notationcapital
investment in Timber. A really ambitious and well executed product
[New Post] Our Investment in🌲Timber.io — Smart Log Analysis for Developers
@timberdotio
@binarylogic
@zshrm
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Dude next to me in Seattle coffee shop been buying + selling Neocoin for the past hour. Trying to get a good pic, stay tuned
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I think I might start doing a daily tweet OH from “seed” investors. Today’s is “I’d like to see your 12 months cohort analysis."
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EO is one of the most enjoyable products I've experienced in the last few years. Thank you Jake and team EO for making it.
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I feel this. One of the reasons I left Wall St only 8 mos in after college ... parts of startup / crypto feel same or worse right now
Too many people in Silicon Valley talking about how much "money" they "made" "investing" in cryptocurrencies
Pisses me off. When did "NYC finance bro" culture invade SV? What happened to creating valuable things for people?
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I’ve been reflecting on my last tweet about “banker” VCs and why that vignette upset me.
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“Early-Stage Blockchain Valuations” (A brief analysis in comparison to traditional early-stage startups) by ME!
cc
@gentlemanbasil
@petkanics
@notationcapital
@jrlevine
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Internet: I’m opening a bar in BK. No joke. The business model revolves around getting people to walk in and buy beverages and food.
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Just watched Vice’s nightly news. God bless these kids down in Florida fighting for change.
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After several years, I’m retiring my
@betaworks
email address today. Much love to all my beta homies. Excited to announce a new thing soon!
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VCs out here bout to get wrecked in 2022. Happy belated new year y’all!
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@julianweisser
@davidrgoldberg
@AustenAllred
@notationcapital
@chudson
@PrecursorVC
I just went through the data because I was curious …
@notationcapital
was actual first dollars in, and led (or co-led) 20 of the 30 startups we invested in out of our first fund. I believe this is unique for our stage in NYC.
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Been an amazing year at Notation…plus we published our advisory board deck. Which I think is weird for VCs to do?
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So excited to finally announce this !! --> “Introducing Origins: A New Podcast about LPs” feat.
@Beezer232
#openlp
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In what is now a tradition, we published our annual meeting deck 😮 … check it
Publishing the Notation 2019 Annual Meeting deck and sharing some of our learnings from this past year.
Always a great way to incorporate some lessons throughout the year, and of course grateful for our LPs & community. Onwards to 2020!
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Wow. Uber driver just told me every uber driver, at least in NYC, going on strike on Monday due to low fares. Everyone switching to Lyft...
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This was our first experiment with an annual meeting at
@notationcapital
. Learned a lot from the experience, sharing some of the results :-)
“The Notation Annual Meeting” (plus publishing our deck)
—> For founders (and VCs) thinking about partnering with us in 2019 (pls do!), a look into our latest thinking and strategy…
#OpenLP
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Marriage License time w Nicola (@ Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn, NY)
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Well deserved profile of
@badboyboyce
🙌 --> Can this 26-year-old change the face of venture capital?
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Wow. An incredible run, and end of one era and the start of a new one. I remember being so excited to invest alongside
@svangel
when making my first seed investments on behalf of
@betaworks
way back when. Grateful to have worked w y’all and look fwd to the next iterations
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Wow. This will be a huge business for Coinbase. Also a bummer for the dozens of startups currently trying to build this
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After years on the sidelines, one of the
@notationcapital
portfolio companies gave me a new operating role today! Stay tuned, so psyched!
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Congrats my homie. Excited to work with you and
@stevejang
for many years to come.
Hi! So, some news.
@stevejang
and I have raised a new fund!
It is a $56M fund that is investing in innovative startups at the earliest possible stage.
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The best episode of Origins that we’ve ever recorded is dropping tomorrow! Really excited about it 😬
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Today,
@katherineykwu
posted some of our thoughts on how we think about pre-seed investing and risk at
@notationcapital
… slides from our past annual meeting. Thoughts welcome! Curious to hear other perspectives...
Over the course of the past five years, “pre-seed” rounds have gone from a nebulous sounding name into a full-blown category.
But even beyond semantics, we think about 'pre-seed' investing as a specific type of risk, and published our thinking here:
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This was a really fun one.
@cpaik
and
@jordancooper
were extremely kind to us when we were getting
@notationcapital
off the ground years ago, and now I think they’re in the process of building a very important new venture firm in NYC
@PaceCap
.
These two ❤️
[New Episode] Origins Podcast w/
@cpaik
and
@jordancooper
on how they came together to start
@PaceCap
. In depth discussion on partnership alignment and economics, OG NYC tech, and what it takes to build great VC firms from the ground up.
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Think there’s a bug in the bitcoin blockchain. I was under the impression the $btc price always went up?
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This is really cool. Wish it existed when we were starting
@notationcapital
Introducing Spearhead: An accelerator for angel investors — and $35M to back them
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Yo airport is lit right now on a Friday night. Star studded affair...
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AIM was basically the whole Internet for me in middle school. RIP :-(
All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users!
#AIMemories
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Can never be too careful with the bike precautions in NYC...
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[New Post] Some thoughts on operating
@notationcapital
six months in. Lessons learned building a firm w
@alexlines
-
http://t.co/MeltDmpQJo
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The Origins Pod is back!!! With new and improved hosts :-) Extremely excited that
@Beezer232
@natewcl
and the
@SapphireVC
is hosting an Origins miniseries on behalf of
#OpenLP
. We think you’ll love it.
More here:
Subscribe:
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A day late to the party, but huge congrats to Dustin on Wonder II…a fantastic partner to us at
@notationcapital
and an even better partner to LA founders. Here we go! High fives homie
Excited to announce, Wonder Ventures Fund II, a $15M pre-seed fund dedicated to backing the best founders in LA, earlier than anyone else.
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4/ I think there’s something special about being small, sustainable, even “boutique”…but the narrative (and business models) in SV (and beyond) last few years hasn’t allowed for that
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My fav girl
@nkorzenko
and our dear friend
@birdabroad
have a really cool new project that combines two passions dear to me —> theater + crypto :-) If you want to help, donate or come check out the first production (NYLON), pls holler!
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BACK IN NYC and ready to go!!! Man this city is so good. What the hell y'all been complaining about with this weather??
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It's quite possible cabs are now a more convenient option in SF because it seems no one thinks to use them...
#SFdeepthoughts
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Chef’s Table is the most inspiring look into artistic process and drive that I’ve seen in a really long time.
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When I hear early stage VCs emulate the transaction-speak of Wall Street banks, I can’t help but sense a basic loss of respect for the founders and folks doing the hard work building startups.
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Excited to finally make this a public doc! Thx to Notation peoples
@alanabranston
@jrlevine
@AviKarnani
for feedback along the way.
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Getting back in the game and gonna record a few Origins pods next couple of months in LA. First up is
@jmj
… who else should I get in the mix out here? Suggestions pls!!
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This was so much fun. Always learn so much from
@km
🙌🏼
[New Episode] Origins Podcast with
@km
. A fascinating conversation about starting
@KindredVentures
with
@stevejang
, how to build an investment process and conviction, and navigating the current Covid-19 health and economic crisis. Thx Kanyi!
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I just cross published a medium post to linkedin for the first time…and now I feel kinda gross (even writing tweeting those words is ugh)
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Discover Weekly on Spotify has dramatically improved my Mondays. Whoever made it is a hero.
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This was a great conversation, and basically a rundown of NYC tech over the past decade. If Dave had only let me into Techstars way back when… :-)
[New Episode] Origins Podcast with
@davetisch
, Managing Partner at
@BoxGroup
and Head of Cornell Tech Startup Studio.
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This list is both awe inspiring and deeply concerning. Consolidation feels inevitable, but I wonder when and how that happens...
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Working as a recruiter today for
@notationcapital
- Holler if you or someone you know might be interested in:
- Back-end Contractor (seed)
- Sales Director (Series A)
- Head of finance (Series A)
- Design / Front-end (pre-seed / seed)
More roles here:
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GM. [New Episode] Origins Podcast - Trying something new this year co-hosting with
@Beezer232
. Our first episode we have
@km
joining us to discuss current LP / VC market conditions. We're also are trying video, which you can check out on spotify -->
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Huge props to
@petkanics
@ericxtang
and the whole Livepeer crew. One of the few teams in the blockchain space that have focused on building above all else. Excited to see how the network evolves in the months and years to come
Livepeer is now running on Ethereum's Mainnet! Broadcast video, transcode, delegate!
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Founders are the artists and talent. And if they’re gracious enough to choose us as partners, we work for them.
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Really excited to be working with the team and supporting their mission. Also amazed by how much they’ve built already!
“We fell in love with the idea of empowering creators by helping them build clean, distraction-free, non-toxic communities…” -
@sidyadav
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Very rare pic of me in the wild sans cap. Possibly grounds to re-record the whole thing... 😳
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