Startup MN Jackson
@StartupMJackson
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The artist formerly known as @StartupLJackson until I cashed out & bought Jimmy Jam's old crib on 'tonka. Get ready for some northern (risk) exposure, bitches.
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Joined September 2016
Taking startup advice from a career BigCo middle manager is like asking a dairy cow how to win the Kentucky Derby.
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If you want to get rich without losing your mind just move to the Midwest and become a full time angel investor. Only take pitches over 18 holes. Send term sheets for $51K for 51%. Find one Luke Farritor a year and you’ll be retired within 10. It’s really not that complicated.
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“Dear baby Jesus. Let my no’s be quick and thoughtful and my yes’s hit TechCrunch. Amen.”
We pray at the beginning of every Harlem Capital meeting. I’m typically private with my faith, but this tradition is very important to me. It brings our team together and acknowledges how so much of our success and well-being is outside of our control 🙏🏿
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When founders/owners aren’t transparent with employees about company financial performance 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Percent of Twin Cities MSA residents that are black = 8.5%. Percent of Twin Cities MSA residents that are black that have raised > $1M in VC in last 5 years = 0.00097%. Pick any factor related to wealth and power and plug into the second figure and it still works.
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Lot of masks coming off in the Twin Cities right now, and all I gotta say is it’s about time.
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…and employees got no equity.
JUST IN: Mailchimp has been acquired by Intuit for $12 billion — the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding.
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Okay now I’ve seen everything. Marketing agency with no significant product or startup track record launches a venture fund promising “unprecedented access to the future” despite a logo lineup that screams yesterday’s news. Pass.
demosfunds.io
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Also: tell your peers what you make! Midwesterners are weird af about money. Comp secrecy *only* benefits employers. Hard to know how much to ask for if you don’t know where the ceiling is.
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PSA: if you’re a senior eng in the Twin Cities and aren’t making at least $200k in total comp (or risk-adjusted equity equivalent) you’re being played If you know you’re being played and aren’t looking elsewhere, you’re playing yourself
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Your under-compensated senior engineers are my opportunity.
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This is fucked up. Everyone knows I’m your favorite fake billionaire investor.
Even your favorite fake billionaire investor can't wait for Thursday's #Minnedemo Back to Campus. Don't miss the fun #MNtech - see you there Thursday at noon CST! https://t.co/fag5rCrQb8
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Tell me one more goddamn time it’s impossible to write bug-free software. I dare you.
YOUR PACKAGE WAS SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED AT 12:55 PM. PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A SECURE LOCATION IN JEZERO CRATER.
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Minnesota tech ppl: @melvincarter3 is the hardest working mayor in the tech community @FrancisSuarez: hold my cerveza
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Too many people trying to “skate where the puck is going” (🤮) when they can’t even keep up with where the puck at right now smh
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Let’s get one thing straight: if you in VC, you in finance, not tech. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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lmao at the people who put “tech leader” in their LinkedIn bio and then proceed to wear a suit and tie in the profile pic 😂
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They all are @jyarow - which is the key point. Systematic errors come from a systematically flawed process, which we have here. When you intentionally restrict demand & target 30X oversubscribed, there is no other expected result. But its real money.
Another poorly priced IPO
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Wow, $JAMF popping 75% on open is an absolute clusterfuck. They just let their bankers give about $360M of *money that is rightfully theirs* away to fund managers. A massive, massive mispricing that their employees and shareholders ought to sue over.
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