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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. He seemed paranoid.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.) If you have a consumer solution, particularly one for women or people of color, even if it’s software, don’t wait for the “minimum $25k check”.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff. Git is another decentralized protocol really for version control and software. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? Can we build better ones?

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

This helps to replace the jobs lost as so many restaurants are going out of business due to COVID-19. – Interaxon Muse sells a brainwave-controlled computing technology and applications, and a hardware/software platform that converts brain waves into digital signals for meditation, games, sleep improvement, and disability assistance.