Yesterday I gave a talk to a great group of Chief women on Angel Investing 101, and we talked briefly about budgeting and cheque sizes when you're getting started. We didn't have enough time to dive deep, so I covered it in more depth, sharing it here if helpful!
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Me getting my 12 yo son out the door for school:
- How are your shoes not on yet?
- Where are you going?
- Focus, put your hat on.
- Your hair looks great.
- Where are you going?
- Do you have your lunch?
- Please focus.
- Where are you going?
- OMG.
Same, I very literally have a physical reaction to his voice (and have since his first term).
What do YOU do to stay motivated?
Fundraising is exhausting. First call: chat w/ a fund portco raising Series A, remind her that fundraising is no fun...but keep going!
Only to turn around & furiously fundraise for our college campus project, which I'm exhausted of (Currently: why did I buy a college campus? It'd be fun, I said!)
Brooklyn forever
I'm not watching the State of the Union address. You?
This.
"Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland
💡 Create an investment thesis, refine it often, get good at skimming deals & assessing quickly
👭 Invest w/ others, informally or formally
📚 Educate yourself so you feel confident in your decision-making
🥊 Resist FOMO! It holds you back in both directions (is there something "better"?)
What else?
To Angel Investors: Sometimes it's hard to pull the trigger.
Quick ideas to get over the hump:
✅ Identify what your "yeses" are in addition to just your "nos"
🗓️ Create an investing schedule and stick to it
💸 Know what your budget is and how you want to allocate it so you can say yes quickly
Yes, actually.
I SO wish more people would talk straight about this man's psychological makeup (along with Trump's), and realize he's an ally to no one and will leave a path of shit behind him in any circumstance.
Bluesky, unlike X, doesn’t punish posts with links. Which means there is no good reason (and frankly no good excuse) for posts with screengrabs of articles that don’t link to them.
It’s bad for readers and bad for the writers whose work you’re using. Posting text? Link to where you got it.
Having grace for people is one of the biggest gifts you can give.
Enneagram testing is supposed to be helpful, but they sure do also make you feel kinda 😬 about yourself.
I'm an 8, with 7 wing and 5 arrow.
Excited to talk early stage startups with @jennyfielding.bsky.social next week! Founders and investors, this is a good one for you: 6/10 at 12p ET
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"46% of all seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2024, which is the highest bridge rate for any stage since Carta has been tracking such data."
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On today’s date in 1974, House Judiciary Committee officially opened public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
I love this.
"Since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day,’ more companies have delayed their IPOs, including closely watched names such as Klarna, Chime, and eToro....Early-stage companies are also finding it harder to raise capital."
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Breaking News: India said it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after militants killed more than 24 civilians in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
I'm obsessed with the Met Gala style from last night. And I'm not even a super fashion person. So many just NAILED it. Tey was my absolute fav. Under. Stood. The Assignment.
I can't even stand how much Tey nailed this. Absolutely understood the assignment.
Europe is actively recruiting our smartest brains working on our most promising research across multiple industries (I mean, I would too).
World intellectual power? Status: Dead.
Absolutely massive increase in sales emails to my fund address in the last month, 90% without an option to unsubscribe.
MADDENING.
Our incredible portfolio company Glacier just closed a $16M Series A round to advance their computer vision-powered recycling robot. Onwards!
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My husband.
Just cancelled my #paramountplus subscription.
