I spend most of my time thinking about:
1. Veterans launching businesses
2. What building community means
3. Cookies
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Helping Veterans build businesses Boston & making after-school learning better for communities fmr Product #GoNavy
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Join us if you're building something special and are obsessed with inclusion.
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If you're looking for an inclusive community of badass founders focused on helping each other thrive, look no more! 
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Most advice that starts with "why don't you just…" is bad advice.
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If you want to sell more, master the art of selling without it feeling like you're selling.
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Stop planning for it.
Just start doing it.
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any black founders wanna pitch to a group of 50 early stage vcs & angels next month?
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Join us tomorrow 1/24 at 11 am EST for our weekly Office Hours with guest, Nicole O'Brien, founder of Unique PL8z. We'll talk about how to scale a business focused on homemade goods. Nicole knows a thing or two after being in the business for 10+ years. Streaming live!
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i buy books at 5x the rate i read them
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I've billed over $3.6 million as a Solopreneur.
I put together an incredible course showing how you can get to the same place.
Normally $99. Here it is for FREE.
RT this and Reply "Solo" and I'll DM a FREE coupon to you (within 24 hours).
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Really proud of the team we've built at Pillar and the values we share. We'd love to hear from you if you think you're the right person to join our team as an investor.
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Why do female founders get pushed towards mentorship/fellowship programs funds have versus the less qualified male founders/companies that are given investments without similar strings attached.
Again for the people in the back - Women are over mentored and underfunded!!!!
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A product launch is not a spike but a staircase
Here's my playbook from idea to market:
- Launch it to your besties (4-5 peers)
- Launch it to your Slack communities (~100 people)
- Launch it to your Twitter audience (~1000s of people)
- Launch it on Product Hunt (the world)
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You are connected to someone’s yes.
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Of the $19.5B VC capital deployed in MA in 2022:
- 0.56% to Black founders
- 0.9% to women founders
- 3.4% to Latino founders
Boston is really good at talking about diversity and really bad at writing checks.
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The quickest and best way to get your needs met in a relationship:
Learn what they are and ask for them 
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I've wanted this building forever.
Anyone up for tinybostonbuilding.dao? 😬
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What will go into this empty building on High St? @fortpointer @DTownBostonBID @universalhub @BostonPlans
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Founders: pay yourself first if you can. No one is handing out medals for your low / no pay.
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Some of the fiercest people out there, do not appear fierce at all.
No one sees you coming, you're largely underestimated, and by the time people catch on - the moves are made.
It's a superpower to be a low-key killer in your space.
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If you have the word "visionary" on your LinkedIn...
(finish that sentence)
It’s not true that everything will be ok.
It’s also not true that nothing will.
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As a start-up founder you have only one decision:
What is the next right action to take.
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As we begin the new year, we are proud of the incredible achievements startups in our network, like have made to push innovation further in 2022.
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Couldn’t agree more.
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The ability to listen to your partner, and truly try to understand what they’re saying without making them wrong - even if you strongly disagree - is one of the most powerful acts of intimacy there is.
Get off our lawn, we’re building a business here 👨🏼🦳
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Successful entrepreneurs tend to be middle-aged — not in their twenties. hbr.org/2018/07/resear
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On January 6, 2021, Josh Hawley showed us he’s a fraud and a coward.
Missourians deserve a U.S. Senator who’s willing to stand and fight. That’s why I’ve decided to take him on.
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VC - Invest in women this year. The numbers are pathetic.
That's it. That's the tweet.
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“I’ll take care of me for you if you take care of you for me”
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Today’s seems like a good day to re-start CopyThat.
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I have a side project called CopyThat (trycopythat.com).
It teaches people how to write better by copying others (how I learned).
It's fun.
The current version is for copywriting but I wanna make one on blogging, but am open to other writing formats.
What you want?
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I spent years as a couples therapist, and the success of any relationship comes down to:
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People will tell you a lot about who they are, by the choices they make.
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Who you work with matters way more than what you work on.
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The partner you choose to spend your life with comes with: a mindset, a set of habit behaviors, and an overall belief of the way the world works. Each of these will have a massive impact on your daily life.
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A great way to use the "gap week" between the holiday & New Year is to do some reflection.
Where can you be audacious in 2023?
- Skip steps
- Be bold
- Make your move
More in the newsletter today, "Don't play small, Don't play stupid." 4/fin
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Let's make this Christmas miracle come true 🎄
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how do I accept the transfer of someone else’s username? Support recommended reaching out to the owner, and now that I have, I’m having trouble finalizing the transfer.
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Grateful we’ve had this since day 1 🙏
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NEVER OUTSOURCE your engineering as a startup.
Every startup should have a tech co-founder / CTO / engineering lead in house.
OUTSTAFFING is totally fine once you are ready to scale the dev team but engineering lead should always be in house / FT.
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