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nature is healing 🌱
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the funding pitches are ramping up again and most of them are seed rounds
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From the very beginning and the team at have always focused on reducing the feelings of loneliness, and using product in a thoughtful way to solve that larger goal. It's more than features and UI. Not surprised people love it.
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partiful is a feeling, partiful is a commitment, partiful is a vibe, partiful is an expression of love
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hosting an incredible panel w 3 badass desi female founders , , & umaimah from paro!
the convo is all about fundraising in a bear market and how these three founders did it successfully💜✨
reply 💥 for the rsvp link
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Agreed! Loved learning from 's journey from operator/founder to VC.
One gem I took away was her advice on increasing diversity among funders: (a) Have open hiring processes, (b) Implement pay transparency, (c) Join communities of support like & .
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Last week, a highlight was getting to speak w/ the @susafellowsfund fellows.
I became an investor with a product / eng background and VC seemed so opaque. We need more operators on this side of the table!
Congrats to the class and kudos to @susaventures for the program.
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Last week, a highlight was getting to speak w/ the fellows.
I became an investor with a product / eng background and VC seemed so opaque. We need more operators on this side of the table!
Congrats to the class and kudos to for the program.
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File under: it sounds crazy until it suddenly doesn't.
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one of my favorite trends for 2023 ⚡️
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raising from "friends and founders" is the new "friends and family" round
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"Our global supply chain systems are antiquated & its inefficiencies play out on a grand scale. We invested in because of the opportunity to transform global trade to work better, especially in economic times like these." -, partner. Congrats to !
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I’m thrilled to announce @terminal49 's Series A Funding 
This milestone puts us one step closer to advancing our mission of automating global trade.
Really happy to be working with @whatthedanheck @elizabethjcain @stage2capital & @nathan_owen @grandvcp who lead the round.
This milestone puts us one step closer to advancing our mission of automating global trade.
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We wouldn't be here without our seed investors who believed in me in the early days and stuck with us.
Thanks to for supporting me.
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I’m thrilled to announce @terminal49 's Series A Funding
This milestone puts us one step closer to advancing our mission of automating global trade.
Really happy to be working with @whatthedanheck @elizabethjcain @stage2capital & @nathan_owen @grandvcp who lead the round.
This milestone puts us one step closer to advancing our mission of automating global trade.
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17 states now have pay transparency laws 👏🏽
Here's how founders should prepare 👀
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In memoriam 🕯️
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10 years ago today @aaronsw took his own life after overly aggressive prosecution.
He invented internet infrastructure.
He defeated the greatest threat the Internet had ever seen.
And you probably don't know who he is.
You should.
Here’s his story 
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🚨 PSA 🚨 Partiful is hiring!
- engineers
- a UX designer
- an ops person
If your 2023 resolution was to "build the most incredible product ever" ...come join us 🪩
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If you’re a founder or VC working on healthcare, analytics or Saas and want to hang, DM me!
Especially if you know any great hiking or yoga spots 🧘🏽♀️
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Thank you to and for hosting the best “welcome to silicon valley“ event imaginable - lunch with this crew of stellar women healthcare investors 🤩💕 #JPM23
In other news, I’m full-time in California now!
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The absolute highlight of #JPM2023 so far was having lunch with this bad a** group of VCs (all mamas of young kids and hustling!).
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...plus v excited for several of our portfolio companies which are launching or coming out of stealth in this space 🩺
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Next year is going to be patient data-palooza.
29% of the list are diagnostics companies - aka new sources for patient data & biomarkers.
More than ever we will need products making this data intelligible & actionable for patients.
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Congrats to , & the Paradime Labs team for launching on today. #analyticsengineers on are 50% more efficient when working with #dbt because they get a non-linear value jump. Check out their page here:
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"Discounting is a scalpel, not a sledgehammer" ⚒
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In the last 4 days, you received 34.7 discounts.
It'll tempt you to start discounting.
*Especially* in this market.
Don't.
Here's:
- How sales/marketing screw up discounts
- 3 rules for proper discounting
- Alternatives to discounting
- Special exceptions (eg. bfcm)
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the reverse of all the clever first tweets… the memetic final tweets 💀🫶🏽
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Look out for on 's podcast soon discussing how we work with healthtech founders like , , , and .
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The startup founders who walk through walls universally have this trait 🔥
Great thread.
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1. High Agency is the most under-discussed personality trait.
It's the sense that the story given to you by other people about what you can do is just that - a story.
And that you have control over the story.
I keep examples in my notes called "The High Agency Library"...
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It’s #WorldKindnessDay! 🤗💞 When we’re kinder to one another, we’re happier—and healthier. Here’s a reminder from my friends , , and to show yourself and your neighbors some love today and every day!
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Happy Sunday!
Chai spiced almond cake 🧁
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mood on here
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🇺🇸 this 🇺🇸
This TX coverage was nuanced and an exemplar of what local coverage should look like.
Sewell is the most brilliant, high integrity journalist of a generation. I had the privilege of working alongside him a decade ago at .
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My prayer for US political journalism: Stop trying to predict election outcomes. Stop treating polling like science. Center the voices of voters. And focus on policy proposals and policy outcomes—not the horserace. #electionday
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Got 30 minutes? On today's episode of the Heart of Healthcare, and tackle our mission, what's been missing from the family-building process, and how we're changing the landscape of egg freezing and third-party reproduction.
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Reproductive decisions should be between a patient, their doctor, and...that's it. That's the tweet. #vote
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🚨 HOT JOB ALERT 🚨
i'm hiring a chief of staff at !
help me:
✨accelerate founder journeys in/out of portfolio
✨grow the #eniacnetwork
✨help w/ diligence & investments
✨produce events
✨launch marketing initiatives
✨support LP relationships
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Clock speed is one of the biggest factors you can optimize as a company. The speed at which you ship, get feedback, iterate, and ship again is your most sustainable competitive advantage.
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normalize $ group chats
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🚨🚨🚨 we’re hiring an associate! please share far and wide. if you’re an ambitious, self-starter with a quant background we are looking for you
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totally agree & founders should never do remote pitches this way!
it's a horrible experience to be zoomed out looking at a whole table of people 👀
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The difference between video calls into large board rooms super zoomed out on 20 people vs. traditional voice conference calls is ZERO.... you can't see anything anyway... which is why zoom required the pandemic to take off.
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cool VC job 👀👇🏽
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We’re hiring for a Chief of Staff!
Do you want to take a leading role in building one of the top emerging VC funds?
Are you a generalist who admires your own ability to get all kinds of shit done?
Learn more below & share with anyone great!
spacecadet.notion.site/Chief-of-Staff1
what do founders rarely think about pre series A, and afterwards all the time?
worth knowing the definition, plus here's a helpful explainer
ps: DTC healthtech founders, this also applies to you
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I wanted to go over a finance concept that is at the backbone of creating profitable DTC brands.
Contribution margin (CM).
Let’s take a look at:
- What it is
- 3 frameworks I use with CM to drive profit
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"Find someone that believes in what what you believe so you can help co-create something when you invest. Your earliest investors are there with you for a long term. We are there to help you through the lifecycle of a company." , , at
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