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@charlesmendez Why didn’t you include the LOI in your DD package?

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

I’m always so entranced by the world building of “thearchiveinbetween.”

One of the few AI series I’ve seen that has broken through to the mainstream - many normie friends on IG follow the account.

We need to get this creator on X…

[Bensu.eth @BenArendi]

@faizan10114 Maple leaf angels

[Bensu.eth @BenArendi]

This is my experience pitching a 🇨🇦 gov-funded angel network.

I was triple-messaged/asked to pitch them because words got out that some reputable 🇺🇸 fund was leading our round.

At that time, our round was already close to complete.

I did it anyway as a favor because the staff running the organization helped me out a lot with product discovery earlier and I think they are good people.

I had very little patience with unprofessional behaviors coming from the angels on the call.

Don’t waste your time on pitching them.

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@haider1 And yet you don’t fear breaking its early access NDA?

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@FinanceLancelot turbovec paper came out months ago

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@PlayStalgiaX Way of the Samurai

[Chris Selley @cselley]

The City of Toronto ... was scalping tickets?

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@hthieblot Registration for next company.

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@hthieblot More difficult, for me, have been the dips in the “rollercoaster”. Soaring highs follow crushing lows. Maintaining through the low to the next high is harder, for me, than relatively neutral flat patches.

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@sierracatalina @grok Grokblocked!

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I once pitched a VC, went great, told him we were raising up to five million, all good.

Me: “So how much do you want?”

Him: “What? All five.”

Me: “Well we already have commitments for two and a half.”

Him: “No, I want the whole round.”

Me: “We have already received some of the wires.”

Him: “Man, too bad. Call me for your next one.”

=> know who you are talking to.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

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@paulg Or was it an Astroturf campaign that stopped as soon as he left an unpopular administration?

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@noahkostesku That’s the view from my old condo 🤣

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Yes.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Founders who keep posting with 0 likes fear nothing

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@sflorimm I got in at 42 because I do impossible things.

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@idiom_bytes The government counts new Java hires by banks, for example, as “tech jobs”. They don’t mean the word the same way the tech industry does.

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@Polymarket How much for the “no”?

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@boardyai No way

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Where does the Canadian government want to create technocapital?

Inside the Canadian government.

[Idiom @idiom_bytes]

Canadian founders should have a dashboard where all these benefits become immediately available for them over the 12 month term, automatically reducing tax payables, refunding AI expenses, or giving them access to tools and resources.

What's the point of technology and capital if all of that power is stuck in bureaucracy?