Arlan 👊🏾

Proud founder of @Backstage_Cap💯 + @HireRunner💜🏃🏾‍♀️, Author IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME, Host YOUR FIRST MILLION, @QueerGermanGirl’s WIFEY😍@generalhospital fan📺

[Arlan 👊🏾 @ArlanWasHere]

This month I’m celebrating 7 full years of alcohol sobriety🥹

I spoke a little bit about how I quit after 15 years of addiction in my new video.

I hope it helps someone today.

https://t.co/TAterfuGhA

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How to Pitch to an Investor: https://t.co/t5XEIMMoV8

How to Invest in Startups: https://t.co/XVtteYTRMS

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@JoshuaOgundu I honestly didn't know you were not shown the episode by the producers. If I had known, I would have made sure you saw it. I'm sorry you didn't see it this whole time. @gefensk You weren't shown it either?

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@todd_x_y @anothercohen Hi, Todd,

We send updates about Backstage quite often to our Reg CF investors. You can reach out to [email protected] and they’ll help. With so many emails, some are bound to get lost or bounce back. But the team will help.

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@chaedria

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@AnkoFelici @anothercohen This actually made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

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@iamjakestream @anothercohen I know of dozens of busy investors and fund managers who don’t answer all of their emails. I can name dozens.

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@kitun @iamjakestream Scott, why is that?

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I don’t doubt that. I have had my away message up for quite a long time. I don’t read most of my emails.

I’m trying to help resolve your grievance now. I can’t change what happened in the past, but we can work to answer now. If you want.

If you don’t want that, I’m not sure what you’re saying/asking.

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@iamjakestream @anothercohen I’m not familiar with the conversation so cannot speak to this directly. But you can reach out to the email address I mentioned and someone will reply during business hours.

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@iamjakestream @anothercohen We haven’t raised more operating expense dollars than deployable investment capital. Your investment is not worth $0. However, you can connect in the same thread about the $1 proposal and ask them if it’s possible to do this.

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@iamjakestream @anothercohen Ok the same email address and mention Studio rather than Reg CF.

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@anothercohen Oh ok, thanks for letting me know.

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@iamjakestream @anothercohen Ok, if you email [email protected] and let them know, they’ll check to see why you haven’t and they’ll make sure you receive them in the future. As the subject, mention “missing Reg CF email updates”.

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@anothercohen In case you don’t check your X messages (I miss some of mine), I’ve dm’d you so we can have a call. I think it’ll be better to discuss by phone or zoom. Up for it?

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I’m not sure if you’ve ever tried to raise and run a venture firm from scratch, and one with the number of portfolio companies we have, or as trailblazing as ours has been in the venture ecosystem, but it’s not a standard 2-person operation using Carta on the back end. This is sincerely the case.

We hired several people after the raise because we were told that we could raise each year as needed. The idea was to raise $1M - $2M every year or two. Then a few months later, we were told they got it wrong and we couldn’t.

We adapted, had two rounds of layoffs, survived covid as a company, and invested in several companies. We could have gone under, but we kept adapting and I kept pouring my personal money into the company to keep us afloat.

None of this has been easy. I don’t know what you think is going on here but there’s no big secret or scam.

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@obsidianbank @anothercohen 👆🏾You = up. And I can’t edit it. But I meant “I gave up half my equity.”

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@obsidianbank @anothercohen I gave you half my equity. Meaning I am diluted by half. Not in exchange for money. Anyone who wants to do that is welcomed to.

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We’ve been investors in and advisors to Akash Systems since 2017! Proud to see them shine. Huge thanks to Sarah Guo for hosting Felix Ejeckam & Ty Mitchell on No Priors. Watch the full compelling interview: https://t.co/MBgDWrTJon. + Shoutout to @mcuban & our Backstage syndicate for backing!

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We have sent more than a dozen detailed updates since the raise in Q1 2021. They (and the details in the documents you signed) mention that the funding went mainly to operations, which is why we raised. We grew our team and processes. It covered approx 3 years of expenses.

We did raise capital like we said and deployed it across several companies, including OpenAI, BoldHue, Akash, and others.

We raised from individuals, and Bank of America, Comcast, and others.