Beyond this year’s Olympics, how can France build on its post-Brexit success? 🇫🇷💪
Antler in France’s @JamieJWong shares opportunities and challenges for founders in Paris with @business’s @LionelRALaurent.
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it’s always the female founders in our portfolio who are getting term sheets pulled, having exits disrupted, suffering 11th hour investor backouts…i wouldn’t believe it unless i’d seen it firsthand.
“It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but … I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."
~ Josephine Baker https://t.co/9qiUF0lBwD
Coming out of the Holmes trial, I think one of my biggest pieces of advice to startup founders is to have friends. You need people in your life you enjoy hanging out with that say things like 'lol what are you talking about' or 'that's a bad idea' when you say weird shit
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
Underappreciated factor in the startup gender gap: the platforms that are used for product validation skew very male (90% of ProductHunt voters, 75% of Kickstarter users, 79% of HackerNews) making it hard for female-focused products to find vital traction. https://t.co/RFtTekN73J
An enormous review—105 studies; over 70k people—found that valuing external validation and outcomes over internal rewards and satisfaction was associated with negative wellbeing.
Seeking fame or money (above a certain threshold) makes you worse off.
Here’s what makes you well:
Hey @LearnWorlds - we are on your highest plan that is supposed to include 24/7 premium support yet we haven’t heard back on our issues in more than two weeks. Are you guys still alive?
@kimmytaylor America only seems interested in normalizing unhealthy relationships with food. The culture wars haven’t helped: “if we are going to normalize anorexia, then we should also include obesity!” What happened to normalizing healthy?
The most common fundraising mistake I see with first-time founders is mistaking anything they hear other than “no” as “yes.”
Founders:
1) “No” is not in an investor’s vocabulary
2) The absence of “yes” is default “no”
3) The only certain commitment is money in the bank.