Natalie Carnegie

Founder and GP at Carnegie VC. Investing in early stage disruptors. Shitposting on all the rest.

99% parody.

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Took a break from the twitter world but now I'm back.

I know you've been waiting for this moment...

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What are the most common mistakes you see when founders are fundraising?

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Oh you're a venture capitalist?

Name all the capitals you've ventured to.

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There's a concept in medicine called the minimum effective dose. Basically don’t take 800 mg of medicine if 250 mg will work.

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If founders attended even half of the events VC’s invited them to, every startup would fail.

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Get it?

Because it's just a bunch of tech startup bros working?

It's a joke.

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Valentine's day in SF is wild.

It's like a normal day everywhere else.

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Hands up if your startup is throwing a valentines day party to incentivize employees to work through the evening.

🙋‍♀️

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How many of those creator-economy companies are going to make it?

At the end of the day, if I were a successful creator, I'd be everything in-house.

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just realized I'm going to be alone for Valentines day tomorrow -- what startup is fixing this?

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Founders if you are taking some evening time off for valentines day tomorrow -- you got to rethink your priorities.

I don't fund founders with love lives.

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@jamierusso cocaine

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I swear the average job is just emails.

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I can't state this enough:

Be picky with who is on your board.

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Female founders are severely under-represented in the startup community.

Let's change that.

Tag your favorite female founders 👇

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I'm forcing my team at my fund to work at least one all-nighter each week to be able to empathize with our port-cos

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If crypto keeps crashing what will happen to Discord's growth?

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In startups, it's better to have launched a hacked-together product that actually provides value to users than wait to launch a perfectly engineered thing that no one uses.

This doesn't apply to all startups -- looking at you @Superhuman

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I'm convinced, if you are a serial founder with decent traction, it's still easy to get funding.

I'd go a step further.

If you have a decent company, it's still easy to get funding.

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2018 was the year of the ICO
2019 was the year of the Unicorn
2020 was the year of the PPP
2021 was the year of the Everything Bubble
2022 was the year of the Popping Bubble
2023 will be the year of the https://t.co/WWSw6yviBz

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I secretly joined a run club just to network.

Am I evil?