Owen Ridgeway

building @jointrailblaze

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

“Your actions create further emotional reactions and inspirations and move on to motivate your future actions”

@markmanson thanks for this insert

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

The most underbuilt layer of the internet right now is relationship intelligence

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

Everyone has a “deep network”

But for the most part, people don’t realize it.

@brettcalhounn’s path to @redbudvc is a great example of someone who didn’t make that mistake

[Adam Perez @perezmoneyline]

https://t.co/BgZJUzPpzk

[Adam Perez @perezmoneyline]

https://t.co/BgZJUzPpzk

[Adam Perez @perezmoneyline]

The best networks come from the groups and experiences you were apart of. Last week I interviewed @brettcalhounn about how the network he built at Mizzou led him to founding @redbudvc.

Lived-In Affiliations > Cold LinkedIn. That's what I'm building at @jointrailblaze. Full article below.

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

@adamwathan This actually might work

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@colejaczko Once people figure out how simple, not easy, it really is to “get lucky” - everything changes

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@perezmoneyline Not at all

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@mattpelo @suryamidha Love the story, almost 20 years later and it's still going strong

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@mattpelo @suryamidha What was the problem/company?

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@IgorBlinkk @ycombinator #1 startup in all of Kazakhstan

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@colejaczko Extremely well put, everyone goes through this at some point. It’s the select few that decide to to define that time rather than letting it in define the rest of their lives

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@colejaczko

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@MarcusMilione Tenacity over everything

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@MarcusMilione This has been on my mind a lot, going to be a seriously problem when gen z income starts rising over the next 5-10 years

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@austinxwalker Leverage>taking your time when you already know deep down who should be writing the check

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

You need to make your own luck.

It’s easy to look around and see everyone else getting lucky, but you’re not looking at what they did to get there.

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@christophersaum @girdley It’s never been about who you know, rather than what you can do with who you know and how they perceive you when the right person comes knocking asking what they think about their experience with you

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

@signulll Focus on the present, it’ll be gone eventually but if you get stuck to it you’ll probably go down with it

[Owen Ridgeway @Owenridgeway8]

If you walked up to someone on the sidewalk - asked them a question, gave them a compliment, or simply said "hello" and their response was a blank face with no response. How would you react?

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@tmrohan @tmrohan as a seed investor, what does your involvement look like in the first few quarters after you write a check?

I know this varies from investor to investor, but interested in your stance from your previous success in investing early on.