Startup MN Jackson

The artist formerly known as @StartupLJackson until I cashed out & bought Jimmy Jam's old crib on 'tonka. Get ready for some northern (risk) exposure, bitches.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Taking startup advice from a career BigCo middle manager is like asking a dairy cow how to win the Kentucky Derby.

[Jordi Hays @jordihays]

If you want to get rich without losing your mind just move to the Midwest and become a full time angel investor. Only take pitches over 18 holes. Send term sheets for $51K for 51%. Find one Luke Farritor a year and you’ll be retired within 10. It’s really not that complicated.

[Clarence Bethea @Clarence_Bethea]

“Dear baby Jesus. Let my no’s be quick and thoughtful and my yes’s hit TechCrunch. Amen.”

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

When founders/owners aren’t transparent with employees about company financial performance 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

@DavidSandbeck @Clarence_Bethea @UpsieHQ Leave it to a white leftist to pontificate to a black man about diversity.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

@DavidSandbeck @Clarence_Bethea @UpsieHQ Sincere question, Dave: what the fuck is wrong with you?

[Thompson Aderinkomi @ThompsonAder]

Percent of Twin Cities MSA residents that are black = 8.5%. Percent of Twin Cities MSA residents that are black that have raised > $1M in VC in last 5 years = 0.00097%. Pick any factor related to wealth and power and plug into the second figure and it still works.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Lot of masks coming off in the Twin Cities right now, and all I gotta say is it’s about time.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

@robertjweber Man, with a portfolio and reputation like GNL’s I really wouldn’t be out here torching founders’ judgement with shitty little Page Six blind items, I’d be trying to do anything and everything to stop looking like the damn clown car.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

@Clarence_Bethea straight facts 🔥

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

…and employees got no equity.

[Axios @axios]

JUST IN: Mailchimp has been acquired by Intuit for $12 billion — the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding. https://t.co/C5dDE4g2E4

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Okay now I’ve seen everything. Marketing agency with no significant product or startup track record launches a venture fund promising “unprecedented access to the future” despite a logo lineup that screams yesterday’s news. Pass. https://t.co/hAlcbTyI3q

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Also: tell your peers what you make! Midwesterners are weird af about money. Comp secrecy *only* benefits employers. Hard to know how much to ask for if you don’t know where the ceiling is.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Your under-compensated senior engineers are my opportunity.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

PSA: if you’re a senior eng in the Twin Cities and aren’t making at least $200k in total comp (or risk-adjusted equity equivalent) you’re being played

If you know you’re being played and aren’t looking elsewhere, you’re playing yourself

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

This is fucked up. Everyone knows I’m your favorite fake billionaire investor.

[minnestar @minnestar]

Even your favorite fake billionaire investor can't wait for Thursday's #Minnedemo Back to Campus.

Don't miss the fun #MNtech - see you there Thursday at noon CST!

https://t.co/fag5rCrQb8

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Tell me one more goddamn time it’s impossible to write bug-free software. I dare you.

[Bobak Ferdowsi @tweetsoutloud]

YOUR PACKAGE WAS SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED AT 12:55 PM. PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A SECURE LOCATION IN JEZERO CRATER.

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

*cough* https://t.co/FcNJEvww4o

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Minnesota tech ppl: @melvincarter3 is the hardest working mayor in the tech community

@FrancisSuarez: hold my cerveza

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Too many people trying to “skate where the puck is going” (🤮) when they can’t even keep up with where the puck at right now smh

[Startup MN Jackson @StartupMJackson]

Let’s get one thing straight: if you in VC, you in finance, not tech.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.