Armando

Founder and former CEO of eLearnSecurity - I write about entrepreneurship and investing📍 🇺🇸 Silicon Valley 🇮🇹 Italy 🇦🇪 Dubai

[Armando @armandoisme]

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[Francesco Romeo @fraromeo_]

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[Francesco Romeo @fraromeo_]

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[Drake Dukes @DDukes12]

Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information…

I say liberate the data! 🔐

So our team put together a list of all 5K+ founders that raised a Series A within the last year.

RT this tweet & I’ll DM you the list

Here’s our insights🧵

[Armando @armandoisme]

@securestep9 @HackMeProject @eLearnSecurity That would be a good idea. As you know I’m not involved with eLS in any way and can’t speak for the new owners.

[Filippo Livorno ⚡ @fil_liv]

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[Janine Sickmeyer @myfriendjanine]

Bootstrapped startup recruiting a “CTO”

[Armando @armandoisme]

@DougKass I think Jim was sarcastic. I can't think otherwise.

[Armando @armandoisme]

If you are ringing my doorbell during David Gilmour's guitar solo in Comfortably Numb, you are either David Gilmour or you are looking for trouble.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

The highest leverage activity in an organization isn’t execution. It’s prioritization.

[Armando @armandoisme]

At a 2 yr old birthday party. Another dad to me: I wish I had put money in that crypto account I had opened in..2004.

[Micah Rosenbloom @micahjay1]

Encouraging founders to raise less VC feels like telling people to eat spinach when everyone in the startup world is munching on Shake Shack, but it has benefits:

🥇 Better partners
💰 Smaller preference stack
🛣️ More Options
😬 Less stress
💸 Self-control
⏱️ Time to grow

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[Liz Giorgi @lizgiorgi]

I write a founder email to my investors every month. I put a crazy amount of time into this message, because frankly, I see it as a part of my job.

I'm AMAZED at how few founders do this.

Founders: are you sending monthly updates?

Investors: do you like them?

[Armando @armandoisme]

You're welcome 😆

[Armando @armandoisme]

Your co-founder wants to take control of the company. You want a fair share of equity and to lead it in your own way. But you can't agree on how to split up ownership. A punching duel solves this problem letting you settle disputes fairly, immediately, and without lawyers.

[Armando @armandoisme]

@mhdempsey It's the opposite of how I invest. Having that said, isn't that momentum strategy applied to private companies? Isn't momentum one of the better trading strategies out there? 🤔

[Armando @armandoisme]

Push the limits of your team. Be demanding. They will thank you later.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

In their simplest form, prices cover costs. In their most complex form, prices cover costs. If they don’t, someone else is covering your costs and that… costs a lot.