Leon Jon

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

A fourth GP just joined HF0.

He’s never been out to SF in person.
In fact, he’s never been a GP anywhere.
Come to think of it, I don’t know anyone who’s actually met him in person.

He kind of just appeared online about a year ago...(1/8)

[litquidity @litcapital]

This October, I’m helping bring Tech Week to CA. To kick things off, we’re giving away 100 limited-edition Lit x Tech Week sweaters and a few invites for exclusive events

To enter:
- like this post
- retweet
- follow both @litcapital and @Techweek_

See you there 🤝

[Chris Hladczuk @chrishlad]

Startup Strategy is Mostly Stupid.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

1. Biggest Advice to new VCs

Meet with every single company in the first year. Have no standards.

Build a benchmark for what great founders look like.

It takes 500 pitch meetings before you know what you're doing.

[Haley Bryant 💛 @haleymbryant]

When I started angel investing, I had no idea how to break into VC. When I became a VC, I was determined to change that.

Today, I’m excited to officially welcome our new cohort of @HustleFundVC Venture Fellows from our Angel Squad community to learn through doing, research, and working with the best practitioners.

Our Fellows bring incredible expertise and points of view across:

🤖 AI/ML
🌱climate tech
💸 fintech
👩🏽‍⚕️women’s health
🧠 and more as founders, operators, and investors

VC is an apprenticeship business. 👼🏽 investing, reviewing the inbound pipeline and joining calls with Elizabeth Yin is how I broke into VC.

In just the first few weeks, Fellows have:

💼 reviewed >200 companies 
👋 joined & debriefed >30 intro calls with founders and our investment team
🛠️ participated in 2 workshops
🚀 seen 1 company move from warm intro to closed won

And now, we’re excited to introduce them to you for the first time.

Venture Fellows go beyond shadowing – they lead calls, participate in diligence, and do follow-ups with founders. I’ve learned so much from the questions they’ve asked and the constructive feedback they’ve provided to founders based on their own hard-won expertise.

Our 1st cohort of Fellows is now taking it a step further developing theses across things like fintech, climate tech, and legal tech, and our goal is to help them take their venture careers to the next level.

Special shoutout to Leon Jon, an Angel Squad member, CVC investor, and NYU Stern student who is joining us to lead the way as an MBA Associate.

📣Introducing this quarter’s Hustle Fund Venture Fellows (selected from our Angel Squad community):

@AaishaBhuiyan (New York): Sr. Technical Program Manager, @amazon
@_alexa_murray (Boston + New York): Sr. Product Manager, Health, @WHOOP
Alice Qinhua Zhou (New York): Director, Productivity, Citi
Chloe Liu (Bay Area): Founder, Stealth Startup; Data Strategy + Growth Advisor @ ExponentialX
Francisco Guerrero (Bay Area): Growth Marketing & Head of CRM, Together Labs
@jonathankennell (New York): Stealth Startup Founder
@KyleSonlin 🌴 (Miami): President & Co-founder, Security Token Market
Michelle Gao (Bay Area): Mentor & Advisor, @Techstars
Peter Liu (Bay Area): Venture Scout, @thepitchshow
Sandy Naidu (Bay Area): Emerging Fund Manager, Chief of Staff | Senior Staff  TPM, @Shopify
@tonycueva (Ann Arbor): Head of Business Development and Strategy, https://t.co/NFXOJ2F920
Xaviera Ho, CFA (Seattle): Senior Investment Associate, Clermont Group

Interested in becoming a Fellow? We will be inviting a handful of Squad Members to become Fellows each quarter…

👉 Learn more about Angel Squad: https://t.co/9zFZuuB9nn

[Brian Nichols @b_nicks11]

I can’t believe it’s been 2.5 years since we started Angel Squad.

Thank you, TechCrunch, for helping us highlight our amazing community.

From the very beginning, Hustle Fund and I wanted to make angel investing more accessible.

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

Top 100 VC terms that all aspiring angel investors should know. Great post from @Spyzguyz, @b_nicks11, and @HustleFundVC

https://t.co/CLRpikywFq

#VentureCapital #startups

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

Chronicle is the modern format of presentations. Instead of spending hours tweaking slides, Chronicle allows users to create with pre-designed blocks. Impressive presentations - made faster than ever before. https://t.co/v7wpgnZ6qp

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Is there a summarization service for YouTube links and/or podcast links? What I want is to submit a URL, and then get LLM summarization in bullet points of specific stories or segments with timestamps.

Nice to have: click-to-expand headings.

Willing to pay per link!

[Contrary Research @Contrary_Res]

One of the biggest questions we get is "how do I get information on private companies since these companies aren't public?"

We've curated the top 20 research resources we utilize for getting a good grasp on private tech companies:

[Nathan Baschez @nbaschez]

Introducing Lex!

A word processor with artificial intelligence baked in, so you can write faster.

👉 https://t.co/gVuY6T3fJf 👈

(I've been working on this awhile... so glad to finally share it!!)

[Luke Mostert @lukemostert]

Venture Capital ‘Backable’? 💡

I’ve reviewed over 3000 African startup pitch decks in the last 4 years. The most important question I ask myself each time is.. ⬇

‘Is this startup VC ‘backable’?’ A thread 🧵

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Why now? This is the one question you must answer if you start a startup or are thinking of joining a startup.

What are good answers to this? Technology, behavior change, and regulation. There are many answers, but those are the top 3 most common.

https://t.co/Nv8se30VdB

[matt @eth_matt]

We always talk about how to onboard the next 100 million users to Web3... brand loyalty powered by Web3 could be a major catalyst for broader adoption.

Great topic💡, smart people🧠 – really looking forward to this one! @withtendril @IanMcMilan @samiraddamine @radicleinsights

[Rally @rally_xyz]

We’re excited to announce that we've partnered with @StarcatchersNFT ! To celebrate kicking off this partnership, we are hosting a raffle to give out "Starlist" spots in our discord!

We look forward to a long-term impactful partnership!

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

@jimmyfallon @eth_matt @MrLudlow_ Paris Hilton, the queen of NFTs

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

@farokh 1 Week wouldn't work Farokh - all of those folks would miss the mint!

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

@jianqianlin @MrLudlow_ Don’t forget @eth_matt!

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

Thing doing things with fellow Things: https://t.co/eJxRDDEuPo @eth_matt @MrLudlow_

[Leon Jon @leonfjon]

@farokh hahaha someone really needs to build a better tool for Twitter giveaways - why not Google Forms?