Minda Brusse | First Row Partners

Startup Investor from Seattle | First Row Partners | 2048 Ventures | Univ of WA

[GeekWire @geekwire]

‘Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day’: 25 startups pitch investors from across the country at AI House https://t.co/PfmXr0zoeN

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@jefielding I am looking at fund returns ( pre-seed), so more likely betting on a business model with a product.

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@alexiskold What would keep you from switching? Do you see any moat in being in single player mode?

[Minda Brusse | First Row Partners @MindaBrusse]

@ColinGardiner Many moons ago... Had a team of ppl: take a fax PO, create an online account for the issuer, check against pdf contact terms, then recreate the PO and send the order via our system.

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@yoheinakajima 👍

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@fitzgerald1337 For anyone everyone, here's a way to grab time with me ...

Open Office Hours
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just had a great office hourz
meeting with @MindaBrusse

she has agreed to join me for
a space on

- her story
- angel investing
- the seattle tech scene
- ...❓

come rdy for this one
to be a professional and
meaningful space for
founderz, investorz, etc.
https://t.co/LYrHHwUP3A

[rakesh @rakesh_goyal]

AI made one half of work easy and left the other half untouched.

You can generate a legal draft in seconds now. A financial model. A pull request. The creating part got cheap overnight.

But someone still has to check if it's right. And checking takes exactly as long as it always did.

So what actually happened: we got a 100x jump in work that needs to be verified, with zero improvement in our ability to verify it.

[Minda Brusse | First Row Partners @MindaBrusse]

@boardyai @fitzgerald1337 Hey, thanks @boardyai! Open to DMs on these questions:

1. Did you make a mistake in following "good advice" MVP advice from a successful founder/mentor?

2. Did you get resourceful (ex. emailing a pdf instead of building a dashboard) and learn more than you expected?

[Minda Brusse | First Row Partners @MindaBrusse]

For my next article in the "Self-guided Tour" blog series, I'm looking for founders to tell me their stories about building an MVP.

What do you wish you'd known? How did you apply what you learned?
Email me to connect -- Minda at FirstRowPartners dot vc.

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@Apsuspension @tepri_x @UnacceptableN

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@ashl3ysm1th @vermilionfund @DominicMadori @TechCrunch Way to go!

[Minda Brusse | First Row Partners @MindaBrusse]

@nikbonaddio @TurnerNovak Was looking for someone to say Henry's Human! Diana's meat pie ...

[Steph from OpenVC @StephNass]

Venture capital on X is crazy.

I met a 20-year-old founder who just raised $100M.

Naturally, I asked how he got started.
He said he just built a landing page with Claude Code.
No product, no users but a cool .ai domain.

He started cold DMing VCs on X with his deck.

No traction, but it had great vibes.
He added “AI-powered” in the subtitle just in case.
Used Midjourney to mock up the product screenshots.

Within a week, he had 4 term sheets.
All oversubscribed, of course.
No board seats, no liquidation preference. But he was vibing.

Now he’s scaling to $1B in ARR - still no product.

He says fundraising is easy if you “manifest it.”

None of this happened btw.

Reminder to take not everything on X seriously.

[Minda Brusse | First Row Partners @MindaBrusse]

@esnyds @sflorimm I was in one of them and hit refresh to see who spilled the tea

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

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@heavensbvnny

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@saniyafatma1278 Hope they are right about where the property line is!

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@libriscent Close to perfect fit-- venture capital investor

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@IsForAt Can't go wrong with Crane stationery! https://t.co/of3Ko0BMkm