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VP Growth & Community at @VendrHQ // pre-launch investor in @latticeHQ @mercury @superhuman @vardaspace and 30+ more (@coughdropcap) // founder in recovery
Jan 17, 2021 14 tweets 6 min read
Ok, here's my thread on How to Become an Angel Investor if You Don't Have Much Money

or at least, how I did it...your mileage may vary obviously

feel free to AMA here or in DMs 2012-2015: really wanted to start investing, but had zero cash to do it and didn't really know how to change that.

Then this HN comment from @sama got the wheels spinning in my mind. I texted my brother @stuartdsmith and we started talking about how we could do this. Image
Aug 6, 2020 15 tweets 6 min read
Taylor Swift as B2B software...a thread Segment
May 15, 2020 16 tweets 10 min read
here are some posts about online communities that I find very good for one reason or another

(Not a full list, no particular order, mostly from the running list we keep at @capiche. screenshots in this thread are their quotes, not my notes)

Please add to this list!

👇thread👇 "A group is its own worst enemy" by @cshirky is sadly offline (along with all of @cshirky's site 😭), but thankfully it's archived: web.archive.org/web/2019042608…

Like all of his writing, it's awesome.
Jan 3, 2020 61 tweets 13 min read
1 like = 1 fun fact about SaaS pricing It's illegal for SaaS vendors to require customers in California to email/call to cancel their plans.
Jun 28, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
Quick update on @inside – the thing I've been working day and night on for the past two years along with @jason and @lons and lots of other awesome people. We saw a problem: our media diet is served by algorithms built and optimized for clicks, not quality. (this problem has only become more obvious since we started.