I often tell founders that there are three types of successful seed pitches: traction, team, and vision. (I didn’t invent this I stole it from a ~2010-era VC deity).

It’s not having the impact I want it to have, so I’m going to say my point WAY STRONGER here: VCs passing on your seed pitch often means ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
- you don’t have the traction
- you aren’t good enough at storytelling to illustrate a compelling vision
- you don’t seem to have the skills, persistence, drive, execution, or background to pull this off

ok here is a FUNDRAISING HACK that will get you more (& better!) intros to investors:

You know that blurb you forward along about your company when asking for intros?

Make sure it speaks to a VC’s top investment thesis categories:
- stage
- industry
- geo
- founder demo most VCs want intros and invest in e.g. “Growth SaaS companies based out of India”, “Seed-stage hardware companies in Silicon Valley” or “Pre-seed diverse founders building network affects businesses”. my @parcelbvc invests in @OlinCollege alumni from the earliest days -> growth

ok my friends are starting to have serious things go wrong with their bodies and they are fucking up going to the doctor. Y’all. here’s my cheat sheet: 1. literally no doctor cares if you’re tired or in pain or can’t work. *but* they do care about Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
Google it, and focus on *those* as the reason why your problem is a big problem. e.g. my back hurts when I bend over => I can’t put on socks and shoes

I dunno, but I am extremely not into “feedback” at work, I do not want to “learn and develop”, I am anti “growth mindset”(which seems to be a way to justify telling employees they’re never good enough, holding them locked into that position and telling them they should like it) and I get really positive glowing feedback all the time! but it still makes me feel icky, like I’m very skeptical that other people could judge or evaluate me in a way that is helpful to me

I scheduled time to see friends this weekend — I haven’t seen them in over a year and was excited! We planned where to meet - a restaurant, Taylor’s Shellfish maybe? and I just felt my whole body tense up. A restaurant? It’d be so crowded on a Saturday, and Covid is still here. We might have to wait for a table. And it’s always either too fucking sunny at Taylor’s or freezing cold.

nothing has been explained to me more than men telling me you can’t hang heavy shit on drywall without a stud it is almost always followed by them failing to operate a stud finder correctly

Congratulations to the entire @myrocksbox team -- and especially the incredible @meaghanroseRB -- on being acquired by Signet! 🥳
wsj.com/articles/signe… I owe so much of my career to Meg inviting me in to share some of the earliest days of Rocksbox.

Damn, what a fucking education in building a business.

Meg had designed a product customers LOVED.
She taught me the value of healthy margins and stress of customer acquisition.

I met an 👼 @coltonyelinek this week 🥺 I believe this, my friends, is what they call a love triangle

the most persistent, longest-running thread of trauma in my life is “you should have known better” for the first 15 years of my life it was “you should have known better because everyone knows this” and for the next 15 years it was “you should have known better because you’re so smart” and now it’s “you should have known better because you have so much influence”

if you’re an extremely whacky fintech person I can’t recommend applying for a mortgage enough it is a wild and super fun time pscp.tv/w/ceh8vzg0Nzgz… featuring frequently asked questions of me like “you list having $10,000 in “Affirm”. Which firm are you talking about? Is it a retirement firm?”
“What is H *squint* M Bradley?”
“Is this... Chime... $250... something?”
“I see you have an installment loan... for your rent?”

ugh I tried to cook dinner last night (because doesn’t this look SO GOOD!) and it was so fucking hard and I was so resentful. Nothing kills my appetite faster than cooking. it put me in such a bad mood I got into bed at 9pm and listened to clubhouse while shopping for sweatpants the salmon was raw and undercooked and the brocollini (WHICH IS COOKED TOGETHER IN THE SAME PAN) was all burnt?

I would have just tossed the whole thing in the trash but my boyfriend said gently Maia, it’s ok, I can fix this

but also HOW just abandon it

Credit reports are a HUGE component of financial inclusion - yes loans but also employment & apartment eligibility, car insurance rates and more. ANYONE can sign up for @Chime's new Credit Builder, it is not gated on credit score or anything else. And, there are no fees ✨

https://twitter.com/Chime/status/1278023286790619136

thank you for the write up @TechCrunch - this is my dream of how credit cards can work: "The card feel more like a debit card, as it’s tied to how much cash is in a user’s bank account" techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/u-s…

I thought we all JUST switched over to deodorant that only works for like an hour now we’re rebounding back to deodorant that works for a week??? sorry y’all I am new to spending
much time on instagram so everything just seems so crazy to me, is it better to have caffeine... through your skin... than to ingest it normally??

I'm quite passionate about reproductive justice 🤱🏾 - wanted to share with y'all some information about some cool organizations I've found recently and chosen to support 🧵👇 @TheAfiyaCtr addresses the consequences of reproduction oppression for Black women and girls ✊ FUND RESEARCH to reduce maternal mortality, PROTECT ACCESS to abortions, created Texas’s First Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Policy Summit & PREVENT HIV theafiyacenter.org