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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

At GM, I actually got onto the buyout co-investment team that worked on AMF, the bowling company--so I know more about the retail economics of bowling than most people and I still have a bowling pin deal toy in my apartment. After getting to know Ben from the tech community, he pitched me his concept for a CPG food company.

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

TechCrunch

Other themes include So Glamorous, which includes companies selling apparel, luxury goods and other consumer retail products such as handbags, shoes and jewelry and The Open Road, which includes – you guessed it – companies involved in the development of self-driving cars, electric vehicles and their components and materials. .

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A theory about the current IPO market

TechCrunch

Namely, certain elements of the venture capital community who would prefer to keep all outsized gains in their own pockets. And the late-stage venture capital markets, along with the changing value of tech stocks and the huge boom in consumer (retail) investing. This is, of course, annoying to some people. But, no matter.