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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 11, 2021
I’ve always thought the opening would be at the intersection of gaming, online communities, and social networks. So the existing incumbents are the defensive line. But what is cooler is that these NFT experiences are operating at the interaction of gaming, communities, and social nets. And there is running room.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.
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This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Any VC will tell you that the ones they said yes to, they mostly got there right away—and that there are very few “maybe” deals that get tipped over the fence. I’ve backed multiple Black founders and entrepreneurs from the LGBTQ community and so I’ve seen a very wide mix of founders pitch, get funded and get passed on. It needs to end.
TechCrunch
APRIL 9, 2023
This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. Three key areas of proposed intervention by the SEC offer examples of why the venture community should be paying attention. This is an inflection point. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”
Ecosystem Builder Hub
MAY 21, 2021
As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Kate Jackson, an ecosystem builder in the Chicago area, described the ‘why’ of this beautifully.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Startups and VC. Namely the work that goes into training neural networks. Let’s see if the startup can tackle the public incumbent, itself a former startup. And the Equity team chatted through how to – and how not to – buy community. So, naturally, it’s attracting competition. And speaking of consumer fintechs : Yep!,
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