Aaron Harris

There they go again.

@seyong today!

tomorrow.

The Prophet Index: theventurecodex.com/trends/prophet…

Introducing "The Prophet Index" - a ranking of which VCs find the best companies first. They are prophets of profit. Link 👇

@iamjasonlevin Rachtza

@harris Magid

There's this moment during a fundraise where the founder realizes what they've been trying to do all along. Like finding the key that unlocks all the ambition they've never fully articulated. All of a sudden the whole story falls into place. Magic.

Check out @Accel ! theventurecodex.com/dashboard/fund… And yes, @daniel_levine I know you're going to have feedback. Send it over :)

We just rebuilt fund pages for 43,000+ venture investors to deliver clear, insightful data to every founder (for free obviously). Not bad for a (first release on a) Tuesday.

PSA for founders who ever plan to fundraise: Do not publicly post revenue numbers, or unlabeled “growth graphs,” or retention figures. This is a bad idea. Go read @matt_levine if you don’t know why.

$474m raised in Series As last week For context, that's less than 50% of what ineffable intelligence raised in a seed round today More in Postround 👇

You should never release a product that embarrasses you. Imperfect? Sure. Buggy? Absolutely. Incomplete? Obviously. But embarrassing? No. Take pride in your work.

Great product takes time. So does a great cap table. The best founders treat relationship-building the same way they treat product-building.

A venture fund. But instead of monday meetings we just go on photo walks.

@andrewarruda Only if you read it in the original latin

my pick for single best startup book

theventurecodex.com/trends/crypto-… Also, a note on data: public seed data is notoriously sparse. If you don't show up here...help us make it better. DM me so we can figure out how to integrate your data.

Building in crypto? Don’t waste your time (talking to irrelevant investors) Most active seed investors LEADING rounds over the last 12 months (at least based on available data, which is all founders have...): Pantera Capital Polychain Capital Castle Island Ventures 1kx Andreessen Horowitz Variant Big Brain Holdings Robot Ventures YZI Labs Paradigm a16z crypto (as a distinct listed entity) Galaxy Ventures Hack VC (also shoutout to Coinbase Ventures on the most crypto seed participation) Full list at 👇

'Working' by Robert Caro is just about the best book I've ever read about how hard it is to do something significant. That might just make it the single best book about building a startup.

@nickbaum Yeah but you've always been ahead of the game

@harris We started at 4 😂

Product usage milestones: 1. your friend uses it 2. a stranger uses it 3. a stranger uses it 20 times in a day 4. your mother uses it

Commuting in NYC is a wonder of the world. #leica #nyc #streetphotography