Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Yo, stop asking for permission and just apply!

Founders who reply fast to text/emails are perceived as more likely to succeed. You'll hear that from a lot from VCs. Therefore, founders who are slow to reply are perceived… less likely to succeed.

Picture this: you're half-asleep on a Lufthansa flight when the cabin lights suddenly flip on. Turns out a big orange cat had escaped its carrier and decided to go exploring. Passengers stayed super quiet, flight attendants grabbed flashlights at first, and everyone teamed up to gently catch the fluffy escape artist without freaking it out. In the end, the cat was safe and the whole cabin handled it like pros.

Series A “winners” rarely become the real big winners. Everyone's chasing the obvious picks: -The one with the famous founder -The company with the flashiest pitch deck -The startup that's already getting press coverage The real winners are quietly building. At Series A: → Tesla was bleeding cash and Elon wasn't even involved yet. → Hotmail couldn't afford the servers for their free service - literally running out of infrastructure while users flooded in. → Skype was dealing with legal issues that made investors nervous. → Oklo faced regulatory nightmares that seemed impossible to overcome. → Coinbase was getting attacked from both sides. Purists said they were too centralized, banks wanted them gone. These companies looked messy. But they were solving real problems for real people, even if it looked ugly doing it.

A short afternoon nap restores brain neuroplasticity.

What if we had a date at Hunky Jesus contest at Dolores Park on Sunday 👉👈

One of the tougher things to do as an emerging manager is avoid marking your book to SAFE caps Fundraising is hard, and you want to show LPs portfolio progress It goes something like this: 2 months into raising, a company you seeded raises $5, $50, even $500M(!) Maybe it’s an institutional lead, maybe it’s SPV capital Press announces the cap as the “Valuation”…good air cover! But the fact is, the dollars came in on a SAFE with a cap What do you do? Do you take the mark? Do you footnote it? Ignore it completely? Do you tweet about it and take a victory lap, but keep the mark flat? Hard question!