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Not "how to growth hack your mindshare to innovate your up-market strategy"—please save us—the boring stuff like "Why shouldn't I just sell my common shares to investors for money?" and "Why Delaware?" also more interesting things, maybe. We'll see.

@simonsarris Source?

@Chris_arnade Road cracks, debrief, and lighting make me think the Northeast US. NJ or New York maybe.

You know where this is?

@Chris_arnade Very nice. I'd add sun/shade as well whatever the source. On slightly cool days to very hot days being able to "pick the X side of the street" can make all the difference between a lovely walk and something you'd rather have driven/transited. I like playing the sun game in nyc.

Ok. So what makes a city more walkable than another. My attempt to list the variables (in no order) Density, but not tooooo much — distances never too great, but also crowds not too intense Localized distribution — that is every neighborhood (every city is a federation of neighborhoods) is essentially its own micro city, with all necessities & entertainment near by Proper Infrastructure— pedestrian crossings, sidewalks, bridges with pedestrian paths, etc. this is very micro but huge. Sidewalk integrity is a big deal! An extensive public transportation system — ability to get from any point A to B in a time not that different from a car, and hopefully faster. Or. The micro cities are stitched together properly. Good Climate/ low crime — walking should be comfortable & safe. Duh. Cool things to want to walk to — I mean. You should want to leave your pod. The result of all of the above is you want to walk & don’t need a car, since you can either live locally &/or you can get from any point A to any point B, with your legs, or your legs and bus/metro without feeling you been overly taxed I’m sure I’ve missed something!

@nikitabier @ankurnagpal Since there is so little precedent you're taking a gamble on future litigation. Most common advice I've seen is "just don't bother if guaranteeing QSBS is important to you" or "do it for a year max".

@nikitabier @ankurnagpal Also, even if you start as a C corp and take an S Corp election each year until you feel rocket ship vibes you may have still blown your QSBS status. Entity has to be a C Corp for “sufficiently all” of the 5 year holding period. Very little legal precedent on what that means.

Two constructive ideas to avoid this while preserving optionality: 1. Start as a cashflowing S-Corp and if it appears to be a blockbuster, convert to a C-Corp and only then play venture roulette 2. Destigmatize selling secondary shares on the way up

@Bullitt315 @nikitabier @ankurnagpal 👆

💨 + 📊 = 🚀 (Gust & Forecastr, mission control for your startup journey)

@can Kiki -> Bouba

YES YES YES Outstanding inarguable moral position––void of the trap of endless ‘but whataboutism’ rooted in historic vengenance that only ensures cycles of violence ––by @Faraazahmed

I wrote an essay about the need to speak up against antisemitism and it was published in the @NYDailyNews . Give it a read pages.pagesuite.com/1/a/1a011477-c…

@nathanbaugh27 Walks, I'd make a circle out of lower midtown to downtown in manhattan, start wherever. Hit the west village, soho, tribeca, nolita, chinatown, les, east village, alphabet city. Zig zag blocks, never go straight between each. Step inside somewhere when tired/hungry/curious

I've never been to NYC. I'm visiting for the first time next week. What are 1-3 things I gotta do? Looking for the best: • Bagels • Walks • Museums • Bookstores • Coffee shops And anything else ya got.

@MorganBarrettX @andruyeung no no no it's the sexy bowling alley IN port authority bus terminal where I find zen

@andruyeung You forgot port authority bus terminal

Quiet escapes in NYC, where you can fully unplug:

@tylertringas All the links in that article go back to the old Earnest Capital URLs so they're dead now. Content is still useful so might be worth an update to Calm

More on empty SaaS tylertringas.com/2021-saas-mark…

This is very smart. Consistent with my prediction that we're going to see the end of "Empty SaaS" tools

@msuster I’ll 4th or 5th Public. Great location between all the neighborhoods. Can go LES, SoHo, east/west, and great place to stay.

Ok, Twitter, er, X ... What hotels do you love in Greenwich Village, Soho or similar? I'm tired of all my old NYC hotels

@can What's your age again?

@InnovateEconomy @kieranblanks @LettieriDC @jimtankersley It crashed like crazy in 2022 and 2023 with record dissolutions so high that Delaware became backed up for almost 12 months. Still some evidence that if people have some slack and a decent safety net they’ll start businesses though.

📈 U.S. startup formation reached a 14-year high in 2021. “This is evidence of a genuine resurgence of economic dynamism led by a spike in start-up activity unlike anything we’ve seen in the post-Great Recession era,” @LettieriDC told @jimtankersley. nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/…

@galeforceVC And if you're getting that high up on convertibles chances are it is from multiple tranches which means different caps and instruments; if you weren't careful in understanding them you might be left with a very dicey priced round w/unexpected dilution and tough cap table math

$3M is the max I'd raise on convertibles notes and/or SAFEs too much debt overhang can really hurt a company

@mckaywrigley @vhmth @loom This comment is almost as interesting as the OP Thanks for both

@vhmth @loom Longtime Loom customer. You’ve been killing it with the AI features. But more organic janky film-with-phone videos actually perform better on social.

I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it. This is the future.

We're doing a free super high level event later today that highlights some of this content: gust.ly/3PoKjB9 Come say hi to Pete and I

ChatGPT is your personal C-3PO