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My wife and I had a beverage or two this evening and decided to listen to some 90’s music. Here’s what struck me… Billy Corgan sounds like Snoop if he got really into guitars.

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@MorellCarson @reindsummit @danielmitchell @ThisIsDynamo Anyone along this route you'd recommend the Lethal Ventures folks meet up with?

Lethal Ventures is planning a 5-week factory roadshow leading up to @reindsummit. We're going to visit 100 factories across the Rust Belt. Route below 👇 DM me if you have any factories we should hit. We're going to capture as much content as possible to share with you all. Week 1: Pennsylvania Industrial Core Base city: Pittsburgh, PA Nearby Factory Towns: Erie, Johnstown, Altoona Week 2: Ohio Industrial Corridor Base city: Cleveland, OH Nearby Factory Towns: Akron, Canton, Toledo, Lorain Week 3: Indiana + Southern Michigan Base city: Fort Wayne, IN Nearby Factory Towns: South Bend, Elkhart, Kokomo, Muncie Week 4: Illinois + Wisconsin Industrial Belt Base city: Chicago, IL Nearby Factory Towns: Rockford, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha Week 5: Final Push to Detroit Base city: Detroit, MI Nearby Factory Towns: Flint, Saginaw, Dearborn, Warren

I am a *very* new startup investor. As I work to educate myself, I've appreciated things like @HustleFundVC 's no a-hole policy & @govclab's focus on ethical investing. In particular, I support their Mensarius Oath for ethical investing. govclab.com/the-mensarius-… #MensariusOath

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“It’s not prioritization until it hurts.”

@Jackovin @galeforceVC @Steven_Molino I think there is a ton of need and opportunity for early stage investor education outside of coastal ecosystems.

@_kirps @galeforceVC @Steven_Molino That would be tough to talk to the founders and tell them their cap table is messing up their future. I'd want to have a talk with the investor(s) to explain the situation on behalf of the founder.

i've already had two calls today with founders i passed on late last year due to cap table issues - they are looking at serious restructuring of the cap table alongside another round now. anyone else seeing this? thoughts?

@Jackovin @galeforceVC @Steven_Molino Exactly. In areas where pre-seed and seed deals are less common, and money more risk averse the information gap allows these two to combine to create zombie companies before either realizes it.

@_kirps @galeforceVC @Steven_Molino So an inexperienced founder takes say $300k from an inexperienced investor for 50%? That is obviously waaaay overvaluing the capital.

@Jackovin @galeforceVC @Steven_Molino @Jackovin In our area, I’ve seen the combination of first-time founders and inexperienced early stage investors create this potential. The difficult being that those investors are typically overvaluing their capital and unwilling to restructure.

@galeforceVC @Steven_Molino Super curious. What events occurred where founders own <50% going into the seed?

ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS

As a Product Manager with an engineering background, a problematic customer churning gives me strong deleting old code vibes and I'm here for it.

@McGuire_GIS @devalkk @Hulcricket @The_984 @kbuts @cockybovine Still is 🐢

@vongillern @aaron_hoffman But 2, even if we grant that a fetus is a fully alive person with full rights, no person has the right to use another person’s body without their consent. A fully alive person can’t harvest organs for life saving procedures without the consent of the corpse and/or it’s family.

@vongillern @aaron_hoffman Which means it’s debatable, which means we are restricting the bodily autonomy of an definitely alive person, in the interest of a debatably alive blastocyst

@vongillern @aaron_hoffman I actually have. And it shows that there is 1 doctor among the million and change that was a monster. Give me any demographic there is and you can find 1 in a million. He’s an awful outlier, not a solid basis for legislation.

@vongillern @aaron_hoffman Abortions even after 13 weeks are rare, full term abortions are practically nonexistent and no one is doing them just because people don’t feel like having the baby. Mental health is health and takes like the one above are just scare tactics.

@vongillern @aaron_hoffman That’s also just not an accurate characterization of the law or it’s practical implementation. It requires a licensed medical pro acting within the lawful scope of their practice to determine abortions after 24 weeks are necessary to protect the life and health of the mother