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✨Yours truly about: - The Midwest ecosystem - The thesis and goals of M25 as a fund - The challenges of working on a small team - Other projects anchor.fm/confluencevc/e…

@DMikeAsem is crushing the content game recently 💪

1/4 My latest work - "The blood of an entrepreneur" A celebration of my father 🖤, my friend 🙌🏾, and my country 🇺🇸 . A celebration of a nation of immigrants, a nation built by those brave enough to fight for a better life. rirts.substack.com/p/the-blood-of…

@jaydimonte High bar!

This might be my favorite M25 thing ever

@PeterGSchmidt Today seems like a great day to get better

Super cool stuff about becoming better, if you are into that kind of thing.

Opinions are great, but data is more meaningful. Learn how use your data to build the best products in the next Your Product Toolbelt post 📊 blog.midweststartups.com/your-product-t…

Series A investors making room for the Seed Pro Rata twitter.com/gnuman1979/sta…

Founders seeing a non-investor VC wearing their swag in public

How people on Twitter are reacting to the hack:

@PeterGSchmidt @BrentBeshore

@BrentBeshore Midwest Tech startups.

You are given $25M to invest and your time horizon to return the capital is 15 years. What public or private companies do you pursue and why?

@PeterGSchmidt @BigRandyNLU @TronCarterNLU @NoLayingUp

@BigRandyNLU @TronCarterNLU @NoLayingUp Greaters is the superior ice cream. If we are talking about just straight-up milkshakes, literally no competing with UDF. The 🐐

Chatted Cbus with @TronCarterNLU and @NoLayingUp and an ice cream discussion broke out—what’s your favorite? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tra…

Wow. Honored to be top of home page for @VentureBeat, but mostly thankful more VCs and founders will get this important message. Founders are more than their companies 🖤

"Founders need stewards, not masters" Thank you to our partner @DMikeAsem and to @UpsieHQ founder @Clarence_Bethea for this @VentureBeat piece on the need for VCs to show compassion care, and grace: venturebeat.com/2020/07/07/fou…

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