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Incredibly proud of @samvlessing and the entire @commercebear team. 🐻🚀🌕 commercebear.com/post/fundin…
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📣 Qualities VCs look for in hard times: grit, fortitude, decisiveness, “wartime CEO” … 👀 Some of those same VCs now: frozen, hiding, silent, no conviction
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There are a couple "top funds" in 🇨🇦 that I am about ready to publicly shame if they keep doing wrong by founders.
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Sam Vlessing retweeted
Anyone else just done with Ontario?
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Oooooooo, we’re hiring! 🔥
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I know who... 👀🔥📈
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*Every S-1* pg 1 We are AppCo, a maker of apps. We were founded in 2006, and did $300 million in revenue, an increase of 14.3%. pg 145 A maker of apps, AppCo was founded in 2006. The company grew 14.3% to $300 million in revenue. pg 251 After growing to $300 million...
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Sam Vlessing retweeted
After many years at @amazon I can tell you that @ajassy is the absolute best person lead the company. More customer obsessed than any other leader I have met. #stilldayone aboutamazon.com/news/company…
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Amazon Net Income (Millions)... '20: 21,309 '19: 11,620 '18: 10,070 '17: 3,033 '16: 2,371 '15: 596 '14: -241 '13: 274 '12: -39 '11: 631 '10: 1,152 '09: 902 '08: 645 '07: 476 '06: 190 '05: 359 '04: 588 '03: 35 '02: -149 '01: -567 '00: -1,411 '99: -720 '98: -125 '97: -31 $AMZN
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Sandhill.io is the best collection of tech, startup, and VC content I've found. Live feed of 250+ authors, blogs, and newsletters 🔥 Really solid work from @AliKAfridi
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Sam Vlessing retweeted
Had the chance to put down my thoughts after raising our Series B. We will continue to push the technical boundaries of commerce but the most rewarding part of my journey so far has to be the relationships with our brands. 🙌 blog.boldcommerce.com/the-st…
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Sam Vlessing retweeted
Q: How did you get so good at memes? @elonmusk - I was one of the first 10k users.. then stopped... a lot of people said he's gone crazy on twitter. No no.. I STARTED crazy on twitter I make some. Some are sent to me. I have some pretty kickass meme dealers 🤣
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Need Bezos to launch a competing room at 10pm
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I’d like to see more founders raise bare minimum angel rounds with no intent of seeking funding in the future—just enough to kickstart bootstrapping and enable them to hold on to ~90% equity.
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r/wallstreetbets is now the largest hedge fund in the world. Excepts it’s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.
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Sam Vlessing retweeted
The founders and investors is successful when: - Investors learned something new about the market from the founders - Founders learned a new tactic in ops, sales, hiring, raising, product, or self management
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All the money in 2008 was made by suits identifying a market dislocation and exploiting it. All the money in 2021 was made by retail identifying a market dislocation and exploiting it...until the suits intervened. 👀 What’s the difference with these two statements?
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2008: Too big to fail 2021: Too small to win
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Emergency Press Conference - Everybody On Wall Street Who Had A Hand In Today’s Crime Needs To Go To Prison
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