👟 Kamala shatters glass, Oprah's gratitude journal, writing a book, LPs, investing, startup of the year, money, crafts, and more
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Welcome to Lolita’s Newsletter! We share up-to-date and nugget-sized practical resources and advice for early-stage founders, funders, and friends. We are at 5,354 members. To access exclusive content, office hours, join our Slack community, and get your pitch deck reviewed become an annual subscriber or gift a subscription.
📝 As emotions rise and fall with the state of the world, COVID, and everything else, how are you staying positive? Oprah recommends we breathe and keep a gratitude journal. Here’s what I’m writing down: Kamala for shattering so much glass, our president-elect for prioritizing a pandemic task force and an economic relief bill; the possibility of a COVID vaccine; a loving family; and a community that inspires me, teaches me new things every day, and keeps me going. That and bread. I love bread.
📚 Separately, Josh and I have decided to write a book for members of the underestimated community to be useful and avoid losing our minds from not leaving our home. Here's where you come in. Should we write about how to become an investor, get funding, both, or something else?
✨ Lolita Taub
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ICYMI: Zion + Bryce Canyon are beautiful. Forbes and Al Dia featured The Community Fund + me. The Startup-Investor Matching Tool has brokered 547 intros between founders + investors and led to 12 checks written - totaling over $1.8M since June 4th.
Congrats!
Kamala Harris for becoming our US Vice President. Eric Bahn, Elizabeth Yin, and Shiyan Koh for raising $30M for Hustle Fund. Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson for raising $75M for Better Tomorrow Ventures. Craig Lewis for raising $7.5M for Gig Wage. Wes Kao and Gagan Biyani for raising $4.32M for their new co to cohort-based courses. Felix Orwa and Meka Este-McDonald for raising $3M for Sote. Nash Ahmed for raising $1.6M for Undock. Anna Barber for making Partner at M13. Chacho Valadez for making Principal at Backstage Capital. Alana Mann for making Principal at Cultivation Capital. New fellows at Unshackled Ventures’ and BLCKVC’s VC NYC Path program.
SPONSOR 🏆 Established & Established Ventures are hosting the 8th Annual Startup of the Year Summit on Nov 16-18 with its Top 100 startups pitching in a “Shark Tank” style for $20K in investment, $10K cash, & the title, plus speakers! RSVP.
Funders
IA Ventures | Building a seed stage venture firm
TCF | Community-Driven Cos: What They Are + Why We’re Investing in Them
Startup-Investor Matching Tool | Investors join to receive customized deal flow
645 Ventures | Apply for a fellowship role
Female Founders Alliance | Apply for venture partner roles and more
All Raise | Apply for their Associate and Principal Cohort Programs by 11/23
BLCK VC | Navigating your career in VC panel 11/19
SPONSOR 💄 The Target Takeoff Beauty Accelerator team is looking for emerging beauty and personal care brands that are ready to scale into mass retail. Check out the roster of alumni from previous programs and see if you have what it takes to takeoff. Apply here by Nov 30, 11:59 pm CST.
Founders
SEC | Founders can now raise $5M (up from $1.07M) via equity crowdfunding
Business Insider | VCs less likely to fund startups run by women
Crunchbase | See the top Black and Latinx founder-friendly micro-VC funds
Ed Zimmerman | Founder startup guide on legal issues thread
Elizabeth Yin | Where funding helps and doesn’t + product-market fit
StartOut | Attend the“Bring your athentic self to pitch investors” panel on 11/20
The Fund | Apply to an 8-week program for new early-stage founders by 11/20
FFF x Serena Ventures | Apply for office hours by 11/24
Looking for more founder knowledge? Check out my courses.
PORTFOLIO CO 🧶 The Crafter's Box is partnering with Nordstrom to release exclusively bundled kits in modern crafting! Give the gift of weaving, block printing, arm knitting this holiday.
Money
Ford Driving Dream Latina Entrepreneurs Initiative | $400K in grants
Founder Institute | +700 accelerators, investors and more for black founders
Founder Grants | +80 grants for founders
Equity Crowdfunding | Raise up to $5 million on Republic
The Upswing Fund | Grants for founders focused on POC/LGBTQ+ teens
Non-dilutive capital | Create a profile to find non-dilutive capital on INTRO
Startup-Investor Matching Tool | Submit your co for investment consideration
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