🎢 Riding this wild week’s rollercoaster, the future of work, building community, and getting funding
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🎢 What a rollercoaster of a week. Slack and Notion were briefly MIA. Stacey Abrams inspired us yet again and we celebrated a Democratic Georgia. A mob of Trump supporters attempted a coup. Bitcoin climbed over $40K. Michele Zatlyn, Co-founder and COO of Cloudflare 🦄, blew it out of the water in the first First Pitches episode. Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook, Discord, Reddit, etc. We found out that in the US, 140,000 jobs were cut and women accounted for all of the losses. The emotional whiplash is great and it’s hard to concentrate on anything.
🤔 How are you avoiding going crazy? I’m…
removing negative vibes IRL with Rue (AKA Ruda), a plant that my family for generations has used to clear bad energy
reading inspirational quotes from Stacey Abrams
indulging in the notion that a company can be successful with no meetings, deadlines, or full-time employees
🤞🏽Crossing my fingers for a better country in late January 2021 with Biden and Kamala, a healthier world with vaccines that work (and get produced/distributed quickly), and a community of humans that help us get through this bad patch through love, support, and positivity.
✨ Lolita Taub
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ICYMI: Protocol and Times of Entrepreneurship featured The Community Fund and me. Startup-Investor Matching Tool intros have resulted in 17 checks (+$2M!).
Congrats!
Congratulations to Naj Austin for raising $1M for Ethel’s Club and Somewhere Good. Jai Malik for raising his first half million for Countdown Capital. Shruti Gandhi on her two 2020 exits. Sahil Lavingia for now leading a $10M rolling fund. Calanthia Mei for becoming a mentor at Paradox Capital. Bryce Roberts for Indie VC’s 6th birthday. Jillian Williams, Earnest Sweat, Jessica Lin for making Venture Capital Journal’s Rising Stars 2021 list.
Funders
Lolita Taub | Get the operator-investor VC inside scoop
Alex Iskold | Read about 8 pre-seed VC myths
Samir Kaji | Learn about what emerging fund managers use to run their funds
VC Include | Apply to this BIPOC Fund I Emerging Managers Fellowship by 1/15
Venture Forward x Spark PR | Early-career VCs: apply to take free brand and media training workshops by 1/15
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Founders
First Pitches | Learn how to pitch and think big from Michele Zatlyn, Co-founder of Cloudflare
Times of Entrepreneurship | Meet the Latinx women investing in the next generation of founders (proud to be one of them! 💪🏽)
Unshackled Ventures | Learn how to start a co on an H1B Visa
Gabby Cazeau | Write down these product launch and growth hacks
Alex Cohen | Grab these tips on creating a winning pricing strategy for your co
Early-stage women investors | Pitch hundreds of women investors
📚 Want more resources? Here are courses + services for you.
Community-Driven Cos
Jay Clouse | Read about how to build an online community
SaaStr | Learn the the what, why, and how of B2B Community strategy
The Startup | Review this community building 101 post
TCF | Read Community-Driven Cos: What They Are + Why We’re Investing
🙌🏽 Building a community-driven co? Submit your co to The Community Fund.
Money
ZFellows | College Student founders: apply for $10K investment + 1 week mentorship by 1/15
LAUNCH | Pre-seed/Seed founders: apply to this accelerator by 1/15
Capital Factory | Black Founders: apply to this $100K Investment Challenge by 1/22
XRC Labs | Underestimated founders: apply to this fellowship to get mentorship and a $5K grant by 1/24
Acceleprise | B2B SaaS founders: apply to this accelerator program and gain $100k in investment
1863 Ventures | Black founders: apply to the 3Rs Grant Program and get access to a pool of $500K in grants by 6/1
Founder Institute | Black founders: access +700 accelerators, investors and more
Founder Grants | Access +80 grants for founders
Equity Crowdfunding | Raise up to $5 million on Republic
Non-dilutive capital | Create a profile to find non-dilutive capital on INTRO
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