
Founder of a 3-year old startup, they’re adorable at this age. @thinkgatsby
San Diego, CA
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the influencers you contact, will likely never have heard of your brand, & therefore haven’t ever used your product.
Gatsby allows you to identify & engage your subscribers/customers.
It’s the easiest way to figure out who on your list has influence.
DM me if you want an intro
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2. GATSBY
What:
The easiest way to identify the social profiles of your site visitors. Capture, engage, and grow your social customers at scale.
Why I invested:
Most influencer and ambassador programs right now require a lot of outbound effort.
And with that, a majority of
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2019 was a great year for @Acceleprise!
💰 doubled AUM
👩 added 3 amazing people to the team
🇨🇦 launched in Toronto, our 3rd location
💵 total enterprise value across portfolio is now $1B+
💴 had our first big exit, returned most of 1st fund within 5.5 years of 1st close
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Classic staging vs. production environment.
Elon Musk@elonmusk23 Nov 2019United States!
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Franz throws steel ball at Cybertruck window right before launch. Guess we have some improvements to make before production haha.
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin@jasonlk16 Nov 2019
United States
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Is 300% YoY growth 3x or 4x?
I GET SO CONFUSED
b/c 100% YoY growth is definitely 2x
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Honored to be included in @stevenhutt’s podcast on "2019 Epic Black Friday Shopify App Deals". Check it out! bit.ly/2Qmd5pa
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There's an ancient Chinese proverb:
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
It takes 5-10 years to build a platform in anything.
If you are on the fence, just start.
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Many mistakenly think building a startup works like this.
1. Have Idea 2. Raise Money 3. Build Startup
The reality is very different:
1. Have Idea 2. Build Startup with no money & eat mostly Ramen 3. Raise Money – at San Francisco, CA
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What's the German word for that awkward 7-10 second period where both people on a video call have stopped talking and are frantically searching for the button to end the call?
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It’s a good day when you return 59X on an investment and wire your buddies who definitely shouldn’t have invested in your first fund a nice chunk of cash 😘 – at Manhattan, NY
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I don't want much in this life
but
I do want to start a B2B startup
appear on 'Jeopardy!'
get crypto rich
unseat the Live Nation monopoly
win an EGOT
write a book
climb Kilimanjaro
have a huge family
move to LatAm
angel invest
and give back before I die.
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is there a clothing line dedicated to wfh wear yet
pajama level comfort but presentable up top on screen
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My friend’s entire company is locked out of their WeWork office because an umbrella fell, jamming the door.
No one can figure it out. It’s been like this for 2 days.
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Work in 1960: Type out memos on a typewriter.
Work in 1980: Type out memos in a word processor.
Work in 2000: Type out memos in an email.
Work in 2020: Collaboratively edit a task list in real-time while on a video call and responding to texts in six different chat apps.
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What’s the hardest problem that you would try to solve if you could work on any problem in the world?
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If you are down in SD, check out my partner, @thesalesmethod, leading a workshop on Entrepreneurial selling at @SDStartupWeek. You won’t want to miss it!
I am speaking at San Diego Startup Week. Please checkout the details of my talk at: whova.com/xems/apis/opengrap…
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Before there were #influencers...there were different influencers. Here’s a fun look back at #InfluencerMarketing, well before #Instagram or #socialmedia ever existed: bit.ly/2LRAnTe
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Folks!
We’re taking referrals and applications for our upcoming programs in SF and here in NYC with yours truly.
If you know what’s good for ya, retweet this!
We’re building an army of B2B SaaS founders, join us 💥
🔥 acceleprise.vc/apply 🔥
















