@laragon

Journalist who tweets about #venturecapital #privateequity #tech #startups #entrepreneurship. Views = MY OWN. http://t.co/uHjB1NxGmL

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Joined February 2009
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Check out my latest article: Celebrating Women of Influence in venture capital linkedin.com/pulse/celebrati… via @LinkedIn

Celebrating Women of Influence in venture capital

The latest issue of Venture Capital Journal features our fifth annual Women of Influence in venture capital. Subscribers can read the entire issue on their phone or laptop by clicking here.

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Great high-energy interview with Jasmine Robinson of @Monarch_Coll about how VCs invest in women's sports. #nexus2024
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Howard Marks: "i don't believe in forecasts, especially my own." #nexus2024
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Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital opining at #nexus2024
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The Twitter Spaces event @DavidSacks hosted for @GovRonDeSantis had some glitches, but fundraising for his @craft_ventures is going great, with $1.6bn+ raised for new funds. venturecapitaljournal.com/da…

David Sacks' Craft Ventures raises more than $1.6bn

Craft Ventures, whose co-founder helped to launch Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign on Twitter Space, has raised more than $1.6bn combined for three new venture funds.

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Monarch Collective scores with Billie Jean King and top women in tech and finance | Lawrence Aragon

The recent NCAA women's championship game between LSU and Iowa was the most watched women’s college basketball game in history, with nearly 10 million viewers, fueled by star athletes Caitlin Clark...

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If #FDIC can't find a buyer for @SVB_Financial by Monday, drama could drag on for years, says @FoleyandLardner attorney venturecapitaljournal.com/vc…

SVB failure has VCs wrestling with what's next

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, a longtime favorite of the tech industry, has venture capitalists scrambling to help portfolio companies that are depositors with the bank and make sure their own...

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PR folks, please hit me up if you have any VC clients willing to talk about the failure of @SVB_Financial. I'm at [email protected]
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#venturecapital | Lawrence Aragon

Great story about Jordan Noone's path from launching a rocket at University of Southern California to co-founding and building rockets for Relativity Space to co-founding a new #venturecapital fund...

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Steven Goffman@SteveGoffman12 Dec 2022
Turns out Twitter can, in fact, be real life.
Ilana Stern@Ilana_Stern12 Dec 2022
Replying to @elonmusk
@elonmusk just got booed like I’ve never heard before on stage with @davechapelle and @chrisrock. He couldn’t get a word in, the crowd booed for 10 minutes. Not favored on his home turf. He looked stunned, must not get enough feedback IRL.
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#womenempoweringwomen #venturecapital #women #womeninbusiness | Lawrence Aragon

Attention, Floridians. If you're a woman and you want to get into venture capital, check out the Glaring Gap Summit in Tampa Bay, which runs from Nov. 9-11. David Bogoslaw has a great inetrview with...

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How to nominate someone for Rising Stars | Lawrence Aragon

Big thanks to everyone who submitted nominations for our next Rising Stars feature for Venture Capital Journal. TBH, we're a little overwhelmed by the number. It is going to be tough to narrow it...

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Scoop: @HubSpot co-founder @bhalligan dives into #VentureCapital with @CRV's Devdutt Yellurkar. venturecapitaljournal.com/hu…
Hey @Vervecoffee. It is ground coffee plus hot water. Waited 10 minutes in line for am Ethiopia and was told your pour over "system" was down. So i went to @bluebottleroast
Curious what 51-yr-old mutual fund sequoiafund.com thinks about The Sequoia Fund, new effort by @sequoia.

Home - Sequoia ETF

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Just here to keep #DiaperDon trending. Have a nice day.
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Anyone have any insight into @eladgil 's new venture? He has $300M in fresh capital. venturecapitaljournal.com/en…
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@TheFullRatchet30 Mar 2020
TFR interview is live w/ @cdouvos of Ahoy Capital! On this special Crisis Coverage episode we discuss LP Lessons from '01 and '08, The Denominator Effect, Capital Calls & Fundraising in a Down Market. fullratchet.net/Chris_Douvos
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MJ Hudson partner has seen 2 European LPs default on capital calls. Anyone hearing of defaults by US LPs? privateequityinternational.c… #venturecapital #privateequity

LP defaults ‘already happening’ in PE | Private Equity International

Two European LPs have defaulted on capital calls, and more are rumoured, as LPs get hit with large, often early capital calls and drying up distributions.

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Anyone else old enough to remember F#$%ed Company from the dot-com crash? Seeing some startup failures already, but I don't think we'll see the same level of carnage this time around. Agree/disagree?
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