Scroll Down
Internet Basics
Consumer and Creator
3.A. Where the Viral Things Are
5. Pre-founder: People-focused investing
Content is King -- Bill Gates, 1997
Things To Do.
Villains/Heroes, Love/Technology
Creator Extras
Investment
Total Content Market (TCM)/Content TAM (C-TAM)
Introducing: On-Page Collaboration, LiveWriting, anti-Press Publish
VC Managers: Finding your style
Translation
Personal Journal
Advice for a Y1/Y2 woman in VC
This is completely anecdotal.
I’m going to skip over a few personal things, but I’ll try to keep in as much as I can for this to make sense.
Fall of ‘22, almost 20% of students dropped out of college. And I was one of them.
Going to tell my parents was not fun. Mostly, because any argument that this was a good idea would lead back to a page like this:
In my nearly year-long argument, I picked up a few interesting stats.
We’ll skip over the parental support anecdote for a minute and break down why I did it and compare it to why a lot of young adults are making similar choices.
I dropped out of my fourth year of college because:
I’ve been running The Wiress for three years now, been an advisor on dropout communities like Verci, and I’ll tell you what I tell every girl that asks me if she should drop out. I say no. I do this for really only one very specific reason - those who want to drop out will drop out.
There is no reason to be creative unless you have a problem to solve. Mine, was that even if I wanted to do the function of venture capital - I felt a massive wave of pressure to change into a long, sad, lifeless persona that was a “woman in finance.” And who on earth wants to be just like that.