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Excited for LA Tech
Excited for LA Tech
After 20 years in the Bay Area and the Silicon Valley tech world, my husband and I are packing up the kids and dog and…
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Perks are easy; Culture is hard
Perks are easy; Culture is hard
I find Sand Hill Road intimidating. Board rooms and venture capitalists scare me.
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisVCs pass because of team 60-70% of the time. Nobody puts that in the pass note. Here is what we are actually looking for: * Distance traveled * Excellence. Proof you know what hard work looks like * Unique insight * A view of the world that makes me see the future through your eyes If you're a pre-Series A founder who wants an honest read on how you're coming across before you pitch again, I just unlocked more sessions on Intro for 1:1 calls. Let's chat 💬 intro.co/minnieingersoll
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Minnie Ingersoll posted thisAfter 12 years at Google, co-founding Shift and now 7 years as a VC, I'm opening up my calendar for 1:1 calls on Intro I work with pre-Series A founders every day and I love it. Intro feels like a natural way to talk to more interesting entrepreneurs. Things I can help with: ✔️ How to raise seed capital ✔️ Building an investor network from zero ✔️ The pitch deck and what VCs are actually thinking ✔️ Finding product market fit The link to book is in the first comment.
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisMatt Mahan for California Governor #upfrontsummit This guy was fantastic. Just heard him speak at Upfront Summit. Currently mayor of San Jose but I hadn't heard of him before. Rick Caruso interviewed him so a little spicy but he's running as a moderate dem who's done a great job running California's 3rd largest city. Vote in June!! https://lnkd.in/ggqf3zmt
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisIs the world ready for agentic commerce? My partner David Waxman shares thoughts 👇 https://lnkd.in/g8AcbHAm
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisThe sheer volume of transactions that will shift from human-initiated to machine-initiated is staggering, and most existing payment systems weren't designed for it. >> check out David's really good article below!Minnie Ingersoll shared thisAI agents can reason, plan, and coordinate. But most of them can't pay for anything. That's changing fast — and the infrastructure being built right now will reshape B2B commerce. Here's what we're seeing.
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisAnd come to the launch party in LA this Thursday! https://lnkd.in/grPtTArY
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisI love high five energy!! I'm one of 18 founders featured in the new book, High Five Energy. It's about creating that magnetic flow state where things just click, doors open, and the right people show up. If you're building something, this one's for you. Get it on Amazon!
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisGreat opportunity to get into venture! 👇Minnie Ingersoll shared this🌱 We're hiring Moxxie Ventures! We're looking for an ambitious, early-career investor who loves meeting founders early, building real relationships and spotting lightning before it strikes. Main requirements: high energy, high trust, lots of hustle and obsessed with early-stage technology. We know this is a competitive space and we have a high bar. We’ll pay a $10K referral bonus for the person we hire. 🙏 https://lnkd.in/gB2EXx7a
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Minnie Ingersoll shared thisI've learned so much from Rohan Gupta about how LPs evaluate VCs. Great example below. Personally, I don't feel like I operate with as much urgency as a VC as I did when I was a founder, but I certainly have more urgency than a lot of the LPs I interact with!Minnie Ingersoll shared thisEarlier this year, I made the jump from Next Legacy Partners (VC fund-of-funds) to TenOneTen Ventures (seed stage firm backing techie founders building in legacy industries). With year closing out, I've been reflecting on the transition and wanted to share some interesting changes I've seen: 💡 Shifting my mindset from asset allocation to "n-of-one" 💡 Thinking about the future in a fundamentally different way 💡 Dealing with heightened opportunity costs
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Minnie Ingersoll liked thisMinnie Ingersoll liked thisWe're doing this!!! ---> https://lnkd.in/gwVgrfPp I've been spending time across the US with college students & faculty. There's a theme: students can't get internships this summer. Not just a few students. LOTS of students. Doesn't matter what kind of school you're at. The pipeline that used to work — apply, interview, get placed — feels broken in a way I haven't seen since 2008. Back then I wrote something called "Hack Your Own Summer" (https://lnkd.in/gkPGTZkJ) — the idea that if nobody's going to hand you an internship, you should build your own. Make something. HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT!!!! I think it's time to do that again, but bigger. Here's what I'm thinking: What if we stood up a program — free, open, student-led — where students who don't have internships this summer team up and build real projects? Real enough to put on a resume. Real enough to demo. Think of it like a summer-long hackathon or a YC-esque kind of thing with structure: teams, mentors, weekly speakers, and a demo day at the end. I don't have it all figured out. That's the point of this post. I NEED HELP!! If you're a student without an internship this summer — what would make something like this worth your time? I think this would be best if run by a bunch of college kids. Would you want to do that? If you're a professional who'd volunteer a few hours to mentor or coach — what would you need to say yes? If you've run something like this before — what worked and what didn't? Drop your ideas below. I'm reading everything. And if you're a student who wants to help build this from day one — LMK!
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🚨NEW EPISODE: Recorded live at FUTURE TITANS 2026 - Jeff Perry of Carta sat down with the iconic Seth Levine, co-founder of Foundry. Seth has been in venture for 25 years, built Foundry from scratch as an emerging manager himself, and has backed about 50 emerging manager funds through his fund of funds. He has genuinely seen every side of this table. They went deep on building Foundry, why VCs are in the influence business, not the decision business, and why the concentration problem in venture is not only bad for LPs, but also for the innovation ecosystem overall. And why Seth's new book, Capital Evolution, is so important for the future of America. 🎧 Links to listen... Apple: https://lnkd.in/ehQUQ2EM Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eU4FExpg
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Tuukka Jarvenpaa
Founders make dozens of decisions every week. Make sure you're one of the founders who go back to check how those decisions played out. It's easy to remember the wins and explain away the misses. If you don't actively work against that, you end up with a growing confidence in your own judgment that's never actually been tested. I was in a session with a founding team that had been running for years. Experienced, sharp, deep domain knowledge. When I asked how they make product and prioritization decisions, the answer was honest: "From experience. But we don't always revisit those critically." Their experience had created assumptions that felt like facts. Hardwired beliefs about customers, pricing, and priorities that hadn't been questioned since they were first formed. In another company, a founder had a real "lightbulb" moment when she realized they'd been tracking customer data for billing and sales, but never for learning. The data to evaluate their own assumptions was sitting right there. They just hadn't thought to look at it that way. This isn't really about "data vs. gut." Most founders use both, in some mix, all the time. The deeper question is whether you have any feedback loop on your own decision-making. When you made a bet on a customer segment six months ago, do you remember what you assumed? Did it turn out to be true? If not, what did that teach you? The founders who build the best companies hold themselves accountable for their own calls. They go back, check what happened, and adjust their compass. That's how intuition actually develops. Not through experience alone, but through experience that's been honestly examined. Every correction makes the next decision a little sharper. Don't let your ego or the pace of the business stop you from developing the one asset that compounds over time: your judgement.
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Maddi Holman
💡Emerging GP Fundraising Insight #8: Rolling Closes Keep You Moving Small funds can't always afford to sit still until the target is hit. Rolling closes let you start deploying earlier, build a track record, and show momentum to prospective LPs. One GP told me that for Fund I ($5M target), he took capital as it came, signed, wired, and got to work. It wasn't perfect, but it kept the lights on and the deals moving. Sometimes the "sign and wire as it comes" approach is the only way to get moving. Takeaway: Momentum is a fundraising asset and rolling closes can help you keep it. Has anyone here used rolling closes as a strategic advantage?
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