Five Years Ago, I Set Out To Prove A VC Firm Could Invest With A Diversity Thesis. Hereās Where We Are Today.
In 2017, I started compiling a list of Black and Latino founders who had raised $1 million of VC funding as there wasnāt any aggregated list online. I simply wanted to know who the top diverse founders were as they were the founders I, as a venture investor, wanted to serve. So I started pooling data from all over the internet.
Under The Hood: How Seed Investor Initialized Spots Future Unicorns
In the 10 years since Initializedās founding, the San Francisco-based firm has racked up an impressive stable of unicorn startupsāprivate companies now valued at $1 billion or moreāin its portfolio.
How to Intentionally Structure & Scale Company Communications
As a distributed team at Levels that works asynchronously, weāre ready to do whatever we can to ensure our team can do their best work and make progress towards an important mission. We take the responsibility to ensure that our tools, process, and culture allow for this. (h/t Jeff Martens)
Embracing Impostor Syndrome
As Iāve progressed through my career, Iāve experienced increasing imposter syndrome. Itās never gone away. I understand this is a common feeling, particularly in software engineering. Itās called Imposter Syndrome because you feel like you are not qualified to do your job ā like youāre pretending but no one has figured it out.
Shades of Entrepreneurship podcast: CEO & Founder of PodInbox: Pat Cheung
How do people come up with new ideas? One of the best ways to spark inspiration is observation. In this episode, a serial entrepreneur discusses the importance of customer input to making a successful product.
REMINDER: PIEās next experiment
Now, itās time for a new experiment. One that holds the potential to change the impact of PIE. In a way that could prove to be as meaningful as our transition from a coworking space to a startup accelerator program more than a decade ago.
Portland Lunch 2.0: Virtually (March 2, 2022)
There’s no better time to reconnect with folks in the community with whom you’ve lost touch. And there’s no better way to gather with a random smattering of your startup community peers than Portland Lunch 2.0. Even if it is virtually. No agenda. No talks. Just (virtual) lunch with your community.
