Ali Moiz
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building stonks w/ @mecolalu ; prev exits: @Streamlabs @peanutlabsmedia ; writing a children's book. Dad 👪 🇺🇸🇵🇰
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Burnout in startups doesn't really come from working long hours or stress.
It comes from a loss of purpose & direction, often when something doesn't work out as expected.
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The best startup advice to potential founders I've heard:
Get started.
The rest will follow.
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Un-busying yourself is one of the highest-leverage things you can do as a startup founder.
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AI is now the top theme at YC and almost half the batch is working on it.
Here are a few that we invested in:
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okay okay, crazy idea hear me out 👾
A VC index fund, that ANYONE (incl. retail, non-accred) can invest in...
...that is ALSO publicly-listed and tradeable (via any brokerage account) 🤯
👍 / 👎 ?
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Why aren't more startups funded based on retention, rather than just growth?
Imo - growth can look high with unprofitable CAC / marketing spend.
But there's no way to make retention look great, without actually being great.
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As an early-stage 0 to 1 founder, you only have 2 jobs:
talk to customers (70%)
build (30%)
Ignore everything else.
All other advice on things like hiring, PMs, strategy etc is from folks in the growth phase going 1 to 100, not 0 to 1.
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It takes about a decade to do a startup. Your 20s, 30s, and 40s -- each of them will be ONE startup, if you actually see it through to an exit.
New founders -- you're signing up to give a decade of your life (on avg). Still want to do it?
Drop me your pitch below 😎
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Some observations on venture and investing:
1. Every VC fund will soon have their own pre-seed accelerator or boot camp (following YC, Seqouia, a16z)
2. Late stage companies will run tenders every year to manage liquidity for employees, and delay going public.
3. Employees
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We ❤️ you
@elonmusk
, and would like to invest with you in Twitter. Many of us are Tesla shareholders or customers too.
10,000 Elon fans on
@Stonks_dot_com
would love an allocation. We're here at the Fremont and Austin gigafactories today hoping you'll let your fans in.
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Want to get into venture investing?
Be a scout for us
@Stonks_dot_com
🚀 Refer us dealflow, earn equity. Comment in thread if interested, will DM.
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The new Pakistan. When you raise a Series A, you get a tweet from the Prime Minister. 😎🇵🇰
We welcome the recent investment of 85 Million USD by leading VCs of the world in Airlift, a company led by young Pakistanis. Pakistan has huge potential and we are open for business. My govt is fully committed to creating opportunities.
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Are you a VC, solo-GP or emerging manager looking for more visibility for your fund?
We’re hosting a “Meet the Fund” reverse demo day
@Stonks_dot_com
where GPs pitch to founders and LPs.
Comment here if you’d like to present for 5 mins, or tag your favorite GP.
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Want to get into venture investing?
Be a scout for us
@Stonks_dot_com
🚀 Refer us dealflow, earn equity. Comment in thread if interested, will DM.
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OK some big news to share for
@Stonks_dot_com
today.
🙅♂️No more demo days
👀Building a "Robinhood for Secondaries". Focused on the best pre-IPO names, called Stonks Private.
Why? Story below👇
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Pitching VCs is mostly about the Partner, not the Fund. Counter-intuitive but true.
When you get turned down, it's not the Fund saying no. It's that particular Partner.
You can increase your odds by pitching multiple partners at the same Fund.
Here's a story 👇
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Stonks is going private, invite-only after nearly 10 months of being open to all.
This is the largest change to the
@Stonks_dot_com
platform since we launched in Sept'21.
Here's some lessons we learnt, and why we're doing this 👇
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Director's cut:
@Stonks_dot_com
speedrun from $0 to $12 million in committed funds in 29 seconds today 👀 (new funding speed record...?) ty
@McMccondichie
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Today's thread is on YCombinator, the leading and most-storied startup accelerator on the planet.
How much capital does YC deploy annually? What are their revenues? Are they as large as some big VC funds?
👇Answering these Qs today
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Excited to announce our new round, led by
@andrewchen
@a16z
…and you can join too 💪
Announcing our $15m round of funding 🚀
“Wait, when do I get a chance to invest in Stonks on Stonks?” 💰💰
Well, now’s your chance.
Come through and flex your diamond hands. 💎🙌
Join our round led by Andreessen Horowitz (
@a16z
)
👇
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Ummm...quite a few VCs seem to have lost or changed their jobs. Lots of Associates, Principals, even a few Partners.
I sent out a bunch of emails to stonks users today, and seeing dozens of auto-responders specifically from investors that are "no longer with the firm" 🤯
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Founders need to have a vision so compelling, so big and meaningful that it holds everything else together.
What's yours?
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Founders: describe what your startup does in 5 words or less.
I'll start: Twitch + Angellist had a 👶
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Founders must pick a problem they care about deeply, irrationally and emotionally.
Startups have ups and downs.
They can take up to a decade of your life.
A strong emotional connection to the problem is the only thing that'll prevent you from quitting at your lowest point.
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Exceptional people often go either very fast, or very slow. Or alternate between those modes.
Mediocrity is the stuff in the middle, just moving along, not slow, not fast.
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We're excited to announce our partnership with
@intel
to produce custom, streaming PCs optimized for Livestreaming. Come see the hardware prototypes at our
#twitchcon2018
booth
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Call for Startups - apply for our next Demo Day in August. ...OR just come practice before YC demo day 😉
$4m+ raised last month.
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Looking at a few hundred startups across my personal portfolio, and several venture funds from
@Stonks_dot_com
, nearly half of founders don't send regular updates. Staggering 🤦♂️
@paulg
has an essay on this. The data indicates founders who don't stay connected are ngmi.
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Ok, I'm a believer. Never thought I'd say this but...
ChatGPT is more useful for learning than Google.
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Allocation Secured 😎
Do the work. Showing up matters.
Details coming soon.
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A few weeks ago,
@Stonks_dot_com
raised on Stonks.
$3m in 60 minutes w/ over 250 individual investors added to our cap table.
We were floored with the reception.
🤯🤯🤯
A thread 👇
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We're hosting a couple of in-person demo days for
#techweek
with
@a16z
SF: Generative AI demo day, June 1st
LA: Gaming & Entertainment, June 7th
🔈 Call for startups, applications open now. Judges
@andrewchen
@m2jr
@TimDraper
& more
Tag a founder you like, links below 👇
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The first YC demo day featured:
- 8 companies
- 15 investors
@Stonks_dot_com
Demo Day 8 will feature
- 6 startups, web3 and fintech
- 1000’s of investors 🤯🤯
It's never been a better time to be a founder!
----------------------
RSVP:
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The most common reason for burnout is a loss of purpose and direction in what you do, not long hours or stress.
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Streamlabs has now paid out over $700 million to creators since inception 🤯🤯🤯
The number of platforms that have done that can be counted on two hands, maybe one.
Proud of the team, always will be
@streamlabs
💟🚀🔥
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Market crash? What crash...
We're still killing it on
@Stonks_dot_com
. From a Web3 event this morning: $11.1 million funding interest.
And we do ~5 of these a week 🤷♂️
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Stonks is now becoming
@sandhill_mkts
😎
Same BS content, more serious investing.
Announcing 2 new co-founders
@StonkyOli
(he's amazing, tech lead) and Sandy the Crane (dubious value, but team player).
Sandy was pitching earlier this week to
@m2jr
&
@ericries
👇
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Sad to announce I'm leaving
@streamlabs
this week. It's in great hands
@GeorgeKurdin
@ashrayurs
@Salmanalee
. TY
@LogitechG
@UjeshD
for welcoming us into the family. SL fam - ❤️ forever.
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I've invested in 70+ startups as an angel investor and watched hundreds present on
@Stonks_dot_com
Angel investing as a beginner can often be terrifying - I want to demystify it.
What questions do you want to see me answer about angel investing?
Video coming soon 👀
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For 2022, may god give me the confidence of VC associates who turn down a founder with revenue b/c the TAM is too small.
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Failed founders make great early-stage employees.
• They are driven to build and own.
• They have experience going from zero to one.
• They have the wisdom of hindsight, humbled by failure.
For startups, these ex-founders can often be incredible hires.
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Heard from a VC today - “Stonks has become the best aggregator of pre-seed/seed dealflow in one place”
✌️✌️✌️
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It's a tough fundraising market out there.
Stay safe, watch your cashflow, and laugh at investor memes on twitter even if they're not that funny.
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How many hours a week do you spend talking to customers?
...is the only early-stage question that matters.
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Grab a coffee ☕️. If you're an angel investor, this is required reading by
@AngelList
tldr: invest in every credible deal at the seed stage. Indexing has way better returns than picking a few deals.
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It's been 38 weeks, and
@Stonks_dot_com
just crossed $700M in funding interest 👀
DemoDay 10 Fintech & Crypto is 48h away. By the numbers:
- 10 startups 🦄
- $504M GMV/GTV 🔥
- 670% growth🚀
👉
@blader
@ethanaustin
@pitdesi
@zallarak
asking the hard Qs
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Co-invest in unannounced deals with
@Accel
@foundersfund
@MayfieldFund
@generalcatalyst
? 👀
Read on 👇
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Why does the Vision Pro feel like a solution in search of a problem?
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What’s the most helpful thing an angel or a VC did for you, other than the money?
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People will forget what you said.
But they’ll remember how you made them feel.
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Auctions are at the heart of all functioning markets, even when it's not obvious.
The first version of "Wall St" in the 1800s was a bunch of people meeting every Thursday at someone's office to run an auction to buy and sell shares.
Let's dive in👇
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Who's still writing checks in this downturn? You're zigging when others are zagging. Post below. I'll start:
🧙♂️who: Stonks Fund
💵check size: $25-50k
❓focus: Demo Days
🦄 stage: seed through B
📣 link:
@Stonks_dot_com
Tag an investor to go next:
@blader
@jamesbeshara
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Everything takes longer than you think it will.
Everything will fail more than you predict.
Everything will cost more than you budget.
BUT the stuff that works will be way bigger than you expected.
That's a startup.
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We just finished our 100th startup demo day at
@Stonks_dot_com
in less than 10 months 👀
Here are the Top 5 things we've learnt on having a successful pitch as a founder, and a successful demo as an accelerator 👇
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What are you building that you’d like to share w the world? Comment and l I’ll RT if it’s cool 😎✌️
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Stonks Demo Day 9 👾 is coming this Friday 10am PT to an AMC near you. Trailer:
❤️ 4 incredible panelists
📱7 startups
🚀$35M Revenue (!!)
👀1000+ investors watching
More below 👇
@Stonks_dot_com
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Best of luck to all the
@ycombinator
startups at demo day today ✌️
@paulg
and YC have changed early-stage investing. They also picked
@garrytan
to lead ❤️
We're excited to be participating with the
@Stonks_dot_com
YC S2022 Fund, writing $50K checks into 40-50 startups today.
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❗️Call for Crypto, Web3 & FinTech startups for
@Stonks_dot_com
DemoDay 7:
- 1000+ crypto & fintech investors
- Crypto partners incl
@draper_u
@XooglerCo
@floriventures
@CoinList
- Hosts
@TimDraper
& others
Pls tag founders who should see this 🙏
Apply:
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I've built my last 2 startups through tough, down markets. Here's what to expect in the next 12 months 📉
👇
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@nateobrienn
People are trying. There's OpenBB, Koyfin, Composer and a bunch of new tools. None of them are there yet tho.
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Just received a note saying that one of my portfolio co's is suing a bunch of its own directors and a large shareholder.
This is a late-stage, pre-IPO company.
My first reaction 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. There goes the investment, mark down to $0?
Then I read the 40-page lawsuit...👇
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Last chance to rsvp for
@Stonks_dot_com
Sept demo day on 9/21. Investor panelists include
@sriramk
@m2jr
@dunkhippo33
@immad
@IterativeVC
100+ applications received
8 startups, $20 million combined revenue
9/21, in 5 days
🚀RSVP:
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1. 𝗢𝗳𝗼𝗻𝗲
Ofone is using conversational AI to take fast-food drive-thru orders.
It can intelligently upsell – like suggesting ice cream on a hot day – and is expected to save a typical restaurant owner $60,000 in labor costs per store annually.
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Which creators are looking to become VCs? Tag 'em here.
B/c we're building a platform just for you 🚀🚀🚀
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Seeing this interesting trend w investors:
If you started angel investing in the last 4 years, you're most likely pausing or pulling back significantly.
If you started 8 or more years ago, you're very much still writing checks at the same pace, just at lower valuations
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something happened today 👀👀
Need some great gear to go with your Streamlabs OBS setup? We’re happy to say we’re joining the
@logitech
team. Learn more:
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[1] The future of 100 true fans: reward your best, most enthusiastic customers by letting them invest in your company and becoming stakeholders 💰
Let them participate in your success.
How? 👇
[open thread]
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I had high hopes for the evening.
Answer a 100 emails. Deep research. Reading that’s neglected.
My kids didn’t like the plan, decided to not sleep. Im too tired now to do anything at 9pm, like most evenings.
Parents on Twitter — how do you do it?
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Shoutout to the builders & investors supporting them that are grinding away this Sunday.
You're building the future 👊
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Fundraising is a job many founders dread.
Seeing startup founders raise over $120M on Stonks, I’ve seen some founders deliver a flawless pitch – while others crash and burn.
Here are 5 tips to building the perfect pitch:
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There's another round of layoffs in tech, and a new investment freeze coming. July-Sept was just a thaw between two blizzards.
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Folks getting laid off at
@BookCameo
@beondeck
@bolt
-- sorry what you are going through.
@Stonks_dot_com
is hiring and helping democratize venture capital -- give us a looksy
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We're ranked 51K Alexa in the US after just putting up a landing page.
Think its all VCs checking us out. Thank you guys, but our round is closed 🙏🚀🙌💎
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[1] The past: get a couple of funds to do your pre-seed/seed/A round.
The future: get high-value individuals, (operators/founders/execs) to do your round.
Why? 👇
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Thanks for having me on the show
@realMeetKevin
🙏 there couldn’t be a better host
Amazing, crazy-insightful video interview with
@ali_moiz
!! The future of markets, Bitcoin, Tsla, Winning compounders vs 10x companies and more! $goog $tsla $btc & !
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8. EzDubs
EzDubs uses AI to dub videos and live streams into different languages in real time while preserving the voice of the original speaker.
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The biggest danger to fundraising just dropped this morning...
Zoom is down 💁
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What is considered hot in startup investing changes every 6 months.
As a founder, don't succumb to shiny object syndrome. What you are building is important, regardless of whether it's making headlines. 💪
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