October, 2021

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Why Founders Have No Clue How They Raised (Or Failed To)

This is going to be BIG.

Sometimes it all seems like magic. In the beginning of my venture career, I knew of a firm that was involved in a highly competitive funding round that they ultimately failed to win. It was a clearly hot space and they felt like they had missed out on an opportunity to place their bet in it—and worst of all, they lost the deal to what they considered a rival firm.

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NYC’s Tech Resurgence (continued)

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

A few weeks ago, I wrote about NYC’s Tech Resurgence. I observed that NYC continues to develop as one of the world’s leading centers of tech innovation. And then yesterday, I saw this tweet : NYC startups are getting funded at 2/3 the rate of Silicon Valley startups. That’s a huge change from where NYC was even two or three years ago.

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Our DIY Heat Pump Install – Free Heating and Cooling for Life?

Mr. Money Mustache

A work of art. To most of the Internet, Mr. Money Mustache is known as the quirky early retirement financial guy, and this is a blog about Money. But really, I’m not a finance guy – someone who devotes most of his time to optimizing money. I’m more of a general Life Engineer – someone who tries to optimize everything that is fun and interesting in life, and money is just one of those things.

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Don’t be Gone Phishing

Dear Mr. Market

Dear Mr. Market: This isn’t the type of letter we like to write you. Our brief note today will not center around anything of stock market or economic interest. Mr. Market dupes people with his manic, unpredictable, and volatile ways but one thing that we can guard ourselves from is the ever growing threat of phishing. What exactly is “phishing”?

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“Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money” Now Available for Purchase

C2P Enterprises

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. AdvisorPR® (702) 685-7450. “Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money” Now Available for Purchase. The children’s book is inspired by Clarity 2 Prosperity’s signature financial planning process and the bestselling book, “The Bucket Plan: Protecting and Growing Your Assets for a Worry-Free Retirement”. Cleveland [.]. The post “Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money” Now Available for Purchase appeared first on Clarity 2 Prosperity.

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What You Should Know About the Alternative Minimum Tax and Incentive Stock Options

Zajac Group

Most people understand that taxes can be a little more complicated when you have incentives stock options and other equity compensation. What they may not know is that income tax isn’t just about tax brackets to calculate your regular taxable income. The federal income tax system has a sister system that figures how much tax you may owe due to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).

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Startups Galore

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

When you look at the recent Q3 numbers on seed and early-stage VC fundraising, you might think we are in the late stages of a VC bubble: The words I would use to describe the current environment in early-stage VC are “fast and furious.” And yet the thing that makes me think this could be the new normal and not the late stages of a bubble is the dramatic increase in the number of people who are choosing to work in or form new startups.

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How to Get Qualified Leads from Facebook

Tucker Advisors

How to Get Qualified Leads from Facebook. By Jordan Collins Tucker Advisors Senior Digital Marketing Specialist. Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow. Table of Contents . Click the links below to jump to a client appreciation event page section specific to your needs. Setting Up Your Facebook Business Page. Facebook Ads Manager. Create a Facebook Ad Campaign.

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I Was Featured on Marie Swift’s Podcast! Check it Out Here.

Indigo Marketing Agency

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on Swift Chats —a video podcast series about best practices in the financial services industry, hosted by Marie Swift of Impact Communications. For those of you who don’t know, Marie and I both run digital marketing firms for financial advisors. And while you may think this would be breeding grounds for competition, Marie and I have taken an abundance approach instead.

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Positive PR for a Better Business and World with Alana Kohl

AdvisorPR

Alana Kohl is a guest on “The Game with Sarano and Brooke Kelley,” where she delves into the significance of public relations in business ventures. Engaging with a PR company can be advantageous for anyone seeking visibility within their target audience’s daily content consumption. Alana helps address prevalent misconceptions surrounding brand-building, the advantages of PR, and the steps to craft a robust PR plan capable of garnering the positive attention one deserves.

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3rd Quarter Market Review

ClearMoney

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Why Becoming a Dad Makes Me Want to Invest in More Startups

This is going to be BIG.

This is my daughter, Mirren. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell - VC (@ceonyc) She’s the best. She was born 10 weeks early, on Labor Day, and like startups never are, has performed up and to the right nearly every single day that she’s been alive. We are incredibly lucky that she’s doing so well and we hope to have her home at the end of the month.

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Working Multiple Jobs

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Since 2016, I have been working “half time” at USV and taking half of a partner’s carry. That has allowed me to allocate more time to things like building green buildings with the Gotham Gal, building a philanthropic organization with the Gotham Gal, sitting on non-profit and civic boards, and a few other things. The truth is I still work at least 40 hours a week at USV, probably a fair bit more some weeks, but I still have time to spend on these other things and my partners un

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Tracking Crypto For Taxes

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

For the last ten years, my tax prep on crypto was pretty easy. I have always had a buy and hold mindset and have custodied with Coinbase. So a simple report on Coinbase was all I needed to send to my tax folks. Pretty simple. But as DeFi and NFTs have exploded on the scene, things have gotten more complicated. Swapping, bridging, staking, buying with ETH, SOL, FLOW, yield farming, liquidity mining.

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The Mainstreaming Of Crypto

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

We started looking at crypto ten years ago, starting investing nine years ago, and have had a front-row seat to its development ever since. It has been enlightening, exciting, rewarding, but definitely not mainstream. I think that is changing quickly now and yesterday I saw this tweet: BREAKING: The @NBA and @Coinbase have announced a multiyear partnership that makes Coinbase the exclusive cryptocurrency platform partner of the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and USA Basketball.

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Funding Friday: The Tether Bike Light

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I backed this project this morning. The Tether Bike Light is “a bike safety device that projects a safe zone around your bike, responds to road users around you, identifying safe and unsafe roads in your city.” I like the idea that “locations of overtakes are recorded to identify safe and unsafe zones in your city to help plan safer routing.” That is very cool.

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Funding Friday: Posterized

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

My friend Stephen sent me a text with a link to this Kickstarter project. I backed it immediately and went one step further than I ordinarily do, I bought a pre-order copy of the book. The NBA is back in season, I went to the opener on Weds night here in NYC, and it was a thrill to be in the arena watching incredible athletes play my favorite game to watch.

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Dapper Collectives

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our portfolio company Dapper Labs , creator of CryptoKitties , the Flow Blockchain , and the NBA Top Shot collectible game, is announcing Dapper Collectives today. Dapper Collectives comes by way of an acquisition of Brud , a company that has been developing “community-owned media and collectively built worlds” for the last five years. Dapper Collectives will be led by Trevor McFedries, the founder and CEO of Brud and the co-founder of the FWB DAO.

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How We Help Financial Advisors Build a Strong Marketing Foundation (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

How much money have you wasted on marketing tactics that promised good results and never delivered? Whenever I talk to financial advisors who are frustrated with their marketing, almost all of them have one thing in common: they don’t have a strong marketing foundation. Building a strong marketing foundation is key to seeing successful, long-term results in your marketing.

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Pandemic Relief

ClearMoney

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Web3 vs Web2

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Now that we are beginning to see what consumer applications are like in the decentralized web (web3), it is interesting to compare that to what consumer applications are like in the centralized web (web2). It became clear early in the 2000s that the big opportunity in the web would be to build large networks of engaged users. That was USV’s initial web2 thesis: USV in 140 characters: invest in large networks of engaged users, differentiated by user experience, and defensible though network

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IRAs and Wealth Creation

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

A couple of years ago, I wrote about buying crypto in an IRA. I went and did that with an old unused IRA that was sitting in cash and I have 8x’d the value of that IRA in the last 18 months. While my family is fortunate that we don’t have to rely on our IRAs to generate wealth like this, many folks do. Tens of millions of people in the US rely on IRAs to save money tax-free for their retirement.

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