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Internet Basics
Online CommoditiesConsumer and Creator
1. Creator = Consumer2. The Active Consumer3. โCreator-GTMโ3.A. Where the Viral Things Are4. The Anonymous Economy5. Pre-founder: People-focused investingNonTechnicals
5.A. Pre-founder: Nontechnicals5.B. โCleanupโ5.C. Content is Eating the WorldCreator Studies
1. Intro to Creator Studies2. Intro to Creator Policy3. Intro to Creator Investing4. A Spectrum of Influence5. Influencing Influencers6. The History of the Creator Economy [working]2. View: ResearchInvestment
Total Content Market (TCM)/Content TAM (C-TAM)Revisiting Community InvestingRethinking Consumer LTVโOrganicโ = unpaid?Introducing: On-Page Collaboration, LiveWriting, anti-Press PublishVC Managers: Finding your styleWomenโs Consumer (2022)The โonlineโ buttonBending SteelTranslation
โGenZโDirectoryPersonal Journal
An intro to Personal JournalAdvice for a Y1/Y2 woman in VCAdvice for a Y3 woman in VC My love letter to JournalistsWomen and Wikipedia โPedigreeโโContextโโLooseโโExamplesโMe & PaulVery Specific AdviceWhy I dropped outHow to be JealousContent vs. Journalismยฉ EM 2024
VC Management
The noble quest to find what non-PE style, shitty management and mentor looks like in an unstructured job like vc.
Granted, not every single VC likes to consider themselves as managers. Some of them prefer
There are four parts to this job. Nobody is good at all four:
Four aspects to the job:
Investor | Your MOIC; how good are your investments? |
Asset Manager | Available $; Whatโs your financial strategy for the fund? Does it work?; did you make a crypto-fund in 2021? |
โVCโ | Thought leadership; how much can you sell your money? |
Fund Manager | Are you able to build/nurture great investors? Do people want to work for you? |
How to be a bad manager:
There are four cardinal noโs to being a VC manager:
1) Take credit. Hereโs a hot take, stop promoting PE-like competition within the fund. As least for the next 5 years, not a single fund is that differentiated enough to have a disjoined team.
2) Force. This job is inherently independent - at least, thatโs what it should be. Similar to how youโd work with founders โ find the styles and ways of being your underling is good at. Stop forcing the way it worked 5 year ago, explore it, try it, but donโt force it.
3) Be rude. Donโt be a dick.
4) Own relationships. This goes back to the take-credit point, but this is supposed to be a team. One person wins, everyone wins. I get that deals are everything, but check the employee-churn rate at the most internally competitive funds โ itโs high.
Michael Scott
Iโm not old enough to know how to be a good manager. But I have my two cents for the not great bosses. Didnโt you all watch The Office? Did we not learn anything about how much work means to people? How to be nice to one another?
This section isnโt to say that there arent/I havenโt had incredible bosses, but it is telling some that Iโm seeing poor management decisions affect Junior investors more than you know.