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Founder & CEO - @joinsequel / Co-Founder Velocity Black (exited to Capital One)

London & Miami

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Joined August 2011

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Alex Macdonald

1 year

Last week we completed the sale of my first company Velocity Black to Capital One. 9.5 years of hard work. A few thank yous 🙏 1. My family and friends for keeping me sane through the ups and downs of the startup journey. 2. My wife for her continued support and patience.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

💰Here are 13 investor databases for seed stage Founders looking to raise money. 100k+ investors. Not Techcunch. Not AngelList. These are the databases you haven't heard of. This is to all the Founders hustling on a Saturday 🍻 Happy hunting 🎯

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However you are less likely to be hospitalised or die in the short term, but this is a separate (albeit important) point. Everyone should be able to choose whether they take the vaccine.

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All 3 are true: 1. UK Gov data shows dramatic reduction in risk of hospital & death in short term if vaxxed. 2. UK Gov data shows higher infection rates for those >30 & vaxxed vs unvaxxed 3. I'm vaxxed but think people should have a choice, and I will respect their choice 🙏

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3 years

Link to study: Relevant page (last 2 columns):

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Since April 2020 I’m proud to have prioritised my health. - Lost 16 kgs (35 lbs) - Minus 9% points body fat - Added 2.5 kgs muscle - Metabolic age reduced from 40 to 27 (I’m 34) No fad diets, no weight loss pills, no surgery. Sharing to help others improve their health 🧵

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@davidzweig I was suspended from Twitter in Oct 21 for sharing 'misleading info' about Covid-19. The 'misleading' info was a UK Govt report showing higher Covid infection rates among vaxed vs unvaxed. Tweet had 10m impressions before suspension. Appealed but lost.

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Final thought on this before bed (late here in the UK 😴): Despite disagreeing with many responses, I respect and look out for all of you. Whether we are suffering from govt tyranny or a viral attack: we will fare better if we stand together & respect everyone’s opinions ❤️✌🏽

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Truth > tribes Proof > propaganda Education > indoctrination If you have a problem with me sharing the UK government’s data: you’d love living in China or Russia.

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3 years

Performative morality is 10x more widespread than actual morality. Beware of those at the top of the performative morality league table. They’re usually found at the bottom of the morality league table.

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@ZubyMusic Got to be very careful what you say on here now I think if you live in the UK… Similar to Covid (when my account was suspended) - they’ll use this crisis to censor people and silence critics.

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I know many people considering leaving the UK now. Not to go to a tax haven - but just to go somewhere where they get better value for their tax. That would be the case even in some US states (Texas, Florida). In the UK I pay a huge amount of tax but opt out of nearly all

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Recently I’ve been engaging with people who feel rich people are the problem in the UK. They have a lot of negativity towards anyone earning a lot, owning/running a business or holding assets. There are 3 ideas people seem to come back to: 1. - Workers earn what employers will

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@lennysan Give someone a kiva account with a $100 gift card. Enables them to make micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. When it’s repaid you can loan again - compounding impact of the gift. I’ve made 350+ loans now.

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Freedom of thought and expression is the mother of innovation. Innovation is the mother of prosperity. Attacks on freedom of thought and expression by governments and society should be seen as an attack on future prosperity.

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2 years

Founders: Here's how to raise your seed round from top VCs and Angels: 1. Quickly 2. Maximising valuation 3. Setting you up well for the next round ⬇️💰⬇️

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2 years

@Nowooski No one in Europe will see this tweet. We’ve all started our 2 month summer holidays.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

I recently used the @stripe Atlas product to incorporate in the US. It took <5 mins to complete the process to incorporate a Delaware C Corp with a tax number as a non-US resident & it cost me 1/10th of what lawyers quoted me. A magical product experience 🪄

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Since I started angel investing I've seen more than 5,000 decks and helped founders raise more than $100m. Here's common feedback I give founders on their decks:

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Alex Macdonald

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If you are healthy you have no idea how lucky you are. Please do not take it for granted. Be grateful every day.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

@patrick_oshag Top ‘chains’: 1. Aman resorts 2. Peninsula 3. Dorchester Collection 4. Oetker Collection (Eden Roc, Jumby Bay, Lanesborough & more) Independents: 1. Grand Hotel Tremezzo (fav below) 2. Reschio (I founded a company that does tens of millions of dollars in lux hotel bookings)

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2 years

Founders: it's fundraising season 💰 Last year I posted a thread with links to 13 investor databases and 100k investors. Here's my 2022 list. More databases. More useful and all free to use 💪 Happy hunting 🎯

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3 years

@catdecal I did say that in the thread! To be clear my point isn't about the efficacy of vaccines in preventing short term hospitalisations or deaths, it's about mandating people to have it when it doesn't seem to prevent infection risk (and seems to increase it in the medium term)

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

When Besos launched his online book seller more than 20 years ago environmentalists worried about its impact on the planet. So Jeff responded by planting 1 tree for each book sold in Brazil. The Brazilian government named the forest after his company. The Amazon was born.

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Bezos, 1999, in the basement where he launched Amazon

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

The world needs more female angel investors.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Best angel investment to date. 0.5x liquidation preference. No exit strategy. 😁🎉🍾🥳

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Everyone loves talking about red flags 🚩 Well here's 10 positive indicators ✅ that show me an early stage founder is worth investing in:

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Alex Macdonald

2 months

What Brexit did to the UK economy. Astounding.

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Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher)

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What Brexit did to the UK economy. Astounding.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

📚I'm sharing my reading list on marketplaces, built over the last 7 years. It's 170+ books, blog, pods, videos and research papers. I estimate it's ~ 2m words. I've tagged it all in a database so you can quickly find what you need. More below ⬇️🧵

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The Marketplace Library 📚

170+ books, blog posts, podcasts and videos on Marketplace Businesses

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♾ Seems like a good week to do a META thread (on Fundraising) I've pulled together my favourite threads on everything from deck design to investor databases to strategy. 200+ tools, 100k+ investors, and great advice from some of the most respected people in the game ⬇️

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

How to make $1m in 12 months with no prior education: ⏱find a trending topic in software with @explodingtopics 🛠build it in no code with @nocodetech tools / tutorials 🚀launch with @ProductHunt 📈scale to $10k MRR w/ @getclearco / @pipe 💰sell with @microacquire Done.

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Alex Macdonald

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I'm officially retiring from angel investing 💸 I've had a lot of fun investing in some of the best founders in the world over the past decade and have had some great returns... so why the decision to stop? I've been thinking about it for the past 6 months. It comes down to 3

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@ZubyMusic 'If a government does everything for you, you'll soon find it can only do so by taking everything away from you.'

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@NapierHolland It is what you make of it. I agree in the winter it can be tough, but personally believe it’s hard to beat the UK in the summer. There are many advantages of being in the Uk - and particularly london. It would be hard to reach the pinnacle of any career living in Portugal.

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@mhudack You can still pay for other people’s basic needs and receive value for your tax through services that you actually use as a tax payer. The 2 are not mutually exclusive and I can tell you from personal experience of living in Singapore that it can be done 100x better than the

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@ZubyMusic Nuanced discussion is dying.

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To all the extremists (both left and right): It’s perfectly rational for someone to hold all the following views: - illegal immigration is uncontrolled & must be stopped - our asylum process is broken & taken advantage of - we should increase legal migration for skilled roles

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

My very first angel investment returned 26x. I was lucky. I've now reinvested the majority of the proceeds in other startups. Here's how I now assess early-stage startups 👨‍🔬

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

@_builtbyjay Last two columns.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

1/ No-Warm-Intro-Required Investor List by @ybelyayeva An air table, filterable database of investors who welcome cold outreach. Also checkout the guide on cold outreach by Yulia:

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Alex Macdonald

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~1/3 of my team have been assaulted / had their phone stolen since moving to London & UK to work with me. It is something that deeply troubles me. Aside from expensing Ubers home late (already offer this) - what other ideas do you have to help me address this?

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Alex Macdonald

2 months

I don't know who I'm going to vote for, but having read all 3 party manifestos - the Reform manifesto makes the most sense to me.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Today's founders are tomorrow's LPs

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4 years

@ZubyMusic Courage has never been in shorter supply in today’s cancel culture world, which is ironically when we need it most.

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Public services I used in Singapore but do not use in the UK: 🚇 public transport 🏥 hospitals 🦷 dentist 🚨 police & emergency services 📖 schools & childcare (if I had kids) Living in the UK is an increasingly bad trade for anyone young and ambitious in the long run.

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Alex Macdonald

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I know many people considering leaving the UK now. Not to go to a tax haven - but just to go somewhere where they get better value for their tax. That would be the case even in some US states (Texas, Florida). In the UK I pay a huge amount of tax but opt out of nearly all

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@george__mack When I lived in Singapore I really noticed this every time I flew back. Never a line at the airport. Wide, tree-lined and shaded roads back into town.

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Alex Macdonald

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Essential binge-reading for all interested in #tech and #software eating the 🌍. Insight overload. @vgr http://t.co/kJjsSK0xYU

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2 years

@JoshuaOgundu Apparently the only reason he raised everyone’s salary and reduced his own is the other shareholder and board member sued him for taking so much money out of the business prior to that. By the way the other shareholder is his brother.

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'A troubling story of ego:' Gravity Payments' CEO Dan Price takes the stand in lawsuit against...

Price’s brother, Gravity Payments minority owner Lucas Price, filed a lawsuit last year alleging Dan Price excessively compensated himself and cut Lucas Price out of key decisions, denying his rights...

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Yesterday I completed a 14 page, 4,000 word investment memo for my new startup 🚀 I highly recommend founders create a memo like this in addition to a deck. It will: - significantly speed up funding process - convert higher quality investors - serve as an FAQ (save you time)

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Alex Macdonald

9 years

Innovation only exponentially increases the possibility of further innovation. @pmarca

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Alex Macdonald

3 months

99% of advice on here is aimed at the ‘average founder’. It is rarely relevant for the best founders. In fact the best founders will normally find better results from doing the opposite.

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Alex Macdonald

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I’ve generated ~$250m in taxes for the UK treasury. It’s a sad state of affairs for me to consider leaving after that investment. But it has been spent incredibly poorly. Whichever way you vote in an election - that won’t change. The only way I can vote is with my feet.

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The UK has lost an estimated 15,000 millionaires (net) since 2016. And that's just millionaires. This century, people will increasingly go where they are respected, aren't resented, have opportunities, aren't taxed to death, and enjoy the weather. UK is a pessimistic place.

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@soundslikecanoe 🚩talking badly about former employer 🚩responds defensively to feedback on a task 🚩has few / no questions about the company 🚩turns up late without warning 🚩lack of tangible metrics / KPIs demonstrating impact in previous roles

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Overheard in the VC elevator: ‘He’s the kind of founder who confuses revenue with GMV and thinks having a soho house membership is the same as having a personality… Not our people.’ Art 🤌🏽

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Congratulations to the Revolut team. It’s great to see a UK startup reach these heights. Strange framing and photo choice from the press though…. Not surprised at this point.

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Revolut secures UK banking licence after three-year battle

London-based fintech receives approval from regulators in boost to expansion plans

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Alex Macdonald

1 year

My most frequent advice to founders: ‘I don’t think you should raise venture capital for this. There are many paths to building a successful business, and raising venture capital has killed many good businesses.’ Founders nearly always ignore me 😭

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

@ZubyMusic ‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety’

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

3/ Gritt by @AdMoCam Investor database focussed on Angel investors, completely free. Filterable. Awesome product.

Gritt.io - Investor Database

Find the right Angel Investors & VCs, get their detailed contact info & build your pipeline!

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

@KieranMaguire The obsession of clubs with NFTs as a fan engagement tool is lunacy. They should just sell a low priced digital membership with specific tangible benefits. The notion that it needs to be a tradable asset is where the scams come in.

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Alex Macdonald

2 months

@levelsio The best combo that rich people use to optimise time and cost: Fly commercial but book a private terminal to leave and arrive. You save hours this way and it’s minimal additional cost. Basically 90% of the time benefit for 10-20% of the cost.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

For all the founders, angels & VCs working away on a Sunday: here's the best of startup twitter from the past week 🔥⬇️

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

I'm creating a toolkit for Angel Investing with a list of educational resources, deal-flow networks and models for analysing startups. Here's part 1: Education.

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Angel Investing — A Toolkit

Part 1 — Education

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Awesome data from the @PointNineCap team on B2B marketplaces. Highlights: - Valuation at Seed range from $5m-27m - Valuation at Series A range from $30m-120m - To raise at Seed: GMV growth >3x YoY - To raise at Series A: min monthly GMV of $1.5m and net revenue of $80k

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

@StuartBlitz ‘It’s an AI powered platform to teach VCs how to become polite, fully functioning members of society. You’d be a perfect beta customer. Email?’

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Competition slides in decks are about as useful as a chocolate teapot

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

🇬🇧London Founders: Announcing Reverse Office Hours ⏱ If you have a free desk: let me work from your office for a day in the next month. In return I’ll take you out for breakfast or lunch and you can ‘pick my brain’ on any topic from fundraising to hiring to GTM strategy 🤌🏽

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

@lolitataub Use docsend. Pro tip: send different links to each initial investor you speak to. You’ll be able to see who is being most useful / sharing the deck with other investors.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

@Jason Who wants to be a member of something where the membership can simply be traded? This is the antithesis to the membership strategy of every successful membership club (eg golf clubs, soho house, annabels) A democratised member club is a club no-one wants to join.

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Alex Macdonald

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For VCs & Angels; assessing founder ambition is much more important than accurately assessing market size. The size of the market does not matter if the founder is going to accept an offer for $60m for the business.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

@sama They're optimising for minimising downside rather than maximising upside.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Pre-seed founders: Do you really want to go down the route of raising from angels & VCs? Once you go down the venture funding route, you can't turn back & it can kill your company... Explore other funding routes first (e.g. grants, revenue-based financing, debt).

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Confession: I passed on investing in companies including Revolut, FreeTrade, Zego, Marshmallow (all now unicorns) at seed & series A 🤯 My reason was 'I don't know enough enough about fintech / insurance.' Do not underestimate being in the right place at the right time...

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I am a huge F1 fan. It's surreal for me to see the brand of a company I started on the nose of a Formula 1 car. I'm very proud of our team who executed this game-changing partnership together with @AstonMartinF1 . Good luck to @alo_oficial & @lance_stroll this weekend.

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Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team

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We're delighted to announce a new lifestyle partnership with Velocity Black, a digital members' club and luxury concierge. Together we'll deliver Velocity Black members with the ultimate opportunities to live and experience the greatest motorsport series.

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The VCs in the UK who can help startups expand to the US have a massive competitive advantage. These are mostly US funds…

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@dougall @adcock_brett Significantly improves communication & speed of response though

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

My new co. involves partnering with top performing VC funds. I want to partner with some emerging managers, however there isn't sufficient historical returns data to assess them. Aside from a vibe check, how should I assess them? cc @MacConwell @dunkhippo33 @mgv_vc @paigefinnn

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Alex Macdonald

1 year

I may have sold my first company last week… but I’m still in the office at 22:30 only days later ensuring I launch my second on time. Some things change. Some things stay the same. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

2/ OpenVC by @StephNass and Lucas Roquilly All VC firm by thesis.

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Raise from 5,000+ investors. For free.

Raise from 5,000+ investors. For free.

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Alex Macdonald

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Europe: it’s that time of year again. We only have to put up with 3 months of this - and we’ll have locked in 90% of our annual GDP.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Investors who want to see an 'exit strategy' slide in your deck are not the investors you want. What are other investor red flags? 🚩

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Bad time for exits. Great time to start a company.

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Alex Macdonald

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My biggest cheque last year was into a pre-seed startup that was default alive, generating cash but growing steadily. VCs ignored the round claiming they weren’t ambitious enough with growth, so I led the round with my syndicate. Same VCs now asking me for intros 😂.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

4/ Active Angels by @Trace_Cohen Database of ative angel investors including contact details.

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Active investor list by Trace Cohen

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Things I don't care about as an investor: 1. What school you went to 2. Who else is committed to the round 3. Who your advisors are Investors who ask you these questions should be avoided.

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Alex Macdonald

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No, I will not tip your customer service and tech team for an e-commerce order. Pay your own team a good living wage. American tipping culture is wild.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Founders with $50k MRR growing 50% MoM: VCs told me they’d get back to me in September depending on market conditions Adam Neumann, pre-product: I’ve just raised $350m at $1b, here’s my landing page

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

If you ask me to sign an NDA before sharing even a basic deck, I’m out ✌🏽

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Good people give back once they’ve made it. Great people give back before they’ve made it.

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Mac The VC

2 years

I am very excited to announce the RareBreed Ventures @vcunlocked @500GlobalVC / Stanford University full-tuition Scholarship! This intensive program was instrumental in helping me. For all underrepresented, aspiring venture capitalists apply today:

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

🎯 Cold Outreach Playbook & Awards 🏆 Investors who ignore cold outreach, ignore underrepresented founders and suffer worse returns. I received a lot of cold outreach this week. I've put together a playbook for Founders looking to improve and awards for the best outreach 🧵

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Alex Macdonald

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One big test of loyalty / ethics for founders: - do you offer pro-rata to all your existing angels? Or - are you the type to squeeze them out / down when a fund comes along later I always have and always will prioritise the investors who back me earliest.

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Alex Macdonald

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Founders are from Mars and investors are from Venus 'We haven't spent anything on marketing.' Founders: This shows we can acquire users cheaply Investors: They have no idea how to scale user acquisition

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Alex Macdonald

1 year

Wild week. I spoke at an event at SVB on Tuesday, and today it was closed. Thoughts with all the startups and people affected. I hope a buyer emerges quickly and that depositors are made whole beyond the insured threshold. 🙏 p.s. I won't be speaking at any more banks...

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Top hiring tip for startups: never work with external recruiters. Incentives are never aligned. They coach bad candidates to interview well. They poach successful candidates out again in 1-2 years.

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

I saw a deeply troubling and divisive post last week by a US VC. If you're from a minority background and looking to get into VC, follow these awesome people: @MacConwell @ArlanWasHere @Andy_ayim @MrAndyDavis @ella_wb @michaeltefula @harrymclaverty @JuneAngelides @YvonneBajela

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Alex Macdonald

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I'm excited to take my first small step into sports team ownership 🧡 🖤 💚 Do you remember going to your first football game as a kid? I imagine you do. The huge stadium. The electric atmosphere. The feeling that you're part of a new tribe. Sport has a unique opportunity

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

Founders: reload the money guns 💸🔫 500k people viewed this thread last year on investor databases 🤯 I've since added 9 more databases and put them in a post for you: 📒 22 Investor Databases 💰 400k investors

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Founder Toolkit 🧰 - Investor Databases

22 Investor Databases ~400k+ Investors (Updated August 17)

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Alex Macdonald

3 years

💰Here are 13 investor databases for seed stage Founders looking to raise money. 100k+ investors. Not Techcunch. Not AngelList. These are the databases you haven't heard of. This is to all the Founders hustling on a Saturday 🍻 Happy hunting 🎯

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Alex Macdonald

22 days

If we as a society cannot understand that it is wrong for biological men to compete in women’s sports - let alone a combat sport - we’re moments away from civilisational downfall. We have a duty of care to female athletes. Very sad day.

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Riley Gaines

22 days

Men don't belong in women's sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini Let's get it trending 🔥

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

@Nowooski Data quality questions aside, my response having worked and started companies in both the US and Europe: business drives politics in the US. Politics stifles business in Europe.

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Alex Macdonald

2 years

Reminder: Russian people ≠ Vladimir Putin Be kind.

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