A couple months ago, asked a number of people if they would share some insights about raising VC for fledgling entrepreneurs. I’d been getting a lot of requests for advice from new entrepreneurs about raising money, valuations and other stuff that were frankly over my head, and it became obvious that the only way to help them would be to to crowdsource that knowledge from the ones who know best.
Among my chosen brain trust were the founders of Jobberman — Deji Adewunmi, Opeyemi Awoyemi and Lekan Olude. Their response was affirmative, but I didn’t hear back until this morning when Opeyemi began to tweet, taking care to mention TechCabal in the first of the series. It turns out that he’d written a draft since August, but was too preoccupied to finish it. Then he found Writerack, and since Twitter is immensely amenable to raw unedited streams of consciousness, Ope decided to put it out via that medium. After graciously emailing me to say he was going to, I should say.
The resulting 28-part tweetstorm about how venture capitalists are strategically lazy, and what startups looking to raise can do about it could have been a perfectly good article though, if you ask me. So I’ve remedied that situation. If you would prefer to read it as a proper blog post, the way it was originally intended, the link is coming.
But since you’re already, here’s a custom timeline of Opeyemi’s tweets.
You might have noticed there’s only 20 tweets
