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Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. " 

by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

? 🧛 💉 🩸
💰 🤑 💰
🦃 👸 💎

the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

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IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. " 

by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

? 🧛 💉 🩸
💰 🤑 💰
🦃 👸 💎

the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

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@jawarajabbi Aren't "grants" another kind of "free money" which is from a usually non-caring States that simply want to find out all the info and what they take advantage of from it and your research ?

You mentioned "philanthropic organizations" that would be help better than my description of a grant - but can you name some philanthropic organizations ? ❓

Grant doesn't seem like a good free lunch either they really do give it almost blindly / without terms and conditions (?)... that's why I'd like an example.

Who doesn't want something back like any Vampire Empire which is like the Venture Capitalist / Vulture Capitalism people talk about (in fact the head Vulture being state so not much better)..

? 🧛 💉 🩸
💰 🤑 💰
🦃 👸 💎
Or just Vanilla as / paid research and development for the next dirty work from your ideas...

organizations ?

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Roadskater, Ph.D.

@conniptions @Gargron VC is either Vulture Capital, or if you're an old Goldman-Sachs fan, Vampire Capital.

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@loveenergy @Gargron Ok I'm listening.., can you tell me more about your offer to Gargron and how it would work out for the good?

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uexo

@wysteriary @Gargron Nah. The VC funding is exactly why I use #XMPP instead of #Matrix and #Mastodon instead of #Bluesky. We don't need VC funded startups to reinvent basic internet standards and trying to displace standards with their custom and incompatible protocols.

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"Sometimes I like to pretend that things will turn out okay"

from Jon Lindemann
:fediverse: @mrdiamondj

Post: mrdiamondj.social/@mrdiamondj/

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@medlab Is there a download for this?

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@ntnsndr I'm looking at the preview pdf now - if possible stay in touch also because the contact reminds me to continue finding out more about it... I'm interested in many things - often what others are doing to help support them - need help / have a wish-list for an energetic person to do?

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#communities and our world and work spaces (people as the work)... #PEER SUPPORT 

@ntnsndr IS A COLLECTION OF IDEAS FOR CHANGING our and our world.

"...so many examples all around us that give us hope and show us what is possible, many of which are already happening. Look around. Can you find a credit union? A food cooperative? A
community garden? What about a mutual aid project?
...
When they are connected to each other and given the resources they need to grow, the solutions that already exist in our community can be the starting point for collective transformation.

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Nathan Schneider

The #exittocommunity of @opencollective to a user-governed nonprofit is big news for those of us who rely on it, including #Socialcoop members.

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Nathan Schneider

One test of whether the US really wants a ceasefire is whether it shoots down projectiles from all sides.

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@blogdiva @hannu_ikonen
Peer Support as a thing is described by @violetmadder's post here: kolektiva.social/@violetmadder

And I think we could as small circle do this more often than Trump or anything else (we could include it in our life but mainly help each other do our own dreams, together)....

What do you all think?

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"...hinting seems to me, often, to just be a way to get people to do things without actually taking responsibility for having told them to 🤷‍♀️"

- Katy Elphinstone @KatyElphinstone

Post: mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113443

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Lack of sleep is the root of many problems 🛌 💤 ... 

Lots of further domino effects happen relative to sleep you've had...

When tired it is natural to:
- over-feed
- see and hear things while asleep
- react differently
- skip things you shouldn't

Overall lack of sleep is related to a domino of extra effects... over-consumption included.

to etc

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Lack of sleep is the root of many problems 🛌 💤 ... 

Lots of further domino effects happen relative to sleep you've had...

When tired it is natural to:
- over-feed
- see and hear things while asleep
- react differently
- skip things you shouldn't

Overall lack of sleep is related to a domino of extra effects... over-consumption included.

to etc

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Amiya Behera #FBPPR

@freeschool @Gargron

Yes.

Weak Users= Weak everything else.

Can we make user to care? May be yes through education.

iambrainstorming.github.io/cha

iambrainstorming.github.io/cha

nonviolent-conflict.org/resour

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Licypriya Kangujam is a young #environmental #activist from #India 

@amiya_rbehera Is her twitter consistently good / what good excerpts have you taken or have any examples?

is a young from

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@blogdiva Many good points (which I also re-posted parts of as quotes or boosted in whole) but also I'm wondering if Peer Support / doing something similar interests your towards a kind of long-way-round to getting everything everywhere, doing our own thing rather than feeding only bad games (almost create our own but also support it as circle /almost therapy but practical offers/needs also...

Though I'd shoot you that idea as a 'kind of' solution now you have a lot of the bad stuff laid out... All is probably needed to work around and go directly to the hearts of all problems... (people)...

Thanks, appreciate your reply on that.

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"BILLIONAIRES CANNOT EXIST
WITHOUT OUR POVERTY"

by @blogdiva

Post: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1134

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