Dan Hightower ✓
@Danhightower · joined 11 Dec 2014
@rollupshq. Dad. Small angel investor. Exited founder. Prior Special Forces medic.
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Trying to learn from post-exit founders is tough. The stories are attempted reconstructions of what really happened.
It's tough to rebuild a complete story of "how it went down".
Instead, they use fragments, especially ones selected for their relevance to how things turned
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"closed/lost to [competitor]" deals doesn't mean you give up entirely.
You should still be emailing them every quarter or so.
By then, they have learned your competitor's grass wasn't as green as it was marketed to be. It never is.
And you've had plenty of time to build
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I charge German investors a fair €1500 to read them SAFEs so they feel at home when investing in US startups.
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Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German
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BREAKING: Corporate Transparency Act permanently ended and they're deleting info previously reported by US persons.
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Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement
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This quote accidentally explains what makes a great founding team.
They bake better ideas faster together.
One of them tosses out the initial kernel of an idea to the group, and what comes out the other end after 20 mins of iterating, steering, and agreeing/disagreeing is an
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“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy.
Once the
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@Danhightower 24 years ago, after my 1st wife had passed, I get a call at my job that my only son (age 5) has been injured at the on-base Daycare. Should they call EMTs (on a USN base)? No, I'll be there in 4 minutes (I was driving a taxi & had just dropped off a fare on base). W
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@Danhightower BTDT
Except as an 18B it was a bit uglier.
My 2 1/2 yr old daughter had serial ear infections.
Doctors resisted tubes kept just shifting antibiotics.
I arrived home one day to a screaming toddler. As I picked her up blood spurted from her ear.
I've seen enough movi
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@Danhightower Me getting ready to put a bandaid on my toddler https://t.co/ys0wIEfnIr
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GIF
Daycare calls me. That's never good.
For them.
Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"
Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."
I
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BREAKING: Corporate Transparency Act halted!
This is the law that would make 32 MILLION companies disclose (before end of 2024 deadline) all of their beneficial owner personal info and IDs to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or else go to jail and
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views41 939this account990median for 10K–100K
Reach, %328.75%this account3.40%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.83%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 41 939 | 990 | 42.4× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.3× audience | 3.40% | 96.7× |
| Engagement rate | 1.83% | 1.81% | 1.01× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
26.1K4 Dec
2.5M26 Jun
78.1K
106.1K
41.9K27 Jun
89.5K9 Aug
2.1K
6.1K11 Aug
11.9M29 Aug
4K30 Aug
7812 Sep
7833 Sep
Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.40%4 Dec
2.01%26 Jun
4.22%
1.47%
1.89%27 Jun
1.35%9 Aug
1.83%
0.77%11 Aug
0.29%29 Aug
2.02%30 Aug
2.05%2 Sep
1.66%3 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.
What the audience does
Likes82.3%81 846 in total
Reposts6.1%6 072 in total
Replies2.7%2 680 in total
Quotes1.3%1 301 in total
Bookmarks7.5%7 495 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
7 Sep
Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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