Dan Hightower ✓

@Danhightower · joined 11 Dec 2014

@rollupshq. Dad. Small angel investor. Exited founder. Prior Special Forces medic.

12 757Followers

2 780Following

4 656Posts total

14.8MViews on collected posts

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Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower3 Sep

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 783 views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower2 Sep

"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 781 views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower30 Aug

I charge German investors a fair €1500 to read them SAFEs so they feel at home when investing in US startups. 4K views · 77 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower29 Aug

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 11.9M views · 30K likes · 2.2K reposts · 1.1K replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower11 Aug

BREAKING: Corporate Transparency Act permanently ended and they're deleting info previously reported by US persons. ~~~ Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement 6.1K views · 39 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower9 Aug

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 2.1K views · 35 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower9 Aug

“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 89.5K views · 967 likes · 97 reposts · 123 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower27 Jun

@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 41.9K views · 778 likes · 14 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower26 Jun

@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 106.1K views · 1.5K likes · 42 reposts · 32 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower26 Jun

@Danhightower Me getting ready to put a bandaid on my toddler https://t.co/ys0wIEfnIr

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78.1K views · 3.3K likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower26 Jun

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 2.5M views · 45.1K likes · 3.7K reposts · 1.4K replies Open on X →

Dan Hightower ✓@Danhightower4 Dec 2024

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 26.1K views · 73 likes · 12 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

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Visualizzazioni mediane41 939questo account990mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %328.75%questo account3.40%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %1.83%questo account1.81%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	41 939	990	42.4×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	3.3× audience	3.40%	96.7×
Tasso di interazione	1.83%	1.81%	1.01×

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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.

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