Mercedes Bent ✓

@mercebent · San Francisco, CA · joined 03 Jan 2011

Building smthng new. Run Surreal & SciFi Club. Past: @Lightspeedvp Invested @Moonlake @SuperMeAI @hyperspell @Stori_MX @getHoneylove @ExaAILabs

19 243Followers

865Following

4 981Posts total

35KViews on collected posts

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Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent27 Apr

1 big clarification on the memo fundraising advice....yes its a good idea BUT.... you still need a deck! why? Decks are better for first impressions. They're simpler to consume, better test of whether you're able to distill complex topics. They're for people who haven't 1.4K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent26 Apr

the SF version of "kids flocking in the fields" 😍 https://t.co/PkFbCrkWpU

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Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent24 Apr

My rule of thumb: never sell more than 20-25% of equity on SAFEs why? if you raise too much on SAFEs, it will hurt your future fundraises i've seen this happen a lot. raising on SAFEs is so seductive because its simple + quick but the total ownership impact at the seed or A 683 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent22 Apr

@mercebent Best exits start as partnerships Shared distribution builds conviction early When buyers already see revenue impact, the deal becomes inevitable 32 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent22 Apr

How to get acquirers to want to buy your startup: The best time to set yourself up for a strong M&A is 1 year before you ever realize you want to sell. There's an adage that startups are bought, not sold. Meaning the buyer should be bought into your asset, to the point that 3.6K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent6 Apr

@mercebent The reason they want to hear your vision is because they want to hear that your company has a future. If you haven't thought about five years from now, you haven't demonstrated that you have thought about your future. 718 views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent6 Apr

@mercebent Exactly! VCs don't want certainty. They want to feel like you've spent more time living in the future than they have. 184 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent6 Apr

@mercebent I think the interesting part here is who's right. 601 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mercedes Bent ✓@mercebent6 Apr

one of the most common frustrations i hear from founders crafting a fundraising narrative is: "VCs want to hear this grand future vision, but i'm only at the preseed stage. I see a big customer need that i can solve right now. But i don't know exactly what it becomes in 10 26.9K views · 194 likes · 14 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

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.

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Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.84%6 Apr

0.67%

2.17%

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0.47%22 Apr

3.12%

0.88%24 Apr

1.44%26 Apr

1.42%27 Apr

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes47.8%260 in total

Reposts3.1%17 in total

Replies4.4%24 in total

Quotes0.7%4 in total

Bookmarks43.9%239 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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