SXSW, Sahil, & San Francisco

1/ If you are based in Austin or going to be at SXSW, then join 50+ founders, operators, military veterans, & VCs at a get together hosted by Context VC & Scout Ventures on 3/13, Monday at 6:30pm. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/g3kG5yKr

Here are some of the people who have also RSVPd: David Bloom, Ben Weaver, Jeremy Smith, Harold Penson, Stephen DiBartolomeo, Art Trevethan, Kevin Higgins, Evan Seale, Brance Hudzietz 💯, Mike Sherbakov, Charles K., Brett Lanier, Andrew Chang, George Ugras, John Hrivnak, Jay Long, Alex McLeod, MBA, Jeffrey Prosek, Jake Pimental, Marco Nelson, & Jack Ryan.

2/ We have a number of events we are co hosting the next few weeks to months:

- We are co-hosting an event with Lightspeed Venture Partners on 5/24/22, Wednesday, in Menlo Park. There is a waitlist but we absolutely will get some people off the waitlist and have already opened up more spots already. Please sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dxB5u8je

- Greylock x Context Ventures are hosting a Military Veterans Mixer on 7/11, Wednesday, from 5pm-7pm PT in downtown San Francisco, please RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gfd8dtFa

3/ At Context Ventures we like to attend and host events. In terms of getting work done and relationship building we think nothing beats meeting people in person (or as the infantry say: boots on the ground).

I was recently at an event and Brendan Aronson and I met Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad. When Sahil did a crowdfunding campaign I invested in the company. I'm also a big fan of his book the Minimalist Entrepreneur. He’ll be doing a Gumroad investor update at the Context Ventures office later this month (3/30) in downtown San Francisco. After his investor update which is open to the public, he will then be talking about the creator economy and aspects of his book. If you’d like to attend, then comment or direct message me.

Here are some great quotes from the book:
- “You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn.”

- “On the internet, they say, 1 percent create, 9 percent contribute, and 90 percent consume.”

- "It’s the community that leads you to the problem, which leads you to the product, which leads you to your business. Once you’ve found community-you fit, start contributing with the intention of becoming a pillar in that community."

- “Chances are, if you’ve learned something, there’s probably a good portion of your community that would find value in learning that same thing from you, even if you aren’t the world’s leading authority on the subject. And if you’re regularly learning, then you’ll always have regular content to contribute to the community. This can become a nice flywheel over time, as teaching often becomes the best way to drive your own curiosity and inspiration to learn more yourself. "

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