The word “NFT” has been plastered everywhere for the last few years, from news outlets to perhaps small conversations at your dinner table. Yet, to the majority of the population, it remains a mystery despite having enormous implications for how the future may look like. But first, let’s talk about…

Good morning! 🌤 Things have picked up quite a bit but hold on just for 5 more weeks. Take a quick break from your pset or essay and check out the Bulletin #18, all about failures & challenges and reasons not to take VC funding! Why Start-Ups Don’t Take VC Funding 🧐 😤 YoU’Re NoT a leGIt STarT-Up iF yOU DoN’T HaVE vc FuNdiNG Students think as soon as…

Valentin spent his first year after undergrad with his co-founder pivoting from idea to idea, before landing on Studio (formerly Monthly). No really, his co-founder and him received funding and were living off of the funding to survive the first year. His 3 tips to undergrads, in any business setting…

Julia Xu was running a freelance consulting job, having spent years as a Strategy Analyst at Disney and Chief of Staff at Alibaba, when she started making pink stationary gadget because she simply wanted it. Throwing up some ads on FaceBook and other SEOs, her products unexpectedly blew up. Multitasky…

I attended Startup@Brown x Women’s Empowerment’s Entrepreneurial Conference today and never learned so much speaking to 4founders: Christina Qi of DataBento (formerly of hedge fund Domeyard Fund), Alex Rothberg of Intus Care, Cliff Weitzman of Speechify, and Valentin Perez of Monthly. Chatted #1 is a series dedicated to the advice…

Continuation on VWV newsletter The Bulletin #18. People always be saying: “entrepreneurship is all about failures”, “being a good founder is to be resilient”, “you will be doubted constantly as an entrepreneur”, etc, etc. It gets to the point where ‘failure’ sounds like a blanket term statement. Goodness, when Christine…

Welcome back, lovely readers! We hope you had a fun and relaxing spring break. 💐 Now that we’re back on the grind, let’s dive right into what VWV is reading, listening to, and thinking about! …

So no surprise here but I don’t have much traffic going through my Medium. Makes sense, I’m a sophomore college student so there’s not a ton of reason to read my thoughts. Why do I blog then? TBH I do most of learning outside of the classroom and blogging is…

Hey all, if you read my bio, you know that I’m a sophomore at Brown studying philosophy and taking a class on Philosophy of Pornography. Concurrently, I’m also a part of a student-led course called NFTs, Blockchain, and Art and have been writing weekly blog posts accompanying the readings assigned. …