My 20 Business Wins for the Year in 2022 and my Top Podcast Episodes and Blog Posts

I went through my 2022 calendar to reflect on the time I spent in my business life. There was much more good than bad to report. Below is my list of the top 20 business wins of the year - in no particular order.

• Launching the Capital Stack Podcast (51 Episodes - 5,686 downloads)

• Signed term sheet on new company (hoping to close in January)

• Selling Allbound

• Datum raising $4.7M seed round

• Substack Blog- Ramblings - 174 opt in subscribers

• Becoming a Grata customer

• 10 new 12 returning limited partners

• Commitments for $1.5M on new opportunity

• New podcast music (intro/outro)

• All in Summit

• Secured a call with Chamath for Datum founders

• DWP Capital Investor Dinner - 30 people in attendance

• Nurturing relationships of exited portfolio company employees (PetDesk, Allbound, Attribytes)

• Dallas business trips - investor round table

• Monthly Linkedin Lives

• Recruiting Cory, Nick, and Matt for Datum

• Starting the DWP Executive Poker Game

• Indianapolis trip

• New relationships

• Investing in some great LP deals

Top Capital Stack Podcasts:

Ryan Nagle former SpaceX and now Co-founder of Datum Source on People Picking and Creating High-Performance Teams

Sammy Abdullah of Blossom Street Ventures on being the “Anti-VC” and real talk on valuations in later funding rounds.

Aashay Sanghvi of Haystack VC on breaking into venture capital, attractive founder heuristics, and 2022 M&A frenzy.

Top Ramblings Substack Articles

3 Reasons Why SAFE Notes Can Ruin Your Company

Death of Companies Over $7M of ARR

The Three Ways VCs Come to an Investment Decision