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Laura Vrcek

@LVstruck

platform team, content @trueventures | poetry + essays on triumphant family love when not making things to help startup founders or wiping avocado off my shirt

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined May 2010
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"A brief defense of cliché" - I buy this writer's take on use of the familiar for sake of negotiating "commonplace truths" among writer and reader. We're too precious about limiting their use. If the shoe (cliché) fits... play with it. open.substack.com/pub/post/p…
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Using Fragments to Tell Your Story narrativelyacademy.com/p/how…
How to Use Fragments to Tell Your Story

How to Use Fragments to Tell Your Story

There are so many different ways to write memoir. In this CNF Craft Classic, we see how nine writers approach form in untraditional ways—and how this enables them to get to the core of their truths.

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I Found 12 People Who Ditched Their Expensive Software for AI-built Tools

I Found 12 People Who Ditched Their Expensive Software for AI-built Tools

They're saving six figures and launching products faster—all without writing code

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.@ashleymayer of @coalitionvc discusses the power and purpose of founder-led storytelling as early-stage startups go to market and seek to differentiate themselves among other hungry competitors. Her two cents? Founders must own and communicate their company’s vision and story, and ensure their team and marketing partners are equipped to echo their articulations. Thanks again, Ashley, for spending time with us at True Founder Camp!
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Hoagies... and the unexpected revelatory quality of mid-week mornings ~ #CNF #essay on #parenting: lauravrcek.com/stories/repea… | But really though, the more important question: hoagie, sub, hero, or torpedo?
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How to Get Cited by AI Chatbots: The Role of Deep Content in AIO

How to Get Cited by AI Chatbots: The Role of Deep Content in AIO

Want your content cited by AI tools? Traditional SEO isn’t cutting it. Learn about AIO, and how deep, human content boosts visibility in a new era of search.

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Flashback to Founder Camp 2025: @AnthropicAI Head of Design @joellewenstein and True Design Partner Jeff @Veen chat about the future of design, humble building, UX as language, and ways today's designers are primed to unlock mystery.
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"This idea of polishing a piece treats writing like housekeeping—like writing is a problem that can be solved by checking off a list of chores. In reality, writing is not housekeeping.... Writing is claywork and emergence." ~ @taralabovich brevity.wordpress.com/2025/0…
Radical Revision

Radical Revision

by Tara Labovich I’d like to tear down our current idea of “editing.” When I hear myself talk about “editing,” I hear ghostly echoes of MFA workshop feedback like, “This just needs a little more po…

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Think of Your Reader as the Smartest Friend You Have brevity.wordpress.com/2025/0… via @brevitymag

Think of Your Reader as the Smartest Friend You Have

By Dinty W. Moore Storytelling is always a balancing act. How much description of people, places, lush hills, brilliant sunsets, memorable meals, is too much and how much is too little? Do we plot …

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@nbaschez7 Apr 2025
Are you building a B2B AI startup? Raising a seed round soon? Talk to @trueventures! DM me for intro
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curtains blowzy with spring — is that the scent of daffodils drifting in? —Rita Dove, former Chancellor poets.org/poem/prose-small-s…
Prose in a Small Space

Prose in a Small Space

It’s supposed to be prose if it runs on and on, isn’t it? All those words, too many to fall into rank and file, stumbling bareassed drunk onto the field reporting for duty, yessir

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@chillsubs13 Mar 2025
These are the most submitted to poetry magazines on Chill Subs over the last 30 days 👀 Find a new favorite, perhaps? chillsubs.com/lists/most-sub… #poetrycommunity
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These 4 💛 @trueventures
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oh, just me and my work besties @ceciaramitaro @rshanreddy @soul_dayan @trueventures
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"A half hour" or "half an hour" - choices, choices #copywriting
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"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -- Charles Simic
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Airbnb.org offering temporary housing to people impacted by #LosAngeles #wildfires: news.airbnb.com/airbnb-org-o…
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Red Cross shelter info for southern California wildfire evacuees: redcross.org/about-us/news-a…
Red Cross helping wildfire victims now; will continue to offer support in weeks and months to come

Red Cross helping wildfire victims now; will continue to offer support in weeks and months to come

As January draws to a close, the two massive fires that destroyed more than 16,000 structures in California are almost out, but for those impacted, recovery is just beginning. The American Red Cross...

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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try." ~ Nikki Giovanni
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Online #Content @Meetup: Unlock the Power of AI in Video Storytelling meetup.com/bay-area-content-…

Unlock the Power of AI in Video Storytelling, Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

**Discover how to leverage AI for marketing success in this hands-on workshop featuring a B2B rebranding case study.** Join **[Jim Rodgers](https://www.sfodesign.video/tea

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A breakdown of the different types of visual poetry poetryfoundation.org/poetrym…
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