Hey team, Jeffrey Rosales and I will be speaking on a panel tomorrow about how veterans are one of the greatest talent pools for startup founders! "At this year’s Velocity Conference in Los Angeles, the spotlight turns to the Vetlocity Panel, where two trailblazers—Jeffrey Rosales and David Favela—will take the stage. Together, they’ll challenge old narratives and ignite a conversation on what it truly means to build the future of veteran entrepreneurship from the ground up. Expect bold insights, raw stories, and a vision that refuses to be ignored." Because we both will be in the conference and there's a chance we might be occupied, I want to challenge the team to self lead the meeting on Thursday as a Community of Practice. Talk about your challenges, achievements or questions. The amount of knowledge, talent and experience on the call is amazing and worth thousands of dollars if you were paying each other in the real world. The Latino Startup is bigger than me; you all are the greatest asset and will be what makes this propel our lives forward together. We got this! Thanks, and maybe see you tomorrow! David

Come check out David tomorrow at Proximo Avance at 12pm. A bunch of us went to the LBAN mixer today!

Today we celebrated the launch of the Latino Startup with a small group of our current Cohort. I took the opportunity to present my slide that I will be competing with on Saturday's Accelerator Throw Down. Maria, Cynthia and Manuel were incredibly helpful in giving my honest feedback. So much so, that they made me rethink my second slide, the "The Problem" slide. For 30 min, the instructor became the student and I got so much great feedback that I will post the next version so you can see how I adapted and learned from that session. This is the power of the Community... a collective brain trust of incredible people! Enjoy this video, the next one will be the after slide so you can see how their feedback helped.

Hi Team, I just wanted to drop a quick note here to remind everyone what's going on. Tuesday: The Latino Startup Launch: Q&A at 6:00-7:00, link in Calendar Wednesday: Pitch Latino UCSD: Hope you can all come and support! Thursday: Startup Sessions: Let's keep it on the calendar and meet up. Friday: Stanford LBAN: Latino Mixer with investors, banks, funds, startups... STRONG RECOMMEND! Saturday: PROXIMO: David presents at 12:00 main stage "Accelerator Throw Down" Next week, Jeffrey and I will be at Velocity, the other largest Latino business conference. Im excited and overwhelmed how quickly things are progressing. Thank you all! David

Team! The Stanford LBAN program extends an invitation to join them at the PROXIMO mixer on Friday night! It’s a who’s who of investors, banks, startups and leaders. It’s $30 dollars but includes drinks and food, I really really recommend all to go and network. I am part of the LBAN network and it is one of the strongest latino business networks out there! https://luma.com/e982vdzr