2021 was a big year for us at Feel the Boot. We experienced lots of growth, and I want to thank all of you for making such a fantastic experience.

The best part of this year has been getting to interact with so many of you founders. I had many more one-on-one coaching sessions than in previous years. I've loved talking to so many of you. If you took advantage of them, I hope you have found them helpful.

I've learned a tremendous amount from getting to take a quick peek behind the curtain of so many different kinds of companies. Many of these conversations directly inspired the episodes you saw this year, and I'm sure they will continue to do so.

It's been interesting to see how COVID has impacted my angel investing and advising experience. When I used to do in-person meetings and in-person events, the drive times were significant. Now that I'm doing everything virtually, the massive expansion in the number of people I can help and the diversity of places they can come from completely altered the way I approach this whole business.

The scale I can achieve with an all virtual process is incredible. There's no way I'll be going back to the old way of doing things.

2021 has been a fantastic year for the YouTube channel. We've more than tripled in size.

We started the year with less than 200 subscribers and will end just a hair short of 600, and people watched our videos over 16 thousand times.

That number blows my mind because there's no possible way I would be able to reach anywhere near that many founders on a one-on-one basis.

It's been interesting to look at the year's most popular videos. I was surprised to see that the most popular ones tended to be quite technical. I will try to do more of those in the coming year.

The top three were:

• Understanding stock options from the employee perspective

• How to create financials for early-stage pre-seed startups that will wow investors

• Nine things angel investors look for in startup fundraising pitches

While I already have a long list of potential episodes, I'm always looking for new topics to cover. I want to create what you want to hear, so please reach out and let me know what episodes you'd like to see. You can do that by reaching out to me on social media. I'm most active on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Or you can use the contact form at Feel the Boot.

This year also saw the introduction of Swift Kicks, a series of videos less than 1 minute in length.

They turned out to be very popular because I can post the whole video to social media rather than just a little bit of an introduction to it and then a link over to YouTube.

Some Swift Kicks are highlights from longer episodes, while others are short standalone answers to specific questions.

In 2022, I'm hoping to do more of everything. More videos, more shorts, and more one-on-one coaching with all of you.

We'll also be exploring some new kinds of content. Hopefully, I'll be putting out more materials that you can use as workbooks for your startup. I've got lots of ideas, but we'll see what I can manage to execute on along with everything else I've got going.

Thanks for coming along with me on this journey over the last year. It's been a great pleasure.

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Until next time, next year, Ciao!