THREAD: Making vs. Growing Money.
Do you run a self-funded *profitable* business? 🤑 Let’s make a list! 👉 Reply with your website :) Any type of business counts.
This is a 60 slide deck with everything I know and feel about presenting well. https://t.co/QWnK3eVPHu
I’ve learned a lot about giving advice over the past 5 years at YC (still more to learn). When I started I had a very formulaic / tactical view of how startups succeed. Over time and after seeing over 1000 startups go through YC that has changed.
The reason most founders are surprised by the difficulty of fundraising is that they're learning something about themselves, not something about fundraising. They know fundraising is hard for startups that don't seem appealing to investors. They just didn't realize they had one.
1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it would make the core ideas clearer in my mind and more concise. Think it worked. Here are the tweets
The week of burning man is an extremely special experience for people in San Francisco. Many people are more experienced with this than me. I want to make sure I do this right. Given that everyone is at BM: WHICH restaurant that I'd never get into normally should I try out? 🙏
It takes me an annoyingly long time to get into a state of mind where I can do deep work (not just emails and ad box stuff). What are some tricks to shorten that time?
I want to get to know small fund managers in SF. I meet lots of founders who are way too early or need too little financing for people I know at big funds. Instead of helping them get optionality checks, it would be nice to know small funds. Who should I connect with?
What notable funds are doing pre-seed at scale? @HustleFundVC, @PrecursorVC, @svangel, @ycombinator - Who am I missing? With most Seed funds moving to $1-3M+ is there a gap at the $100-500k level?
Investors, do you recommend a Services stack to your startups? cc @briannekimmel @tylerwillis @sharpshoot @semil @maiab @rrhoover Banking - @BankMercury Legal - multiple intros Hiring - @angellisttalent (I work at @AngelList) Payroll - @GustoHQ Cap table mgmt - @cartainc
In an @earnestcapital basecamp thread, we're crowdsourcing a list of tiny automations SaaS founders can use (in @intercom et al) to save time, delight customers, improve your marketing, onboarding, support and revenue. Feel free to add your ideas 👇
Who is building with no code? And can you share what you've made?
the financial stack of a multimillion dollar services business 👇
Looking to make a list of angel & pre-seed investors looking at the no-code space. Any recommendations?
All platforms have their favorite partners: - The partners that bring them business - The partners that help them close deals - The partners that make their customers the most happy - The partners that fill the most critical feature gaps Do whatever it takes to be one ;)
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Few startups I have found that help make having teammates everywhere simpler : Donut, Humble Dot, Deel, Carrom, Codi, Focusmate, Tandem, Keeper, Mural, Preface
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