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Happy Hour in SF 🌉 + Texts with Founders hits 10 posts 💬

Julian Weisser
Aug 29, 2023
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Happy Hour in SF 🌉 + Texts with Founders hits 10 posts 💬

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Hey all, new essay coming soon but wanted to make sure you got an invite to the happy hour I’m hosting this week!

Happy Hour for Explorers 8/30

I’m hosting a happy hour for people exploring starting companies this Wenesday (8/30) in SF. Great guest list so far—engineering leaders from unicorns, sharp data and ML folks, and others with serious operations chops. Hope to see you there!

Founder Updates

  • Congratulations to Adeel at MagicSchool (tools to fight teacher burnout) on surpassing 100k users and raising a $2.4M seed from some of the best edtech investors in the world—all within 3 months of launch.

  • Congrats to Nathan at Lex (the best word processor) for successfully spinning out the company from Every and raising $2.75M from True Ventures. I previously wrote about Lex in Startups make the future less scary.

Texts with Founders hits 10 posts

I launched Texts with Founders to give a behind-the-scenes look at tested tactics I share with other founders. This is the sort of information that is not typically shared publicly — I think it’s important that it is accessible to founders regardless of where they live or who they know.

Here are all of the posts so far:

Fundraising (Before and During)

  • MFNs - Lousy deal or free money?

  • Weekly Investor Updates - Keep investors close and yourself on track

  • Check Size Doesn’t Matter - Forget minimum amounts and optimize for quality people

  • Raise the round behind you - Avoid a drawn-out process and optimize for the best investors.

  • Conditional Commitments - Why they aren't commitments and what to do about them.

  • Handling Inbound From Investors - Avoid distractions and keep potential investors warm.

Miscellaneous

  • Avoid Hiring Too Early - Navigate external pressure focused on vanity metrics

  • Customers understand before investors do - And some investors will never understand

  • The Benefits and Downsides of Responsiveness - Where it can help and where it can backfire.

  • Avoiding Gossip - Nimbly navigate an awkward scenario.

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