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Perpetual dissatisfaction I've now closely worked with/for several founders of $25B+ companies, and one characteristic I've observed in all of them: PERPETUAL DISSATISFACTION WITH THE STATE OF THE COMPANY. They are not satisfied, even as the company hits its goals, scales and

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4/ Great board members exist; they help founders in profound ways that can alter the trajectory of your business. The best have epistemic humility— they know what they don’t know—and understand the company isn’t theirs to steer.

A few days ago I pulled out one of my generic pieces of advice because a Founder wasn't moving at startup speed. The advice: “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly first.” I've found it’s very common that many first time Founders are paralyzed by the fear that

Love hearing feedback like this from the cofounders.nyc community! 😍 It's only been 2 months and I've already heard from 10+ cofounder matches that have taken the leap and started building! Sign up at cofounders.nyc and I'll shoot you a note for our invite-only March

Gearing up for the Work-Bench Pre-Seed GTM Summit in NYC! We have a stacked lineup for our 100+ guests Excited to meet NYCs next generation of founders 😎

Our Work-Bench Pre-Seed Enterprise GTM Summit is live in NYC! We're kicking off with a fireside chat between Jessica Lin and Dan Lorenc of Chainguard ⛓️ The topic is "Hard GTM Lessons Learned as a Technical Founder" Thanks to Rho & Mastercard for the partnership

Another great day for NYC enterprise software in the books! 🚀🌆 Our Work-Bench NYC Pre-Seed GTM Summit brought together 80+ early-stage SaaS / Infra founders to dive into the proven playbooks for early enterprise GTM: 🤕 A Need Is Not the Pain Dig into the prospect’s acute

Any B2B founder thinking about fundraising should start using Granola for their customer call recordings. When I’m looking into a new company to invest in, I always ask for redacted customer call notes / recordings. They’re a great way to help investors validate initial

For early stage enterprise startups... Shipping velocity is known to be a critical internal metric Lesser discussed though is that trust should be your most focused on external metric We've identified 3 critical elements to building trust as an early stage startup: 1⃣ Domain

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It’s been fun helping founders with their fundraise over the last few weeks.. However, the common problem I continue to see in most of them (esp first time founders) is storytelling. There’s a lot of literature on this already and I wrote a longer post a few weeks ago that

As an early-stage VC, it's much more interesting to ask: "What if this works? What happens? Does everything change?" It's so damn boring to point out all the ways that something might not work. All startups are default dead. Being a cynic is the easiest way to *sound* smart.

The best founders operate on a different clock - and it drives most of their employees crazy..

Startups need to sell to the enterprise as fast as possible. Our CEO and co-founder, shensi, explains why on Jessica Lin's new show, "The Drafting Table." See what Shensi shared: