Here's a new list of 30 early-stage startups with less than 50 employees, all with significant traction, and most are backed by top-tier investors like Benchmark, a16z, Khosla, Elad Gil, Greylock. All are hiring.
1) Softr Softr (remote)
2) Spellbook Spellbook (remote)

last night was so fun

i've been having a blast hosting these founder/operator events 1x per month. previous events this year have been held at (or sponsored by) The General Partnership ("TheGP") Picus Capital Silicon Valley Bank & others!! If you’re interested in hosting/sponsoring (SF or NYC), DMs open😉

Investing is the closest tech gets to “co-signing” the next generation

Hiphop has this down to a science:

Jayz crowns Ye
Wayne sponsored Drake
Dre & Snoop crowned Kendrick
Ye sponsored Trav

We have Thiel Fellows I guess…

But I want Chesky putting a chain on Dylan Field

excited to announce behind genius’s next chapter - an $8.9m fund II focused on investing in the best founder storytellers.

thank you to Allie Garfinkle for sharing my story in Fortune, and to our LPs including Cendana Capital, Mixi, GREE, arash ferdowsi, and Pankaj Kedia for their support.

🚨 we're hiring a head of operations/strategy to work with our communities of angel investors & founders

if you:
- love startups and founders
- love getting into the weeds of ops & automating processes
- talking to users daily
- have experience doing ops at an early stage

The best people always go above-and-beyond artificial constraints.

The best job candidates spend 12 hours on a '3 hour' take-home.

The best consultants give you 45-60 mins of amazing free advice on a '15 min' intro call.

i'm in the market for a new bookkeeper / accountant / tax service

particularly for a seed or series a startup

i want excellent accountants, great customer support, and a well-designed software product

founders, who do you recommend?

I’ve been building so much I haven’t had much time to Thought Lead ™️ you all.

So friendly reminders: go fast, love what you do, talk to users, automate everything, process isn’t the answer, frameworks aren’t the answer, hire great people, act like an owner, and stay scrappy.

fr how did we do this and why is it so much harder to replicate as an adult??? 🧐🧐🧐🧐

Im teaching a workshop with Carry next week for startup employees to better learn how to value their equity and negotiate their offer

Could be useful for founders too to truly understand equity comp

Free to attend, lmk if you want an invite!

Before accepting a startup job offer with equity, make sure you ask the company for:

- Strike price
- Last preferred share price (price investors paid)
- Total number of shares
- Liquidation preferences

This will allow you to calculate the % of the company you own & value it

the Sonos app is complete garbage, constantly buggy, a huge pain in the ass, and makes me not want to use their speakers

hire better SWEs or let me just link the speaker directly to my phone/Spotify with Bluetooth like normal, sane people :|

what does it mean if i've slept 10 hrs both of the past 2 nights to wake up refreshed without an alarm? 🧐

i didn't feel sleep deprived on this trip; does this mean my body naturally needs/wants 10 hrs of sleep?

We just launched Mentava a year ahead of schedule, all thanks to a vocal left-wing conspiracy theorist

I really enjoyed writing this article for Pirate Wires 😀

where do i get a cute ski outfit on sale?

it has to be generally functional, but i’m optimizing for style first - love patterns more than solid block colors

(looking now bc i want to use it next year)

An observation from Primer applications:

The traditional system conditions parents to be insecure about normal kid behavior.

They apologetically say: 'he can be a little hyper' or 'she really struggles to sit for long periods of time' — as if either are abnormal for 6 yo's.

ill be hosting a biweekly deep coworking sesh for technologists, scientists, and researchers called smalltalk

dm me for invite:)

We founded Mentava on the belief that today's education software is so bad that we would blow people's minds just by showing them what's possible

They said it couldn't be done

They said 2-year-olds couldn't read

They said we definitely couldn't teach them to read with software

I'm so proud of our team. Education is about to change forever.

The Stripe Atlas team will be at Stripe Sessions this week. If you have a product that helps early stage founders and are interested in partnering with Atlas—let’s chat!