Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network

Expedite Ventures is a business angel group of CTOs and CPOs. We invest in tech founders through both capital and in-depth, hands-on mentoring.

[Agree.com @AgreeHQ]

We're excited to finally announce our $7.2M Seed round to bring better e-signature, smarter invoicing, and faster payments together, all-in-one.

Backed by an amazing group of investors @Pelion_VP @blank_vc @8bitcapital @btv_vc @trustfundvc @EverywhereVC @HustleFundVC @FirsthandVC

[Agree.com @AgreeHQ]

Today is the day, we're live on @ProductHunt! We'd really appreciate your support and we want to see you in the comments ... our entire team will be hosting a live AMA, Ask Me Anything, throughout the entire day. https://t.co/BFX3LTiQ1q

[Thomas Witt @thomas_witt]

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been chosen as one of the top European Business Angels by @Roundtable! They are unveiling their launch today on Product Hunt. Check it out here: https://t.co/OLrBsTWPMZ

[Flutter @FlutterDev]

Are you signed up for the 100% FREE online conference, Full Stack Flutter?

🗓️ May 28-29
📢 40+ talks
💬 Live Q&A with all speakers

Sign up. ⬇️ https://t.co/HSs0fJUtTG

[Thomas Witt @thomas_witt]

🚡 Nail your elevator pitch! In NYC, a founder lost VCs in 1 min as his idea wasn't clear. Avoid this. Master the 5-step method: Why > What > How > Benefit > Next steps. Simplify to win! Learn more: https://t.co/vQbmgk6uhA

[Thomas Witt @thomas_witt]

Diving into funding? 🚀 Know your stuff! Convertibles, safe notes, valuations – get these terms down or risk bombing your pitch. Check out our tips to talk the talk. 💼✨ Watch the full video in my talk about Mastering Startup Funding: https://t.co/vQbmgk6uhA

[Thomas Witt @thomas_witt]

Reviewing pitch decks at @ExpediteVC : many miss the mark. Key is the 'Why?' of your story. Learn more in our video on startup funding: «Mastering Startup Funding: Insights from an Angel Investor's Perspective» https://t.co/UtkZPJ15ia

[Anthony Simon @anthonynsimon]

"Let's do startups" - Germany edition

But first... some paperwork:

1. Put aside €25,000 for company formation
2. Find a notary to draft articles of incorporation (1-2 weeks)
3. Open bank account (4-6 weeks)
4. Deposit share capital and send to notary
5. Entry into commercial registry
6. Ignore official looking scam letters asking for money
7. Entry into transparency register
8. Register with local trade office
9. Register with tax office
10. Wait for your company's VAT ID
11. You need an official address (don't use your home, can't use PO box), so rent virtual office
12. Buy company insurance
13. Buy accounting software
14. Set up payroll (you have to employ yourself as manager)
15. Pay for on-going accounting costs (€2-3k a year)
16. Prepare monthly, quarterly and yearly taxes
17. Make sure you have a GDPR-compliant privacy policy, and DPAs with all service providers
18. Make sure you have a compliant legal notice on your website and emails, or risk getting a €50,000 fine
19. Make sure your invoices are actually compliant with regulations
20. Don't ever move out of Germany while owning the company, or else go bankrupt due to the exit-tax with no liquidity problem

Now you may invoice your first customer - if you dare ;)

(obviously not legal/tax advice, this is satire)

[marty.com @martymadrid]

Another Twitter IRL meet-up. This time with with @thomas_witt of Expedite Ventures … we first connected after I spoke on a panel at SXSX 7 years ago!!

[Thomas Witt @thomas_witt]

Excited to speak at the University of #Cyprus' Centre for Entrepreneurship on Feb 7th about «Strategies for Startup Funding: Angels, VCs & Making Them Believe in Your Dream.» Learn how to start your journey and captivate investors. Don’t miss out! 🚀 https://t.co/JZXlBZmugo #c4e

[Kieran Hill @Kieranleehill]

German company we recent led a Seed round for:

€30,000 for all legal fees (from document drafting to negotiation to completion)

€40,000 for Notary fees (reading the documents to the Founders for 8 hours and sending a box of paper)

Legit theft 🤯

[Serverpod 🚀 @ServerpodDev]

We will release Serverpod 1.2 - Cyberpunk on January 15th 9AM PST. 🚀

Watch the keynote here:
https://t.co/FEMAaIB7WJ

#Flutter #backend #keynote

[Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network @ExpediteVC]

Dear startups, let’s keep it real. If your AI is more of a future plan than a here-and-now reality: just say so. It’s cool to be a work in progress. Pretending otherwise? Not so much.

https://t.co/1nvh9g1R8e

[Supernova.io 💫 @supernova_io]

Inefficient workflows. Inconsistent user experiences. Stunted creative process.

Sound familiar?

These are just some of the challenges the @OneSignalDesign team faced before they built a cohesive design system.

To address these issues, the team migrated from Sketch to @figma and started using @storybookjs. They even tried to use Storybook for documentation with Addon Docs but found it too clunky and slow.

They needed something more.

Enter @supernova_io 💫

@onesignal integrated Supernova into their workflows to serve as their centralized, single source of truth. It's helped provide both designers and developers clear answers and reduced back-and-forth, saving up to two days per project.

[programmier.bar - der podcast für web & mobile dev @programmierbar]

Im heutigen Deep Dive erfahrt ihr, warum Flutter Entwickler:innen unbedingt einen Widget-Katalog nutzen sollten - und wann vielleicht doch nicht. Zusammen mit Jens Horstmann @jens_hor sprechen Jojo und @jan_at_lotum über @widgetbook_io. Jetzt reinhören: https://t.co/kNNL5iDiil

[Saleor Commerce @getsaleor]

This is what continuous innovation in Open Source looks like. 15,000+ combined PRs and issues with almost 10,000 PRs closed. Big THANK YOU to our community for your contribution to https://t.co/sHm38tRAhF

[Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network @ExpediteVC]

Unfortunately that seems to be the sad truth: https://t.co/uqj0RN2EPh

[acreom @acreom]

Today, we are kicking-off the acreom dev week with our first launch!

The all new search is coming out of beta. This is our 2nd iteration of the search powered by a new search engine and many new UX improvements.

[Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network @ExpediteVC]

https://t.co/bWswuH6xVi

#1 Too long (we totally second that - 10 slides is enough!)
#2 Problem description too vague
#3 No differentiation
#4 No clear customer acquisition strategy
#5 Lack of focus - don’t try to solve all potential problems on day one.

[acreom @acreom]

thanks for the review @schlimmson! a lot more to be shipped but we love building it :)