Venture Capital for the Rest of Us.
Early-stage venture fund + #MuckerLab accelerator. Investing outside Silicon Valley, across the United States and Canada.
We’ll be in New York for #NYTechWeek. See you there.
Excited to be back at @TechWeek and hosting five sessions on AI, search, product-market fit, and GTM.
Events drop below 👇
Should you build a community or join one?
Most founders get this wrong.
Community ≠ acquisition
It’s retention, rooted in identity.
Sam Jacobs explains what actually works, ICP discipline, and what breaks at scale.
April 23, 11 AM PT
Register here: https://t.co/tGOjGMFqHx
How to pitch your startup to investors:
Stop explaining how your product works.
Start explaining what changes because it exists.
That’s what actually gets attention.
More here ↓
https://t.co/3EGBFH3QxW
How to show traction before revenue?
In our Pitch Decks That Raise Money session, Matt Gore (OPTIO) shared a simple idea: manufacture traction.
One startup built a 100k-person waitlist before their product was ready.
More here:
https://t.co/3EGBFH4onu
Many startups ship pricing quickly.
Then spend months fixing it deal by deal.
Join Jeffrey Tjiok, Partner at Simon-Kucher, for a session on building a structured monetization system founders can implement immediately.
Register: https://t.co/4S8g766aOp
“If you don’t define what matters most and make it explicit, your team will do it for you.”
Garrett Dallas on why misalignment creeps in long before founders notice it, and how it leads to burnout over time.
Read more: https://t.co/NOTFVegkP9
Is your pitch deck getting traction?
This session covers what works and what doesn’t when raising capital.
Matt W Gore is a pitch deck expert whose work has helped founders raise $3B+.
📅 Feb 26 | ⏰ 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
Register: https://t.co/lVx7sQ00vv
“You put a golden carrot out there for your sales team that’s out of reach. A golden carrot out of reach is not motivating. It’s irritating.”
Insight from Donya Rose.
Full session on how to design a sales compensation plan:
https://t.co/BMnaCXXIPP
Reddit isn’t a channel anymore. It’s infrastructure for discovery.
Colin James Belyea explains why Reddit is now inescapable in pre-purchase research across search and LLMs and why brands can’t fake their way into it.
Full organic Reddit strategy here:
https://t.co/sQO6FqDfhg
Pitch Decks That Raise Money.
Live session with Matt Gore
Frameworks behind $3B+ in funding
If you're preparing to raise, don’t miss this.
Register:
https://t.co/3y0vg7YbFu
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