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attention is currency. distribution matters. every founder has a story, and today's stories are videos. We've built several a16z speedrun 🧊 programs to help founders become better storytellers: 1) brand lab: we offer cost-effective design services to take your brand from 0-1: decks, logos, typography, colors, websites, and more.... 2) launch lab: video is hard. talking to a camera for the first time sucks. we offer studio spaces for founders to level up their product demos, client-facing videos, and more. we also offer up a network of videographers, production teams, and creatives to build your launch+ strategy. 3) creator connect & press club: we've built data-backed systems to help connect you with both top creators and UGC/ambassadors. additionally, we help early-stage founders who don't yet have street cred get in front of the newest media outlets. Whether you're a seasoned creative with design chops or have no idea what 'marketing' is, we encourage you to apply. applications close this weekend.show more

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Today we launch 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐈— $88m, Europe’s largest dedicated pre-seed fund. Built for founders with just a concept and the conviction to chase it. In the last three years with Fund I, the Concept team has partnered with 44 companies at day zero — saying yes when others say no. We’ve led 90% of our rounds, backed founders in every sector from commodities to robotics, and stood behind their ambition to build multi-billion-dollar outcomes from the very first cheque. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: •⁠ ⁠$88m — significantly oversubscribed, with first close in just 3 weeks •⁠ ⁠Backed by world-class global LPs: Top Tier Capital Partners Partners, @MarktlikCapital, Aldea Ventures, Dominus, Granite and Integra Partners. •⁠ 70%+ of our Fund I portfolio founders joined as LPs, alongside some of Europe’s best founders — including unicorn founders (), Amar Shah (Wayve), and Mik Attisani (Faceit) •⁠ ⁠Fund I is a top 1% fund globally for its vintage on all metrics, with $450m+ raised by our founders so far 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦: Anrea Munsamy, Ariel Rahamim, Jeff Chowdhry, Lauren Sauerland, Oliver Oliver Kicks and Seyon Indran — building Concept with you as outsiders to VC has been my greatest joy. From late nights to tough decisions, from wins to crises — sharing those highs and lows with you has shaped a people-first fund that truly reflects who we are. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐏𝐬: those who believed on day one, with a 90% re-up rate — thank you for believing in our concept and backing us again. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: thank you for trusting us at day zero. This fund is for your ambition. A huge thank you to Alex Macdonald and the sequel team , as a value add LP, for helping us bring this incredible video to life (watch to the end!) At Concept Ventures , we don’t see sectors, we see people. Whether you’re in UK, Italy, Poland, Spain or beyond — first-time or repeat founder — if you have the ambition to build globally from Europe, our door is open. Just bring your Concept!

Today we launch 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐈— $88m, Europe’s largest dedicated pre-seed fund. Built for founders with just a concept and the conviction to chase it. In the last three years with Fund I, the Concept team has partnered with 44 companies at day zero — saying yes when others say no. We’ve led 90% of our rounds, backed founders in every sector from commodities to robotics, and stood behind their ambition to build multi-billion-dollar outcomes from the very first cheque. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: •⁠ ⁠$88m — significantly oversubscribed, with first close in just 3 weeks •⁠ ⁠Backed by world-class global LPs: Top Tier Capital Partners Partners, @MarktlikCapital, Aldea Ventures, Dominus, Granite and Integra Partners. •⁠ 70%+ of our Fund I portfolio founders joined as LPs, alongside some of Europe’s best founders — including unicorn founders (), Amar Shah (Wayve), and Mik Attisani (Faceit) •⁠ ⁠Fund I is a top 1% fund globally for its vintage on all metrics, with $450m+ raised by our founders so far 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦: Anrea Munsamy, Ariel Rahamim, Jeff Chowdhry, Lauren Sauerland, Oliver Oliver Kicks and Seyon Indran — building Concept with you as outsiders to VC has been my greatest joy. From late nights to tough decisions, from wins to crises — sharing those highs and lows with you has shaped a people-first fund that truly reflects who we are. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐏𝐬: those who believed on day one, with a 90% re-up rate — thank you for believing in our concept and backing us again. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: thank you for trusting us at day zero. This fund is for your ambition. A huge thank you to Alex Macdonald and the sequel team , as a value add LP, for helping us bring this incredible video to life (watch to the end!) At Concept Ventures , we don’t see sectors, we see people. Whether you’re in UK, Italy, Poland, Spain or beyond — first-time or repeat founder — if you have the ambition to build globally from Europe, our door is open. Just bring your Concept!

Reece Chowdhry

17,718 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Who is your favorite crypto influencer? Have they heard about $OATH? The OATH community is building up a marketing budget to bring them onboard! Join us on to help decide which creators we hire to spread the word! Here are the 5 things you need to know: 1. We are proposing $8000 in OATH and $8000 in USDC to attract new audiences to the OATH ecosystem as we march closer to the launch of Ethos Reserve V2, new tokenomics, and Aurelius. 2. We are looking for reputable influencers, educators, and thought leaders in the crypto community to raise awareness of the OATH mission and technology stack. 3. Community feedback is super important! We want to hear where you get your news, which content creators you like, and who you respect in the DeFi space. 4. If you’re a creator, we want to hear from you! We are looking to build long term, synergistic relationships with well-aligned creators! 5. Our primary goals are to increase impressions and engagement with OATH Foundation content, increase volume for the OATH token, and increase the TVL of OATH Ecosystem applications. Make yourself heard in the forums: Comment your favorite educator, influencer, or content creator! And of course, follow OATH Foundation to stay up to date on all of these developments.

Who is your favorite crypto influencer? Have they heard about $OATH? The OATH community is building up a marketing budget to bring them onboard! Join us on to help decide which creators we hire to spread the word! Here are the 5 things you need to know: 1. We are proposing $8000 in OATH and $8000 in USDC to attract new audiences to the OATH ecosystem as we march closer to the launch of Ethos Reserve V2, new tokenomics, and Aurelius. 2. We are looking for reputable influencers, educators, and thought leaders in the crypto community to raise awareness of the OATH mission and technology stack. 3. Community feedback is super important! We want to hear where you get your news, which content creators you like, and who you respect in the DeFi space. 4. If you’re a creator, we want to hear from you! We are looking to build long term, synergistic relationships with well-aligned creators! 5. Our primary goals are to increase impressions and engagement with OATH Foundation content, increase volume for the OATH token, and increase the TVL of OATH Ecosystem applications. Make yourself heard in the forums: Comment your favorite educator, influencer, or content creator! And of course, follow OATH Foundation to stay up to date on all of these developments.

Granary Finance

22,009 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Most people describe finding product‑market fit as an art, not a science. For the past several years First Round, we’ve been working on a big project to change that — and it launches today. Introducing PMF Method: A FREE intensive 14-week experience designed to help exceptional founders build epic B2B SaaS companies. Along with our nearly 20 years of data from 500+ pre-PMF investments, my partner Todd Jackson has personally talked to hundreds of founders on this topic. What emerged was a very consistent set of patterns for sales-led B2B companies (consumer and bottoms-up SaaS is very different in our view, a bit more alchemy involved). But in enterprise, we believe it’s possible to reduce the role of luck. We’ve distilled those patterns into a brand-new, detailed framework, and PMF Method’s 8 tactical sessions, where we help early founders discover what customers really want, build the right v1 product, and close their first enterprise sales. Applications close May 7th (and yes it truly costs you $0 and we own 0% of your company). If you’re curious to learn more about our approach, we’ve decided to publish the framework that we cover in the first session in a new long-form essay. You’ll find tons more details in the essay (linked in the next post), but in a nutshell, we break PMF down into 4 distinct levels, sharing detailed benchmarks to aim for, case studies and actual data from how Looker progressed through these stages, the signs that you’re getting stuck, and tactical advice from from incredible founders like Christina Cacioppo, Zachary Perret, lloyd tabb, Jason Boehmig, and Jack Altman. Check out the links below for more details. Can’t wait to read applications!

Josh Kopelman

59,405 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Evan Spiegel on the lesson that killed his first startup and led to Snapchat: "We focused on building the perfect product for way too long before we got feedback. We worked for like eighteen months to build this perfect full-featured product, which was in direct contravention to how I was always taught to build things. Build a prototype, build an MVP, get it in front of people, learn as quickly as possible. But we had spent all this time building this perfect piece of software and we hadn't thought enough about distribution. While we built this great piece of software, our competitor at the time, Naviance, had secured distribution through all the different college counselors. What piece of software are you going to choose to help your kid get into college? The one recommended by the college counselors or the one from two kids at Stanford? I think it's a pretty easy choice. So we saw very early that we had no distribution advantage. Even if we loved our software, people weren't going to use it because we didn't have a scalable way to get it in people's hands. Around that time when we saw the emergence of the App Store on iPhone, it was very clear that was a distribution channel we could really use and benefit from. But we also needed to build things we could build quickly, things we really were going to use together with our friends so we could be the first early customers. Ultimately Peekaboo and Snapchat represented that." This is exactly the asymmetry Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One: superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. Thiel puts an even finer point on it: most businesses get zero distribution channels to work. Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. Estée Lauder said: it's not enough to have the most wonderful product in the world. You must be able to sell it. Many founders over-index on product perfection and under-invest in distribution. The world is full of great products nobody knows about, and mediocre products with massive distribution that dominate markets. Evan Spiegel lived it. He built the better product, watched it lose, and then built something he could actually distribute.

Evan Spiegel on the lesson that killed his first startup and led to Snapchat: "We focused on building the perfect product for way too long before we got feedback. We worked for like eighteen months to build this perfect full-featured product, which was in direct contravention to how I was always taught to build things. Build a prototype, build an MVP, get it in front of people, learn as quickly as possible. But we had spent all this time building this perfect piece of software and we hadn't thought enough about distribution. While we built this great piece of software, our competitor at the time, Naviance, had secured distribution through all the different college counselors. What piece of software are you going to choose to help your kid get into college? The one recommended by the college counselors or the one from two kids at Stanford? I think it's a pretty easy choice. So we saw very early that we had no distribution advantage. Even if we loved our software, people weren't going to use it because we didn't have a scalable way to get it in people's hands. Around that time when we saw the emergence of the App Store on iPhone, it was very clear that was a distribution channel we could really use and benefit from. But we also needed to build things we could build quickly, things we really were going to use together with our friends so we could be the first early customers. Ultimately Peekaboo and Snapchat represented that." This is exactly the asymmetry Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One: superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. Thiel puts an even finer point on it: most businesses get zero distribution channels to work. Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. Estée Lauder said: it's not enough to have the most wonderful product in the world. You must be able to sell it. Many founders over-index on product perfection and under-invest in distribution. The world is full of great products nobody knows about, and mediocre products with massive distribution that dominate markets. Evan Spiegel lived it. He built the better product, watched it lose, and then built something he could actually distribute.

David Senra

27,151 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад