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A few months ago, Emilie Lauga (who heads up our Jumpstart Community) reached out to 2 brilliant Jumpstarters: Josh Attwell & Imaan Chowdhury about helping to launch a Jumpstart Future Founder's Community. A little insight into Josh Attwell + Imaan Chowdhury Josh and Imaan are both Jumpstarters that have recently started building out ventures of their own! 🎓Josh Attwell is currently bringing on his first clients for Oxen, where cutting-edge research meets practical leadership solutions. 🇪🇸Imaan Chowdhury is building out the content for a LangTech app based on his own obsessions and frustrations with travelling and language learning. Before starting these projects, both worked in seed-stage startups via Jumpstart - Josh worked on Growth at The Joy Club and Imaan on Operations at yhangry. To test the interest, in January we ran a Jumpstart's first Future Founders event in collab with Entrepreneur First. The results? 105 Jumpstarters rocked up and a tonne of them signed up for our new Future Founder Community. Since then, it's grown rapidly! We've launched: 🍻 Our first in-person event!  🚀 Pitstops, weekly calls, keeping aspiring founders on track 🤝 Link-ups, connecting like-minded Future Founders with one another 💯 Over 155 aspiring founders on a buzzing WhatsApp And there’s a LOT more still to come. We’ll be supporting Josh & Imaan in building out a line-up of exciting events; competitions + much much more. The best bit? This Community is also open to any future founders outside of our existing Jumpstart Community. What’re you waiting for? Get involved. https://lnkd.in/gfbcw_eE

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Everything's changed... Brenden and I spent 2023 learning, absorbing, and testing lots of different products, offerings, and markets. We had crazy stuff happen, both good and bad. Happy and sad. Mountains and valleys. Ended up running into some wild and quite unexpected challenges, but they all brought us to this moment."All in preparation". At our core, since the beginning, we've had one core value: "We Give a Sh!t". About you, your company, your team, your customers, and all the secondary and tertiary relationships that stem from those. We've always loved the bigger conversation around direction, purpose, and the "why" behind decisions founders are making. Well, we realized that we're called to support that purpose, even at the expense of our bottom line. This led us to having quite the "come-to-Jesus" moment at the end of the year of what we want to build going into 2024. It's our company, so we should build what we want, right? Drum roll.... Uncommon Project -> Uncommon Ventures Yup, we've relaunched as Uncommon Ventures, a venture studio designed to develop early founders into the leaders they're called to be... into the leaders they're required to be. We want to create an opportunity to support founders through the chaos of the journey and help them build not only successful startups but successful lives. We've assembled a team of advisors and partners who have "Been there. Done that." We're grateful for their support and time to help our founders beat the odds. Check out the site. If you're curious about what it looks like to work with us, shoot me a DM. We're already working on a few really cool projects, so if you're interested in hearing that side of the coin, ping me. Would love to chat. Here's to stepping into what you're called to do. #founderjourney #startuplife #venturestudio

We’re officially back in action for 2024 from today, and what better way to kick off the New Year than with our word of the year? Saying it aloud fosters responsibility and enhances attainability, and our designated word for the year is 'progression.' ➡️ Being a startup agency, we consistently look for avenues to expand our business and advance, and our objective for the year is to achieve that on a tenfold scale. What's your word for the year?

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Monday motivation: focus on action! If you're pouring your heart and soul into making your startup dream a reality, you're already ahead of the game. To stand out as one of the top 5% of startup founders, you need more than just a great idea. You need a tangible MVP. Another impressive milestone! But the real victory is launching a product that solves a real problem for your users. You've earned bragging rights for this achievement! And if you've managed to attract paying customers, you're part of an exclusive club of startup success stories, an elite of 1%! Now, it's time to put your plan into action.

As an angel investor, what excites you about a startup? 📈 That's the question I asked Ben Lang. Ben is one of the first 15 employees at Notion and has been instrumental is shaping their community effort. Ben is also: → an active angel investor with 40+ deals → the creator of the Hummus day? → the founder of next play community Ben is the most humble person I know and I had so much fun talking about startups, communities, growth and angel investing with him. Some key discussion in this episode: → Founding a software startup with his father → Discovering Notion on Product Hunt → Launching notion-pages.com before joining → Meeting with the Ivan Zhao and team in SF → Developing the template gallery and community → Transitioning to Angel Investing as an apprentice → His unique value on the cap table and support 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: https://lnkd.in/eWh-Jdt3 📍 for more startup stories, follow me @Hugo Rauch 📩 subscribe to my newsletter at the link below my name Thanks for a great conversation, Ben!

Earlier this week I posted about how founders overvalue their equity and how co-founder conflicts kill startups, and I got a few questions about how to split equity among co-founders. Here's what we did Neosync. We split it evenly. And you should almost always split it evenly. The only time I would consider an unequal split is if I had built the business before a co-founder joins. As in, doing a minimum of $50-$100k+ in revenue and on a great growth path. Power dynamics in a startup can be tricky and the last thing you want is resentment between co-founders. If you've found a good co-founder who cares about your relationship, then they'll work extra hard to catch up and earn that equity. If you'r really concerned about it, you could consider a different vesting plan especially if you've already put in a few years.

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Ah, the MVP life! When it works, it feels like we've just unlocked a new level in the startup game. 🎮 And when it doesn't? Well, that's our cue for a creative brainstorming session over pizza. 🍕 #StartupLife #MVPAdventures