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[HIRING] Help me out here LinkedIn - looking for a legend who will help hundreds of founders ❤️ 💥 FOUNDERS ASSOCIATE #1 Find the most ambitious early-stage founders to invest in ANZ #2 Your tools: run Launch Club and Buildmate to help hundreds of founders start and grow their startups every year >> which feeds back into #1 Link in the comments! Give this a like or tag a legend 🔥

Journey From $15/h to Success! 🌟 I won't sugarcoat it – finding that perfect client during these testing times won't be a walk in the park. Yet, mark my words, I'm not throwing in the towel anytime this year! 🗓️ My sole focus is on that one goal: helping a startup evolve from a humble 10k to the magical 1 million mark. Sure, the road may seem tough, especially amid a 2024 recession. But hey, challenges are just stepping stones to success, right? 💪 I've got my sleeves rolled up, ready to turn setbacks into setups for success. As a Business enthusiast, I'm diving into the trenches with a mission: to help a budding startup skyrocket from 10k to a glorious 1 million! 💼💰 Starting at $15/h might sound like a wild journey, perhaps raising a few eyebrows among traditional Finn Tech giants. But here's the scoop: this is how a startup is built, and this is where founders are born. 💡 As a passionate business executive, this is the fire that fuels me, and failure isn't even in my vocabulary. 🔥✨ So, if you're on the lookout for someone who's not just talking the talk but walking the walk, let's connect! 🌐 Let's have a chat, share ideas, and build something extraordinary together. 💬🙌 #needhelp #urgenthiring #urgentrequirement #urgentopening #startup #bdejobs #bde #bdr #assistance #personalbranding

At the Beginning of 2020 my co-founder, Daniel McCool, and I left Microsoft to start Trustworthy. 1 month later: the whole world shut down. Welcome to Pandemicville. Fortunately, by then, we had talked to hundreds of families about the challenges they were facing in managing the overwhelming amount of digital information and related critical tasks. It was clear. There was a need for a solution not even the pandemic would stop us from building. End of 2020: We managed to secure seed investment from an incredible set of Angel investors. In 2021: Trustworthy pushed out our first product release and hired early team members. In 2022: We turned on our paywall to see if early adopters would pay (they did). Fast forward to today: Trustworthy is a platform serving thousands of families in the United States and around the world. It’s been a rollercoaster—filled with highs, lows, steep learning curves, late nights, and many moments of doubt. As National Entrepreneurship Month draws to a close, I’m grateful for the opportunity to freely pursue this venture in a nation where dreams like Trustworthy can thrive. Having come to the U.S. from New Zealand in search of new opportunities and experiences, this is the promise of the American Dream. Cheers to National Entrepreneurship Month! Let’s continue pushing boundaries and driving innovation. #entrepreneurship #startup

Reality Engagement —— I started PHX Ventures because I want to help founders in Arizona build high-growth software companies that achieve venture scale. I can handle the good, bad, and ugly of company building. I’ve lived it. I can handle losing money. I don’t like it, but I can handle it. I can handle bad news and disappointment. Company building is a roller coaster. I can handle a changing market and new competitors. Market opportunity and market dynamism go hand in hand. I can handle co-founder breakups and key team member departures. It’s not great but it’s fairly normal. I can handle bad quarters and product problems. Stuff happens in startups. What I can’t handle is a lack of engagement with reality. Willful ignorance or disregard for data won’t make your business better. If the math of your business is telling you something is broken then it means something is broken. Let’s just fix it. And let’s fix it right now. Let's at least try. I love optimism. But I love realism even more. Broken things tend not to fix themselves. In my experience, the best founders have the highest engagement with reality. Just tell me what about your current reality is giving you angst. Tell me the problems in the business. Just tell me. Don’t sell me. Tell me. I can handle it. And maybe I can help. #founders #startups #b2b #saas

The next 4 months could make or break your startup. Fall has some of the highest investor activity and if you're early stage and currently raising, now is the time to kick it into gear. Here's a quick list of things to check in on and prep: 1) Your Product: Your product should wow investors. When they first get their hands on it or try a demo, they should feel a sense of wonder. This is hard but super important. 2) Your Traction: Investors are more interested in A) Your past 4 months B) Your past 12 months C) Your contracted (or reasonably expected) next 6 months. They aren't as interested in your 5 year financial plan. 3) Your Churn: Just make sure customers/clients/users are sticking around. Churn is a scary signal to investors. 4) Operations: Make sure that your internal ops are humming. It might be a lot as it often is, but if you can show you have good processes for GTM, product, sales, etc. it shows that you are apt for running and scaling a business. 5) Regulatory and Admin: Make sure everything is buttoned up and that your data room is all good to go. When an investor goes into the final Due Diligence steps you don't want to have anything that could give them any pause. If you need any help, read my bio and reach out, I'm happy to help where I can! #startups #founders

Funding, Product and Sales —these are the most important challenges most founders grapple with. The intensity of these struggles varies at different stages of the startup journey, but they all tug at the founding team, each pulling in its own direction. Today, most startups find it challenging to pinpoint the right starting point and direction. With the funding winter setting in, a proven business model and increasing revenues have become a mandate for fund raising. Tech-savvy founders however find solace in product development, pouring their energy into perfecting their creation before bringing it to market. Most of them do not realize that the first few sales do not stem from a perfect product, but rather from a perfect use case and pitch. I've spoken with several founders, and many find themselves torn between crafting a perfect product and building a winning go-to-market strategy with a not so perfect product. At Unconsult , we Parag Agarawal Dr. Seema Singh collaborate with founders to identify the right market for the right product or solution. We assist them in transforming their solution into a marketable product, and establishing processes and teams to sell the product profitably. Feel free to reach out to us if you're interested in turning your product or solution into a revenue-generating machine for attracting the right investment. #StartupJourney #TechFounders #SalesStrategy #ProfitableBusiness #InvestorInterest #ProductDevelopment #MarketResearch #BusinessGrowth #RevenueGeneration #FounderChallenges #TechInnovation #SalesLeadership #InvestmentStrategy #MarketValidation #EntrepreneurialMindset #SeniorLeadership #BusinessInsights #StartupAdvice #SalesProcess #InvestorRelations

Funding, Product and Sales —these are the most important challenges most founders grapple with. The intensity of these struggles varies at different stages of the startup journey, but they all tug at the founding team, each pulling in its own direction. Today, most startups find it challenging to pinpoint the right starting point and direction. With the funding winter setting in, a proven business model and increasing revenues have become a mandate for fund raising. Tech-savvy founders however find solace in product development, pouring their energy into perfecting their creation before bringing it to market. Most of them do not realize that the first few sales do not stem from a perfect product, but rather from a perfect use case and pitch. I've spoken with several founders, and many find themselves torn between crafting a perfect product and building a winning go-to-market strategy with a not so perfect product. At Unconsult , we Parag Agarawal & Dr. Seema Singh collaborate with founders to identify the right market for the right product or solution. We assist them in transforming their solution into a marketable product, and establishing processes and teams to sell the product profitably. Feel free to reach out to us at explore@unconsult.in if you're interested in turning your product or solution into a revenue-generating machine for attracting the right investment. #StartupJourney #TechFounders #SalesStrategy #ProfitableBusiness #InvestorInterest #ProductDevelopment #MarketResearch #BusinessGrowth #RevenueGeneration #FounderChallenges #TechInnovation #SalesLeadership #InvestmentStrategy #MarketValidation #EntrepreneurialMindset #SeniorLeadership #BusinessInsights #StartupAdvice #SalesProcess #InvestorRelations

I'm answering some cold pitches to Bread and Butter Ventures this morning and it seemed like a good time to re-surface some best practices for cold emailing VCs. tldr; it's worth your time to spend effort personalizing and being thoughtful about your outreach vs sending 100s of VCs the exact same email. My top 3 tips for founders: 1) Personalize - at a minimum, include the name of the fund you're emailing, and at best, address your email to a specific partner or team member. It's a simple thing and often makes a true difference in your email getting read. (true in sales as well!) 2) Include why you're reaching out to a specific fund - why did we (or another fund) make the cut to be on your outreach list? Maybe it's because you saw we invest in foodtech and you're building in the food supply chain. Maybe it's because you love Brett Brohl's youtube videos. Maybe you admire one of the companies in our portfolio. This demonstrates that you put thought into this email and gives us a great reason (foodtech) to keep reading. 3) Include info on your startup! This seems obvious but we get a surprising number of emails that basically say "we're building something great, want to see a deck?" I don't know? Maybe? Probably not because as I'm prioritizing deals and time, I'm likely prioritizing deals that I know are building in sectors we focus on, are at a stage we invest in, and include something unique about themselves that catches my eye (traction, team, tech). Folks that read cold emails from founders what else am I missing? #venturecapital #startups #founders

I often give these two pieces of advice to folks looking to join startups or early-stage teams: 1. Series A/B at 50-100 employees is ideal 2. Pick a category more than the specific company Hopefully self-explanatory (but can explain / answer Qs in comments) What's your advice would you give to these folks? 🤔

Great tips below on cold emailing VCs from Stephanie Rich! Also check out Visible's article 👇 3 Tips for Cold Emailing Potential Investors + Outreach Email Template: https://lnkd.in/dyE3QbYJ