Creative ways to find B2B leads; On investing and casting actors; Lex; Real & More
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Hi friends 👋This s issue No. 144 and here’s what you will learn today:
The key elements of your fundraising deck.
Why investing in founders is like casting actors.
Creative ways to find B2B leads.
Insights
Accessible therapy startup Real closed a $6m round of funding led by Forerunner Ventures and including Gwyneth Paltrow. Femstreet member Kell Rakowski, founder of Lex, the social app for queer women, raised $1.5m. The Essential Funding Guide for Entrepreneurs of Color. Meet the Type House. The Wing is late on rent. Why VCs are backing gender-neutral fashion. Why VC Firms are being pushed to take historically black colleges as LPs. Why startups solving problems for the 'Hypercultural Latinx' will have the potential to create companies with venture-like returns.
People
Former Atomico and SoftBank VC Carolina Brochado has joined EQT to help build its new growth fund.
Sandhya Venkatachalam, formerly Deep Ventures, joins Khosla Ventures as Partner.
From The Investor
A fundraising deck allows you to control the conversation and craft the best narrative for your company. Here are 10 key elements of an early stage fundraise deck. Medha Agarwal / Redpoint Ventures
The shift to the cloud requires new tools and processes, fast. Here is why the merging of the DevOps driven cloud and cybersecurity will create dozens of new category leaders. Kara Nortman / Upfront Ventures
On the Product thinking that built Slack and Twitter. April Underwood / Obvious Ventures
VCs seem to be obsessed with B2B Marketplaces currently. Here’s a map of the European B2B Marketplace Landscape by Julia Morrongiello of Point Nine Capital.
On machine learning in the enterprise and where the next trillion dollars of value will accrue. Louisa Xu / IVP
I absolutely loved this Business Casual podcast episode with Connie Chan on China’s social commerce super apps.
Why investing in founders is like casting actors. Shripriya Mahesh / Spero Ventures
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From The Operator
Trying to break into Data Analytics? Read this Data Analyst Interview Guide. Diana Cherny / SurveyMonkey
The Resilience Economy: On integrating, not conquering and the Maslow’s pyramid. Lauren Capelin / Reinventure
Developer onboarding is a huge problem and some data points that the average tenure of a developer is 12 months. One of the main reasons for leaving is not getting up to speed on the codebase.
Spotify provides a step-by-step coding tutorial on building an application for new developers. It covers APIs, authentication, component creation with React & TS, E2E & unit testing, security, and more. Having a complete coding tutorial is so freaking useful for new devs 👏
B2B lead gen strategies must be tailored to the needs of individual companies. Here are 10 creative ways to find B2B leads. Nadine Clay / Vale Creative
“Passion is hard to measure, but its one of the leading indicators of success. Passion predicts grit, drive, work-ethic, grind, impact. Be passionate and search for passion.”
Allison Bar Allen, COO at Fast
Am I saving enough? Is my money invested properly? Money is often a taboo topic. Lots of people have questions about money and budgets, but many only talk about it with close friends and family. Here are investment resources with tips, trips, and financial stories. Allison Barr Allen / Fast
Job Opportunities
Quorum is a chat platform with built-in privacy, payment, and user management features. We're a team of 3 looking to hire a founding engineer to lead our Mobile App development. We participated in the Y Combinator S19 program and are backed by some pretty great investors. Feel free to send your application to us.
Sym empowers engineers to create the perfect security and privacy workflows for their teams saving organizations thousands of hours of wasted review time and internal maintenance. They just closed their Series Seed and are hiring for a few roles in Engineering and Product in SF/Boston/Remote. Feel free to DM me or email Jin.
And In Case You Missed It
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Tips for founder personal brand building - for members only
How to build and scale a remarkable startup without compromising on people or culture - for everyone
6 lessons from building a business in a downturn - for members only
VC interview tips and templates with Going VC- for everyone
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Written by Sarah Nöckel, Early-Stage investor at Northzone. All things workplace tech, data management and enterprization of consumer. Born in Germany. Based in London. You can find me elsewhere on Twitter and Instagram.