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What founders, startup operators, and investors are talking about…
The secret is there is no secret
How do you build trust? how do you join a community? There’s no hack. You build trust and a sense of belonging by continuing to show up. Beautiful story telling from Paige Finn Doherty of Behind Genius…Read more.
Path to profitability, eh?
While the parties of the past twelve months have led market optimists to rage like it’s the Roaring 20s, there is a growing sense that a hangover is looming. With valuations coming down companies will be rewarded for capital efficiency. With the ongoing market mayhem, Meera Clark of Obvious Ventures shares some musings on what this might mean for consumer companies…Read more.
Creating the Minimum Viable DAO
In the last 6-12 months, DAOs have experienced a new wave of rebirth. Major DAOs have made headlines such as PleasrDAO, ConstitutionDAO, and PartyDAO, collaborating with various organizations and efforts to raise funding in new ways. So now you can just band together with your homies to accomplish the world and people will give you money? It’s not that simple. Anisha Sunkerneni of Cyphr created a five-point technique as a method for anyone to validate their concept for a MVD…Read more.
How to go from 'project-market fit' to 'product-market fit'
While some claim open-source is just a marketing tool, there are actually a ton of benefits: more customer (community) support, better code documentation, viral distribution, ease of validating a pain points and user feedback loops. Knowing who is building with your project will clarify if there will be a market for a paid product. Amanda Robson of Cowboy Ventures shares a bunch of learnings that help you get from project to product market fit…Read more.
New mindsets, tactics and success metrics
"Go-to-market" in web3 means something completely different from the customer acquisition funnel models we're used to. Web3 changes the whole approach to bootstrapping new networks, since tokens offer an alternative to the traditional approach to the cold-start problem. Maggie Hsu of a16z gives you the new frameworks, the new metrics for GTM motions for decentralized applications, and what it means for builders in web3…Read more.
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Featured Jobs this week (remote if not stated otherwise)
