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Edition 7: Join The Buzz
Biz, Ops & Investment Roles At Early Stage Startups & VCs
Welcome to the seventh edition! I am early stage VC in New York. I share impactful Biz, Ops, and Investment roles at early-stage startups and VCs.
Last week's most clicked links:
Generalist, Kiki.nyc (Consumer);
They are in the early days of building the world’s biggest sublet company. They have done this before in New Zealand, then Australia and are on our way to proving NYC. The role pays well and could be a great fit someone young in their career get experience at a growing startup.
Growth Product Manager, Maven (Consumer), Remote;
Founded by a serial entrepreneur Gagan Biyani, Maven is building the university of tomorrow. Backed by a16z, First Round
Associate: Talent Investor, Entrepreneur First
If you love investing in people, this is just the perfect role. Entrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.
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Enterprise Account Manager, Blumen
Backed by Susa Ventures, Caffeinated Capital and others and founded by Stanford Alum, Hannes Boehning, Blumen one is a one stop software for industrial and renewable project development. See how it works here.
Blumen was also recently featured in The White House CEQ's report to congress on ways that they can use technology to get more infrastructure built in the US.
Useful Links:
Make $12K/month from anywhere in the world as a research fellow working for Shreyas helping him build and run his PM Course. Shreyas was the fourth Product Manager at Stripe where he helped define and grow the Product Management function (from ~5 to more than 50 people), led Stripe's flagship product for marketplaces & SaaS platforms (Connect) for 3 years and led Stripe's in-person POS payments product (Terminal). His course has been taken by ,ore than 2500 senior PMs & product leaders worldwide. He is also hiring for a head of operations.
A celebrity founded beauty brand is looking for a social media associate.
Nas Daily (68M followers across all social media platform) is hiring a Chief of Staff to help with Nas companies which includes:
Media: Nas Daily (68 Million followers!)
Education: Nas Academy
Technology: Nas.io
Events: Nas Summit
Hotels: Nas House
If you have an exciting idea and want to validate it before launching, check out this 3 week accelerator run by my good friend Doug Rogers. I recently brainstormed an idea with him, and his ability to break down concepts is incredible. You won't regret spending 5 minutes filling out the application here.
List of Accelerators in the US including how much they invest and for what equity.
Find your career-making startup at Mixture of Experts (31st July in SF). Meet the founders of Cartesia, ​Harvey, ​Foundry and many others building in AI.
If you are interested in working as a producer, channel manager, video editor or in any capacity with some of the largest creators in the world, check out Roster.
Since I started writing this newsletter, the most common question I get is about lacking work experience or not having relevant experience to get a particular job. The beauty of working at a startup is that you don’t need extensive work experience. You need the ability to learn and get things done. Most people, including the founder, are figuring things out as they go.
If you're interested in working at a startup:
Figure out your selling point. What can you bring to the table?
Ps. Early-stage startups primarily need two things: Product and Sales. Ensure your unique selling point (USP) aligns with one of these areas. If your USP is strategy, it won't be of much use to a startup.
Learn how to sell yourself. This could be through proof of work, finding a customer or partnership for the company, securing funding for the company, or any other creative way.
I will get into a lot more detail next week. So stay tuned!
Fewer Than 10 Employees:
Remote:
Partnership Lead - GTM, Mesa (PropTech);
Making homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Founded by repeat founders with a successful track record.
Chief of Staff, Gasalt, (Consumer);
Founded by Will, successful repeat founder (Previously built Bayes which sold to Airtable in 2021) is looking to hire the first few people to carry out his vision of helping enterprises understand their users better. Raised angel funding.
Investment Director, Kaiser Permanente (VC);
Business Development Lead, Glimpse (Consumer AI);
Building the first end to end AI-powered deductions service. Ideal for someone with CPG Experience as well is willing to work on a commission only basis.
Biz ops / Logistics, Tresi
Tresi is a curation of luxury eclectic furniture, decor and more. The founder Jessica Yang, is looking to bring on an early hire to help her scale.
New York:
Growth Lead, Curious Cadinals (Consumer);
Founded by Audrey Wisch & Alec Katz, CC matches kids aged 8-18 with inspiring university mentors from top schools to set them up for academic and professional success. Backed by Anthos Capital, Audacious Ventures. They are open to candidates in the Bay Area as well. P.s if you are college student / fresh graduate, you can apply to become a mentor to earn some extra $$.
Head of Growth, Sequence (FinTech);
Sequence is the world’s first financial router: View all your accounts, cards, savings, and investments in one place, create and execute transaction rules, and automate everything.
Chief of Staff, Eniac Ventures (VC);
You will work closely with Hadley, co-founder and General Partner at Eniac. His investment areas include AI (application and tooling layers), data/dev tooling, SaaS, and healthcare.
Before becoming a VC himself, Hadley built two successful, VC-backed startups. He joined Vlingo in 2007, working with talented AI founders out of MIT to manage aspects of the business across product, strategy, and marketing, until the company was sold to Nuance for $225M. He then became Chief Business Officer at Thumb, a real-time recommendation app that reached user engagement levels second only to Facebook and was ultimately acquired by YPulse.
Investor, Founder Collective (VC);
On mission is to build the most aligned VC fund for Founders at the seed stage. Past investments include Airtable, Cruise
Investor, H/L Ventures (VC)
Director of Growth, Champion (Enterprise);
First Hire for Sales. Champion is a Customer-Led Growth Platform.
California:
Program Operations Manager, Adobe Ventures (VC);
Associate / Principal, NfX (VC);
Partner, Marketing (Games), a16z (VC)
One of the worlds largest VC is looking for someone with extensive marketing experience ideally in the gaming industry. They will serve as a resource to advise their growing games portfolio.
Others:
Founding Sales Lead, Reins (Enterprise), NV;
Reins makes it easy for businesses to create, customize and manage phantom stock and profit sharing plans.
Chief Operating Officer, Golf Live (Consumer), TX;
Digital Golf Instruction. I haven’t had the chance to use the product yet but I am looking forward to it. P.s If you are in NYC and you play golf, hmu.
Early But Not Too Early:
New York:.
Head of Operations, Atlas (Consumer);
A modern spend management and concierge platform focused on HNIs.They have organically scaled to millions in revenue and are backed by top investors like YC, Kindred Ventures, Eric Schmidt.
Operations Associate, Tandem (HealthTech);
Essentially, Tandem is a prescription concierge service with a goal to get your medicines to you as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Sales Account Executive, Sourgum (CleanTech);
America's First Haulsourcing Platform. Might seem boring but a business that throws off great cashflow.
Director of Marketing, Gynger (Fintech);
First AI-powered payments platform with embedded financing. Recently raised $20M led by PayPal Ventures, with participation from Velvet Sea Ventures, BAG Ventures, Gradient Ventures, and Deciens Capital.
Chief of Staff, Thesis (Healthcare);
World's first personalized nootropics company. Backed by Unilever Ventures, MBX Capital.
Nootropics? Nootropics aka 'cognitive enhancers' are drugs that people use in an attempt to improve memory, increase mental alertness and concentration as well as boost energy levels and wakefulness.
California:
Customer Success Lead, Paramark (Enterprise);
Helping make marketing dollars count by creating a system of record that teams can use to understand and forecast the impact of their Marketing, as well as to experiment with new ideas.
Chief of Staff, Quattr (MarketingTech);
Founded by Anurag Singhal, Quattr is an AI that automates 30+ manual tasks, offers actionable guidance & scales content work to provide a comprehensive SEO solution.
Account Executive, Slope (FinTech);
Slope provides provide businesses with easy access to capital & extended terms at the point of purchase. Last week they raised $65M strategic round in equity and debt from J.P. Morgan.
Late But Still Very Impactful :
VP of Finance, Luma AI
Probably the best job someone can have right now. Luma AI generates realistic 3D models and videos from simple prompts.
Senior Director, Biz & Strategy, Formation Bio
Tech and AI driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development.
Strategic Finance Associate, FitXR
With 1M+ downloads, they have found their product market fit while building at the intersection of fitness and virtual reality.
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