Welcome to the eight edition! I am an early-stage investor in New York. I share impactful Biz, Ops, and Investment roles at early-stage startups and VCs.

Last week's most clicked links:

• Partnership Lead - GTM, Mesa (PropTech);

  • Making homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Founded by repeat founders with a successful track record.

• Chief of Staff, Gastalt, (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.

• 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.

Useful Links:

1. These folks are looking for a co-founder.

2. A great article on how to value your equity offer. Equity can be worth millions of dollar but only if the company has a liquidity event.

3. ODF is a community of people exploring starting startups. They’ve been at it for over 5 years with over 1,000 startups launched and $2B raised. Check out some of their top founders on their 2024 Top Companies list. Joining an ODF cohort is perfect for people who are looking to build conviction on an idea, find co-founders, initial customers, and a support group. If you’re interested in ODF apply by August 3rd.

4. If you are at the pre-seed or ideation stage, Founders Boost offers a completely free program to prepare you for investments and revenue. I ran this program as the director of the NYC Chapter for one year, and I can definitely vouch for the quality of the program. They have just opened their applications for the fall cohort. You can apply here.

   P.S. I have invested in a company called Avol, which went through this program. They are building some pretty cool drones and are currently hiring for a drone engineer. If you know someone, please let me know at [email protected].

5. Curious about what funds pitch to LPs? Weekend Fund has put together a document showing how to build a fund deck, along with a list of fund decks as examples.