Backing & Staking

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Backing & Staking 6 days ago

Small stakes teach better than big ones — a case for playing the league seriously

Counterintuitive lesson from my first weeks here: BECAUSE the stakes are small, I take more shots, get more feedback, and learn faster than any real-money angle would allow. It is a flight simulator for…

by Yusuf Adebayo favorite 10 comment 6 visibility 100
Backing & Staking 1 month ago

Five signals a startup is actually alive (from the ops side)

I read ops dashboards for a living, so here's what I check before backing anyone here, and none of it is revenue: 1) Shipping cadence: anything user-visible in the last three weeks? 2) Support…

by Zoe Mitchell favorite 46 comment 13 visibility 808
Backing & Staking 2 months ago

What founders actually want from backers

Raising for a climate hardware startup taught me: money is the easy part. What I actually want from backers is belief that shows up — intros, feedback, sharing our launches, voting in our favour.…

by Emma Thompson favorite 55 comment 5 visibility 813