Startups & Founders

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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
Building MVPs 3 months ago

Ship the embarrassing version. Then ship again.

Both my SaaS products were embarrassing at launch. Both found their first users anyway, because the users cared about the problem, not the polish. Building in public forced me to ship weekly and the…

by Liam O'Connor favorite 43 comment 4 visibility 1099