We were early investors in Uber, Airtable, The Trade Desk, Cruise, PillPack, ThredUp, Coupang, Whoop, Formlabs, and over 300 other great startups. Now, we’d like to be early backers of your career.
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital firm built by entrepreneurs. Our mission is to be the most…
By Nadia Boujarwah, Amanda Herson, and Hillary Bush
As founders, investors, and operators, we have different perspectives on the startup landscape. Still, we are united in our desire to have more women among the ranks of angel investors. Only 2% of capital goes to women-led startups. Just 35% of VC…
The problem of evil — Why do bad things happen to good people?
This conundrum has plagued philosophers and theologians since time immemorial.
Today, I wonder why some NFT projects fail to win the mandate of heaven?
For instance, @cryptogawds.
I’m but a noob to the world…
2020 and 2021 have been busy years for Founder Collective — In addition to making new investments, we were fortunate to have 19 exits. While this sample is neither representative nor statistically significant, I think founders could draw a few lessons from it.
This sample includes public…
💰 You finally find the right CMO
🌅 The market wakes up to what you’re offering
📦 Steady product releases compound advantage
🛣️ Shifting market needs drive people to you
These are just some of the things that can happen between years 5–10–15 at a startup.
Stick…
By Eric Paley
These days I find myself talking with our founders often about the perils of pricing to perfection: Founders need to balance the desire to optimize in the short-term against potential long-term fundraising complications.
Imagine you are a “hot” early-stage startup and have $500K in ARR. …
“We’re still early” has become a mantra in the crypto community, but it’s also shockingly still applicable to SaaS.
Canva’s new $40B valuation and the charitable pledge of its founders have overshadowed the fact that the product is “just” an excellent web app.
I mean this respectfully!
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A few tips on building enterprise startups — healthcare, big co. tools, etc.
📈 The sales uptick won’t come until year six
🙄 Don’t be a subject matter snob
🤝 Everyone has to sell
📜 Pick VCs with long track records
🧑🎓 Prepare to teach
🐌 Move…
By Hillary Bush
I built SEO engines at MasterClass and Bungalow, and developed strategies for companies like Copeland, Outschool, and Adobe. Founders often cite SEO as a key distribution strategy but lack the knowledge of how to build one. I want to share the essentials I’ve gathered:
Pixar’s 24 feature films are incredible combinations of art and technology, but they also contain good lessons for startup founders.
Here is a tip from each, from Toy Story to Luca.
Embrace limitations The choice of toys as the main characters for Pixar’s first feature wasn’t accidental…
