Get Educated on What Matters to You

Ideation, Validation, Accelerators, Advisors

How do you find ideas and validate them before launch? Learn tips to be a successful first-time founder advice, and how to set up your company with co-founders correctly. If you need to learn the basics, this is the place for you to start.

How to Raise Generally, Outreach, Process

If you need to raise money, this is what I focus on. You can find questions that VCs will ask, how to pitch, how to reach out to investors, and to run a deal process. There is a tonne to learn, and you’ll get smarter here.

Financial Models

Numbers matter. They suck at predicting the future, but they help you focus on what matters now. You also need a model to raise funds. You’ll learn to not only understand your business numerically but potentially impress investors.

Pitch Decks

If you want to raise for your startup, you need a pitch deck. You will find examples of pitch decks, how to write them, avoid mistakes, and generally break through VCs email boxes to get your first meeting.

Cap Tables, Dilution, ESOP

The difference to bootstrapping is that when you raise you’ll have to deal with dilution. That means understanding equity ownership. You track this in a Cap Table. You’ll learn about the implications of raising money and how it affects the amount of money you’ll make when you sell.

Priced Rounds, Conv Notes, Safe, Term Sheet, Def Docs

If you are raising a large seed and anything called a series, it is a priced round. You will learn about the deal terms that matter, term sheets, negotiating definitive documentation, and the specifics to close a larger deal.

We Cover Priced rounds, Conv notes, safe, term sheets, and def docs.

Culture, OKR, Managing Staff, Board Meetings, Strategy

How do you manage your staff, hire, and fire when you need to? How do you drive motivation through ESOP participation and developing a strong culture in your startup? A startup is just a group of smart people, so take care of them.

Going International. Marketing, Sales, Making Content. Virality

If you want to be large, you need to understand your business model, competitive advantages, and defensibility. We will also cover processes to scale and how to communicate with your board if you have been raising to date.

M&A, Banking, Exits, Management Consulting

You start a company to sell; only how the heck this actually works is not talked about as the knowledge is very niche. You’ll learn how to value your company, how to interact with potential acquirers and make big money when the time is right.

VC and Investing

Learning your job as an emerging manager is hard. You’ll learn what VC pitch decks look like, about investment thesis, how to brand yourself to startups, the relevance of ‘value add’, and running a fund in general.

Positivity, Inspiration, Failing

How do you stay motivated in building a startup? Learn ways to be positive and more effectively communicate and manage your team and the stakeholders you interact with on a continual basis.

Learning PPT

PowerPoint is all about how to structure thoughts to communicate them to an audience that you want to influence. Investors and pitch decks are everyone’s focus but don’t forget to explain your new initiatives, get partnerships, or even your TED talk.

Learning Excel

Learn how to do the analysis you need to run your startup through metrics. You need Excel for your financial model to raise and ensure if you are growing aggressively that you are doing so profitably. You might find it boring now, but I’ll help you love it as I do!

Metrics, Learnings, Industry Analysis, etc

This section is just about e-commerce. Learn the metrics that matter, and get tips about how to build your brand and operations. I’ll find research reports for you and thoughts for bootstrapped passive startups.

Metrics, Learnings, Industry Analysis, etc

It’s critical to build a data-driven startup that understands your metrics. Learn different ways to calculate your CAC or the difference between MRR, ARR, bookings, and billings. If it is SaaS-specific, I’ll share it here.

Metrics, Learnings, Industry Analysis, etc

This section is just about marketplaces. Understand the difference between GMV and revenue. How do you build without being disintermediated? We’ll go over the strategies that you need to think about to beat the chicken and egg problem.