Fast Company
This company is building a carbon calculator for every product in the world
4 min · · Carbonfact is impossibly ambitious. But impossible ambition is just what the environment needs right now. · Shared by 160, including Oliver Raduner, Marius Bleuer, Thomas Pleil, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tim, Thomas Power
shkspr.mobi
NDA Expired - let's spill the beans on a weird startup
2 min · · Many moons ago, when I was very young and you were even younger… London was in full bloom of tech-startups. I was running my own consultancy. Dashing from business to business, trying to pick… · Shared by 82, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Alyssa C
CBC News
Swimsuit designers embrace fabrics made from recycled fishing gear, plastic bottles
· In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at swimsuits made from recycled plastic and examine the problem of helium balloons ending up in the Great Lakes. · Shared by 5, including Alyssa C
Harvard Business Review
The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company’s Mission
13+ min · · Mycoskie realized that a desire to sustain hypergrowth had pushed the company away from its mission. So he took a sabbatical to figure out the future of TOMS and his role in it. The improbable result was an expansion into coffee. · Shared by 35, including Weiting Chen, Marcel, Alyssa C, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁
First Round
Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
20+ min · · In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways… · Shared by 106, including John Tan⚡️, Quim, Alyssa C, Jacob du Toit, Eduard Banque, Josh Kopelman
vcguide.co
VC Guide
3 min · · Fund and investor partner reviews by founders for founders. · Shared by 63, including Alyssa C, Christina Farr, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Andreas Klinger 🏝
basetemplates.com
6 Types of Investors for Startups
3 min · · A complete overview of investors for startups and how you can successfully approach them. · Shared by 38, including Jonathan Kogan, Alyssa C, Chris Gledhill
Sifted
The 12 most active US investors in European fintech
4 min · · It's not just local VCs backing European fintechs. These US investors also want a piece of the pie · Shared by 57, including Nicolas Babin, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, David Doughty, Florian Graillot, Nrupal Akolkar, Chris Gledhill, Oliver Bussmann, Index Ventures, Alyssa C
TechCrunch
Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B
3 min · · This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate… · Shared by 48, including Dave McClure, Alyssa C, Jonathan Kogan, Elena Neira, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Sifted
Europe's fintech 'mafia': Meet the employees-turned-founders
5 min · · Some of Monzo and Revolut's earliest employees are now founders themselves. Can they follow the standout success of the Paypal Mafia? · Shared by 49, including Alyssa C, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Chris Gledhill, Chris Skinner
Greylock
From Seed to Series A
8 min · · The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on… · Shared by 68, including William Toll, Alyssa C
Y Combinator
Announcing the YC Startup Library
1 min · · We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library, found at ycombinator.com/library. Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen… · Shared by 265, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Alyssa C, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Alexia Akbay, Chris Messina, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Bernhard Huessy, Paul Graham, Jonathan Kogan, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, Tauno
a16z
Introducing the Talent x Opportunity Fund
5 min · · The Talent x Opportunity Fund (TxO) is designed for entrepreneurs who have the talent, drive, and ideas to build great businesses but lack the typical background and resources to do so. In addition to… · Shared by 228, including Steven Sinofsky, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, andrew chen, Balaji, benahorowitz.eth, Benedict Evans, Andrea Kuszewski 🧠, CyberCodeTwins, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tom Connor, Elad Gil, Chris Fralic, Ryan Hoover, Delip Rao e/σ, علي, Rob Go, Alyssa C
The Guardian
I started my charity when I was 16, so I know Gen Z will give more if we ask them
3 min · · Pink Week has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds from younger people. Its success should be a lesson to other charities · Shared by 14, including Dan Ariely, Alyssa C