HeyJaredStartups Decoded
The no-BS podcast, newsletter, and community for founders from idea to Series A. The full founder operating system: brand, fundraising, marketing, operations, finance, storytelling. Andy Walsh (4x founder, 2 exits) and guests who’ve done it. Every week.
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EP#88: Why Most Founders Misread Their Own Traction. Vanessa Larco - Premise VC (opens the original)
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Vanessa Larco has a name for a lot of the revenue sitting in startup decks right now: product-curiosity fit. A customer hears the hype, carves off some budget to experiment, and signs. It lands in their ARR line looking exactly like traction. Six months later somebody runs a budget review, and the curious customers quietly leave.Vanessa has sat on every side of this. Product leader, founder who sold her company, NEA partner, and now co-founder of her own firm. Her point is that founders and inve
What Conditions Help Ordinary People Compound Into Exceptional Founders? (opens the original)
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EP#87: Founders Obsess Over the Raise. Investors Care About This More. With Carina Cunha (opens the original)
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Carina Cunha is an investment banker, founder, operator, and advisor who has worked with more than 100 companies from pre-seed to IPO. She started her career in investment banking at Credit Suisse, later worked on strategy and transformation inside J.P. Morgan Private Bank alongside senior European leadership, and helped build Crimson Education into a unicorn while leading its UK and European operations.Then she became a founder herself. Her first startup, Nosy, landed two investment offers on D
I Built a Career inside Music. Now I Use It to Build Companies. (opens the original)
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Ep#86: Early Decisions That Define Your Startup Forever. With J.P. Morgan Asset Management. (opens the original)
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The big ideaNobody sits a first-time founder down and tells them that incorporating alone creates a legal board, whether they’ve thought about it or not. Nobody tells them that a small check from an angel can come with a request for a board seat they didn’t need to give away. Nobody tells them that the safe they’re so relieved to close comes with almost no strings, right up until the priced round, when every string shows up at once.I learned this the hard way, twice. Both my exits taught me the
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