We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason. Team behind @twistartups @launchincubator @thesyndicate415 @founderuni @remotedemoday
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👋 Founders, we are looking to take meetings with startups at $5-100k a month in revenue (pre-series A)
Apply 👇 and we will meet with you for 20 minutes
launch.co/apply
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The @launch hackathon is 2/26-2/28 in SF! Join 1500 builders & compete for $1M+ in prizes goo.gl/qLReyO nitter.app/LAUNCH/status/68955295…
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Calling all MENA founders 🚀
@FounderUni, our 12-week pre-accelerator, is expanding to Saudi Arabia
Apply now to join our first MENA cohort 👇
mena.founder.university/
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Congratulations 👏 to LAUNCH Accelerator alum @ThalamusGME on their exciting partnership with @AAMCtoday & @ERASinfo !!
🚨Big news🚨For years @ThalamusGME has worked to build the nation’s leading tech to ease the transition from #medschool to #residency. We're collaborating with @AAMCtoday & @ERASinfo to scale nationwide. It's a seismic #GME & #MedEd announcement hubs.ly/Q01M-CBQ0
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Introducing our 14-week program to help entrepreneurs start, build, and scale a food business 🍔🥗🥙
Learn more about the @LAUNCH Cloud Kitchen Incubator (LiCK) 👇
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Join us for two days (zoom) on June 22-23 to learn all things:
→ Fundraising
→ Growth
→ Product
→ Sales
The workshop is FREE & open to all pre-series A founders.
Apply intensive.founder.university
See our incredible speakers & topics below 👇
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.@SamHarrisOrg on threat of uncontrolled AI, chasm btwn insiders & public; how to avoid arms race & align w/interests-@jason-THX @blueapron
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.@glennbeck, enjoying the rare SF sunshine before he takes the stage later 😎☀️ #launchfestival
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Here you go @bestofnextdoor, enjoy!!!
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LAUNCH Fest 2016 is March 2-4 in SF. Join 15K founders & claim your FREE pass today! goo.gl/YtrTcO
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Founder.University November 2018 hosted by @Jason wrapped this week! Thanks to the amazing founders, speakers, and partners @wilsonsonsini @joinrepublic @KruzeConsulting, without whom we couldn't offer this three-day intensive class free of charge for startups.
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.@Jason breaks down what it takes to succeed at @FounderUni.
These founders are ready to build! 🔨💪
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Incredible! @calm raises $88m Series B at $1b valuation 🦄
Here’s @Jason’s blog post on investing $378,000 with thesyndicate.com in Calm.com back in 2014👇
linkedin.com/pulse/201404231…
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Reading "Lessons from Shopify CEO @Tobi Lütke: what he learned from scaling Shopify through the pandemic | This Week in Startups Blog" w/ @jason:
rb.gy/osxi2s
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Q: "Are you a banker, or a programmer or what?"
Bancor Speaker: "I'm an entrepeneur."
<applause; mental mic drop>
#LAUNCHFestival
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LA28 @launchincubator founders rocked their pitches with @sequoia IRL this week.
Always grateful for the insights from @roelofbotha and @stephzhan.
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One of our favorite moments in the LAUNCH Accelerator is introducing our cohort to @sequoia 🌳
Thank you @stephzhan and @roelofbotha for your insights yesterday with LA31!
👇
@10tenInc
@flitecity
marvl.io/
permar.ai/
@recall_wiki
@WriteOnSaga
therave.co/
@WafflyHQ
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We are thrilled to announce @LAUNCH portfolio company, @densityio just raised a $51M Series C round!
Big congrats to @andrewfarah and the team 🎉
bit.ly/3fa4CxY
Check out Andrew's stellar pitch from @LAUNCH Festival 2014 👇
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.@LinkedIn CEO @jeffweiner on 5 dimensions of a great product:
1. singular value proposition
2. simple, intuitive
3. exceeds expectations
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Successful first Founder Friday!
@LAUNCH founders came together to talk shop 💪
To name a few 👇
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.@DavidSacks of @Yammer at 2013 @LAUNCH fest w/@jason on things he looks for in a product idea. Curator: @pscoper
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.@betagigapp wins Best Hackathon startup at #LAUNCHFestival 2016 for app that lets you beta test your next career
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We created @FounderUni to help turn builders into founders and ideas into MVPs
6 startups from Cohort 4 pitched @Jason on @TWiStartups
AND scored a $25k investment!
Let's meet them 👇
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👏 A huge welcome to LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 35 & Founder University Cohort 11!
This week, we were honored to kick things off and host both groups of incredible founders at Capital Factory 🚀🚀
A big thank you to our amazing partners Fenwick & West, Google Cloud, CodeBuddy, and Goodwin for making this possible 🙏
Let's build!! 💪
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Calm had $10,000 a month in revenue when we invested in 2014 and have reported revenue of $7m in 2016, $20m in 2017, $80m in 2018 and an estimate of $150m in 2019...
More 👉 calacanis.com/2019/09/09/the…
#vc #startups #unicorn #pegasus #meditation #investing
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Clear communication helps you lead people, build trust, close deals, and more...
Verbaly is an AI speech coach designed to help you speak confidently.
Let's see how it works 👇
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"Soon a hyperloop to nowhere will make nowhere a somewhere" @Jason #launchfestival
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Studying for exams often involves a lengthy process, and it can be challenging to sift through many study notes and slides.
Monic.ai is an educational tool that uses AI to convert raw study materials into digestible content to help students prepare for exams.
How Monic.ai works:
- Users sign up for the platform and upload their study content, e.g., lecture slides, textbook pages, articles, and/or notes.
- Monic.ai converts the uploaded content into study materials, allowing users to create mock exams and flashcards to begin studying.
- Users can also join class-specific groups to find questions created by other students.
The CEO, Jam Mirzakhalov, participated in our Founder University cohort 4. Their technical team of three founders developed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) during the program and quickly iterated to get 500 users. We monitored their growth and welcomed them into the LAUNCH Accelerator cohort 30.
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"You don't have to make every investor want to invest in your company, you just need to find the right 2 or 3."
- @aileenlee (Founder & Partner, @CowboyVC)
@LAUNCH Scale 2019 🚀
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Day one at @iconnections_io's Global Alts 2024 🌎
Venture Capital Outlook Panel
🎙️ @Jason, @sophiaamoruso, @karenappleton, @NWischoff, @galaxyhq's Sam Englebardt
Persistence in Podcasting
🎙️ @GuyAdami, @tseides, @Jason, @RiskReversal
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Introducing Angel University 2.0 -- How To Pick Winning Startups
We created Angel.University in 2017 as a live workshop to teach accredited & non-accredited investors the art of angel investing.
This workshop focused on how to find companies, build your angel investor network, and manage a portfolio.
Since 2017, we’ve taught this class 28 times and had over 4,000 investors participate.
We’re now introducing the second chapter of this workshop: Angel University 2.0.
It’s a 2-hour live workshop that builds on the foundation of our 1.0 class.
Our focus in 2.0 is to identify the characteristics @Jason and @LAUNCH use to select winning startups.
We recommend taking the 1.0 class before the 2.0. The next 1.0 will be offered on September 25th.
Key learnings in Angel University 2.0
- Crucial markers that LAUNCH correlates with a winning startup.
- Red flags that impede success.
Learn more and register at angel.university
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Female Founder.University hosted by @Jason wrapped up this week 🔥.
Congrats to all the founders that were selected to participate!
We’re excited to continue hosting these throughout the year.
Also, a big thank you to our partners @wilsonsonsini & @EscalonServices 🤝
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“Coding is NOT the most important skill set. We don’t pay enough attention to customer psychology.” @davemcclure #LAUNCHFestival
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.@VinnyLingham @civickey @cyantist @foundersfund @BNarasin @CanvasVC discuss future of ICOs @LAUNCH Angel Summit
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ICYMI: See why @Jason's Festival '14 interview w/ @mcuban is still a top podcast on #itunes! itun.es/i66c2Sq
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We’re hosting our annual growth conference @LAUNCH Scale on October 7-8 in San Francisco! 🦄
Join us for 2 days packed with content on:
🚀 How to grow your startup
💰 How to raise money
📈 How to measure metrics that matter
➕ and more
Register here: launchscale.net/tickets
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Day 1: ✔️. Thank you to the amazing speakers, partners, & attendees 🦄. Round 2 starts tomorrow morning! #LaunchSCALE
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A must read for ALL founders 🦄
“How @SuperhumanCo Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit“
Great post by @rahulvohra! firstround.com/review/how-su…
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Kicked off our first @FounderUni 12-week course today!
Congrats to the 100 folks that were selected... let's build 🏗🦄
Learn more: course.founder.university
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A year ago, @Jason & @stephen_wolfram discussed the future of work.
As automation takes over knowledge work, what comes next?
📈 Increased value of big-picture human creativity
📉 Decreased need for specialized knowledge
Strategic thinkers will continue to lead the way! 🌟 #FutureOfWork #Automation #Innovation #AI
Watch the interview 👉 Watch E1711 @twistartups
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It's not a real #Hackathon until there's sleeping hackers randomly dispersed around the venue 😴
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📣 We're hosting another Founder.University for woman founders on Feb 22-23.
It's a free two day workshop where we teach fundraising, growth, product, sales, and more!
If you've got a product in market, but before series A, apply below 👇
founder.university
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.@carbonrobotics trainable & intelligent robotic arm wins Best Demo Pit #LAUNCHfestival '16 carbon.ai
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📣 Our next Founder.University two-day intensive workshop hosted by @jason is February 14-15!
The workshop is FREE and open to all pre-series A women founders.
You'll learn:
💰 #Fundraising
📈 #Growth
🏗 #Product
💳 #Sales
➕ more
Apply intensive.founder.university
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"Bootstrapping is hard as s***!"
- @EtienneCrystal (CEO & Founder of @ShopRubyLove)
#LAUNCHScale2019
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Latest from @jason: 'I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more' blog.launch.co/blog/i-aint-g…
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LAUNCH Accelerator 29 Public Demo Day nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1OyJAWXYj…
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LAUNCH Accelerator would like to highlight another graduating company @BalloonrHQ Balloonr a SaaS platform that breaks through the barriers of collaboration (e.g., costly cognitive biases, group dynamics, fear) to surface previously unreachable knowledge, ideas, and feedback.
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Thanks @jennaabdou for creating an awesome Slideshare of insights from speakers at the LAUNCH Festival. Check it out! bit.ly/1CEBYQL
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Founder.University August 2018 with @Jason is wrapped. Thank you @wilsonsonsini for hosting!! And thanks to our 60+ founders; & speakers @rolandal @dunwang @k2thedani Nico Kerr, David Brekke @teleseth @adamn @homebrewbeth @sortino @JasonDemant @AshleyRaeWG #learning
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NEW @LAUNCH Festival update! @jason reveals Startup Summit packages w/special announcement for founders coming Feb 1 launchfestival.com/summits
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.@quantiacs marketplace for algorithmic trading systems wins Best FinTech #LAUNCHFestival quantiacs.com
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While the judges are deciding fates, head outside to witness this *killer sunset! Last one of #launchfestival 😍☀️
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Just wrapped up the first @Inside #AI live event with a fun startup competition 🦄.
Congrats to all the startups!
🥇: @vorgalabs
🥈: @go_loro @TastryAI
🥉: Hank.re
Thanks to all the judges 👇 @robmay @kiranoodleman @jeggers @javaughn12!
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Love Startups? We're #hiring! goo.gl/1T5BvY Help put on the largest startup conference @launchfestival #jobs
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Know any AWESOME stealth startups!? Recommend them for @launchfestival March 2-4, SF!: launch.submittable.com/submi…
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Great presentation discussing Demographics, Diversity, & Opportunities for Hyper-Growth by Investor @500Startups, @MoniqueWoodard!
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How do you find sustainable alternatives to fast fashion?
And how do you know they’re sustainable?
@LAUNCH Accelerator cohort 26 alum @lexkiefhaber is building @_united_by_zero
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📢 Our next Founder.University hosted by @jason is August 23-24!
The August class is for underrepresented founders.
It's a free two-day event for pre-Series A startups to learn about:
💸 #Fundraising
📈 #Growth
🏗 #Product
💳 #Sales
Apply at founder.university/apply
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LAUNCH Accelerator Spotlight 🔦
Parenting is rewarding, but can also be stressful. 👶
Parents need time to “reset” mentally and emotionally.
Mindful Mamas is a mindfulness app with audio content and a community specifically for Moms.
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angel investing is both an art and a science 👇
it's about identifying the hidden gems that have the potential to create massive value in the world (@uber, @airbnb, @robinhoodapp, @stripe)
we created Angel.University to share the same strategies @jason & @LAUNCH use to invest in early-stage startups.
We've invested $100M+ in over 300 startups, and this 4-hour workshop is a masterclass on how we do this.
If you're an accredited OR non-accredited investor, learn more at angel.university/twitter
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The @LAUNCH Accelerator 27 class has graduated! 🚀
We proudly present this batch of B2B SaaS startups in construction tech, eCommerce, equipment rentals, experience booking, civic engagement, audio tech, and productivity!
Pitches from our Public Demo Day on 3/10/2023.👇
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Today, the LAUNCH team had an AWESOME meeting with over 30 #FounderFridays Hosts from cities around the world, from Las Vegas to Tokyo! 🌍
We chatted community building, the founder experience, and plans for the future 🚀
Thanks to all our incredible hosts! @twistartups
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Congrats to @dp16 & @SoleSavy team 👟 (LA18) on raising their $12.5M Series A!
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We’re thrilled to announce $12.5M USD in Series A funding, allowing us to build a new kind of future those passionate about sneakers.
The future is bright, but the work is just starting. Read the press release here:
solesavy.com/solesavy-series…
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"I truly believe living the dream is doing what you love." - @tonyhawk on pursuing your passions in life. #LaunchFestival
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#TWiST Throwback E291
Spotlight 🔦 Lowercase Capital
Chris Sacca & Jason Calacanis discuss the qualities of truly disruptive founders:
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Happy NYE! 🌟 Start 2025 right with Founder Fridays, happening around the world on January 3rd ✨
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Time for a Founder Fridays photo dump!
Drop your pics here! 📸👇 #FounderFridays
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If you are pre-launch or pre-revenue and want to build with a community of founders, join @FounderUni - founder.university/apply
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.@goflutter debuts video-based social connection app #LAUNCHFestival '16 & wins Best Design flutter.us
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Great to see LA23 alum @llamalife's real-time updates 🚀
Shoutout to @threehourcoffee for using building-in-public to help others + show growth 🦾
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🍲 @LAUNCH @CloudKitchens Incubator (LiCK) is back! 🚀
Why join us? @Jason @alex break it down on @twistartups 🔥
🍽️ Test concepts w/o $1M+ restaurant risk
🚚 Tap into delivery demand (@UberEats @DoorDash)
📈 Learn kitchen ops, marketing & scaling strategies
💰 Get funding + mentorship to launch & grow
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It's time for #angelinvestors to go global. The best #startups may not be based in US. @adeoressi of @founding #AngelSummit2017 #investing
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1. @LAUNCH 🔌
2. $100k (launchaccelerator.co), $250k-$2m (fund / thesyndicate.com)
3. Accelerator: product in-market, some customers, $3k-50k MRR.
Syndicate: 50k+ MRR
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🚀 PRO TIP: The best hires aren't always the ones with the perfect résumé.
Smart founders look for hires who are OBSESSED with what they're building.
In E2200 of @twistartups, @jason sat down with @Durarbayli of @chesseverapp to talk about one of the most underrated founder skills: hiring for passion.
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.@thecarforce, IBM Smartcamp Winner, debuts its connected car company at #LAUNCHFestival '16 thecarforce.com/
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Last week, founders came together for Founder Fridays—a monthly meetup series run by founders, for founders, & powered by @twistartups
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On May 11th, we're hosting an Angel.University virtual workshop taught by Jason Calacanis (investor in 7 unicorns).
If you're interested in becoming a professional angel investor or learning more about the art of angel investing, join us👇
angel.university/events/ange…
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“You’ve got the smartest minds in Silicon Valley focused on how to capture your attention and Calm counter-acts that.”
- @tewy on creating @calm
Fireside Chat with @Jason🔥
#Launchscale #tech #calm #innovation
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