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1/ Talent wars in London seem absolutely brutal these days. Everyone of our startups reports their team members being approached almost continuously by everyone from other startups, FAANGS, corporates. Wage inflation is brutal. Anyone is liable to be poached.

Startup formula: Take something rich people love and make it accessible to everyone using technology

Had completely missed this super post by Lenny Rachitsky, breaking down what good and great retention looks like across various categories (b2b & b2c) 💯 lennysnewsletter.com/p/what-is-good…

Is this person going to scale? If you work at a startup, you’ve certainly heard this question before. :) What I learned about people that scale. building.brex.com/what-i-learned…

Best wishes for 2022 everyone! 🎉 As we enter the new year, I wanted to share a bit of LP perspective. We all know the venture market was on 🔥 in 2021, but how is that actually manifesting and what does that mean for how the proverbial table is being set for 2022?

I’ve noticed an interesting trend among early stage VC funds: A heightened focus on fast markups and early fund performance metrics. It got me thinking – is this a good or bad thing? 🧵

In the early days of Segment, right after we crossed $10m ARR our growth decelerated 8x from 300% yoy to 40% yoy in 6 months. What the hell happened? How did we reaccelerate back to 100% yoy? A thread 1/18

We've done c. 12 pre-seed investments to date (mostly UK / France). Ping [email protected] or Pietro Invernizzi who's point on this. Go Stride_VC :-)

Lots of interesting startup ideas in this thread 💡

0. Startup CEOs: if you want to hire the leader for a particular function, follow this playbook.

As a founder & investor I've done >1000 reference calls They can be *the* most valuable data for hiring & investing. I can hire/invest based just on references (no interview/pitch needed 😎) But most "references" are a waste of time 🧵 on how to do a *valuable* reference call

As startups grow there is extremely strong pull into what I call the death spiral of bullshit. More people -> more teams -> more buy-in required -> more meetings -> being persuasive rewarded more than building -> builders leave -> nothing gets done

Increasingly becoming convinced that now is a great time to tackle a meaningful problem with 2-3 people, raise $500k - $1.5M at a fair valuation, and do some heads down building. Seed funds are open for business, talent is looking for work, and no shortage of problems to solve.

Thanks to Fred Destin & Pietro Invernizzi for putting together an awesome angel summit. It's soo good getting together with others in the trenches. Love the unconference format.

Crafting the ecosystem we deserve. Pietro Invernizzi 🔥

"Wednesday will mark 238 days without a tech IPO worth more than $50M, surpassing the previous records set in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the early 2000s dotcom crash, according to research by Morgan Stanley’s technology equity capital markets team" via Financial Times

Max pain across tech right now, no end in sight. I wrote about how not to drive your startup off a cliff sarahguo.com/blog/hardreset

I'm delighted to share my 2022 report on the French tech ecosystem with 140 slides covering everything: general metrics, tech trends, funds investing in France, angels, unicorns, mafias, exits and to an outlook for 2023! Below are my favorite insights! ⬇️ docsend.com/view/xs3p9tbqd…

Alex & I did a deep dive into the French angel investor scene. Who are 50 of the most active and engaged players? What are the 10 most interesting things we’ve learned from them? What needs to be done for France to get to the next level? Alexandre Dewez 🔥

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