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To Everyone Who Knows Me
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I’m trying SO hard to make this an insanely valuable community for all seed stage founders. My goal is to bridge the insider knowledge of Silicon Valley to the ugly startups out there. Every single founder deserves a chance to raise capital, scale a business, and literally change their life and maybe if you exit for enough $$$ then you’ll even change your future generations lives. I’ve seen people do it from absolutely nothing. Esteban an immigrant with everything to prove met me, got introduced to his first angel investor by myself in 2016, and the rest is history. TRM Labs is now a billion dollar startup. I met him when he was just a kid at a cafe working alone. I know it’s possible that anyone can do it. My goal is to give you the best chance ever at getting into the Silicon Valley game. We scale fast, we break stuff, we build iconic companies, and we use VC funding strategically. Your job is to become the best entrepreneur ever by improving yourself every single day. It’s way easier to grow yourself as a person if you have friends by your side. So reach out to other people in this community.. YOU ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT!! 🛥️ And, reach out to other founders you love and bring them in here. Let’s make this community the online version of YC. Let’s make this thing sing. Let’s prove ugly startups become beautiful. ~Don Stein |
Don Stein
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Venture Capital Reality Check Building early-stage startups is HARD, huh? We are 3 days from Adam Draper joining us for a private invite-only conversation for top CEOs and Founders. I really hope you can attend. And, I really hope this helps you with your fundraise, and above and beyond with your overall CEO mindset while operating at the early stage, Conversation Information (on Zoom) 5 of his first 25 investments became Unicorns Coinbase, Amplify, PlanGrid, Sendwave, and Benchling all...
We just passed 222 RSVPs! RSVP Today! Our RSVP-only event with investor and VC, Adam Draper, is going to be a FULL CROWD! RSVP There's still time to RSVP and get involved in the Ugly Startups movement. For the 230 people who are planning to show up, I'm pumped to see you, and am looking forward to leaving your inspired! Let's raise you some capital, and build an iconic startup -Don Stein Founder, UglyStartups.com Linkedin Have questions? Hit reply to this email and we'll help out! 113 Cherry...
Special Guest, Richard White Founder of Fathom AI, and UserVoice Yesterday was an absolute treat - we hosted repeat founder, Richard White ($20M+ raised, Linkedin). He founded UserVoice, scaled that, and then started a second company which he runs today. Fathom AI is backed by Zoom's fund, Justin Kan (Twitch Founder), and many more incredible people on his cap table of 100+ investors. We've had incredible guests over the last year (45 of them), but certain CEO's are able to speak from a place...