Free Post 50 startups UpChoose Deal Memo (2021-04-30) Subscription clothing for baby clothes! Fixed monthly fee to get high quality baby clothes delivered to doorstep. Wants to become the Rent the Runway for baby clothes
Free Post 50 startups Edly Deal Memo (2020-12-31) Marketplace for people to sell and buy ISAs. Will ISAs grow to support higher ed hegemony, or will the hegemony break/go other ways?
Free Post 50 startups It's By U Deal Memo (2020-12-31) D2C (Direct 2 Consumer) subscription for flowers! Cuts out middlemen, increases stability of demand for growers, gets more gorgeous flowers to consumers in a sustainable away. Sort of like the B
Free Post 50 startups Optelos Deal Memo (2021-01-22) Tech enabled service provider that has software, hardware, and data science to help oil, gas, and telco do asset maintenance
Free Post 50 startups TapRm Deal Memo (2021-03-31) Shopify for Beer! What this means is not only is it helping provide delivery, but also partnering and giving data back to brewers.
Free Post 50 startups Booxby Deal Memo (2020-12-18) A team of book nerds is teaming up together to usher in digital marketing best tactics for book publishers. Interesting barbell strategy of great timing (digital marketing) and bad timing (legacy publishing is stagnant.) After books, going to podcasts and videos.
Free Post Hearo.Live Deal Memo (December 2020) CTO of the Sims is switching positions to CEO and pioneering a livestreaming app/technology that allows non-gamers replicate the gamer livestreaming experience. No revenue, but has notable investors and relevant industry experience.
Free Post 50 startups Cortex Deal Memo (December 2020) Image analysis SaaS play for businesses to understand what social assets convert best. Already has 20 large B2B customers on board. Will be curious whether they can pull of the tech-assisted service provider to SaaS play.
Free Post 50 startups ShiftPosts Deal Memo (2021-01-29) Integrated scheduling/job board solution for pharmacies. Has run rate in 2020 of $900k ARR at a $4m valuation. Is Canada healthcare innovation superior to U.S. healthcare innovation??
Free Post AKUA Deal Memo (December 2020) Kelp based food maker launched kelp jerky and kelp burgers. Great growth and took a product to market in ~2 years with $500k-$1m maybe. Will be curious how they compete against Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.
Free Post Moonshot Junior Deal Memo (November 2020) Indian team of strivers wants to create a super education platform to allow the children of strivers get more entrepreneurial resume experience for getting into elite colleges. Reminds me of Open English Junior for children.
Free Post Cheatsheet: "What You Do is Who You Are" by Ben Horowitz Concepts, facts, and procedures from Ben Horowitz's "What You Do is Who You Are." Not urgently recommended for startup investors, but a great and authoritative read on building high-function corporate cultures
Free Post 50 startups Nickelytics Deal Memo (2021-04-30) Billboardsin/LeagueSide/Digital Ads for mobility. If you remember the last time you took a taxi, you remember there's a device to pay with credit card that has ads. This company wants to build the marketplace for companies to deploy ads to all rideshare.
Free Post SIFA #4: Learn, Ask, & Profit This is a series of premium posts I wrote for paying subscribers to the Startup Investing for All community. These posts were originally hosted on Buy Me A Coffee from my original tech stack. Originally posted September 21st, 2020.
Free Post December 2020 — Final Investment Decisions What a beautiful month to make startup investments. Christmas came early with Angel Santa. My decisions are not ~*financial advice*~
