Greg Stofman (Principal @ Struck Capital)
Greg Stofman (Principal @ Struck Capital)
Moonlighting to find your next role, VCs competing as service providers, hiring in-house talent to support portfolio companies, and opportunity areas within climate tech and the future of work
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This week we had on Greg Stofman with Struck Capital.
Struck is an industry-agnostic seed fund based in Santa Monica that aims to partner with founders tackling the world’s largest problems. Greg was the first full-time investment team member at Struck, and he has now been with the firm for over three years.
In this talk, we discuss:
Moonlighting to find your next role
VCs competing as service providers
Hiring in-house talent to support portfolio companies
Opportunity areas within climate tech and the future of work
Check out the full episode below:
⭐️ Commonapp.vc featured companies:
Slate: content creation platform for real-time social media (Referred by Simon Ducher)
TxtCart: drives 20% more revenue by texting customers in real-time, re-engaging their interest, and closing the sale
Materna Medical: revolutionizing women's pelvic health with first-to-market medical devices
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📖 Links we like:
6️⃣ Six exercises to become better at evaluating startups
🗒 How to optimize time in a SaaS board meeting
🤔 Should you prioritize power users over the general audience of a product?
🏷 Seven commandments of SaaS sales reps
😨 Framework for dealing with investment FOMO
🧠 Decision-making quality > decision-making speed
👨💻 Venture jobs:
Panoramic Ventures is looking for a platform team intern in Atlanta.
K50 Ventures is looking for a summer analysts in NYC.
Advantage Capital is looking for an analyst in Austin.
🛠 Startup jobs:
Teal is looking for a remote senior growth marketer.
Off the Record is looking for a program manager.
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