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The Core Community Wire

Insights Today on Creating Tomorrow's Transformation

how to find investors

Fundraising

5 min read

How to Find Investors and Build Relationships in Venture Capital

Learn how to find investors for your startup and build relationships with them through these strategic processes, questions, and templates....

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Project44

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

3 Reasons Why We Invested in project44

We’ve outlined three of the many reasons why we continue to invest in project44 – an industry leader in supply chain visibility....

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

Mikael Cho

Core Collective Series

55 min video

Fireside Chat With Mikael Cho, Co-Founder & CEO of Unsplash

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Mable - Why We Invested - Series A

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

Vertical B2B Marketplaces: Why We Invested in Mable’s $8.5M Series A

Richard Dulude

Co-Founder & Partner

Why We Invested

6 min read

Working Together While Apart: Why We Invested in Friday

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

Leadership

5 min read

How to Build a High-Performing Remote Team During a Pandemic

Underscore VC

The Latest Insights From The Core

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Core Collective Series

56 Min Video

Fireside Chat with Rana el Kaliouby

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Core Collective Series

59 Min Video

Fireside Chat with Des Traynor, Co-founder of Intercom

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Core Collective Series

1 Hour Video

Fireside Chat with Brian Stevens, Former CTO of Google Cloud

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AI

58 Minute Video

AI/ML Innovation in a Post-Pandemic World

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Sales

4 Min Read

3 Strategic Steps to Adapt Your Sales Process During a Crisis

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Cloud

7 min read

4 Takeaways for Startups from Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS

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Sales

7 min read

5 Tips for Entrepreneurs from Mark Roberge

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Leadership

6 min read

Boston Startups Navigating & Taking on Covid-19

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Operations

6 min read

How Smart Contingency Planning Helped Salsify Get Through Covid-19

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Customer Success

13 min read

How to Strategically Score Customer Health to Drive Startup Growth

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Leadership

4 Min Read

Lessons from 2008 that are Applicable Now

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Future of Work

5 min read

Remote Product Management Tips & Tricks

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Sales

5 min read

The Early-Stage Sales Rep: Surprising Traits for Success

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General

4 Min Read

The Secret to a Great Board Meeting: A CEO Follow-up Email

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Pricing

10 Min Read

The Winning Pricing Strategy for Earliest Stage Startups

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Core Collective Series

1 Hour Video

3 Simple (But Often Overlooked) Tips to Drive Startup Momentum from GitHub’s COO

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Core Collective Series

55 min video

Fireside Chat With Mikael Cho, Co-Founder & CEO of Unsplash

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Leadership

5 min read

How to Build a High-Performing Remote Team During a Pandemic

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Startup Secrets

Startup Secrets

What’s Your Roadmap to Success?

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Where do you start and what should you expect?

Building a Compelling Value Proposition

02

Define, evaluate and build for YOU

Turning Products Into Companies

03

A bold vision to attract and unify the team

Culture, Vision, And Mission

04

Build a successful company around your product

Hiring A+ Talent

05

Helping you find your ideal candidate

Game Changing Business Models

06

Be disruptive! Create a dilemma

Go To Market Strategies

07

Tactical components for a great GTM plan

Getting Behind the Perfect Investor Pitch

08

Tell a story to captivate investors

Fundraising Strategies to Go the Distance

09

The best time to raise capital and more…

Have You Got What it Takes?

10

Can founders evolve with the needs of their business?

Mastering Mutual Mentorship

11

Mentorship is a seemingly simple concept

Why We Invested

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5 Min Read

Why We Invested in Instant Data Lake Provider, Cazena

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6 min read

Making Meetings Meaningful: Why We Invested in Macro’s $4.3M Seed Round

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6 min read

The Future of Workplace Collaboration: Why We Invested in Coda's $80M Series C

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5 min read

The Future of Employee Engagement: Why We Invested in HelloTeam’s Seed Round

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Solving the Intelligence Gap

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5 min read

Solving the Customer Experience for Insurance

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3 min read

LearnLux Raises $2M Seed to Tackle Financial Wellness

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2 min read

Why We’re Excited about Soofa

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3 min read

Systum Raises $10.7M to Tackle Digital Transformation for SMBs

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4 Min Read

Employees Deserve Better; That's Why Underscore Backed Vested

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General

4 min read

Why We Are Proud to Invest in Zaius

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4 min read

Enabling the Future of Commerce with Moltin

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4 min read

Zaius: A Bold Visionary Empowering the B2C Marketer

No-Nonsense Series

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7 min read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Tobi Lutke, Co-founder & CEO of Shopify

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7 min read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Chris Comparato, CEO of Toast

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Leadership

6 min read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Meghan Joyce, COO of Oscar Health

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6 MIN READ

No-Nonsense | Featuring Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk

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Product Management

9 Min Read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Meena Kothandaraman, Experience Strategist

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8 min read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Sanjay Poonen, COO of VMware

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7 min read

No-Nonsense | Featuring Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne

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7 min read

Top 7 No-Nonsense Takeaways

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How to Find Investors and Build Relationships in Venture Capital

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John Pearce

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Mikael Cho

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Fireside Chat With Mikael Cho, Co-Founder & CEO of Unsplash

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Mable - Why We Invested - Series A

Why We Invested

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Vertical B2B Marketplaces: Why We Invested in Mable’s $8.5M Series A

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Co-Founder & Partner

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Working Together While Apart: Why We Invested in Friday

John Pearce

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How to Build a High-Performing Remote Team During a Pandemic

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zenefits go-to-market

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

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Erica Brescia

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3 Simple (But Often Overlooked) Tips to Drive Startup Momentum from GitHub’s COO

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Team Announcements

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Core Member Turned Investor: FinTech Entrepreneur Chris Gardner is Underscore VC’s Newest Partner

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It's About The People... Really

Team Announcements

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It’s all about the people… No, really.

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