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The Core Community Wire

Insights Today on Creating Tomorrow's Transformation

Shishir Mehrotra

Core Collective Series

51 min video

Fireside Chat with Shishir Mehrotra, Co-Founder & CEO of Coda

Learn about "Golden Rituals" of great teams, how to deploy new rituals, how rituals can evolve over time, and much more....

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Douglas Kim, MIT Media Lab Fellow

Core Partner Spotlight

3 min read

Core Partner Spotlight: Douglas Kim, MIT Media Lab Fellow

In this Q&A, board member and MIT Media Lab Fellow Douglas Kim shares insights and describes his work as an Underscore Core Partner....

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Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB

Core Collective Series

57 min video

Fireside Chat with Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB

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Fundraising

5 Min Read

How to Create a Compelling Market Size Slide (With Examples)

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Core Partner Spotlight

3 min read

Core Partner Spotlight: Rob Stevens, Go-to-Market Advisor

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BusRight

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

Why We Invested in BusRight

Lily Lyman

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John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

The Latest Insights From The Core

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AI

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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Cloud

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 and Incoming Amazon CEO

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Customer Experience

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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Hiring

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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Culture

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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4 min read

Solving the Intelligence Gap

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5 min read

Solving the Customer Experience for Insurance

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LearnLux Raises $2M Seed to Tackle Financial Wellness

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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

Recent Posts

Shishir Mehrotra

Core Collective Series

51 min video

Fireside Chat with Shishir Mehrotra, Co-Founder & CEO of Coda

Underscore VC

Douglas Kim, MIT Media Lab Fellow

Core Partner Spotlight

3 min read

Core Partner Spotlight: Douglas Kim, MIT Media Lab Fellow

Underscore VC

Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB

Core Collective Series

57 min video

Fireside Chat with Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB

Underscore VC

Blog Header Image: A Bunch of Tiny Sprinkles on a Spoon

Fundraising

5 Min Read

How to Create a Compelling Market Size Slide (With Examples)

Underscore VC

Core Partner Spotlight

3 min read

Core Partner Spotlight: Rob Stevens, Go-to-Market Advisor

Underscore VC

BusRight

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

Why We Invested in BusRight

Lily Lyman

2 Contributors

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Article Contributors

Lily Lyman

Lily Lyman

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

Series A Fundraise

Fundraising

20 Min Read

Raising a Series A: How to Streamline Your Process and Fuel Investor FOMO

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Tiffany Mosher Taylor

Core Partner Spotlight

2 Min Read

Core Partner Spotlight: Tiffany Mosher Taylor, SVP of People at Starry

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Why We Invested: Tetrascience

4 Min Read

Why We Invested in TetraScience

Michael Skok

Co-Founder & Partner

Hi Marley Team

4 Min Read

Why We’re (Re)Investing in Hi Marley’s Intelligent Communication Platform for Insurance

Lily Lyman

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