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The Core Community Wire

Insights Today on Creating Tomorrow's Transformation

6 min read

Working Together While Apart: Why We Invested in Friday

Underscore is participating in Friday’s $2.1M seed round to help connect distributed teams. Here’s why we’re backing the team behind this remote work platform. ...

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

5 min read

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

People leaders from HubSpot, Klaviyo, Sqreen, and HelloTeam share actionable tips to keep your team engaged and productive while remote....

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Operations

8 min read

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

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Erica Brescia

Core Collective Series

1 Hour Video

Fireside Chat With Erica Brescia, Chief Operating Officer at Github

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Team Announcements

4 Min Read

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

5 min read

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

Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner

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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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

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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

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The best time to raise capital and more…

Have You Got What it Takes?

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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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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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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

Recent Posts

6 min read

Working Together While Apart: Why We Invested in Friday

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

5 min read

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

Underscore VC

zenefits go-to-market

8 min read

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

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Erica Brescia

1 Hour Video

Fireside Chat With Erica Brescia, Chief Operating Officer at Github

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Team Announcements

4 Min Read

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

Underscore VC

It's About The People... Really

Team Announcements

5 min read

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

Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner

getting first customers

Sales

4 Min Read

Stop Blabbing on About Your Product. Get Your First Customers by Thinking This Way Instead

Mike Schumann

Core Member & Sales Advisor

Startup Annual Planning

Operations

9 Min Read

How to Create an Effective Financial Plan in the Midst of Startup Chaos

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Why We Invested in Salsify

5 min read

Winning the Digital Shelf: Why We Invested in Salsify’s $155M Series E

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Intercom Product Market Fit

7 min read

How Intercom Co-founder Des Traynor Uses “Clusters of Demand” to Find Product-Market Fit

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