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The Core Community Wire

Insights Today on Creating Tomorrow's Transformation

Mark Roberge

Core Partner Spotlight

4 Min Read

Core Partner Spotlight: Mark Roberge, Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital

In this Q&A, Mark Roberge, Stage 2 Capital Managing Director, shares startup insights and describes his work as an Underscore Core Partner....

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pitch narrative

Fundraising

7 Min Read

Why You Should Write Out Your Pitch Narrative Before Creating a Deck

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Spectra Asala

Core Collective Series

1 Hour Video

Fireside Chat with Spectra Asala, GM & VP of Product at Wistia

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Why We Invested - Goldcast

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

Why We Invested in Goldcast: A Superpower for B2B Marketers

John Pearce

Co-Founder & Partner

Sooah

Sooah Cho

Diane Randolph

Core Partner Spotlight

3 min read

Core Partner Spotlight: Diane Randolph, Former CIO of Ulta Beauty

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product positioning exercise

Marketing

7 Min Read

Messy Product Positioning? Find Clarity and Alignment With This Team Exercise

Shirin shahin

Product Marketing Leader, Consultant and Mentor

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

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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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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

Recent Posts

how to find investors

Fundraising

5 min read

How to Find Investors and Build Relationships in Venture Capital

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Project44

Why We Invested

4 Min Read

3 Reasons Why We Invested in project44

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

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

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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

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

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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

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