Nandini Jammi

🚀 Hiring Alert Hi Everyone, we are looking for someone who can Lead Growth at Reo.Dev. You would be a part of the Founder's office, work with the Founders + Founding Team, drive all things Growth Reo.Dev provides Revenue Intelligence for Developer tool companies. We are category creators and currently no other company has similar capabilities as Reo. Our customers include CROs, VP Sales, VP Marketing and Sales & Marketing teams of DevTool companies. We have grown 8.5X YoY in 2024. 🤽 What you would do in this role? - Drive Growth for Reo.Dev. No Limits, No Boundaries. Anything that can help drive Growth is within your purview. How would you drive growth for a B2B SaaS Company? All of that is within your purview - Work directly with the Founders and Founding Team ✨ What are we looking for? - Start up experience, ideally in a 0 - 10 journey. Ex-Founders, Founding Team members more than welcome - Young, Ambitious, Driven - Strong first principles thought process - Prior Experience in a Strategy, Revenue, Growth or Marketing role at a fast paced start-up 🎖️ If you are interested please apply here: https://lnkd.in/gXaAAyHU If you know someone who might be interested, please help spread the word 🙂 🎃 PS: You might like working at Reo.Dev if you: 1. Work hard and want to grow really fast 2. Care about your work a great deal… find it highly unsettling if the quality of work is even slightly sub-par 3. Execute fast 4. Are hands on 5. Are someone people like to work with… low on ego, high on humility 6. Have the ability to fail, learn and keep trying till you win… start-ups are tough and we will not get everything right the first time 7. Have a longish view of your career growth and are not optimizing for the next 1-2 years

80

7 Comments

🚀 Tech Co-Founder Role Open at Find Me X NOTE - MUST BE A HANDS-ON LEADER Are you ready to step into a role where your tech skills directly shape the future of business innovation? I’m Amilcar, co-founder of Find Me X. With 23 years of hands-on experience under my belt, I’m still at the forefront, blending leadership with direct action—and I'm on the hunt for a dynamic counterpart to join me on an exhilarating journey to transform how we monetize on information. What We Ponder?  If google and the internet gave us access to information and GPT provided us with the ability to interact with information, can Find Me X help businesses “monetize” on information leveraging tech and fractional executives to avoid hallucinations? For the past four years, I’ve steered the ship through every storm, handling everything from idea to Series A revenue targets 100% bootstrapped. We’ve built a solid foundation with a proven business model that’s ripe for productization. Now, it’s time to scale our vision with someone who can bring our technical strategy to life! What's in It for You? + Lead & Innovate: You won’t just join a business; you'll shape its future. Directly influence product development and strategy from the ground up. + Ownership & Growth: This isn't just a job; it's a partnership. Receive significant equity and grow with the company as we expand our reach and impact. + Tech at the Forefront: Dive into cutting-edge AI technology that’s reshaping industries. Innovate and deploy solutions that make a real difference. + Dynamic Environment: Thrive in a startup culture that values agility, creativity, and rapid innovation. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to excel. Just as I have maintained a hands-on approach while leading through decades of change, we expect the same level of commitment and capability from you. We need a Tech Co-founder who’s not only experienced but ready to stay deeply involved in both strategy and execution, driving our growth with both expertise and passion. 👀 Curious? Intrigued? There’s so much more to this story, and I believe you might just be the hero we need. Visit https://lnkd.in/efQSjq6n for more details about this game-changing opportunity. Apply > [email protected] Let’s explore how you can fit into the future of Find Me X! #cofounder #engineer #softwareengineer #hacker #fullstack #code #product #ai #genai #developer #programming #startups

23

2 Comments

Creator-led brands are leading the next wave of $1B+ consumer brands like Feastables and Skims. Want to learn how? Come join us tomorrow (Thursday) at VidCon at 10:45a. I'll be joined by an amazing panel -- Jacquelyn Kalić, Saurabh Shah, Jon Leland, and Lauren Schnipper as we dive into these trends (and how to get started!) Whether you want to sell hot sauces, candies, apparel, digital subscriptions, or more, we're here to discuss how to grow your brand from $0-$10M, $10-$100M, and eventually $100M-$1B. And how creators-led brands are at the forefront of driving this success.

90

14 Comments

New startups can set up as a public benefit corporation from the start on Clerky! Early-stage startups don’t need to worry about hostile takeovers or activist investors, but PBCs are nevertheless a great option if you have a mission that goes beyond shareholder value. We introduced the first-ever way for startups to incorporate as PBCs in 2017, in partnership with B Lab, the non-profit that invented PBCs. Today, 25% of all Delaware PBCs incorporate on Clerky 😊

42

Bilt Rewards went from $0 to $1.5B valuation in under a year post launch. I had the pleasure of hearing Ankur Jain, Bilt’s founder and CEO, speak at FintechMeetup. It was extremely inspiring and I had to dig deeper. What is Bilt? The core idea of Bilt Rewards is simple and compelling. Why can’t your rent payments contribute towards home ownership in the future? Most of us pay rent through our bank since paying with a credit card adds an additional 2.5-3%. With the Bilt MasterCard, you not only avoid fees but earn points on your rent payments: redeeming 1 point for every dollar spent up to 100K points per year - that you can apply towards your down payment. Fascinating tidbits: 1. Before Bilt, you weren’t legally allowed to use points towards a down payment. So Ankur and team spent 18 months working with regulators to create the regulations required to make a system like this possible. 2. Ankur worked on the idea by himself for a year, pitching to real estate owners and finessing the model before even hiring the first employee. 3. Almost every real estate owner Ankur pitched to initially was opposed to the idea. Over the course of 4 years, Bilt built a distribution network of 4M+ rental homes that allows residents to pay with Bilt. Ankur shares lessons valuable to every entrepreneur: 1. Distribution and customer acquisition strategy needs to be at the forefront of your pitch. 2. Creative relentless vs hard-headed relentlessness: “No just means ask again differently. Slightly different changes. Slightly different approach. Slightly different person you are asking. That’s the key. Doing the same thing over and over again will only get you the same results.” 3. A great product will not sell itself. To break through change aversion and transform consumer behavior, you must out execute with relentlessness: “The irony is when you think about building a company, you’ve gotta have the right product to solve a real problem. You have to have the core business economics and all that stuff. But what people don’t talk about - it doesn’t matter how good your idea is or how perfect the timing is. If you are not relentless at taking no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no over and over again and still being willing to come to the plate, it doesn’t matter. That is the single most important trait I’ve found. Because for whatever reason, the world likes to reject change. There is such inherent resistant to anything different. So you have to literally will your idea into existence. It’s exhausting but fulfilling.” Keeping especially the last takeaway in mind as we forge new paths ✨

20

1 Comment

📈 Curious about the startup scene in Massachusetts? Explore our detailed funding list featuring startup names, HQ locations, and investor info. Perfect for investors and entrepreneurs alike! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dAp3xj-Q #startup #startups #venturecapital #funding #vc #managementconsulting

4

Ep. 007 of The Feedback Loop is here! It's the first half of startup pitches from New York Tech Week, and from an almost-all-AI batch of companies. Joining me on this episode: returning fan-favorite, Jenny Fielding of Everywhere Ventures! For those not familiar, every week, a guest venture investor joins me to give granular and unfiltered feedback to founders on their storytelling and their concept. It's all about helping founders construct a better narrative for their move-forward -- because across fundraising, sales, recruiting, and company-building, it's the core narrative and pitch that can often hold startups back. And Jenny currently holds the tenure jacket as my guest co-host, with this being her 4th time on stage delivering quick insights and context you just can't find anywhere else. Massive shout-out to the founders featured: Matt Shenker building MatterMore, Karl White building Wroom, Trista V. building Nunchi, and Jeremy Da building Acrylic! Relevant links below.

22

3 Comments

Many of today’s startups are making the exact same messaging mistake I made a few years ago. Here’s the messaging test that failed to attract developers and (hopefully) you can learn from. At ScraperAPI we had messaging centered around managing proxies and CAPTCHAs. But that wasn’t what people were buying our product for. What they were buying was the major pain point ScraperAPI solved - being able to scrape any page with a simple API call. This is the exact same mistake AI startups are making today with talking too much about LLMs and not enough about the things customers actually care about. tl;dr: Messaging should focus on the benefits, not the implementation or features.

20

5 Comments

I have often heard people say that nonprofit fundraising is similar to sales. While there may be some similarities, it occurs to me that a better analogy in the for-profit sector might be an entrepreneur seeking investment for their company. Here's why: 💠 Long-term Relationships: Just like entrepreneurs cultivate lasting relationships with investors, nonprofits must build enduring connections with donors, emphasizing trust and mutual goals. 💠 Shared Vision: Investors buy into the vision and potential impact of a startup. Similarly, donors invest in the transformative power of a nonprofit's mission, hoping to make a substantial difference in the community or sector. 💠 Strategic Alignment: Startups must align their strategies with investor expectations. Nonprofits, too, align their goals and activities with the interests and values of their supporters to ensure ongoing engagement. 💠 Growth and Impact: Just as investors support a startup's growth trajectory, nonprofit donors contribute to scaling the organization's impact, driving broader social change. In both scenarios, the fundamental element is not merely transactional; it’s about creating a meaningful partnership that aims to change the status quo. I think this is an interesting comparison, and frames nonprofit fundraising as an opportunity to forge impactful, visionary partnerships that drive real change. #NonprofitFundraising #SocialImpact #NonprofitSector #StrategicPartnerships

21

2 Comments

A tool to develop growth opportunities: Identify resources you have and need... - Human - Social Resources & Networks - Organizational - Physical - Tech - Financial Then: Action steps to get there. A quick activity in resource mapping with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses growth program. Gotta get back to it now! Enjoy the rest of your day!

16

Episode 038 of The Feedback Loop! Back at it with guest venture investor Ihar Mahaniok of Geek Ventures, helping me ask the right questions and deliver excellent feedback to a batch of ambitious early stage founders. Shout out to ya, Ihar! And we get to hear from Ammon Brown building an AI-powered personal/professional CRM, Marc H. Weiner building an AI-powered logging + observability platform, and Josh Casares building an AI-powered benefits broker. It's AI all the way down, baby! Go founders, go!

13

4 Comments

Growth-stage DTC brands know that scaling is a financial tug-of-war — every department is pulling for its share of the (budgetary) pie 🥧 In our most recent expert guide, Matt Weiler, founder of Second Star Ventures and interim CEO of Wells Group of New York, shares five tactical tips on strategic cross-functional finance: 1️⃣ Decide between tangible growth and buzz Balance investments in short-term ROI with hard-to-quantify activities. Collaborating across teams to align on needs will help you measure intangible results and focus on net profits per initiative. 2️⃣ Assess your decision risk Evaluate each business decision by mapping out assumptions for probability and measurability. Then consider how easily it can be reversed if it fails, and * only * proceed if the cost of failure is manageable. 3️⃣ Prepare for success just as you plan for failure Whip your ops into shape before you action on strategy. That way, when growth occurs, you can deliver what you promised your customers. For example, a successful product launch can still fail if you don’t have enough stock to meet demand. 4️⃣ Pay back your CAC quickly Tracking your LTV, CAC, and payback periods helps you monitor customer growth at all times. If you can’t pay back your CAC quickly, you can’t drive near-term ROI, making it tougher to increase LTV. 5️⃣ Use Drivepoint for cross-functional strategic finance Drivepoint enables you to easily create and compare financial scenarios, build accurate forecasts in minutes, and sync sales, accounting, and marketing data across all sales channels — for a holistic understanding of your business. Want to learn more? Matt breaks it down here: https://lnkd.in/gXc-f_5x

45

5 Comments

Abhinav Duggal is one of the smartest & most accomplished leaders in the Saas consulting (sales & GTM) space, and has incredible insights in those areas. Thanks for making time to share your insights on The Inventive Podcast, Abhinav!

60

Hiring for 9 roles at GrowthX® in our creative strategy, customer success, learning, community, business & membership growth team. These are early & mid-senior roles - important details 👇 Video editor + Strategist (Full time) 🎞 Build out the long-form content engine. This will involve working on assets built exclusively for GrowthX members. You will push a fully produced learning program every single month. Events specialist (Full time) 🤝 Manage all events happenings pan India for GrowthX. For the record we did 52 events in 2024 just in Bengaluru. We want run monthly chapters in 20+ Tier 1 cities & a weekly chapter in Mumbai, Delhi & Bengaluru this year. Creative Studio Producer (Intern) 🎙 Own everything production for an in-house studio. Collaborating with creative strategists to run our physical studio in Indiranagar, Bengaluru. You will also work on guest outreach for podcasts, location recce & prop design. Customer success (Intern) 💰 Enable our members crack roles across top technology in India. This includes closing the deal with companies, working people leaders to understand their hiring requirements, onboarding them & doing everything to help companies hire better & faster. Graphic Design (Intern) 🖼 You will own everything visual that we create at GrowthX. You will work and create designs across the company working with team members in the creative studio, marketing, talent & learning experience. Community engagement (Intern) ❤️ You will host engaging member led online sessions. From identifying the topic → reaching out to relevant GrowthX member → doing the GTM inside the community → hosting the session live on Zoom → feedback and sharing takeaways. This is a core IP bet at GrowthX. Learning & Operations (Intern) 📔 You will be a top learning program builder in life. You will identify skill gaps of product, marketing & strategy leaders - build MVP learning programs to test case studies & content. Eventually you will convert them into full length learning programs (Text+Video) & own the go to market. Business & Operations (Intern) 📊 You will be working with some of the top founders & companies to help them drive revenue for their org. 60% of your job will be B2B sales & rest 40% in demand generation & marketing initiatives. Membership Growth (Intern) 🚪 You will own helping new applicants to our community set their 5/3/1 year goals. You will also help them visualise what it would take to get closer to their 1 year professional goal. You will become a product evangelist in the process. Apply : https://lnkd.in/gS32KTiz

114

7 Comments

I’m excited to share that Motion has raised $30M in Series B funding, led by Inovia Capital with participation from Threshold Ventures as well as our existing investors Headline, Abstract Ventures and Sugar Capital. In recent years, as audience targeting on ad platforms became algorithm-based, growth leaders shifted their focus toward creative. Very quickly, creative became the biggest lever for success in paid social. Terms like “creative is the new targeting” were popularized across the industry and we entered a new era of digital advertising. In a sense, it’s a pivot back to the old-school advertising principles of the David Ogilvy era. Conducting customer research, storytelling, and craftsmanship are all essential once again. But while the principles are timeless, the digital world is a very different environment. The creative strategist is the modern-day Ogilvy. They know how to blend art and science to ship winning ads. They are as creative as they are analytical and they bridge the gap between media buyers and creative teams. They live by data but know how to move beyond the numbers and let creativity run. We believe the creative strategist is the most critical role in performance marketing today and will be even more so in the age of AI. Soon enough, AI will drive the cost of new creative production to near zero. Which means that the most valuable question teams need to answer is: what to create? We raised this capital to accelerate our product roadmap and to build the command center for creative strategists. Motion’s customers are the best-of-the-best in paid social, and creative strategy is at the core of their workflow. Our goal is to build the tools that creative strategists need to succeed their craft. Over the last 12 months, we've doubled our team to 50 people and we've grown ARR by 3x. The Motion team is on 🔥 and we're hiring across the board. We are fully remote and looking for the most talented people anywhere in the world. If that's you, please get in touch with me or Libby Moyer and tell us about your superpowers!!

511

120 Comments

Make a Mark began as an idea in 2014 — why don’t we take the traditional hack-a-thon structure and transform it into a design and development marathon to support nonprofit organizations? Ten years later, we are launching our official replication guide. The goal of this replication guide is to provide anyone with the collective knowledge of the Make a Mark community with the hope that anyone in any community can hold a make-a-thon, whether it be once, twice, or dozens of times. https://lnkd.in/gMSn2ziG

11

2 Comments

🎙️ Excited to share a recent convo I had with Justin Wolz on #FounderWellness and #Burnout. Reflecting on my last ten years in tech and especially these four intense years as a founder, I’ve learned a lot about what keeps us going in high-pressure roles. At Ambient, we're focused on Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Ops, and Founders—people who thrive in ambiguity and uncertainty. Through my conversations with many of you, it's clear we share many of the same challenges and strengths. ✨ These roles demand courage, as they often involve stepping into the unknown and solving complex problems before they're fully defined. Ambiguity is where you SHINE! ✨ 🔥 Building #RESILIENCE is key, and it's something we talked about a lot on the podcast. I think there are valuable takeaways for anyone who’s navigating high-stakes environments. 🥂 Cheers to all #ChiefsofStaff #CoS #Founders #BizOps #COO

27

3 Comments

This San Franciscan has landed in the Big Apple for #NYTechWeek! Here’s why it was important to me to be out here this week and I view NYC as a sister city. ((scroll down for 2 events The Council is hosting today!)) 🏭🏥 Reminder: The Council Fund invests at Pre-seed in Software’s Third Act, the transformation of the essential economy. Our investments span healthcare and industrial sectors like manufacturing, logistics, construction. 🐂 I’m eternally bullish on NY & SF and hate how many pit the two cities against each other. The reality is that a lot of capital and talent flow back and forth between the cities. They need each other to thrive! 🗽🌁 Cities like NY & SF attract young and mid-career talent because of their population density, transient nature, beauty, and reputations as cities where someone new on the scene can make a name for themselves. For the areas we invest in, I’m *specifically* excited about NY because of: 🏗️ Closer proximity to industrial hubs which are scattered across the Midwest / Rust Belt 🏛️ Closer proximity to DC where a lot of regulation around VC, startups, healthcare, onshoring initiatives, and industrial sectors takes place 💰 Many of the large financial institutions that are backing hard tech focused funds and major healthcare initiatives are also headquartered here in NYC 🎯 We’ve got several startups here who are hitting it out of the park, like Dirac and Siena. This has further validated my belief in this ecosystem to support young companies! Today we are kicking off with 2 events on Day 1 of #NYTechWeek 👉 AI Demo Day: The Council, Next Wave NYC, Lynx Collective, Flybridge will host 8 founders and 200+ investors and founders for a pitch competition this evening! Luma: https://lnkd.in/gbdYiJMw 🔜 Can still join the waitlist! Small & Big VCs in Hard Tech: The Council joined General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Iron Prairie Ventures, AlleyCorp, House Of Ventures, Steel Atlas for 2 back to back panels on industrial innovation & collaboration across the capital stack Luma: https://lnkd.in/gj6D4-Au ⏰ Event has passed

126

6 Comments