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Venture studios create other companies. Exceptional studios all know one thing: Systematic processes drive innovation. When done right (and sustained) They build businesses for the future. So embrace venture studios today. Here’s why they matter to everyone involved. 1. Entrepreneurs: Access to resources and expertise. 2. Founders: Reduced risk with shared support. 3. Investors: Higher chances of successful exits. 4. Staff: Opportunities to grow in dynamic environments. Key benefits of venture studios: 1. Structured approach to entrepreneurship 2. Focus on economic sustainability 3. Positive impact on the future 4. Collaborative innovation Don’t miss out on the venture studio revolution. Act now. Your future self will thank you. Credit: Matthew Burris for the great doc and follow him for more insights on venture studios🚀 Join thousands of founders and VCs who receive these insights in my biweekly newsletter at https://lnkd.in/e8tUxsTk And follow 👉 Igor Curic, CFA, MBA for more content like this!

Before diving in on how #VentureStudios support founders, I must also answer the question many of you have in your minds right now... "Wtf is a venture studio?" It's a perfectly fair question...the studio trend is still relatively new, and I've come to learn that most studio leaders have to answer frequently. #VentureStudios create companies, playing the role of Co-Founder and actively participating in opportunity identification, strategy development, company formation, product building and testing, fundraising, growth... you name it. To do this, Studios typically maintain a roster of top-notch entrepreneurs, advisors, product managers, marketers, engineers, designers, analysts, lawyers, accountants, and finance experts that can be categorized into a few key buckets: ⚗ Research & Strategy 🛠 Building, Testing, & Scaling 🌎 Ecosystem Development 🤝 Corporate Development 📚 Platform Support I'll go deep on each one in my next few posts. 👀 If this content is at all interesting to you, please stay tuned or drop me a line. Talking about studios is one of my favorite things to do, so don't be shy!

We (Tapio Foundry) believe in Growth Hacking - which is essentially what Venture Studios are all about. 🚀 Unlock better returns for investors, and founders. Keep the content coming Igor Curic, CFA, MBA, and Matthew Burris - awesome work! #venturecapital #venturestudios #privatecapital #entrepreneruship #startups #ecosystem

One of the hardest things to navigate as a first-time founder is to have a practical idea of what's needed to build a business, whether it's VC-backed or bootstrapped. Different paths require different skillset, mindset, and priorities. But every tech startup will generally require the same "functions": Sales, Marketing, Tech, Product, Legal, etc... At the early stage, founders are required to juggle multiple functions at a decent enough level for the business to grow. It's hard. If you can hire experts to take some functions away? Do that. If you can't hire, consider getting a co-founder if you're looking to fill a key responsibility. AI tools can help you understand each responsibility and execute at a faster pace than ever before, and at a fraction of the cost.

LTSF friend, Russ Korins, passed on news about a job opening that the venture studio at Forum Ventures posted recently. Excerpts from the post appear below, as does a link to the entire post. "We're looking for a Founder/CEO to tackle the complex challenges of e-discovery. With the proliferation of communication systems like email, Slack, and Zoom, along with diverse document storage solutions, e-discovery has become increasingly complex. Data now resides in various platforms, from project management, CRMs, to other various other platforms. This expansion and diversification has multiplied the complexity of e-discovery tenfold, posing new challenges for legal professionals and IT teams. "As CEO, you’ll lead the charge with a CTO, Designer, GTM, and validation experts by your side until your team is hired. You’ll also have the support of recruitment, HR, legal, finance, and more to scale." https://lnkd.in/e8wjJ2pF #legaltechnology Forum Ventures

The biggest challenge for new founders is that they don't know what they don't know. So here's something that you might not know As founders and solopreneurs, we wear many hats! But what are these hats? Building our company 3rd Brain over the past year and having worked at previous startups I've broken down the responsibilities of the founding team into 8 hats that I am wearing to build a company (in no particular order): 1️⃣ 💭 Executive: Vision & very top-level strategy, culture, and norms. 2️⃣ ✏️ Creative Personas, journey mapping, interaction and visual design 3️⃣ 🤑 Fundraising and finances: Grants, Angel inestors, VC, people to reach out to, cap table, burn rate, financial projections. 4️⃣ ↗️ Growth: Marketing, Content, Relationships & Partnerships, Product-led growth ideation 5️⃣ 📄 Ops: Accounts, cash flow, HR, Legal. 6️⃣ 👾 Product Development: Technical discussions , Design/dev collab, User-experience heavy. 7️⃣ 🔬 Research: Insights from external research, internal research plans and results 8️⃣ 💯 Performance: Data central and customer Experience Am I missing anything? In your business what hats do you wear? And what kind are they, cap, cowboy? ------ I'm Ax, my wife and I co-founded 3rd Brain to challenge the status quo of household dynamics and help couples manage the mental load using generative AI. #founderJourney #mentalLoad #relationships #AI #AIstartup

We're hiring a CEO for a new venture... 👇 Entrepreneurs have an outsized impact on the world that is often hard to track, visualise and represent - not just the number of jobs created or VC money raised, but the secondary effects such as number of companies created by ex-employees, or combined value of the market that technology has created... We are excited to be launching a new venture later this year, Founders Profiles, to tackle exactly this - an online space visualising the impact top entrepreneurs and industry leaders have had on the world. Our invite-only membership site will showcase the top leaders in our industry, combining beautiful data visualisations and a repository of their online persona to properly showcase the breadth and depth of impact they have had... We are looking for a savvy, PR-aware entrepreneur to join us as CEO to fully develop the product and take it to market... Apply on the link below! Founders Forum Group | Carolyn Dawson | Rosie Phillips | Emily Miller https://lnkd.in/etpF9D37

Founders, your secret weapon isn't your tech It's your story. Master storytelling, and watch doors fly open: 1. Investors lean in 2. Top talent signs on 3. Customers become evangelists 4. Media hangs on every word Your pitch isn't about features. It's about painting a vision so vivid, others can't help but see it too. Great founder-storytellers: - Turn data into drama - Make complex tech feel like magic - Weave company values into every narrative - Transform setbacks into compelling comeback stories The best part? This superpower compounds over time. Your challenge: Craft your startup's story in one powerful sentence. Then tell it to everyone. Refine. Repeat. Remember: In a world of noise, a great story cuts through. What's your startup's story? Share below 👇

Prediction: creator co-founders (or celebrity co-founders) are the new technical co-founders! Recruiting one for the team will be seen as a given for most startups one day. We really enjoyed talking about this with Mike Rosenthal, the CEO of It's Good, a Lightspeed-backed restaurant recommendation platform that he co-founded with John Legend. On Something New this week, we talk about: ✨ how the entertainment + tech industries will continue to collaborate and build great companies (and more on how him and John formed the idea for It's Good) ✨ lessons for raising VC and building a startup with no prior experience in tech (Mike is an accomplished photographer and director) ✨ how to turn the fear of uncertainty/switching industries into a fulfilling, non-linear career path Links to listen to the full episode in the comments:

#VC's! This offering is for you I'll apply Partner Rally and The Automated Hiring Funnel to one of your portfolio companies and it will EXPLODE that startup's growth. I'll do the first one FREE. Which VC doesn't want a portfolio of Unicorns? Tag an investor or VC that you think would be interested!