📶 Fed (Founder @ Hive Index) on qualities of elite online communities

Things that great online communities do well, community-focused businesses, and the rise of the solopreneur

📶 Dustin McCaffree (Founder @ Marvel) on winning the SEO game

Winning at SEO, why every company is becoming a media company, and overcoming bottlenecks

📶 Confluence.VC Wisdom #15

Service providers for running background checks, VCs that invest in MENA, shareable agreements for advisor equity, and three companies I like right now

📶 Tyler Denk (CEO @ beehiiv) on building tribalism around your product

Creating an "us vs. them" mentality, processes to ship product faster, and why free is not always better

📶 Confluence.VC Wisdom #14

Sending investor updates to LPs in different funds, why investors create "access funds", co-working recommendations for investors in Paris, and four companies I like right now

📶 Breaking down the Confluence.VC funnel

How we've made our free-to-paid conversion rate 4x better than the average freemium business

📶 Michael Quigley (Co-Founder @ SpinCar) on investing with an operator mindset

How to balance multiple responsibilities, partnerships and commitment in a world of abundance, and the most exciting trends in venture

📶 Confluence.VC Wisdom #13

Advice on setting up fund II decks, salary data on Series A/B companies, carry contracts for associates, loan facility options for funds, plus four companies I like right now

📶 Kenny Rose (Founder @ FranShares) on alternative ways to build passive income

Cash flow compared to speculative bets, creating hype before a product launch, and unromantic parts of startup life

📶 January 2022 Recap

The four things that matter as a VC, building recruiting marketplaces, how the best online communities monetize, and advice and deal flow from Confluence.VC

📶 Confluence.VC Wisdom #12

📶 How the best online communities monetize

Money-making lessons from Makerpad, Lenny Ratchisky, Visualize Value, Trends.vc, Nomad List, and Bankless