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Everybody loves a good deal, so we’re sharing ALL the good deals we’re running along with savings on other companies we use to run our business.

FROM US
Our best rates on courses, premium services, and sponsorships 🤫

COURSES

👥 Community Builder Playbook: Building a community is a little harder than just throwing together a Slack group and expecting people to show up. We’ve run our community for the past three years and have learned a TON in the process. We share everything about starting, scaling, and monetizing in this course. We usually charge $99 for lifetime access, but you can get it for 30% with this link.

📶 Ultimate VC Resource Library: When we first started in VC, we had a brutal realization that we had no clue what we were doing. So we started breaking down every part of the job, and we started collecting the most valuable resources we had found for each aspect of being a good venture investor. After a few years, that resource library had grown to 400+ resources, and it has now been used by thousands of the best VCs in the world. For 30% off, it’s yours if you want it.

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📨 Premium Newsletter: If you want all of our best content, digital products, and you like reading newsletters with no ads, this makes sense for you. It’s $10 / month or $100 / year, and if you don’t think it’s worth the money, you don’t pay. Start a 30-day free trial.

🌟 Talent Collective: This grants you access to all Confluence investors that are actively looking for their next role in venture. You can filter based on hiring preferences and then request intros to anybody who matches your JD. If you’re hiring and want to build a world-class investment team, this is the easiest way to do that. Get your first month of the talent collective free using the code ‘FIRSTMONTH’.

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🗣 Sponsorship Options: Looking to grow your business in front of the right eyeballs? Here’s an overview of our audience, engagement, and how we work with sponsors. We’re biased, but we think this is a better bet than burning cash on FB or Google Ads. Sponsor three of these newsletters to get the fourth free.

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👕 Merch: If you want to fit into VC circles, you HAVE to stop dressing like you still work at PwC. We’re here to help, and we’ve started our VC-approved shop. Get 20% off your entire order using the code ‘BLACKFRIDAY’.

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The best tools to level-up your content, sales, and operations 🔒

📢 Outbound sales is more complicated than we initially thought. Keeping track of everything in Gmail is a losing strategy (and a great way to burn your domain). We’ve started using Snov to run our outbound, and we haven’t regretted the decision. Use the code ‘BLACKFRIDAY23’ to get 50% off any annual plan.

✉️ If you’re building a personal brand, you’re crazy to not be collecting emails. And if you’re collecting emails, you’re insane if you aren’t using beehiiv. We started using their software to power our newsletter two years ago, and it’s one of the better decisions we’ve made. If you’re on the fence, check out their features, compare it to other options, and get back to us. Get your first 2,500 subscribers for free.

🏄‍♂️ So you want to win at SEO … how do you do that? That’s a loaded question we struggled with, and we wasted months throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticked (nothing did). We started using Surfer for all of our SEO (keyword research, content planning, site audits, etc.), in August 2021, and our site traffic has 3.5x’d since then. Save $960 by paying annually on their advanced AI plan.

📩 Who doesn’t love transactional email? We don’t necessarily think it’s the coolest topic in the world, but it helps us make more money, so therefore we’re interested. We started using ActiveCampaign to send transactional follow-ups, onboarding emails, other marketing emails. You can capture purchasing intent and automate communication based on that intent (in other words, you can make your email marketing a money printing machine). Check out which plan is right for you.

🔎 Sourcing shouldn’t be hard. But the reality is that it is for most people. Whether you’re trying to recruit top talent, find the next breakout company, or find early employees worth betting on in the future, most people don’t know where to start. That’s where Harmonic comes in. They have data on 20m+ companies and 160m+ people, so you just plug in what or who you’re looking for, and they give you tailored results. Talk to their team to see what plan is right for you.

🎥 “You’re not growing your audience with YouTube?” That’s the message we recently got from one of our mentors (he was right). If you’re not using YT, you’re leaving TONS of attention on the table. We’ve started using InVideo to convert blog posts to videos (here are some examples on our channel), and we’ve been impressed. Get started for free.

💸 All-in-one HR tools for global teams. When we started hiring international contractors, we didn’t know what we didn’t know. Spoiler alert: there are a bunch of headaches. Deel solves this by giving HR teams all the tools they need to manage domestic and international workers. Talk to their team to see which plan is right for you.

📚 Your new knowledge library on steroids. If you’ve been here for a while, you know we’re Notion fanboys. It’s allowed us to put our brains in a box and share knowledge in an easy-to-digest format (not Google Docs). They’ve leveled up the product, and their new AI features can save you even more time, effort, software spend. Upgrade to get all of the AI features for $8 / member / month.

🤖 Automate your life away. Mastering Zapier and other automation tools is quickly becoming a necessary skill for the 21st century. If you aren’t automating, your competition is, and they are lapping you in output. Automate 100 tasks / month for free.

💳 Expense reports that don’t make you question the meaning of life. There are few feelings in life worse than creating expense reports. If you’ve done this more than once, you know what we mean. We use Brex for all of ours, and it’s been a HUGE lifesaver. Use this link to switch over (and also get 50k points on your credit card).

P.S. If you’re in the market for more software tools …

We’ve tested hundreds and created a database of our top 75. If you want our recs, let us know.

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- Clay and Tyler