Greg Stofman (Principal @ Struck Capital)

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This week we had on Greg Stofman with Struck Capital.

Struck is an industry-agnostic seed fund based in Santa Monica that aims to partner with founders tackling the world’s largest problems. Greg was the first full-time investment team member at Struck, and he has now been with the firm for over three years.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Moonlighting to find your next role

• VCs competing as service providers

• Hiring in-house talent to support portfolio companies

• Opportunity areas within climate tech and the future of work

Check out the full episode below:

⭐️ Commonapp.vc featured companies:

1. Slate: content creation platform for real-time social media (Referred by Simon Ducher)

2. TxtCart: drives 20% more revenue by texting customers in real-time, re-engaging their interest, and closing the sale

3. Materna Medical: revolutionizing women's pelvic health with first-to-market medical devices

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6️⃣ Six exercises to become better at evaluating startups

🗒 How to optimize time in a SaaS board meeting

🤔 Should you prioritize power users over the general audience of a product?

🏷 Seven commandments of SaaS sales reps

😨 Framework for dealing with investment FOMO

🧠 Decision-making quality > decision-making speed

• Panoramic Ventures is looking for a platform team intern in Atlanta.

• K50 Ventures is looking for a summer analysts in NYC.

• Advantage Capital is looking for an analyst in Austin.

• Teal is looking for a remote senior growth marketer.

• Off the Record is looking for a program manager.

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