Mel Strong (Founding Partner @ NEXT Ventures)

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This week we had on Mel Strong (@girlstrong) at NEXT Ventures.

NEXT is a first-time fund designed to invest in sports, fitness, nutrition, and wellness. Mel is one of three managing partners at NEXT, and before joining the team, she spent the bulk of her career building and designing products at Nike.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Transitioning from a major corporate into VC

• Identifying the DNA traits of successful founders

• Sub-verticals of interest within sports, fitness, and nutrition

Check out the full episode below:

☑️ Ultimate guide to launching on Product Hunt

💭 Great copy examples to learn the psychology of marketing

📉 Why premature scaling fails

👨‍💻 Million-dollar, one-person businesses

🎚 Old forms of leverage

📈 Cool free stock option calculator

🔮 What the future of NFTs looks like

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