📶 Our 2024 tech stack

You’re only as good as your tools.

The best funds have already started to act like tech companies; if you’re still operating like a law firm, you’re falling behind.

Download our top VC tech stack picks here.

beehiiv is still the most useful content tool we use for the second year in a row.

Their software gives you growth tools, analytics, and monetization opportunities that no other newsletter tool can compete with, and our ROI from using their software is through the roof.

InVideo lets you easily convert blog posts into videos.

If you’ve created lots of written content, why not repurpose it?

We made the switch to Wordpress around a year ago (from Squarespace), and we haven’t regretted the decision once. If plan on getting the most out of your website, you should start building on Wordpress.

Surfer has been the best SEO tool we’ve used, and we recommend it to anybody building a search presence.

They also offer an SEO masterclass for anybody looking to get up-to-speed quickly.

Motion design gives your marketing team superpowers.

If you want higher conversion rates, you’re leaving money on the table not telling stories through motion.

That’s where Jitter comes in.

We’ve tested a few different ways to sell merch. None have had everything we were looking for.

Until we found Fourthwall.

They make it easy for anybody to spin up an online store,

Pallet lets anybody monetize with attention to monetize through a job board or talent collective.

We have worked with their team for the past two years to run the talent side of our business, and we recommend them to anybody with an audience.

We use Podia to sell our Community Builder Playbook.

It is our favorite software to build and manage a course, and we’d recommend it to anybody looking to start something similar

We’ve started using Passionfroot to handle our newsletter sponsorships.

If you like making money but hate dealing with admin work, this is a tool for you.

Softr lets anybody act like a developer. All you need it is a database, and they’ll let you easily build a front-end for it.

We used it to build Commonapp, and their community has built hundreds of other cool applications.

We’re cheating and mentioning beehiiv twice. (It’s because it’s that good.)

You can make money directly through the software through their ad network, premium subscriptions, and referring readers to other newsletters.

Let’s be honest - scheduling meetings sucks.

Let somebody else handle that (like Reclaim) so you can spend more time on high-leverage tasks.

We couldn’t build a business without Notion.

It’s a second brain, and it’s allowed for (some) of our crazy ideas to make sense.

I hate meetings (I think they’re bad for the soul).

That’s why I love Loom.

Just record you’re screen and send over the video as a link. It makes working with contractors 10x easier, and I’ve probably saved myself 100 hours of meetings this year by using it

We use Gusto to run payroll so it’s easier to work with contractors.

If you’re starting out as a business owner, you can probably get away with making payments out of your bank account, but tax season will become a nightmare to chase down what can be deductible.

That’s why we use Gusto.

I don’t think there is a more useful software company out there. Zapier powers our entire business, and it helps us create automation through logic.

If you use software and you’re time-constrained (that’s probably all of you), you should use Zapier.

We use Memberspace to gate access to the private community page for Confluence.

Their platform let’s people create subscription products (without needing to code), and it has allowed us to monetize Confluence through a paid community. They also handle a bunch of admin work like chasing down failed payments, automated abandon cart emails, etc.).

If you do any sort of email marketing, you need an email service provider (we learned this the hard way, but that’s another story).

ActiveCampaign is the best we’ve found, and they help you set up all sorts of customer segments and automation so that you are sending the right information to the right person at the right time.

Before we started using Brex, we ran our billing like the Wild West.

Nothing was accounted for, and we had a TON of spending slip through the cracks.

That doesn’t happen anymore (shoutout Brex for saving us from ourselves).

We’ve changed our tune on AngelList.

Take a look at everything they offer to new venture funds - it’s impressive.

You’ll pay for it, but there’s no denying that it will help institutionalize your fund.

We’ve written about it before, but we’ll say it again: Harmonic gives you sourcing superpowers.

Their software scrapes millions of company and people data points, and it helps you find signal through all of the noise.

Syndicates and SPVs play a huge part of the financing world, but managing SPVs is a nightmare. That’s where Sydecar comes in.

They handle all of the back office work so that you can focus on what you’re good at: winning deals.