Yohei Nakajima (General Partner @ Untapped Capital)

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This week we had on Yohei Nakajima (@yoheinakajima) of Untapped Capital.

Untapped is an early-stage fund that bets on overlooked founders. Yohei has built up a massive network through previous experiences at Disney, Techstars, and Scrum Ventures, and part of Untapped’s strategy involves leveraging that network to help his portfolio companies succeed.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Some of the flaws around relying on referrals for deal flow

• Betting on businesses making real impact on the world

• No-code and the expansion of opportunity when removing barriers to development

Check out the full episode below:

➡️ Lessons from this episode can be found here ⬅️

7️⃣ Seven threads to master community building 

🥅 Visualizing the YC strategy of optimizing for shots on goal

🏗 20 principles on company building

👀 Permission Marketing (If you are reading this, I’m thankful for you)

🧠 20 lessons on life, entrepreneurship, career advice, and startups

💵 Barriers lowering = everyone will be an investor

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• Boldstart Ventures is looking for an associate in NYC

• B Capital Group is looking for a healthcare associate in SF

• Ensemble VC is looking for an associate in Austin

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