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I am an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and senior advisor to VCs and Corporate Innovation Units.
I help with startup fundraising, building new venture funds, company building, personal branding and more.
Illai Gescheit
Inspiring and Empowering Entrepreneurial Leaders.
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I'm looking for solo-founders
I'm doing some research about Solo-Founders. Those are founders that by design do not intend to hire a team or bring in co-founders. They are Full-Stack Entrepreneurs and are able to build, sell, do marketing and fundraising solo. They build around them AI and automation mechanisms to stay lean as possible as a substitute for their team.
If you are a Solo-Founder please reach out here or...
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Great hunt @pascal_weinberger and congrats @andre_retterath on the launch of the 2024 report. It's really insightful to see who are the driving forces of focusing on data in the VC ecosystem. For me it's about amplifying conviction with data so the Data+Human aspect is a clear value.
Also great to see you evolving it to a Summit and tools.
Data-driven VC Landscape 2024
Invest smarter, not harder: Insights & Tools from 190+ VCs
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We need more ways to incentivise to invest in solar and renewables. Well done and congrats on the launch @Will Wiseman @ilyas Frenkel and @Joshua Moffitt.
Maybe a quick one - what is the biggest differentiator from other investment platform ?
Climatize
Invest in solar and earn up to 10% annually
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How much founders pay themselves? How to benchmark you salary as a founder 💵
One of the biggest challenges founders battle with is how much should they pay themselves and especially as they raise more and more venture funding. Creandum launched a report benchmarking Founders pay in Europe 🇪🇺. I’m looking for similar work in the US and Asia but this is something that I would love all founders to have to be able to have a data based sense of how to compensate...
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A great combination of physical and virtual innovation - really amazed by where this was a few years ago when I met John at the Zinc offices and where you are today
Sook Store Builder
Retail space as a service, by the hour, with video-walls!
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What are the best entrepreneurs/startup communities you are a part of? share a link
One of the best mechanisms to help founders and builders to grow are entrepreneurship communities. I'm a part of many like Google for Startups, Techstars and more. What are the communities you are part of?
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Love the idea guys and the people you recruited
On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship
A community to start, join & support Climate Tech companies
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I simply love it @nanransohoff . I have been building climate startups for a while now and work with VCs and startups to build more sustainably. We used Stripe as our payment mechanism. This is just great product thinking and focus in leveraging scale for impact. We gave you some love from Zerofirst Ventures as well!
Stripe Climate
Remove carbon as you grow your business
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Daily Insights and stories about startups, venture building and venture capital
Hi everyone, recently I started writing more and more about entrepreneurship, venture building, venture capital and of course product leadership. I felt that bringing daily stories and insights from my time building 3 startups, leading startup programs at AWS and working as EIR in major corporates would bring a lot of value to young entrepreneurs. In addition, I write about the product ideation...
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Happy to connect with you on Linkedin
If you are founders and build something exciting I am happy to connect and see if I can add some value or give some valuable advice. https://www.linkedin.com/in/illaigescheit/
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How to think strategically about building your product
https://medium.com/@Illai/how-to-think-strategically-when-building-your-product-a8ea4f44a037
An open-source list of the best venture builders, corporate incubators and accelerators and corporate VCs
The Venture Builders List
A list of the best venture builders & corporate incubators
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Are there any corporate professionals turned entrepreneurs here?
Would love to hear about your experience.
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Working from home will create a new generation of younger entrepreneurs
This is an article I wrote to inspire entrepreneurs and founders to leverage the fact that their kids are with them and exposed to their work
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/working-from-home-create-new-generation-younger-illai-gescheit/
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A new product design framework ZIZO: Zoom In Zoom Out
Building startups and products from scratch from mobile apps to medical devices allowed me to develop a framework which I use and also work with other makers and builders to build, improve and iterate products. https://medium.com/productschool/a-product-ideation-method-zoom-in-zoom-out-zizo-35c0403a5873
Happy to answer any questions and if you used it in the past to hear your experiences.
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If you are an entrepreneur that is looking to build the next sustainability or energy startup, I highly recommend for you to follow this new podcast built by my friends Adam Forbes and John Mushriqui called Frankly - made by BP Launchpad
Frankly: The energy podcast for founders
Episode 1: Breaking into energy
Our first podcast is with serial entrepreneur Christoph Ostermann, CEO & Co-Founder of Sonnen, a residential energy storage systems tech company, recently exited to Shell, and Audun Abelsnes, MD of Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator
Frankly: The energy podcast for founders
Episode 1: Breaking into energy