You asked to hear from some indievc founders so we went all the way back to the beginning.

James Nord, founder of Fohr, has been with us since day one.

Full conversation with Christina Cacioppo is now live on the indievc YouTube channel youtube.com/watch?v=uPKeWO…

Full edit going out to the mailing list in an hour and this isn’t even the spiciest bit…

Most all of startups seems to be hard work, not cheat codes, but rein.pk/startup-financ… is the closest thing to a cheat code I've ever found, 🙏 Peter Reinhardt

Want to have more money in the bank than you’ve raised?

Christina Cacioppo breaks down the journey and learnings from seed to profitability to monster raise from Sequoia at half a billion dollar valuation.

From YC to Seed to 8-figures ARR and profitable. Vanta wrote a new playbook for today’s founders to follow.

Was a blast to go down the fundraising rabbit hole with Christina Cacioppo who turned her experience as a VC into a barometer to inform her decisions around funding.

From a member of the USV investment team to co-founding one of the fastest growing, most cash efficient companies of this generation- Vanta

The tea was hot, the takes were spicy and the vibes were incredible for the conversation with Christina Cacioppo

The Octocat story led to a much more expanded exploration of building beloved brands, following instincts and sweating details.

A must listen for any founders looking to stand for something while standing out from the crowd…

Continue bootstrapping OR raise a monster round and really go for it?

Github chose the latter.

Tom breaks down the thinking at the time and updates his decision framework for today given what he knows now.

'Time to First Dollar' is a topic we dive deep on in the extended cut of this interview.

A love poem may not have closed the deal, but the details of Github's first raise are poetry in and of themselves...

Full episode dropping to our mailing list subscribers Friday.

You know what to do: indie.vc/mailinglist

Full edit from our event w/ Tom Preston-Werner dropping next week…

Seven lessons learned from Tom Preston-Werner and the GitHub story at the indievc event the other night that I am still thinking about a few days later:

1. To bootstrap a business, it's important to think about TTFD (my own acronym, not his) - Time To First Dollar. You need to be

This time with details.

Excited to get into it with Tom Preston-Werner about his journey bootstrapping Github to a $1B valuation, the future of building software and so much more.

Space is pretty limited so RSVP ASAP:
indie.vc/rsvp

So far, it looks like indievc is pacing at a new investment every 6-8 weeks.

Leading/pricing the last two with a $750k check and a $2M check respectively. Both first money in. One pre-company formation the other doing $5M in revenue.

Will see if that pacing/profile holds...

First indievc investment of 2024 ✅

Who's next?

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Huge congrats to Bryce Roberts and indievc. If I were raising money right now, I would absolutely be knocking on his door (and might in the future)! 👏👏

'With the new fund, we’ll focus on leading or co-leading a company’s first, and ideally last, round of funding.' 🔥

Building indievc has been a deeply personal experience that has stretched me and my family more than I could have ever imagined.

Grateful to be able to tell the story and build the franchise to support the next wave of founders shaping an independent future...