Excited to unveil our firm’s brand theme: superheroes!

Props to @jessicajackley for identifying a theme that so accurately capture our admiration for founders.

A lil walkthrough of our new website 👇
Quick note: if you know me well, you won’t be surprised to hear I slapped this together in a night. It’s very much WIP.

We love founders who #buildinpublic, and we show respect to them by following suit.

Now back to the site.
Our tag-line hopefully speaks to founders we want to invest in. Are you a hero?

While I want custom graphics eventually, for a quick build, I bought some vector images and did a color overlay to make them silhouettes.
The call to action is sending you to the only other page on our site now, our about us.

I said “we do things a bit differently” in our announcement tweet which seemed to resonate w founders. So leaning in our quirkiness here a bit.
Only other thing on our homepage is our portfolio. Cuz in the end, that’s what we’re all about.

Would much rather you read about our portfolio than about us!
Jumping to our about page. I leaned in on the word “impact” cuz we talk about this often.

Specifically how we’re not “impact investors”, cuz we understand every business has impact.

Silhouette is showing a heroine “moving mountains”.
Candidly, there was hesitation to add check size and valuation target, but it’s literally the one question every founder asks us on a call.

So this is founder friendly right? At the very least, it’s efficient.
More on the about page. We do things a bit differently:

- we primarily source outbound
- we run our firm off a custom No Code CRM
- we’re fully remote and will stay that way
And then of course, our team. Just want to take a moment to say it’s so fun working w @jessicajackley. We have a blast!
At the end of every page is our message to everyone who we interact with.

Let’s change the world together 🌎

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Me: Here you go 👇
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Live-tweeting my #NoCode build of our LP dashboard starting now!

I'll likely be tweeting mostly thought cuz screenshots will slow me down.

It's possible I'll get caught up and stop tweeting. If this thread gets annoying to anyone, just mute it.

Let's go! 👇
For a quick background, check out this thread from last night where I share how I decided to use @softr_io on top of our Airtable base.
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1/ Been looking at building an LP portal using #NoCode.

Looked at a dozen tools, closely at 3 (@StackerHQ, @webflow/@MemberstackApp, and @softr_io).

Thought it'd be helpful to share my process 👇
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So when I looked at these tools, I filtered for companies w strong Airtable integration. The two that stood out were Stacker and Softr.
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Pricing for what I need on Webflow + Memberstack is $61/mo.
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The Unbundling of Google Workspace

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Sharing some interesting trends/startups 👇
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Similar tools that are picking up pace include @clickup and @coda_hq. @SliteHQ is similar.

@navigator @Rendezview_io pulls notes/agendas/etc into mtngs.
Ppl want more efficient note taking, want to capture all of their thoughts, and want to be able to access it easily.

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Here are some of the exciting trends and startups I've noticed or come across. It's a mix of early & late stuff.

Check 'em out 👇
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1/ How to create a Google Trends for X using Zapier & Airtable 👇

I recently set one up to monitor unique keyword trends in ProductHunt so will use that as an example. #nocode
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First sheet is to capture the main data, in this case PH data.

In this sheet, create a linked column, and create a new table called keywords (multiple allowed).
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You can do this for internal tools too, like notes from your CRM.
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