Ok, you just got funded. But how do you grow your startup to a billion dollar IPO? It turns out, there's a formula. Learn what it is, along with 6 tips from me on how to do that in this week's episode of Office Hours. Just raised money? Make sure you watch my last video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khY3REOst-A Founding Sales -- https://www.foundingsales.com Predictable Revenue -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984380213/ Follow Nik Sharma for tips on Influencers - https://twitter.com/mrsharma 0:00 -- Intro -- 0:46 Intro: How Do You Grow? 1:24 Tip 1 -- PR 1:56 How Soylent used PR 0:55 Tip 2 -- Sales and Marketing 2:35 Controversy Sells 3:06 Tip 3 -- Content Marketing 3:18 How OkCupid used Content Marketing 3:47 Tip 4 -- SEO 4:08 How Zapier's used SEO 5:02 Google Ads 6:00 Tip 5 -- Influencers 6:17 How DTC Brands use Influencers 6:34 Tip 6: Partnerships 6:42 How Microsoft & IBM used partnerships 7:10 -- Recap! -- 100% of the revenue from this channel is donated to https://www.code2040.org​ - thank you for helping me help the engineers of tomorrow. I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $40 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $770M in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Find me on Instagram where I can answer your startup advice questions by DM - https://instagram.com/garrytan​ https://twitter.com/garrytan​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_IXr6NXAg

Here's a basic tutorial on how to use a Sony mirrorless camera as your main webcam setup for Zoom. We also sit down with the creator and founder of new teleconferencing startup Around, an Initialized portfolio company. They just launched today and have a brand new approach compared to Zoom. Here are my recommendations: CAMERA Budget option - Sony A6600 — https://amzn.to/2WogMO3 Luxury option - Sony A7R4 — https://amzn.to/2waHEXr LENS Budget - Sigma 16mm f1.4 for Sony E mount https://amzn.to/2xNPZR3 Luxury option - Sigma 35mm f1.2 for Sony E mount CAPTURE CARD Elgato Camlink 4k (Sold out on Amazon as of today) Elgato Game Capture Card HD60 S should work just as well— https://amzn.to/2WoPFm1 OTHER THINGS YOU NEED Gonine AC dummy battery and power supply (works with either Sony camera above) — https://amzn.to/3b6UqVt Cheap Tripod — https://amzn.to/3bdY0gN 6 ft AmazonBasics Micro HDMI to HDMI cable — https://amzn.to/2vBoZDM Hi, I'm Garry Tan. I'm a venture capitalist (Forbes Midas List #21 for 2019) and early investor in startups like Coinbase and Instacart. This is my one man run and gun channel— everything you see is filmed, edited, and posted by yours truly. You can follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/garrytan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjbpX7cnEI

Today we're sitting down with Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis, cofounders of AptDeco, the next great marketplace startup. Everyone's got some furniture that doesn't quite fit their room. You bought it, you thought it would work, but it's not quite right. What if I told you there's a managed marketplace now that will let you get a lot of your money back, and then find your next piece, all at once? It's here and it's called AptDeco. They're a managed marketplace that is expanding the market for used furniture. It's my favorite way software can create new behaviors in the same way Instacart let you get your groceries or Uber made it easier to get around. And it's in a $14billion market that can only get bigger, because this is supply and demand that didn't exist before. This team is a case study in being data driven, doing unscalable things, and then scaling them in one of the world's biggest possible markets. 00:00 Intro 00:51 Meet Reham and Kalam 02:07 AptDeco is the next great managed marketplace 04:38 Sustainability: AptDeco saves 9M pounds of CO2 05:24 How they solved demand 06:51 Key learning: Do your ad buys in-house 07:43 Key learning: Do your logistics in-house 09:55 Best software-based logistics = no warehousing 12:16 Product market fit = supply constrained, unlimited demand 13:13 Diversity and inclusion in Tech 17:28 Lessons from Reham and Kalam wish they knew when they started 19:40 Lesson: Do the unscalable and scale them 24:06 AptDeco is live now for NYC 24:52 AptDeco is hiring remotely for engineers and product ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pzphszE704

You can change the world, but it sometimes comes at a steep cost. It did for Ignaz Semmelweis, the first doctor to discover handwashing saved lives, especially mothers in his maternity ward. He made 5 key mistakes that you can avoid. And in doing so, I hope you'll be able to avoid the insane asylum. Everyone who makes something new gets hit back quickly with what is known now as the Semmelweis Reflex- people reject anything that challenges them out of hand. You can be prepared to face this. Here's the five ways steps: 1/ Speak for yourself - 03:05 2/ Persevere, and don't ragequit - 04:26 3/ Speak truth when you know you're right - 05:34 4/ When they go low, we go high - 06:09 5/ The breakthrough is only half the work - 07:13 Thanks for watching! I made this video last night in about 3 hours- I'm going for a video a week, and my goal is to just help future founders and people who are making things get to the next stage. Please like or subscribe to this and as always you can read the full transcript at https://blog.garrytan.com #nosmallcreator ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apP62c8GHiM