New Year, New Us- Introducing the Premium Founders Pack

In 2022 Founders Pack reached some nice milestones.

We had our first ever demo day featuring previous Winner Takes All pitch companies. Five companies shared their raises, product & customer progress.

We held two IRL events in Austin and one in New York

Plus we published 49 pretty awesome Founder & Investor podcast episodes on Substack between June and December. These are companies that since have in some cases raised between $1.5 and $4.5 Million. One in the last 5 years has raised over $117M.

So now what?

We’re excited to share our party plans for 2023. That was just the beginning.

For 2023, Founders Pack will continue to publish its free weekly Substack, and will now also offer a paid ($97/year) premium Substack that will be published five times per week.

So why would you want this 5x a week version?

First we are on a mission to help founders who want to change the world by solving problems through innovation and entrepreneurship.

We believe that in addition to capital and technology — great ventures lead by founders from all walks of life — will increasingly scale through community and partnerships.

The path to this for founders (we believe) is consistent and starts with an approach that Founders Pack lives and dies by:

• be able to give a 1 minute pitch

• rapidly prototype

• talk to real customers

• build in public

As a result we will present Premium members with ideas, tools and feature interviews with founders who are are early in their journey.

Most will be from tier one accelerators, such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and Hustle Fund, etc. Others may be later stage and started on this path but are now funded by VCs. Others may have charted another course and were capitalized through crowdfunding programs like Republic or Wefunder.

We will help by amplifying their stories early in their journey to you, our friends.

You our friends are most likely:

• a founder

• an aspiring founder

• an investor

Q: Am I Premium?

A: Well — yes, you (the reader) are until Feb 1st.

For all current free subscribers we will make our build-in-public Premium version available for everyone. After Feb 1 free subscribers will get a 1 x a week newsletter and Premium have complete access to this plus:

• Three (3) pre seed and seed stage company profiles,

• These include podcast style interviews

• A copy of the company’s pitch deck

• A “baseball card” style summary of the venture along with

• Key contacts for these companies.

• A weekly preview of the week in startup land

• A fun Friday wrap party edition that includes events for founders & investors to look ahead to the following week

Got ideas or news?

You can tweet or DM us on Twitter with topics, tips or stories you think we should cover about specific startups, founders or investors

What is 2023 all about for Startups?

2023 is the year Founders are focused on growth and profits. They are still hunting for investors and customers. Looking at the importance of building community and partnerships to scale as much as capital.

So in summary — our VIP weeks together will look like this

Mondays→

• Weekly ideas from startups in the news

• How to build new products that don’t suck

• How to grow with community and partnerships

• How to find investors and customers

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday —>

• We will continue to interview and profile awesome startups from

• These will include those from Y Combinator, Hustle Fund, Techstars &

• Those who have raised or are raising through crowdfunding like on Republic or WeFunder

Fridays —>

• We’ll wrap the week with 4-5 posts that share wins for the week of our friends

• We’ll have a special A.i assisted feature where we ask Chat GPT a startup related question and publish the result

• Events both virtual and in real life that you can join to build community and get out of the damn house

• Who knows what other mayhem

Alright, let’s go! Thanks for your support in advance and partnership dear friends. Btw, please bring your friends - sharing is caring. Please let us know how we can help you on your startup journey in 2023 and beyond.

P.S. Look out for details on the new Founders Pack Membership. Members get not only the premium newsletter but also —

• in real life events e.g. four Ask Me Anything events (with crazy guests)

• 52 weeks of automated weekly A.i matched Intros to other founders & investors right to their inbox (try Intros here for free)

• 12 Founder/Investor Dinners and Social events in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, Miami and

• Access to our directory of more than 9k Investor contacts including VCs, accelerators and angels. Stay tuned as they say!