Digest #37 | Gaps around Mental Health, Frameworks for finding startup ideas, and more

Aug 15th – 21st, 2021

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Investment Themes, Theses & Outlooks

• Our prescription for mental health (Christina Farr, Principal @ OMERS)

• Electrifying Everything: No sun, no wind, no problem (Tyler Lancaster & Mark Tomasovic, Energize Ventures)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• Food Tech & AgTech for the Win! (Paulina Lutz, VC @ Earlybird)

• Tesla Energy? (Kevin Stevens, Principal @ Energize Ventures)

Case Studies and Best Practices for Operating

• 12 Frameworks for Finding Startup Ideas — Advice for Future Founders (First Round Review)

• Building an enterprise sales team (Doug Leone, Partner @ Sequoia Capital)

• The Secret to Recruiting Quickly and Retaining Your People (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• The Startup Happiness Formula — This 3X Founder Shares His Approach to Figuring Out What to Build Next (First Round Review)

Additional Reads

• Everything Is a Remix (Steve Van Sloun, Associate @ Loup Ventures)

• 2021 Best of the Midwest: Startup Cities Rankings (Victor Gutwein, MP @ M25 Group)

• Follow On in Venture Capital (Michael Palank, GP @ MaC VC)

• Signaling on the Internet (Erik Torenberg, Partner @ Village Global)

• Clippy, The F*cking Clown (Steven Sinofsky, Board Partner @ A16Z)

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