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3 surprising traits VCs seek in early-stage businesses and founders that you’ve probably overlooked.... Many founders obsess over their pitch deck, fancy research and financial projections. But savvy VCs are looking beyond the numbers. They’re searching for these unexpected qualities that package the business+founders from the rest. Both the horse and the jockey (quoting my guest here!). Find out these 3 surprising traits on Maven! ?Top 3 priorities for early-stage (pre-seed and seed) founders ?Early-stage business and founder traits that attract investors ?Non-obvious skills that create 10X impact I’m excited to host Rod Snodgrass, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Maker Partners, for a FREE Maven Lightning Lesson "Elite Operator's Playbook Speaker Series" on this topic on Fri, Nov 1,?2024?12:00 PM GMT+13(NZ). If you are not familiar with Rod Snodgrass, Rod is a former CEO of?Spark?Ventures, led the development of Spark's innovation arm and created new businesses including Lightbox, Qrious, Skinny, and Bigpipe.?That's where I met him when we built the largest nationwide wifi in NZ??. Proven track record in building and executing corporate, market, business, and product strategies in the telecom, media, internet, digital, and energy sectors. He is now an active start-up mentor and investor at?Maker Partners, helping build great businesses with exceptional founders and partners. ??Join us here! https://lnkd.in/gA-d4TDp

No-Code x AI empowers all of us to become an elite operator ?? Whether you're working in product, marketing or sales, you can set this up all by yourself now and no longer depend on others anymore to speed up your operations ?? Here are 3 things you could start with right away: ?? Streamline your tasks with Airtable ?? Create a workspace of AI Assistants with Zapier Central ?? Build internal portals for your operations with Softr If you're a non-technical professional, and curious to learn how to do this, I'd love to invite you for our free Lightning Lessons on Maven in the next weeks. Join us to learn from Alexandre Kantjas (9x), Anna Marie Clifton (Zapier) and JJ Englert (Softr), to learn how to become an elite operator with No-Code x AI ?? (links below)

Two weeks since I launched Lenny’s List with Maven and it’s so nice to see the impact. Hundreds of new signups across the courses ?? FWIW, the most popular courses so far have been?Mihika Kapoor (Product Storytelling), Tal Raviv (PM Productivity), and Miqdad Jaffer (AI product management). But they're all seeing a lot of love. Heads up: those three specific courses (Mihika, Tal, Miqdad) are starting their next cohorts in the next 2 weeks, in case you want to check them out. See the whole list here: https://maven.com/lenny

Most online courses suck. The core thesis of Maven is: build courses that don’t suck. That’s why we’re cohort-based, why we recruit instructors who are truly experts in their field, and why most of our courses have live, asynchronous, and project-based components.

I'm excited to do this Zoom event with Maven and the incredible Carol Rossi. We'll talk about why becoming a high impact UX Researcher has a lot less to do with research than you might think. October 30th. 30 minutes. High value. Completely free. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gBshM6UG

I've been really enjoying Maven's Lightning Lessons?—such a great way to gain valuable insights in a short time! Today, I attended Irene Yu's course on Technical Literacy for PMs. The discussion around prioritizing breadth of knowledge over depth really resonated with me. Working with development teams is so fun and fulfilling, especially because of the specialized knowledge they bring to the table! Some other standout lessons I've attended: ??How product teams get more done in less time by ?? Catt Small ?????? ?? Impactful customer conversations by Carol Rossi ?? Combining PLG and Sales in B2B SaaS teams by Leah Tharin

I'll be hosting my friend Nan Yu (Head of Product @ Linear) for a free 30-min lightning lesson on Nov 7th as part of Maven's upcoming Elite Operator speaker series. What you'll learn: (1) How to prioritize like a top product operator: Identify the key impact levers of a Head of Product at a successful startup. (2) Non-obvious skills for outsized impact as a product leader: Dive into key skills that set top operators apart from the rest (e.g. taking extreme positions on product) (3) Practical advice for PMs to develop these skills: Actionable tips for getting better at these non-obvious skills. Practice is everything! If you're interested in joining live and/or getting the recording, follow the link in the first comment ??

Introducing Lenny's List. ?? Top product & growth courses, curated by Lenny Rachitsky. Learn timeless, in-demand PM skills directly from world-class operators at companies like Figma, Stripe, GitLab, & OpenAI. Explore Lenny's hand-picked Maven courses: https://bit.ly/lenny-list

? Exciting news: I’m launching a featured course on Maven as part of their Full-Stack PM Collection! This 2-week course is designed to help product managers use data/analytics in their day-to-day work to build better products and make better decisions. I’ve made this course as interactive and hands-on as possible with practical frameworks and mini-projects for: ?? Defining and operationalizing product metrics ?? Instrumenting and querying data ?? Common analysis tasks ? Distilling insights and data-driven decision-making The material draws on my decade-plus experience working in and around data as an analytics leader, product manager, and founder. The cohort begins on 11/2 and will be limited to 15 people to keep the class size small and interactive. Tag someone you know who is interested! https://lnkd.in/gDVAwBYr