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2 Weeks Until Our AI Pitch Event

2 Weeks Until Our AI Pitch Event

Joel Hansen
August 16, 2024

Happy Friday Friends,

Welcome back to Napkin Notes: the only startup newsletter that gets how annoying it is to be ghosted by VCs. So we built a platform that helps you rub your fundraising success in their face 💸

And if you haven’t already heard, our next event is coming up in 13 days. So,

Save your seat to watch
Apply to pitch if you’re a founder
Or spread the word by sharing it here

Enough chit-chat. Let’s get to the goods.

🍿 RSVP to our AI pitch event August 29th
🎥 Watch our latest video drop on Kernal Dealroom
💡 8 Startup Ideas from Greg Isenberg
✏️ Apply to pitch at our AI Event
👀 Memes of the week

Side note: Know a wicked smart AI founder, sponsor, or investor panellist? We wanna meet them for our next event. Email [email protected] to make an intro 👋

🎥 Our Latest Video Drop

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If you need help with your videos like we did, email them and mention “KERNAL” to save 20% on your 1st project.

🍿 Speakers for Aug 29th Event

Allison Pickens: solo GP investor in AI and SaaS companies, supporting founders as a COO thought partner on go-to-market, category creation, and any other topic related to scaling the business. She works with Jasper, DeepL, EvenUp, Hex, Hightouch, Tackle, and others, including 25% of the Forbes Rising Stars in 2021 and 2022.
Darian Shirazi: Managing Partner of Gradient Ventures, a VC firm leading Seed, Series A, Series B investments focused on AI and data-rich companies
Vivek Sodera: GP of a pre-seed fund called Supercharge VC and also responsible for founding Superhuman and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). He invests in AI, productivity & devtools
Nick Candito: Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ACOF (Angel Collective Opportunity Fund which has invested in Cart.com, Mercury, Array and more.
Haley Bryant: Investor at Hustle Fund where she focuses her time investing at the pre-seed level of B2B SaaS, digital consumer health, fintech and web3

Wanna RSVP to see these speakers on stage?

🌱 8 Startup Ideas From Greg Isenberg

Greg is a startup idea machine. Here’s 8 he shared in his latest startup idea jam.

02:05 Startup Idea 1: Product Spec Doc SaaS
04:04 Startup Idea 2: Developer Portfolio Site Builder
08:20 Startup Idea 3: Blog + Newsletter in a Box
11:03 Startup Idea 4: Virtual Workspaces
12:30 Startup Idea 5: Turntable FM 2.0
13:31 Startup Idea 6: JSFiddle Meets Twitter
14:45 Startup Idea 7: Shopify for X
16:04 Startup Idea 8: HQ Trivia for Dating

P.S. Speaking of raising from VCs, do you want access to a database of 400 angel investors? We thought so. Just tap below. We can’t take credit. Send a DM to Ben Lang who compiled the list.