Best Monday Morning Meetings of 2024
MMM Wrapped
TLDR: The best Monday Morning Meetings of all-time, together in one post.
Monday Morning Meeting is free every week, and will continue to be indefinitely.
This year though, I locked the older posts with a paywall to see if anyone was reading the archive. A test of my own product-market fit.
To my surprise, I got a few paid subscribers and a number of inbound requests for access to older content. But since charging for older posts is at odds with our tradition of recapping the best Monday Morning Meetings of all-time, I created a 30-day free archive link so you can peruse the best of the last fours years all linked below!
Enjoy!
For the first three years of Monday Morning Meeting, available down at the bottom of this post, it was a lot of personal learnings and leadership frameworks. Stylistic ways of operating if you will. This year, as you’ll read, we dove much harder into venture capital.
The Best Monday Morning Meetings of 2024
#8
The Hidden Years of Inception Stage
TLDR: Founders & LP’s rarely understand that the journey of building a great company can involve up to three years of work before an early stage VC will get involved.
#7
Lifetime Thank You Thread
TLDR: Owning and maintaining the context of important relationships will help you develop a personal brand and create long-term value for yourself.
#6
Inception Funds vs. Early Stage VC
TLDR: Pre-seed institutions and “inceptions funds” are misunderstood by LP’s, and are evaluated as if they were traditional early-stage venture funds.
#5
Advisory Board 2.0
TLDR: You’re probably paying your advisors too much and asking for too little in return. Systems and structure always outpace ideas.
#4
I forced my way into VC
TLDR: There’s no magic. I just did the job before I had the job. I forced my way into VC, and committed to working like a maniac for the foreseeable future. Do the job before you have the job.
#3
Screening for Maniacs
TLDR: Below is a copy of a document I use to brainstorm questions and evolve my approach to screening founders at day zero
#2
Stories of Inception; Zayd @ Valley
TLDR: The first post in a series of stories on inception stage founders. Today, back the people not the idea, and sales technology is becoming customer-obsessed.
#1
The early-stage game
TLDR: True early-stage venture is misunderstood and lumped in with the rest of the VC market, but it’s a very different game, and if you have the fundamentals and a long-term outlook, you can completely change the world.
The Best of 2021, 2023, & 2023
As always, thank you for subscribing and for reading! I hope you loved the content this year, as well as the personal growth as a writer and as a venture capitalist.
See you Monday.