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I built Goose as a little experiment to help us with Picnic. It's become the thing I talk to most.

Logos Fund LP Letter VI: 5 New Investments, a New Yorker Profile, a16z Leads Series-A Round In Our First-Ever Investment, Tiger Global Leads Another A Round, Our First Crypto Investment, and more...

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Logos Fund LP Letter V: Our first 🦄 🦄 Led By Accel, 2 New Investments in Microacquire & Clay, and Logos Fund General Partner Chris Herd Speaks Out Against Jamie Dimon’s Return To The Office

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Logos Fund LP Update Special Report: 🦄🦄🦄 Remote raises $150m from Accel and becomes The Logos Fund's first unicorn 🦄🦄🦄

This is the email update that was sent to all Logos Fund LPs about our first unicorn, Remote.com. To become an LP & learn more about our fund, click here. [http://angel.co/v/l/Mg6Z9] Hi all, This update is a special report for a special day. We

Let’s Get Real About Company Perks

Taken right from the Assist handbook for new team members I wanted to share why we believe giving everyone a personal assistant is the greatest perk you can offer. And a few other thoughts. Productivity Perks > Posh Perks There’s a lot of talk, especially in technology, about cute

Why drink tea? w/ Jason Fried

Jason Fried [https://twitter.com/jasonfried] has always preached the simple way. This interview is a fun little interview on why he likes tea so much. Enjoy. https://soundcloud.com/ask-interviews-14429595/why-drink-tea-w-jason-fried Subscribe to everything ask. [http://startbyasking.com] iTunes Podcast: https://itunes.

Where’s offline going? w/ Robert Stephens

I believe Robert Stephens [http://twitter.com/rstephens] (co-founder @ Assist [http://assi.st]), Founder of GeekSquad and CTO of BestBuy, sees the future of technology like very few in the world. I never imagined at the time of this interview that one day he would be my co-founder.

What experiences led to your success? w/ T.A. McCann

T.A. McCann [https://twitter.com/tamccann] is both a friend, our investor and the reason I got into startups. This story reminds me of how much it really is about the process and the persistence to achieve anything you want. I hope you enjoy this interview. Subscribe to everything

What if there was a single question that could tell you NOT to hire someone?

I’m fascinated by this thought. Is there a specific question that can help you understand who not to hire if you are focused on building the highest performing team in the world? Recently, I had a conversation with former Navy Captain David Marquet [http://www.davidmarquet.com/]. He told

A Christmas Miracle: Now $5.5 million in, here's how we barely closed our first round in 5 days during the holidays

This story is about having no fucking clue what will happen, one lucky email, and the ignorant road to raising part of our $1.5m seed round in 5 days before New Year’s. July 5th, 2013. Sitting in Spanish Bay, CA with my girlfriend browsing Instagram. This is the

10 years later, one single strategy has always worked…

Go where no one is doing business, people are just having fun. Don’t sell shit, don’t ask for anything. If they follow and listen to you, they’ll hear about your next thing… I met my current co-founder on Twitter back when people were saying Twitter was

College got me into debt. Twitter got me out.

Nothing has opened more doors and opportunities in my life than Twitter. I didn’t go to an Ivy League school. (Not even close [http://www.wiu.edu/]) I do believe that signaling theory exists and there’s a ton to gain by attending a school like Stanford. But I

Postmates + Assist = ❤

We are excited to announce that you can now hire a courier and get anything delivered in 100+ U.S. cities. The Postmates [http://postmates.com] API makes it possible to get anything delivered from point A to point B. Assist makes it as easy as sending a message on

The Truth About Raising Seed Money

I hear this question all the time: > “How should I go about raising money?” To start, raising money is actually really hard and there are lots of nuances but maybe a different perspective can help some people trying to raise a round. Also, the single best way to raise

Stop working 20 hours a day

I was having a coffee this morning with a friend who was telling me about his last startup job. The one line I remember was this: > “…he [the CEO] required us to be in the office til 7pm. Anyone who left early just felt guilty. I got fired.” Listen,

Fucking advice

My favorite advice is this: > Determine how to ignore most advice. Advice is cheap. In business, opinions are even cheaper. A bunch of people with no context and different experiences telling you the answer. They don’t know what you know. Believe that. My skin crawls every time I

How We Start

Handmade paper letter with handwritten welcome note to you. Photo credit: @rstephens In yesterday’s news we talked about how to quit [https://medium.com/assist/how-to-quit-11a2d89bfff2], in today’s news lets talk about how we start.☺Here is what we do at Assist (and the purpose)

How To Quit

When a new team member joins our company, we have them start by reading a handbook to help understand our culture, mission and team. One piece of this document which you read on the first day shares thoughts on how to quit. I want to share our insights because honestly

The Search for Simplicity: How Assist Runs on Quip

The Assist founding team at Fort Mason in San Francisco. This post was originally written by the Quip team and posted on their blog [https://quip.com/blog/]. Assist [http://joinassist.com] is a startup focused on building simple and useful products to connect people. This philosophy is apparent in