Kernal Newsletter

🤫 Why founders work behind your back

GM Friends, Welcome back to Kernal: your tandem bike partner that pedals harder on the uphill when most of your bestie boos gear down to catch their breath. In this week's news: Disney plus leaves Netflix in the dust, Neumann lands $350m (without referencing community EBITDA in the pitch deck)

🧑‍🍳 How to Share Half-Baked Startup Ideas

GM Friends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: your AC unit of fresh startup ideas that keeps your 9-5 boredom from overheating 🥵 In this week's news: Funding winter's still chilly, Trump got a bad knock-knock joke from the feds and tech layoffs keep piling. Serena traded Tennis shoes for her

🍀 3 Reasons Greg Isenberg Thinks Now is the Best Time to be a Founder

GM Friends, Welcome to the Kernal newsletter: your bluetooth speaker of free startup ideas, except we never run out of battery 🔋 In news this week: It's August, Tech layoffs keep stacking, Forbes is eyeing up a $600M+ sale, and Tiger Global's YTD is getting lower than Flo Rida. Elon's Twitter

😸 How to beat a copycat

GM Friends, Welcome to the Kernal newsletter: where we have a Ted Lasso level of optimism for your startup idea on and off the field ⚽️ In news this week: Shopify got a haircut, Snap got rekt, Elon had a sleepover and Monkeypox is going bananas. Layoffs keep soaring, Katy Perry

👂Summer Pods to Jam to

GM friends, Europe's hot. Elon's BTC sell-off was cold. And goldilocks' porridge was justttt right. 🥣 Welcome to the Kernal newsletter: where we cook up startup ideas faster than an Italian pizza-eria 🤌 Lame opener, but it rhymed and I'm jet-lagged so we're rolling with it. Some days we're spitting fire, some

🌊 Hiring Startup Ideas You Should Hold Onto

GM Builders, Welcome back to the Kernal: your beach friend that brings an extra chair and portable iPhone charger even when you said you didn't need it 🏖 Today's issue is for the water skiers, the beach tanners, and paragliders. The summer founders that are catching waves in the morning and

🔎 Is Web 3 Under or Overhyped?

Happy Friday Friendos, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: the friend that's first to call you out on 2 things: * your BS about "validating" your idea * how many times you quote the all-in podcast at coffee My guess is you probably wanna drive out to the summer cabin early. So

⛱ How to Land an Eh-ngel Investment at a July 4th Party

GM Builders, Welcome to the Kernal newsletter: where our favourite Drake motto is taking founders from 0 to 100 real quick. Don't buy it? Crank our Spotify playlist this weekend 🎶 Happy Canada Day to our friends in the great white North 🇨🇦 and happy July 4th to our patriotic friends in

📱 Meet the 19-year-old Founder Chatting with Mark Cuban and Elon Musk

Howdy Builders, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: the top inspo to get you off the Netflix binge and get back to the startup wins 🏆 In news this week: Crypto is limping, FDA said TTYL to Juul, and Twitter is wetting their beak with long-form blogs. It's the last week

🐻 3 Ways to Win in a Bear Market

GM Builders, Welcome back to Kernal: your favourite childhood game of connect four but instead of red and black circles we play with: 1. Startup Ideas 2. Founder Talent 3. Venture Capital 4. And Market Validation For those of you that are new, welcome to the best community on the

💯 100 MVPs Down, 100s to Come

GM Founders, Welcome to Kernal: a vineyard of juicy startup ideas where opportunity is ripe for pickin' 🍇 In this week's news: Apple dropped a pay later bomb on the fintech fam, seed funding stays steady at $3B last month and the kids are almost on summer break. We hit a

🎶 News You Wanna Dance To

GM Builders, Welcome to Kernal: our forecast for today is sunny with a chance of start-ups. It's June. But don't think for a nano-second we're slowing down. We just spun up a new home page, dropped a member directory and we're still sipping our first cup of coffee. In this

Product Updates

👉 New on Kernal: 'For You' page, Member Directory

Hey Builders, We've been spinning together 2 big updates for you and we're finally ready to spill the tea. The TL;DR? * 🆕 'For You' Page * 🆕 Member Directory * 🛠 How to start using them Less blabbing, more building. Let's talk about how these updates can help your startup: 🆕 Say Hello to the

🔑 When you validate, a16z will allocate

GM Founders, Welcome to Kernal: where we cheer for founders on day 1 when others only slide into your DMs after your home run. ⚾️ For match-ups this week: we have Snap vs recession size ad budgets, Liverpool vs Real Madrid, and Adam Neumann's new startup [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/

🛫 Prepare for Take-off

Attention Founders, This is your startup captain speaking. We'd like to welcome you aboard Kernal, where we help you prep your startup for takeoff.🛫 Welcome to the second half of May. Johnny Depp's on thin ice, Web3 bets are limping, and our team had major FOMO watching the All In

💰 Meet our friend: The Kernal Fund

Hey Founders, Our main goal at Kernal is to take startup ideas from napkin to market. So when your idea needs funding, we want to connect you to the right people. 🚀 As you may have heard, we've recently launched a Kernal Fund [https://blog.kern.al/how-many-lps-is-too-many/] to make it

Product Updates

🪂 May Feature Drop: 'Ask the experts', Check-ins and more

Hey Founders, We've been working away on some hot new features and they're finally ready for primetime. This month's update is for the builders, the doers, and the people who GSD. Let's take a look: 🎯 Share and track startup goals 🤷‍♀️ What it does: you can now create, complete, and share

😎 New Tools for Founders to Show Off

GM Founders, Welcome back to Kernal: the "hey Siri" for startup ideas that Steve Jobs never built. We grew plenty of grey hairs this week: S&P 500 got clapped, crypto got cranked and lay-offs were felt. If your diamond hands are sweating, you ain't alone. But you can be

👀 How Many LPs is Too Many?

What's Poppin? Welcome back to Kernal: "the best place on the internet to go from fiasco to Picasso with your startup idea". 🎨 It was either Michele Romanow or our intern that texted that the other day. On this week's startup news: U.S. job openings hit record highs [https://www.

💰 We've Got a Secret...

GM Founder, Welcome back to Kernal: your startup sensei that takes founders from tuna melt to black belt. On this week's top news: Meta goes brick and mortar [https://about.fb.com/news/2022/04/meta-retail-store/?utm_content=null&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Wednesday%20Email&utm_

🎶 The Coachella of Startup Ideas

Happy Friday Founders, Netflix shat the bed [https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/netflix-plunges-trading-subscriber-loss.html], Serena is still the GOAT [https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/serena-williams-lewis-hamilton-join-broughtons-bid-buy-chelsea-2022-04-21/] and one of you got in a tussle with Elon [https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/425272]. It's Earth Day for those that

✨ How to Increase Your Startup Luck

Happy Friday Friends, Inflation's flying, Musk pulled a U-turn [https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-1.6419523] on Twitter and the Easter Bunny is sliding into your backyard DMs this weekend. Welcome to the Kernal newsletter. Your "call a friend" for the world of startup jeopardy. In other news: Uber's

🪜 4 Wealth Ladders for Founders

Happy Friday friends, Welcome to Kernal. Your nexus line-up of startup ideas and VIP founder advice. Except we don't ask you to declare how many angel cheques you take home. 😏 April's in full swing, sunglasses are getting dusted off and Twitter's finally working on an edit button. We doubt Musk's

💰 Save Dat Money

Hey bestie boos, We've got a steak-dinner-of-an-update for ya. All protein, no salad. We're skipping the April Fool's gags and getting straight to the goods. Don't like it? Email my boss to complain: jbezos@kern.al. Today we're gonna hit you where it counts: the founder's piggy's bank. 💸 You've been

📩 New Ambassadors. Who dis?

Hey Startup Fam, Welcome back to Kernal. Your go-to coffee shop to nerd out on startup ideas and bump into angel investors. Here’s what happened on the internet this week: a solo VC raised $1.5B [https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/garage/katie-hauns-crypto-vc-fund-raises-us15b-to-target-web3-startups#:~:text=Katie%20Haun's%20crypto%20VC%20fund%