Kernal Newsletter

😤 Clever Hacks to Avoid Founder Burnout

Happy Friday Friends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: your favourite gym to work out startup ideas before you head to the beach and meet a cofounder 🏖 Latest news: it's been a heavy week. And we're sorry for all those affected. Hurricane Ian has devastated Florida, protests continue in Iran,

😓 The Early Days: 6 Hard Truths I Wish I Knew About Product Ideas and Execution

This is the first post of an ongoing series titled The Early Days. This article was originally published on Medium by Sneha, and reshared here for your convenience. Dear builders, Inspired by Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup In the early days of ideating Geeks and Experts

🤌 Founder Finesse: How to Spot it and 7 Ways to Build It

Happy Friday Legends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: King Charles' go-to spot to validate startup ideas for the Commonwealth and the Firm's $42B of assets 👑 Latest tech gossip: Clock's ticking on VC dry powder, interest rates are climbing, electric planes are flying. South Korea hit big tech w/ $72m

NoCode

5 No-Code Tools to Launch your First Startup

A cheat sheet that'll make you smile. So you’re launching your first startup, but don’t know a thing about technical development. Lucky for you, you don’t have to! We’re cruising through the 21st century and the internet has never been easier to use. 5 years ago

💸 Tic-Tac-Grow: 3 steps to stand up your startup idea

Happy Friday Fam, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: your friend at the airport that watches your stuff and surprises you with a hot coffee when you come back from the bathroom. Latest news (if you've been busy building): Adobe scooped up Figma for $20B, Patagonia founder blew everyone's minds,

🤔 Can NFTs Move From Speculation to Utility?

Our team linked up with Peter Yang to share a great write-up on NFTs and utility. The article below was originally published on Peter's Creator Economy newsletter Creator Economy newsletter reshared for your convenience. With web 3 basically becoming a household name, we wanted to bring a great resource right

Getting Started

🏃 Getting Started!

If you're looking to get your startup off the ground, there's no shortage of advice out there on what you should do. But what about the early stages of ideation? Where do you start when you have a great idea for a business, but don't know where to go from

🚩 3 red flags you have the wrong cofounder

GM Friends, Welcome Back to Kernal: the friend in the group project that does 90% of the work and only talks 10% of the time 📚 Latest News: Everyone's googling Chris Pine, RIP Queen Elizabeth II, Apple dropped the iPhone 14 and parents have free babysitting back. One of our staff

😴 The Coziest Startup for Your Labor Day Nap

GM Friends, Welcome back to Kernal: the friend that reminds you there's a stat holiday b/c the rest of the non-founder world have been counting down for weeks 😅 In this week's startup news: Your boss is OOO at Burning Man, Saylor got sued and NFT trading volumes are in

🤫 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