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🎁 May the Sales Be Ever in Your Favour

Happy Friday Pals, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: the trusty Haymitch to your courageous Katniss as you navigate the Black Friday wilderness. Latest news: Disney got Bob the Builder back, Web 3 vibes are rough, SBF hasn't replied to my LinkedIn invite and the world economy is shakier than

The Early Days - Building Kradl with Anna Grigoryan

Welcome to The Early Days: A series that checks in with kickass Founders who share honest lessons, tips & tricks and a sneak peek into building their startup in public, from the ground up. Podcast Discovery should not be an accident This week we're catching up with Anna Grigoryan - vibe

Product Updates

👉🏽 New Feature Drop: Discussions (and more)

You’ve been asking us for more ways to connect with other members, ask questions and share your learnings on Kernal — and now you can. All you have to do is keep reading 👇 🎉 New on Kernal: Discussions * 🤷‍♀️ What is it? A feed of recent activity, thoughts, and conversations happening on

🎲 Startup Monopoly Gone Wrong

Happy Friday Friends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: the BFF that's here for a hug if you've been scammed by SBF 😬 Latest news: Elon threw a curve ball to Twitter staff, Trump's back in the ring, SBF and the FTX crew are in deep. Taylor Swift's mad at Ticketmaster,

The Early Days: Building Startup Founder Daily with Luke Versweyveld

Welcome to The Early Days: A series that checks in with kickass Founders who share honest lessons, tips & tricks and a sneak peek into building their startup in public, from the ground up. What happens when you blend curiosity with passion? A side hustle worth talking about. This is Luke

Newsletter

⏰ Tick. Tock. Time-saving Tips for Founders

No time to waste There are 50 days left in 2022 and we wanna help you make the most of it. You've got a startup to build and ain't nobody got time to waste. Latest News From layoffs to a liquidity crisis, the $8 badge rollout to election overload – this

The Early Days

The Early Days: Building Podup with Adam Thornhill

How many times a week do you ask for Business Podcast recommendations to only heart them in your Spotify app and never go back to listening? If you're like me, it's a lot.

🔥Trendy Like Mariah Carey

Wazzz uppppp 🤪 Still too soon? I say not soon enough. Welcome back to another edition of the Kernal Times. Ready or not, Mariah Carey season is officially here. Last week we gave you some tips on embracing founder life, this week, we go over tips to embrace the seasons. All

👻 Year Round "Costume" Tips for Startup Founders

🎃 Happy Halloween Weekend Kernal Fam! DYK - Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country's second-largest commercial holiday after Christmas. Last week we helped you trick or treat some new users. This week we'll help you win Costume of the Year - something sweeter than

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The Early Days: Building Sponstayneous with Zach Busekrus

Welcome to The Early Days: A series that checks in with kickass Founders who share honest lessons, tips & tricks and a sneak peek into building their startup in public, from the ground up. Building on Experience This is Zach Busekrus's story of building Sponstayneous and the podcast Zero to (point)

🌽 Surviving the Startup Maze

Happy Friday Friends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: your friendly volunteer at the October corn maze telling you "left" or "right" to navigate your startup idea. Latest news: Messi dipped his cleats in VC, Serena dropped some investing gems and you stillllll don't have a Halloween custome ready for

The Early Days

The Early Days: Building Sparks with Ankit Nayal

Welcome to The Early Days: A series that checks in with kickass Founders who share honest lessons, tips & tricks and a sneak peek into building their startup in public, from the ground up. Building Relationships Today we're chatting with Ankit from Sparks - The Relationship App: super-powering your relationship experiences

🎃 How to Trick-or-Treat Users for Your Startup Idea

Happy Friday Builders, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: where we hope you're sitting on a couch, sipping a cup of joe and ready to boogie into some startup ideas ☕️ Latest tech news: your cousin is still going viral on TikTok, Microsoft is bullying Canva by launching Designer, T-Cooks wants

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💪 The Early Days: Building AI Alfred MVP

Welcome to The Early Days: A series that checks in with kickass Founders who share honest lessons, tips & tricks and a sneak peek into building their startup in public, from the ground up. Today we're chatting with Domenico & Marc Etienne who are building AI Alfred. When we saw this Tweet,

☕️ 6 Founder Traits Sweeter than PSLs

Happy Friday Friends, Welcome back to the Kernal newsletter: the free coffee shop that gifts you wifi and outlets to build startup ideas w/o needing to buy an $8 latte. Fun fact: 31.5 million PSLs are sold @ that little startup called Starbucks every year. Turned about to be

🥳 Hello MVP

What is an MVP? Simply put, an MVP is a minimal viable product. This means that the product or service should only include the essential features necessary to test and determine whether it is feasible to expand it further. An MVP is not lower quality than a final product but

😤 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

😓 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