Mark Munro

Tyler Bosmeny built Clever (YC S12) into a $500M company, with a product that is used every day by over half of K-12 students in the US. Now, he’s helping YC founders as our newest General Partner. Welcome back to YC, @bosmeny! ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-t…

Solving the childcare shortage will require more real estate dedicated to child care. Today's Thesis Driven (from @markmunro) explores early childhood education spaces as a real estate investment category. Here's why they're interesting...

Big @firstround news today! We’re launching Product-Market Fit Method (a free intensive 14-week experience for early founders building epic B2B SaaS companies) and publishing the first session on our internal framework for all to read (with benchmarks, Looker's real data, and tactical advice from iconic enterprise founders). Even though finding product-market fit is the single most important thing for a startup, it’s still underexplored and seen as more art than science. We wanted to change that. I’ve personally talked to hundreds of founders about this topic, digging into what they did in the first 6-9 months of company building. (We’ve published dozens of those interviews on The Review in our “Paths to PMF” series.) This video previews some of what we learned — thanks to @christinacaci, @zachperret, @lloydtabb, @jboehmig, & @jaltma for sharing their lessons! In addition to that research, we’ve also drawn from our own 20 years of data and 500+ pre-PMF investments. What emerged was a very consistent set of patterns for sales-led B2B companies — the basis for our new framework and PMF Method’s 8 tactical sessions. In the program, we help early founders discover what customers really want, build the right v1 product, and close their first enterprise sales. We ran a beta version late last year with a tight-knit group of founders (ex Stripe, Plaid, Airbnb, Twitter, Greenhouse, Grammarly) and the feedback was great — my personal favorite was: "I feel like I shaved 12 months off the time it would take us to get to PMF.” Here are a few key dates and details: - The Summer 2024 session of PMF Method runs 5/29 - 8/28. - Application deadline is 11:59 PDT May 7th. - Any early founder working on a new B2B SaaS company is welcome to apply. Bonus points if you’re technical, have a clear product idea but haven’t raised yet and are <12 months into working full time on your idea. - PMF Method is 100% free. It costs you $0 and we own 0% of your company. Like with The First Round Review and Angel Track, our mindset is to openly share knowledge that we’ve put hundreds of hours of work into curating with the broader startup community, and give it away for free. That’s why we’ve also published our framework, so every builder can use this resource, even if they don’t do the program (it’s linked in the next post). Check out the links below for more details. Can’t wait to read applications!

Our vision for Act II of @arcinternet

Exponent Founders Capital, led by Plaid and Robinhood alums, raises $75M to invest in early-stage startups tcrn.ch/48cjngd

Excited to officially announce our newest cohort of Angel Track graduates! It’s somehow been 5 years since we first launched the program, and I’m still blown away by the megawatt talent that joins the ranks of our community, now over 400 strong. In our 12th cohort earlier this year, we welcomed exceptionally talented folks, from founders like @instacart’s @max and @alloyautomation’s @saradu to incredible leaders at standout companies like @jenny_wen of @figma, @jamiecuffe of @retool, @dyett of @openai, @tonydong3 of @rippling, and dozens more. To mark 5 years of Angel Track, we gave our website a revamp, sharing a bunch more details about what we think makes this a one-of-a-kind program, and a sample of the remarkable alumni. We also gave a new coat of paint to Angel Directory, where founders can connect with standout angel investors both in and outside of the Angel Track network.

Excited to officially announce our newest cohort of Angel Track graduates! It’s somehow been 5 years since we first launched the program, and I’m still blown away by the megawatt talent that joins the ranks of our community, now over 400 strong. In our 12th cohort earlier this year, we welcomed exceptionally talented folks, from founders like @instacart’s @max and @alloyautomation’s @saradu to incredible leaders at standout companies like @jenny_wen of @figma, @jamiecuffe of @retool, @dyett of @openai, @tonydong3 of @rippling, and dozens more. To mark 5 years of Angel Track, we gave our website a revamp, sharing a bunch more details about what we think makes this a one-of-a-kind program, and a sample of the remarkable alumni. We also gave a new coat of paint to Angel Directory, where founders can connect with standout angel investors both in and outside of the Angel Track network.

Excited to officially announce our newest cohort of Angel Track graduates! It’s somehow been 5 years since we first launched the program, and I’m still blown away by the megawatt talent that joins the ranks of our community, now over 400 strong. In our 12th cohort earlier this year, we welcomed exceptionally talented folks, from founders like @instacart’s @max and @alloyautomation’s @saradu to incredible leaders at standout companies like @jenny_wen of @figma, @jamiecuffe of @retool, @dyett of @openai, @tonydong3 of @rippling, and dozens more. To mark 5 years of Angel Track, we gave our website a revamp, sharing a bunch more details about what we think makes this a one-of-a-kind program, and a sample of the remarkable alumni. We also gave a new coat of paint to Angel Directory, where founders can connect with standout angel investors both in and outside of the Angel Track network.