How To Raise Your First Seed Round
Many of my friends and employees at Cobalt have asked me what fundraising is like and what the first steps are to start a company. I’ve written this post to help demystify some of the process based on my experience raising 5 rounds over my career (Seed through Series C with Cobalt Robotics and Seed for Posmetrics (YC W13)). I...
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November 14, 2022 ·
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On Demand Video Tutoring
Alex Kaufman and I thought that arranging traditional tutoring was too slow to help students when they really need it – If you’re up late finishing a problem set or studying for an exam the next day, there’s no way to talk to a tutor in the moment. We built cs50pro as a way for students to instantly connect to...
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October 01, 2015 ·
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Tech in the World
Over January 2014 I traveled to Tanzania as part of the Tech in the World program to expose more CS students to international development. While there, we designed and built a system for the Ifakara Health Institute that would allow them to send Verbal Autopsy reports to and from physicians electronically, replacing a paper based system that could take over...
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February 01, 2014 ·
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Posmetrics (originally PollVaultr)
Posmetrics (formerly PollVaultr) was my first startup! While at Harvard, Merrill Lutsky and I both realized that everywhere we went, businesses wanted us to fill out customer feedback surveys, but we never did because filling out surveys later and online was such a hassle. The solution, we realized, was to put the survey right in front of the customer, before...
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July 30, 2013 ·
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President's Challenge
Aaron Cheng, Rob Gunzenhauser and I entered the 2012 Presidents Challenge at Harvard University and were chosen as 1 of the 10 finalist teams from over 170 applicants across all of Harvard’s undergraduate and graduate schools. Our proposal was to process sewage in slums across the world in an economically sustainable way by using biodigesters to convert it into energy...
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May 01, 2012 ·
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