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August Edition - The heat let up, but we didn't!

August Edition - The heat let up, but we didn't!

Founder & Startup Shoutouts, Fundraising & Resource Support

Tori at the Knowledge Shop
August 07, 2024

⭐️ Who we are - the founder community in NYC.

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👋 The August Edition is here,

Hello!

Firstly, happy International coworking day 🤝. I’m pretty sure we started the founder coworking trend in NYC back in 2021 (here are some pics, from one of our first).

Fast forward to 2024, what’s been your highlight of the month so far - hmm.🤔Well the most memorable for me was evicting a giant flying cockroach from my apartment 🪳, does that make me a true New Yorker now???

But from a Business side, TKS has moved into a whole new phase!

I do a pretty bad job at telling everyone what we do, but the through-line is, and always has been to create a safe space for founders to gather, so we can share, learn and build our rocket ships that bit faster.

Today that means we:

Organise Events. (If you Subscribe you’ll get free / priority access)
Promote others, like these Fundraising or Female Founder events
Newsletters (like this) and our Events Digest to keep you updated
Ongoing Conversations (WhatsApp & Slack).
And our LATEST launch - our Co-Founder Search Database .

🙏 Every time you come to an event, subscribe or just tell your friend 😊

The TKS family grew too, so hello - and sadly, nearly goodbye 😢 to our amazing Interns - Amanda - Web Dev’, Alexis - Events, Krish - Marketing

Will be impossible to replace them, but we need to try.

Intern and Volunteer for The Knowledge Shop

We are looking for event and marketing volunteers, or Interns able to support for Credit - email me to find out more.

Coming up in this issue…

📸 Event Re-Caps
Upcoming TKS Events
👋 Member Welcomes & Shoutouts
📚 Useful Resources
📆 Event Calendar

See some of you Friday for our Coffee Huddle or Aug 20th for Coworking

Tori

➡️ ps - One final reminder about all things events at our events website

🙏 This Issue is Presented by… 🙏

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An entrepreneur 📈
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And a New Yorker 🗽

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Get priceless business lessons, raw founder stories — and a dose of New York attitude. 😉

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📆 Recent Event Re-Caps 📆

Speed Dating - Primary Coworking

Speed Dating Round 3 - The Yard

An early morning coffee huddle - Nomadworks

Want to Sponsor a Future Event or Newsletter?

Get in touch and help our amazing founders in 2024 💪

📆 TKS Community Events 📆

☕️ 9th August. Coffee Huddle - Small group session with fellow founders from across the pond.

🖥️ 16th August. Member Only Virtual Meet up - The digital version of our in person get togethers. Perfect for busy schedules and digital nomads.

🤝 20th August. Coworking. No Agenda, just work side by side other amazing founders and ask questions, give demos, and make the day your own.

📢Hello & Shout Outs 📢

Social Paws

A dog sharing marketplace, connecting dog owners and non-owners to SHARE the love of dogs.

Founder Jeanette Eng is also on the hunt for a DLD (Dog Loving Developer 🐶), if that’s you - reach out.

SocialPaws.com

Meet Cassie building YaYa.

Yaya's mission is to tame the chaos of parents' mental load because there is no more universal challenge among parents, especially those with young kids.

Reach out and talk anything parenting or fancy Vermont Cheese (her guilty pleasure)

Meet Darren, Men’s Skincare

Working on an early stage concept in the skincare space helping consumers get better skincare routine and products recommendations from their aestheticians.

Know any aestheticians? Daren would love to connect

Meet Sondra, Ed-Tech

I'm building a web-based 3D modeling platform for college courses, to increase problem solving and critical thinking skills.

In a former life Sondra was an adjunct professor at NYU teaching Art History to engineers - now that’s a great conversation starter

Dr. Ax, Productivity & UX Design

Ax is an amazing founder, and in a former life completed a PhD in Human computer interaction (ie vvv SMART)!

He’s developed a lead magnet tool to help him find clients, and shared with the TKS community too. If you have some feedback on it hit me up. download it on Slack here

Rebecca Brock Dixon, Gaming

Founder of The Gamehers, global community re-shaping the gaming landscape for women.

Rebecca’s currently focussed on all things growth 📈…

Know any brands wanting to reach 1+ million women video gamers?? 🎮
😇 Have any angel investors in your network?

thegamehers.com

Want to be featured? Join us on Slack or WA & say hello 👋

📚 Tools & Resources 📚

💰 New Fund launch: Cade Ventures aka THEY HAVE MONEY TO DEPLOY If you're building in Health tech, ecommerce or connected hardware, and raising

💰 New VC Firm Alert: GoodLight Capital - new VC firm based out of Tennessee actively writing $200K checks in companies building in Future of Work, FinTech, EdTech, and more. 🙏 for sharing Darrel.

📊 Will your Startup be acquired? Stats via Carta. Exit: Avg 5-7 yrs; 7-10 for I.P.O. Acq’ Rates: 0.7% Pre-seed, 1.7% Seed, 2.5% Series A, 3.1% Series B

⛑️ For those in Healthtech: This newsletter aggregates events across NYC’s health ecosystem

💰 Need Sales / Customer Outreach Help? Notes from the last TKS founder huddle, to help with all things growth!

🪽 Female Founders looking for Angel Funding - Angel Hive just crossed my radar...

🔮 State of Pre-Seed Q1 2024 So many insights - but thought the impact of small investments was interesting... "41% of checks in SAFES under $1 million were below $25,000." Shows the impact / importance of angel investors.

📆 Event Calendar 📆

Our website curates startup and founder specific events across NYC. From pitch nights, to networking events, accelerators and workshops, promise there is something for everyone.

Here are some of our favourites happening over the next 7 days…

📆 Thu 08 Aug 9:00 AM

Founders and Funders: NYC Edition August 8 | 🏠 In person | 👋 Industry Agnostic

RSVP

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📆 Thu 08 Aug 5:00 PM

Consumer AI Happy Hour | 🏠 In person | 🤝 Consumer

RSVP

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📆 Fri 09 Aug 3:00 PM

Harlem Biospace @ Mink Open House | 🏠 In person | 🌎 Climate

RSVP