<aside> 💡 Welcome! Thanks very much to everyone who participated in the QVentures Female Founder Office Hours. We were truly amazed by the overwhelming number of applications we received and the exceptional quality of the businesses that were presented.

In an effort to support you further on your entrepreneurial journey, we’ve curated this page filled with valuable resources that we hope to continuously update as we discover new insights. We encourage you to take a look around and share any feedback or suggestions you may have.

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🚜 The Pre-Seed Basics

Idea Validation

• Antler: How to solve a problem worth solving.
• Y Combinator: How to Evaluate Startup Ideas.
• QVentures on the things we look for in pre-seed companies and how we think about team, market and product.

Launching an MVP

• Antler on whether you need an MVP to get pre-seed funding.****
• Y Combinator on how to launch an MVP.

Financial Projections

• VC investor PJC highlights some useful tips for early-stage financial models, what investors look for and some tips on common mistakes.

Building a MOAT

• NFX shares 11 30-minute episodes of free, incredibly value-add content on all things network effects, unpacking the complexity in easy and digestible video format.
• NFX Durability formula and 26 questions to determine your startup's future value from network effects, IP, brand, scale and stickiness.

Go-to-Market Approach

• Blackbird Principal Tom Humphrey shares a four-part series on the foundational principles of go-to-market and product-led growth highlighting different GTM models and how a founder might go about determining their optimal strategy.
• Angular Ventures discusses growth models, the specific mechanisms by which one user turns into many, and how this helped Airtable in the early days align their decision-making to support growth.
• Michael Mignano, Founder of Anchor shares his framework for creating "Super Goals" when executing ambitious goals and how this helped provide clarity to take their relationship with Spotify to the next level.
• Angular Ventures explains why engineering-led growth may not always be the best route forward for early-stage startups.