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Notes from the room
Everything EA posts on LinkedIn, kept here in full: what we have learned running curated mixers, building functions inside startups, and structuring capital around milestones.
MixersCommunity18 August 2026
Why most founder networking fails before anyone speaks
A room of 300 people is not a network. Here's what we changed about how EA screens who gets in, and what it did to the quality of the conversations.
Read postGrowth ConsultingOperations4 August 2026
When to buy a function instead of hiring for it
A first senior hire costs more than the salary. It costs the six months you spend finding out whether it worked. Sometimes renting the function is the cheaper experiment.
Read postFlexi InvestmentFundraising21 July 2026
Staged capital beats a round size you had to invent
Founders routinely pick a raise number backwards from what sounds credible. Milestone-linked tranches remove the guess.
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