Mentorcam March - Rune Hauge

03/02/22 • 10 min

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

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Topic: Funding your startup

For the first installment of Mentorcam March, we chat with Rune Hauge, the Founder and CEO of Mentorcam. Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator.

Questions:

How do you build a fundraising strategy?
What would make one investor a better fit than another?
How do you identify the right investors to go after?
How do you create the best Y Combinator application?
How do you find seed investors?
How important is the MVP in the fundraising process?

Book a call with Rune by accessing the link below:

https://mentor.cam/runehauge - Use Promo Code CODE

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Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off!

Topic: Funding your startup

Questions:

How do you build a fundraising strategy?
What would make one investor a better fit than another?
How do you identify the right investors to go after?
How do you create the best Y Combinator application?
How do you find seed investors?
How important is the MVP in the fundraising process?

Book a call with Rune by accessing the link below:

https://mentor.cam/runehauge - Use Promo Code CODE

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S6 E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler

Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, "why can't you put a movie on your phone?". This got Brian's mind racing, and he went home, ripped a movie into the specific format for his flip phone, and shared it immediately with his friend. Post that, he competed in science fairs, even at the state level. One of the projects, he built a craft that was lighter than a fingernail, and flew without wings or engines.

Brian led a portion of the engineering team at Uber, after inserting himself as an intern into the right meetings, which awarded him interesting projects. At the same time, he was building a crypto marketplace on the side, but struggling to get it launched. After taking a trip to reset, his mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need.

This is the creation story of Doppler.

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