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If you want to learn more about the topic, I’m soon hosting a completely free Personal Finance for Startup Founders live workshop.
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It’s a completely free hour-long workshop where I break down how to think about all personal finance matters as a startup founder, including:
- How much to pay yourself and your team
- How to think about fundraising for your startup
- Equity and how to manage your cap table
- Running a finance function and how to think about runway
- Exiting your startup - secondaries and M&A
There will be a live Q&A and we’ll also send a replay to everyone who joins.
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Personal Finance
•How to (Not) Invest Life-Changing Money
After selling my startups Teachable, I didn’t know what to do with the money I made. So I ran an A/B test - I gave half to Goldman Sachs to invest, while I invested the other half. Read the results
•7 Things I Wish I Knew About Money in My 20s
I didn’t learn anything about personal finance until I sold my startup at the age of 31. I made every money-related mistake in the book, so wrote this guide for everyone graduating college and about to enter the real world.
•10 Strategies for High W-2 Earners to Pay Less in Taxes
No one pays a higher tax rate than employees with a high salary. This guide breaks down 10 strategies high earners can use to pay less in taxes this year.
Startups
•The $1M ARR Growth Playbook
Read about the exact strategies we used at my last startup Teachable to scale to our first $1M in annual recurring revenue
•The Most Powerful Tax Break in America
Read this detailed breakdown on QSBS - Qualified Small Business Stock, the most important tax rule for anyone who works in tech startups in America
•6 Hard- Won Lessons from Selling My Startup
Navigating the M&A process to sell your business is not for the weak. Read about my time and the best advice I have for anyone going through a similar experience.
Free Live Workshop
I occasionally host free workshops on a lot of personal finance and startup topics. Here are the next two if you want to join:
How to Build a $250M Startup from Scratch: I’ll share the exact process I used to build Teachable, and how any startup founder can follow a similar process to build a large tech company.
How to Pay Less in Taxes: I’ll share the playbook we give high earning business owners and W-2 professionals to reduce their tax bill this year.
