Aly DeNardo was Atrium’s employee #1 and chief of staff to Justin Kan before becoming a Venture Capitalist herself. She joins Rachel Sipperley today from San Francisco to share insight for businesses and startups on navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and along with how she built a team from 0-100 in a year, and her best advice for getting funded in the current startup environment.

What you will learn in this episode: 

How Covid19 will impact startups businesses and portfolios in next 18 months

How VC’s are changing their focus for funding in coming months 

The best way to preserve cash and extend runway for startups and importance of communication with all audiences

Ways to implement cultural exercises to engage your team and grow your brand

Tangible Tips:  

Ways to implement control in your life so you have capacity to show up for yourself so you can show up for those around you

Know what you don’t know, manage expectations, and over communicate 

Hold yourself, and those around you, to an incredibly high standard 

Resources:

Airtable is free tool that can replace expensive ones to organize your life and to dos

https://airtable.com/

The letter Mac Ventures shared with their entire portfolio company 

https://macventurecapital.com/in-the-news/guidelines-for-managing-through-this-pandemic-and-economic-downturn/

Aly’s blog post on time management: The Perfect Week Exercise

https://www.alden.work/etc/the-perfect-week-exercise

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg: Explains how habits are formed, how we keep to them, and the science behind building habits

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X


More About Alyson
Alyson DeNardo is a VC, Advisor, Founder, and Operator. She is currently a Partner at MaC Venture Capital and M Ventures. She is also the founder of Alden, an organizational and operational consulting firm for early-stage companies and large corporations. Prior to jumping into the Venture Capital world, she served as Employee #1 at Atrium, building out internal operations and hiring the first 100 employees in the first year.
Ms. DeNardo graduated early from both High School and College and came to San Francisco at 20 to work for the co-founder of Twitch, Justin Kan and became a Venture Capital Partner at 22. In 2019, She was named among the greats in Bam’s 99 Women That Forbes Missed. Aly is an active investor with a specific focus on female and underrepresented founders, an avid writer, speaker, and opinion holder on just about everything.

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