As I am filling my O1 application, I am the founder of a SaaS company does 2.5m ARR in revenue, have a little press about me and we've raised a pre series A round of 4m
I dont have any memberships I am a part of and I've not really judged anyone's work (except helping 1 startup grow. I've helped them a lot in everything - recruitment, growth, pmf and now they are a team of 15 with 400k ARR)
Do you know what I could do for membership and judging criteria
I didnt want to go through any accelerators and apparently the administration does not value that much now.
But the attorney's said it helps to have memberships and judging too.
Thanks in advance for all the help
ykjs•4d ago
You don't have to join a accelerator where you have to give up equity. You could do something like ODF, or any program that has a selection process, is somewhat known and has a acceptance rate criteria. You could frame your VC as a membership too. For example YC is both a membership and a VC, Antler another. As long as your VC has a small membership page or program somewhere, you could frame it as such.
Judging is super simple, reach out to hackathons hosted by your friends, or in your area and ask if you can judge. Do a few, maybe 2-3. Try to get competitions where you co-judge are from companies with brand names like AWS, google, etc. That helps too.
emitrranmol•4d ago