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Project Read

My co-founder Viv and I are so excited to be working on this product! The Science of Reading is sweeping the country now, helping teachers…

Jun 21, 2023

Jun 21, 2023

Product Market Fit (PMF) and Series A+ disconnected earlier this year

Normal market behavior is that seed companies are pre-PMF and Series A companies have PMF. You can see PMF metrics in this doc.

Sep 10, 2021

Sep 10, 2021

The five most common mistakes founders make in trying to find Product Market Fit (PMF)

I spend time with the twenty or so seed founders in my portfolio every week searching for product market fit. My guiding document is this…

Sep 2, 2021

The five most common mistakes founders make in trying to find Product Market Fit (PMF)

Sep 2, 2021

Are you building a library, a coffeehouse or a bar?

One of the defining moments for many education startups is deciding what they want to feel like. Often, founders start by wanting to be a…

Aug 26, 2021

Are you building a library, a coffeehouse or a bar?

Aug 26, 2021

It’s time for student-first edtech

About 75% of my portfolio is consumer edtech, and half of that is k12. I’m proud to be an investor in Outschool, Epic!, Lingokids, Juni and…

Aug 12, 2021

It’s time for student-first edtech

Aug 12, 2021

Tech needs to stop whining about talent

I have many companies in my portfolio focused on talent acquisition and development for the tech ecosystem — Lambda School, Major League…

Aug 6, 2021

Tech needs to stop whining about talent

Aug 6, 2021

Burn It Down

After I sold my first company, NetGravity, I taught elementary and middle school for three years. Before starting my second company…

Jul 30, 2021

Burn It Down

Jul 30, 2021

Work is Going to Look Like College

This week, my college age daughter and two friends are staying with me. My daughter is working for Breakthrough Collaborative. One of her…

Jul 23, 2021

Work is Going to Look Like College

Jul 23, 2021

When do you know if you have a company

One of the persistent myths which provide comfort to both founders and investors is that you have a company once someone invests. And then…

Jul 9, 2021

When do you know if you have a company

Jul 9, 2021

10 little bugs in the way founders are wired as they transition from seed to Series A

As a three time founder, and now investor in thirty founders, some patterns are pretty clear to me about the things that make most founders…

Jun 16, 2021

Jun 16, 2021

John Danner

John Danner

Co-founder and CEO NetGravity, Rocketship Education, Zeal Learning, Dunce Capital. john@danners.org https://dunce.substack.com/

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