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Li Jin’s Fireside Chat with South Park Commons

Li Jin, general partner at Variant Fund, joined us for the second time to discuss her perspectives on web3, DAOs, investing, the creator economy, and more.

Demo

SPC Demo Faire Spring 2022 Recap

Check out the amazing projects shared at SPC Demo Faire Spring 2022!

Community

How Can Shared Vulnerability Lead to Innovation?

Many people see vulnerability as a liability. But when shared, it can be an asset—and a key part of getting from -1 to 0.

Startups

Conviction And Certainty Are Not The Same: A Case Study of Orb

How one of the first teams to graduate from the SPC Founder Fellowship learned to pursue conviction instead of certainty.

Social Impact

A Braintrust for Social Innovators

Late last year, South Park Commons [https://southparkcommons.com/] and the Agency Fund [https://agency.fund/] partnered to create a new fellowship [https://medium.com/south-park-commons/announcing-the-spc-agency-fund-social-impact-fellowship-a04c46f8f6b2] supporting the founders of non-profits and social ventures. We wanted to kickstart an ecosystem of innovators addressing the decision-making needs of people facing

Community

What SPC Looks For in Applicants

How we evaluate potential members of the SPC community—it's all about velocity and acceleration.

Founder Fellowship

SPC-Script web3 Founder Fellowship

$400k in funding, pre-idea, for web3 founders.

SPC Fund

Innovating Upstream of the Venture Industry

SPC innovates in the venture space by focusing on -1 to 0.

SPC Fund

Early Results from SPC Fund I

Early results and learnings from SPC Fund I have us more confident than ever in the SPC model .

Startups

Startup Engineering Hiring Anti-Patterns

The most important traps to avoid when hiring startup engineers.

SPC Fund

Why SPC Invested in Meesho

Submitted by Bala Chandrasekaran Now that the SPC Fund has branched out into later-stage investing along with our regular early-stage motion, we thought it would be fun to publish some of our thinking on those investments. We’re excited to share this memo from fund chief of staff Bala Chandrasekaran

Startups

User Value as North Star: A Case Study of Column Tax

How the founders of Column Tax followed their north star through the SPC Founder Fellowship to a $5.1m seed round.

Startups

How to Take on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft: Start With Community

With the announcement of Render's $20M Series A, founder and early SPC member Anurag Goel reflects on how he decided to take on the big 3.

Social Impact

Announcing the Inaugural Social Impact Fellowship Cohort

A preview of the 9 teams joining the inaugural Social Impact Fellowship to explore how to support the agency of people exposed to poverty and marginalization.

SPC Fund

Why SPC Invested: Atlys, Gamma, Dashworks, & Luma

A peak behind the curtain on why the SPC Fund invested in four recently-launched portfolio companies.

Builder Events

Recapping the SPC Crypto Hackathon

Check out the projects produced in the first SPC Crypto Hackathon!

Demo

Recapping SPC Demo Faire 2021

To celebrate SPC’s culture of building, we held a Demo Faire in September 2021. Here’s a recap of the impressive demos from members & alumni.

Social Impact

Announcing the SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship

About Us This fellowship program provides early-stage support to innovators who are exploring problem spaces and conceiving new solutions to help people exert agency over their lives. This call is issued by South Park Commons [https://blog.southparkcommons.com/], a global community of technologists and builders, in partnership with The

Founder Fellowship

SPC Founder Fellowship Summer ’21 Applications Open

Applications open for a summer cohort of the SPC Founder Fellowship. We’re more confident than ever we can help founders get from -1 to 0.

Speaker Events

Taiwan’s Audrey Tang on Innovation Governance

Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang joined us for a conversation about her career in government and using tech innovate and improve democracy.

Community

Women of SPC

Highlighting and celebrating some of the remarkable women in the SPC community during Women's History Month.

Speaker Events

Cofounder Dating Best Practices

Gloria Lin, CEO of Siteline, joined us to discuss the trials, tribulations, and best practices in finding the right cofounder.

Speaker Events

Accessible Design for a Remote World: In Conversation w/Dylan Field of Figma

Figma cofounder & CEO Dylan Field joined us for a conversation about starting a design platform and keeping it stealth for years.

Speaker Events

Viruses, cancer and wellness: A chat with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann joined us for a conversation about the pandemic and opportunities in healthcare and tech.

Founder Fellowship

Kicking Off the Inaugural SPC Founder Fellowship

Announcing the first cohort of SPC Founder Fellows.