What’s Unusual about Unusual Ventures?

Introducing The Unusual Method

From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.

All product ventures incubated in the Muni collective (like Weird inc.) are designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness.

Eight Lessons from the Distributed Podcast So Far

Looking back over the 2019 run of the Distributed podcast, one is struck by the wealth of insights our guests have shared in each and every episode. We’ve spoken to CEOs, activists, lawyers, author…

Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating a…

The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

What you need to know about the next big startup archetype

Essential Randomness — Ms Boba's Emporium of Weirdness

Ms Boba's experimental website. Open for business while construction is ongoing.

Essential Randomness — Ms Boba's Emporium of Weirdness

Ms Boba's experimental website. Open for business while construction is ongoing.

Interviews with Failed & Successful Startup Founders

+200 interviews with the brains behind shut down and active startups. Learn from their wins and their mistakes and become a better founder.

News — Improbable

Stay up to date with the latest from Improbable — company milestones, venture launches, thought leadership, and industry insights. Explore how we’re backing and building the next generation of ventures.

Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the way… | Tricia Stapleton

Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the way they approach their work. Their commitment to accompanying community-based partners and building place-appropriate frameworks feels deeply aligned with the kind of infastructure many of us in bioregional work are striving for. Curious, I headed over to their website and interactive globe and zoomed into my own bioregion. Right there in Puerto Jiménez was a pin. I clicked to see which organization was connected to GainForest—and discovered it was us, Los Higuerones Opening the profile (see the screenshot below), I had one of those wonderful "aha" moments. Not only was it beautifully presented, but I realized the information had been pulled directly from our MaEarth project profile. Then another piece of the puzzle clicked into place: both MAEarth and GainForest are part of the HyperCerts Certified ecosystem. I thought to myself….This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms. It's infrastructure for trust, visibility, and connection. It allows organizations doing meaningful local work to be discovered, recognized, and linked into a broader ecosystem in a way that is does not put a burden on the grassroots partners to make ourselves legible. And this sense of support is also what we experienced throughout the first 21 days of July—motivated, accompanied, and reflected as we engaged in the @Ma earth crowdfunding campaign Huge appreciation to Holke Brammer, @certified, Matthew Monahan and Ma Earth , GainForest.Earth team, and everyone building these interconnected systems. Thank you for creating the kind of infrastructure that strengthens credibility while supporting the people doing the work on the ground. This is the kind of network our bioregions need…stregnthening trust and collaboration within, between and among.🙏.

Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI

Tom MacWright has "been around long enough to have tried previous attempts to decentralize the web... lived through ... open source optimism and seen how it can get weird... this relatively new and energetic community gave me renewed hope... also made me wonder where this is all going."Atmosphereconf attendeees were "far more diverse across multip…

12 Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups | Andreessen Horowitz

#1 “If everyone loves your idea, I might be worried that it’s not forward thinking enough.”  Anyone thinking about starting a business should be searching for mispriced opportunities.  While markets are mostly efficient in eliminating opportunities for extraordinary profit, there are always areas of an economy in which there are significant uncertainty. These areas are...

Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!

Make a $10 bet on where Weird will be in a year from now, and we will do our very best not to disappoint. Every paying customer is also an automatic stakeholder in the Weird indie enterprise.

The Rage to Master: The One Unusual Thing All Entrepreneurs Must Have to Win

Insight into how Unusual Academy leverages the principles of deep practice and master coaching to grow the best entrepreneurs.