On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Adam Spector, Co-founder, and COO of AbstractOps.

Located in San Francisco, CA, AbstractOps automates all the key aspects of running a startup. This includes covering the Human Resources (HR) function, documents & contracts, financial (such as payments, taxes, and accounting), and compliance/regulatory. AbstractOps combines everything into a single platform tied to the best 3rd party software platforms in the world (such as Gusto, Carta, Quickbooks, and more), which means that with a single click of a button, a user can now automate processes end-to-end that would otherwise take dozens of steps.

Adam Spector is a 3x founder, angel investor in a dozen unicorns, and a GP in a VC fund. 

Prior to his current company, he worked in product at Twitter with a focus on APIs. His prior startup, LiftIgniter, was a machine learning personalization company acquired by Maven. He also led sales & GTM activity at Datalogue, an ETL machine learning business acquired by Nike. 

He has focused his investing activities on game-changing startups with driven, dedicated founders. Some of his best investments to date include: BetterUp (executive coaching), Human Interest (401ks), Diamond Foundry (synthetic diamonds), Checkr (background checks), Zoox (self-driving cars), Relativity Space (3d printed rockets), PayJoy (loans), Ginkgo Bioworks, Jet.com, Blockfi, August Smart Lock, Certn, Boom Supersonic, On Deck, Equi, Placer.ai, Inversion Space, Attentive and many others.

With his team member, Adam is the General Partner of the Operator Fund, which invests in early-stage startups with a relationship to AbstractOps. 

Adam advises startups and investors and discusses the state of startup investing. 

Visit AbstractOps at www.linkedin.com/company/abstractops/about/; www.abstractops.com; twitter.com/abstractopsco.

Reach out to Adam at: www.linkedin.com/in/adamspector2/; ops@abstractops.com; adam@abstractops.com; twitter.com/aspec00.

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Testing Your Ideas at Low Cost

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

It’s important to validate your startup ideas.

Here’s a list of low-cost methods to do so:

Search the web for competitive solutions.

Look at how they are positioned in the market relative to your idea.

Do any of those solutions have recurring revenue?

Research those competitors to learn more.

Build a landing page on your website and place your proposed product on it.

Drive traffic to the page using direct email and see how many signups you get. 

Check the search traffic to see how many keywords you can use and how much they cost.

Test your page with a few key search words to see what results it brings.

Promote the proposed product on social media.

See what feedback you get for it.

Try variations of the product, price, and promotion to see how that changes the results.

You don’t need a shipping product or even one in development to see how it will be perceived. 

Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.

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