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Julia Enthoven

Seed Fundraising: 13 Tips You Won’t Get on Twitter

Seed Fundraising: 13 Tips You Won’t Get on Twitter

The interwebs will give entrepreneurs a lot of advice when it comes to raising money, but much of this literature is written by investors rather than founders, and some popular resources are from a decade ago. My cofounder (Eric Lu) and I raised a $1.7M seed round for our

How To Know When Your Startup is Failing

How To Know When Your Startup is Failing

In 2017, I left Google to work with a friend and former co-worker on a startup idea. We named [https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-chose-an-onomatopoeia/] the company Hot Barber and bought the domain hotbarber.com. For two and a half months, we worked long hours to get the business off

Do Product Managers From Google Make Bad Startup Founders?

Do Product Managers From Google Make Bad Startup Founders?

My cofounder and I both worked at Google for two years as Associate Product Managers. Then, we started a content creation website called Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com] together. When raising Kapwing’s Series A, I got the opportunity to pitch to Keith Rabois, a GP at Founders Fund. He

Security Hole in Heroku's Mailing Service

Security Hole in Heroku's Mailing Service

Heroku recently exposed our private database information because of a serious security vulnerability in their email service. I wanted to share this security hole with other developers and Heroku customers who might be affected. We’ve generally had a great experience with Heroku and have been customers since we started

Introducing Studio 2.0 by Kapwing

Introducing Studio 2.0 by Kapwing

Enable your team or organization with simple, collaborative multimedia software. Work together in shared digital workspaces to get more work done faster. Make images, videos, and GIFs that are high-quality and up-to-date. Perfect for media teams, marketing orgs, schools, and more.

VIRAL: How We Used Watermarks to Grow our Startup

VIRAL: How We Used Watermarks to Grow our Startup

We put a watermark on every video made with our website. Here's the story of the Kapwing watermark and how this growth strategy helped our brand and user base go viral.

Announcing a New Milestone: Series A

Announcing a New Milestone: Series A

I’m thrilled to announce today that we’ve partnered up with Saar Gur at CRV to grow Kapwing’s content creation platform. This Series A financing allows us to make Kapwing free to use, to grow our engineering team, and to evolve from a tool to a full multimedia

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