“He believed in me very early and when I started Lattice he was my very first investor,” says Altman. In 2014, Howard pushed him for an executive role at Teespring, and then backed his HR unicorn startup Lattice. Jack Altman, brother of former Y Combinator chief and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, vouches for that. “Being a founder is lonely and sometimes you can’t talk to your team, spouse or board and we like to be in a position where we can be a trusted third partner.” “We stand in your corner, not your kitchen,” says Howard. Howard also scored investments in some buzzy startup brands like Figma and ThredUp and forged a rule to avoid board seats. “Chris is more about the story, brand positioning, and product marketing, and that applies to anything,” says Lattice co-founder Jack Altman. “Chris would say, ‘I can give you 15 hours a week’ to work for the company without a salary to help us succeed and that’s something that no other investor would do,” says Walker Williams, cofounder of Teespring, which was acquired by Amaze last year.Īlong the way, Silverberg retired, and Howard recruited TaskRabbit founder Leah Solivan as a new general partner, later scooping up Jamie Viggiano, the marketing director of the handyman marketplace, to double down on the Fuel’s promise to supercharge its startup’s marketing. When he made an early investment in the merch platform Teespring, Howard moved into their office to help run its marketing team.
Howard’s marketing chops have since come to partially define Fuel’s pitch. “If you help founders along the way with raising money, building a deck, making introductions but then go deep on things like marketing it means that they tell their friends,” says Howard.
#Broken ranks closed beta software#
There he landed seed deals in industrial-focused unicorns like Flexport, trucking software startup Convoy and HR platform Lattice for whom his background in marketing giant consumer brands proved useful.
#Broken ranks closed beta download#
Learn more about the Broken Ranks beta test, and download the client, on the game's website.In 2013, Ignition partner Silverberg pushed Howard to make a permanent move to the Bay Area under the banner of his own fund, Fuel Capital. Broken Ranks offers a number of varied and richly detailed environments to explore, with strategic turn-based combat that you can take on alone or in a party. It is "a place that does not forgive weakness," rife with bloodthirsty monsters outside every city's gates. The world of Broken Ranks is Taern, and the new game is a follow-up to Whitemoon's previous MMORPG, The Pride of Taern. In the open beta, players will have access to the early parts of the game, including some content from the previous test as well as new challenges to face. Thanks to the support of our testers, we got a lot of solid feedback, and the positive comments clearly show that you really liked Broken Ranks, which gave us a lot of energy.Ĭouple of words from Drygu (Krzysztof Danilewicz - Whitemoon Games). It follows the closed beta test that ran last month that Whitemoon founder Krzysztof Danilewicz called "a very pleasant surprise for us," with more than 20,000 applications coming from around the world. Polish developer Whitemoon Games' turn-based RPG Broken Ranks is running an open beta this weekend.
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