Michael Houck

Megaphone

We create high-converting LinkedIn, X, and newsletter content for over 50 founders and send it viral with the help of over 400 creators with tens of millions of followers.

Founder

Founding Journey

Helping founders build, grow, and raise capital for their startups.

launch house

An early stage venture fund for companies building the New Silicon Valley. It began as a membership club built around IRL coliving residencies in LA, NYC, Tulum, Aspen, Miami, and Lisbon.

Co-Founder

Airbnb

Product Manager

Uber

Product Analytics, Uber Eats

TherapyNotes, LLC

Software Engineer

85,000+ founders read my free weekly newsletter. Follow me to learn about startups and venture capital.

I didn't know what a startup was until after college. I wasn't lucky with connections or mentors.

But within a few years my startup raised $23 million from a16z + other investors.

Along the way I:
· Cold emailed my way into an early role at Uber Eats
· Got laid off by Airbnb during COVID
· Built an audience of ~100K across LinkedIn and X
· Started a coliving residency for startup founders in Tulum
· Co-founded a venture fund and made over 50+ early stage investments (incl. Figure and Beehiiv)

More recently I've bootstrapped my personal holdco from $0 to $100K MRR in under 2 years. We help founders through content, connections, capital, and services:

· megaphonestudio.com → let my content agency build your newsletter or social media audience
· megaphone.network → partner with big creators in your niche

· join.foundingjourney.com → get my weekly playbooks and advice alongside 75k founders (for free)
· upgrade.foundingjourney.com → get ~100 fundraising case studies from founders I interviewed
· go.foundingjourney.com/fundraising → get connected with investors (including me)

I'm also building a new YouTube channel. Here's a recent video on the history of Silicon Valley: youtu.be/alUQxEldEMM

A weekly newsletter designed to help you build, grow, and raise capital for your startup.

oinc

Crypto for Good = Layer 1, game mechanism, cross platform mobile/web and smart contracts

Co-Founder & CEO

Stealth Startup

Exploring....

Cyrus Security

Built a mobile team for a B2C app. Recruited engineers who enjoyed work, grew professionally & delivered a complex app in React Native.

Mobile Team Lead

Celsius

Accidentally hit critical deadlines and created company's first beautiful web app for our customers. 

Used React, React-Query, Typescript & Material UI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkIcJ9YbjK8

Front End Tech Lead

Software Consultant

Few productions that appeared in the media:
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Celsius Network Web App - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkIcJ9YbjK8
Karma (Aleph VC) Social Network App - http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3649809,00.html
Camera51 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2015/11/05/10-best-iphone-6s-apps/

Some of my past clients include: Minta AI, Gamaya, Watteam, OurCart, Aleph VC, AGT, OwnerListens, Camera51, Funzing, Inuitive, Groupay, 3Bots, Strauss, AYCEME(Games Catalog), Sonarium Medical and more.

iOS and Sofware Development Solutions / Freelancer

Wix.com

Serving a "small scale" of users. Used React, React Native, Redux, Node.js & Javascript.

Full Stack (Web & Mobile) Developer

Applicaster

Creating beautiful iPhone/iPad apps used by millions.

Awesomedary iOS Developer

superDimension

•	Dealt with HLSL, unmanaged C++, Direct3D 10, DirectShow, C# wrappers, WPF, Interops

•	Volume based rendering.

•	Medical image views

•	Maintained very complicated old code, added features and resolved difficult bugs.

3D Software Developer

Graphtech Computer Systems ltd

•	Creating animation and lighting effects for GUI controls using CLUTTER, GLSL and COGL (OpenGL wrapper) libraries.

•	Created GUI widgets (buttons, video player, list control, etc..) for http://www.firstelse.com handset.

•	Created JSON scripts, defined interfaces for controls, embedded C coding on Linux.

Graphics Software Engineer

Exent

•	Designed low level components of IGA (In Game Advertising) technology for DirectX games that included win32 mouse, keyboard hooks and DirectX calls interceptions and content manipulations.

•	Did performance analysis reports and improved major performance bottlenecks.

•	Created ActiveX controls and tools for manipulating and extracting games content

Core Technology Software Engineer

Exploring ideas

Since 1992, I've been focusing on technology, being part of a computer-art subculture called the demo scene. As an immigrant my family didn't have much money so I bartered with software to get access to source code to reverse engineer and develop my skils.

I'm fascinated by human psychology and consumer startups. While I've made dozens of great consumer apps over the years, I'm passionate about solving high impact problems through startups.

I'm happy to connect with awesome people :) 

P.S. Let me know why you want to connect if you send a connection request.

Shimon Shvartsbroit

כיף לראות מתחרה מגייס $20M pre-seed!

שנינו חווינו פידבקים דומים מ-VC:
* אף אחד לא מוריד בימינו אפליקציות
* האם יש לזה שוק?
* למה צריך אפליקציות עם UI כי הרי סוכנים יכולים הכל עם ממשק שיחה
* אפשר לעשות הכל ב-lovable ב-web, למה צריך אפליקציה. 
...
תודה לתומכים ולמאמינים! 

ממשיכים ב-QA פנימי -> אפליקציית מעקב הרגלים מבוססת פוקימון.

Reinventing Mobile App Creation - app51.ai

בקרוב כל אדם שיודע לפתור לעצמו בעיה ולעוד קבוצה קטנה של אנשים  יוכל ליצור אפיקי הכנסה נוספים של אלפי דולרים בחודש.

החזון של APP51 להיות הפלטפורמה שמאפשרת את הצונאמי הזה.

כדי לאחל לנו בהצלחה, עשינו אפליקציה של הכנת קוקטיילים ב-one shot.

נראה לי שזה מספיק משוגע שזה אפילו יכול לעבוד 😉

אפליקציה כזאת לאימונים לאימונים לא תמצאו ב-Appstore
APP51

קר בחוץ. זה זמן טוב לתבל שיחה רומנטית עם fun.
תהנו מ- Hitch AI

נוצר באהבה ב-APP51

Let's build a coffee tracker because... why not 
APP51

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