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What does it really take to launch a startup? It takes a vision, advice from those who’ve done it before… and caffeine. Lots of caffeine. 

The adventurous VCs on the True Ventures team can’t cover the vision part——that’s up to you. But great guidance and great coffee? Those they’ve got covered. In #TRU01, they paired fresh Blue Bottle beans——an investment in their portfolio and their favorite brew——with sunglasses and a copy of The Startup Owner’s Manual, penned by their pal Steve Blank. It was a terrific little toolkit for the entrepreneur in your life. 

If you’re curious about round two from True, now would be a good time to act. #TRU02 subscriptions close in just 6 days!

We feature great companies all the time on Quarterly; rip open any one of our mailings and you’re liable to find an innovative product by a startup that’s doing things the right way.

But we haven’t spotlighted a company that makes all those other companies tick——until now. We’re excited to announce that starting today, Silicon Valley obsessives and other innovation nuts can subscribe to True Ventures, a venture capital firm that’s probably supporting something great in your house as you read this.

Use a Fitbit to track your steps? Drink Blue Bottle coffee? Curl up with GoodReads? You have True Ventures to thank. And when you get their entrepreneurship toolkits in the mail, you can thank them all over again. Check them out!

We’ve got a wonderful thing going here at Quarterly, and we’re looking for a few great people to join our Los Angeles-based team. We’ve just listed new roles in marketing, operations, and software support, and have several other positions open on our careers page. What do you say? Feel like joining a business that feels a lot like pleasure? 

We’ve been looking to add a great new travel contributor to Quarterly for awhile. We love the way the best travel tools combine imagination and utility—they’re perfect presents, great surprises, and some of our favorite things to own. They really are “wonderful things.”

Well today that adventure begins. Meet Wander, the “brainchild of an adventurer and a designer.” Jeremy Fisher has meandered from Burma to the Nile; Keenan Cummings has done his own wandering through the wilds of the design world. Together, they’re building a new kind of product for the chronically curious. And they’ll be sending next-level Quarterly packages that will truly transport you. 

Check them out here.