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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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What I learned after running my startup while traveling for a year

TechCrunch

Gilles Bertaux is CEO and co-founder of Livestorm , an end-to-end video engagement platform enabling organizations to create meetings and webinars at scale. The life of a startup founder is not typically relaxing. Your startup is your baby, and it needs care and feeding 24/7. Long hours are a given and days off are few.

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Draper Startup House launches first accelerator program, choosing Austin as its home

TechCrunch

As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. Today, there are more than 15 locations globally that are either hostels and/or co-working spaces aimed at traveling startup founders, digital nomads and other remote workers.