This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2025

This is what I know it feels like for a lot of founders and investors alikefloating in the rarified air of extremely successful people defined by their outcomes. You dont owe them success, but you do owe them honesty, transparency, and a willingness to share enough information with others to enable them to help you.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

Teaching Responsibility Thinking to Startup Founders Later, at Launch413, I helped startup founders navigate their growth journey. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. ” Founders, like many good employees, are biased toward action. “Isn’t it obvious what I need to do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

Kalika Yap , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Los Angeles, California, is founder and CEO of both Citrus Studios , a branding and design agency, and Orange & Bergamot , a creative agency for female founders. She learned that her best source of actionable information came from people in other, related industries.

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JULY 8, 2019

Just the immediate priorities seem to take up more than one person’s potential working hours—so it’s no surprise that when it comes to something like social media, many founders have trouble making it a priority. The consequences of failing to position a founder’s profile aren’t always obvious—and it’s usually all about missed opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As the founder of a folder printing company, I often get asked how to design folders that effectively guide prospects through the buying journey. Use this space strategically to include your contact information, making it easy for prospects to reach out for more details. Plus, they double as promotional tools.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Future of Collaborative Shopping: An Interview with Adekunle Babasola, Founder & CEO of Prizeskout Corporation I had the pleasure of interviewing Adekunle Babasola, a project leader and product innovator with over 8 years of experience driving success in diverse environments. What is it that excites you about what you’re building?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

Founders still want to get press and investors to notice them, but they dont have a lot of money to work with. Collect Contact Information Its not enough to have a big following on a social network that has an algorithm between you and your following. Founder podcasts and interviews are a great resource for launch hacks.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Having a portfolio where half the companies have at least one female founder or person of color has made me think a lot about our culture. Informative and inspiring event programming will compliment the experience of the space itself. I'm thrilled to be an investor in The Wing --a Home Base for Women on Their Way.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During Q&A, both sides start engaging in a sort of conversational dance - with one side leading (VC/customer) and the other side following (founder). But often, we’ll hear founders misstep and repeat easy mistakes that throw off Q&A flow and cause startups to lose points.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Zach Wright, the founder and CEO of Grapevine Software , a cutting-edge Virtual Office platform designed to centralize communication, knowledge sharing, and team alignment for distributed workforces. Before the pandemic, the office was where teams connected and shared information. And the name?

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Swayam Doshi , Founder at Suspire. Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! I’m Swayam Doshi, the founder of Suspire. Many of our readers are aspiring founders. Lastly, remain adaptable and stay informed about industry trends and advancements.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

We look for founders who have achieved early product-market fit but still need help growing their pipelines more quickly, closing enterprise sales and increasing revenue from growth with existing customers,” stated Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh. “We And we like that the program has a stringent focus on customer acquisition.”

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. I was reminded of this from one of my founders of non-white descent. Three of the founding teams are married couples.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 8, 2025

Our content is informative as well as education from VC-backed founders who have experience in building companies from scratch and helps you navigate the online world this year. Your content has to stand out. At founderbounty we understand the importance of creating content that turns eyeballs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two HP Style) are dead.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Their journey shows how iteration works at both the program and company level: Finding the Right Problem to Solve The founder initially joined VVM during our first iteration. Through relationships built with mentors over two years, he discovered a new venture idea by combining his expertise with a mentor’s industry knowledge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Being an effective founder, however, is not just about the things that you must do but also about the things you should avoid, and understanding this distinction is another vital aspect of your entrepreneurial mindset shift. Successful founders also avoid beating themselves up. You can’t win ’em all.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. Who is actually building a portfolio whose founders reflect the diversity of the greater population? A whopping 17 of the 32 companies (53%) have founders that fit into those groups. Not directly, anyway.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

That said, all marketers know that high conversion rates don’t appear out of thin air; it takes quality content that informs and inspires to persuade your leads to make those final clicks. Newsletters have also been used to pass on information to leads in a creative, easy-to-digest way. Why is video email marketing so effective?

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

How Ravi Srivatsav, Founder of DataKrypto, Is Revolutionizing Data Security with Breakthrough Encryption Technology I had the pleasure of interviewing Ravi Srivatsav, Co-founder and CEO of DataKrypto. He was also the Founder of ElasticBox and led it to a successful acquisition by CenturyLink. The latest breach against major U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Often they waited until they were in the office but then the value of the information we got was limited. I also have really enjoyed working with Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint who like me was an enterprise software CEO (he was the founder & CEO of Zimbra — so he’s a perfect board partner for Tact). I am not over-selling.

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JULY 25, 2022

First off, many founders don't really feel the need to have external accountability. Not only that, founders get a lot of warnings from other founders about “losing control” and to be careful about ceding too much power to investors. I find that the best meetings with my founders include other investors.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

TrekIT Health (HT- ‘18) is a HIPAA compliant and secure, real-time workspace for synthesizing information across EHRs and care teams. Clinicians love TrekIT because of its intuitive and predictive interface which serves as a cure for disjointed information systems and a replacement for paper task lists.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They learn how to assess startups’ products, management, market opportunities and business models; how to perform due diligence, evaluate an investment pitch, and make informed investment decisions. SDAC Founder Mysty Rusk says, “We activate angel investors and fund companies with potential to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

However, the journey can be a steep learning curve and present numerous challenges, especially for first-time founders. This article explores five of the most common mistakes startup founders make and how you can steer clear of them. They can, however, be a good option for founders as a vehicle to hold shares in their company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. small business loans for their customers).

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Since his prospective co-founders were involved in the early development of the new dirt bike, Godby saw how well they worked together and what each brought to the venture. Godbys background is in mechanical engineering and product development, while another co-founder has an industrial design background.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio. Ensure your staff stay informed. David Fastuca, founder at Ambisie and Locomote. Keith Roberts, founder and creative director at Zenman. Kym Huynh, founder at WeTeachMe. Raymond Chou, founder and CEO at Infront Consulting Asia Pacific.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

Core strategies for local optimization include: Set up your business information in Google My Business, a free tool powered by Google specifically designed to ensure your business appears in Google Maps when people search for solutions you provide. Video content has been a staple of inbound marketing for a while now—and for good reasons.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In EO, I get continuous exposure and access to the right information or right person at the right time.” Brett Trembly, EO South Florida, Co-Founder, Get Staffed Up , No. are the two foundations for our growth.” — Joshua Tarbutton, EO Charlotte, Founder and CEO, Bravo Team , No. 489 on the list. “In over the past three years?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2020

The founder of Sweb , a digital advertising agency, says, “we were showered with generosity, support, and most of all, hope. In Berlin, Karsten Warrink is an EO member and founder of AmberMedia who is grateful for the chance to share stories and experiences with fellow German EO members.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Who she picked also says something about what she perceives as interesting, which is more information for her next employer. What if you interview a top founder and muddle your way through it, coming off as not particularly knowledgeable? You’ll soon become a better thinker and processor of information.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” Of course, unlike cars there is no direct comparison across each startup so these are just some general guidelines to try and even the information field.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company. Entrepreneur : “Sure. No problem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Brad says: “Talk to people you trust, whether they’re investors, board members, co-founders, mentors, whatever; make sure you’re open about the stress and the struggle you’re going through both financially in the business and personally.” For more information, please visit [link] and follow the author on Twitter.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 23, 2021

I realized a long time ago that the VC’s customer is the founder/CEO/portfolio company and that our investors (called LPs in VC speak) are our “shareholders” That was a very defining moment for me and has clarified what matters the most in a VC firm. 2/ We regularly provide our LPs with a lot of information on our portfolio.

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