Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a worthy endeavor and likely offers career benefits to ambitious employees and their employers, but it is not the purpose of a startup accelerator.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

While some level of stress is inevitable if you are running a startup, times like this can ramp up the stress factor considerably. Brad Feld, a partner at Foundry Group and investor in many successful startups, gave me this piece of advice. I can personally attest that it’s very easy for a startup CEO to feel alone and isolated.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

This is obviously a softball question that I’ve been Asked to Answer, as I’m the Founder/CEO of Gust. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When emerging entrepreneur David Davila started to develop his idea of a family business selling coffee, one of his friends recognized that he had a great idea and encouraged him to apply to Union Kitchen, a startup accelerator in the United States. Connect with your peers. Don’t worry about trying to reinvent the wheel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

million in a pre-seed round, funding that the startup plans to use to develop its platform and grow its workforce — as it looks to expand its reach in the UK, its second market (after the U.A.E.), Classifieds, or peer to peer commerce in general, has been stuck in the same old way of operation since eBay showed up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

One way to build that camaraderie is through incubators and accelerator programs. It’s easy to spin your wheels as a startup founder without help, and connecting with a startup-focused group is a good way to find people who are in a similar position, Segneri said. That’s the purpose of joining one of these programs.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

This is obviously a softball question that I’ve been Asked to Answer, as I’m the Founder/CEO of Gust. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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