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Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire

Startup Blogpost

From refining our product offerings to building a community of like-minded individuals, every experience has reinforced my belief in the power of collective action. What advice would you give your younger self just starting out in the startup world? Our advice to startups is to actively listen to your audience.

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Rising Tide: The Business of Climate Innovation

Revolution

With cost savings on the table and industries and communities suffering real knock-on effects from global warming, the business case for climate innovation has only gotten stronger. If your product lowers energy bills, customers will listen. The conversation: Why climate tech isn’t just necessary; it’s investable and inevitable.

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Combining Business and Family: Tips for Achieving Balanced Success

StartupNation

Delegation Strategies : Eliminate activities that take away your energy or time that you could be focused on for more productivity and brainstorm ways to allocate those tasks somewhere else. Respecting and respecting the way communication is drawn will help find such team members.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Today I’d like to talk about what startup communities outside of Silicon Valley look like, how they emerge and what makes them take hold. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Best Business Advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The best business advice I was given was in my year 10 woodwork class by my teacher—who was teaching woodwork to boys who were both frivolous and quick to make decisions on cutting into beautiful pieces of timber. The best advice I have ever received came from one of my mentors from the US. Demi Markogiannaki—founder at WeTeachMe.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.