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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

VP of Platform and Portfolio Success, Amira Ouji, and Head of Community, Liz Westhouse, recap the event below. At Rise of the Rest, we aim to meet founders where they are — on the ground in their communities, and in a mindset shaped by real constraints, not blind optimism. Peer feedback > guru advice. Show panic, get panic.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#.

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Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act

Dream It

Apply through your company’s primary bank, or consider community banks and non-bank SBA-lenders for faster processing. Banks that have gone live include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and many community banks, among others. UPDATE over $1,800,000,000 #PPPloan now processed by @SBAgov mostly all from community banks.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. They’re more light weight, easier to use and more social. To add a post to Facebook button I use a tool called fbShare.me.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We help co-lead the execution of Startup Aotearoa, a one-to-one program for first-time entrepreneurs to get coaching and advice from a startup advisor or mentor as they navigate the first time they’ve gone through the journey. Lots of community discussions. For us, it was not a good use of money.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). That was a quick meeting!!

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