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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Lauren Mehler Pradhan. Gabe Munoz. Beth Zimmer.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Challenges.

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Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

ACA leadership met with directors from the SBA, members of the Ways and Means Committee, policy directors at the SEC and several members of Congress. This committee provides advice and recommendations to the Commissions on rules, regulations and policy matters relating to small businesses.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Being an effective founder of a high-growth company requires a bundle of technical, analytical, leadership and communication skills that don’t often come packaged in a single individual. Step 3: Give good advice Most startup advice is bad.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Silos breakdown the flow of information between actors in an ecosystem and in turn, more difficult for an entrepreneur to navigate. We work closely with angel investors, venture capitalists, technology transfer offices, federal and philanthropic funders, and other entrepreneurship support program providers. Clark Rinehart. Mara Hardy.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time? But for every sponsor who agreed to write a check, there were a dozen other vendors who were equally or more qualified to support the teams in the program.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

So my advice to you is, put everybody through product training.” We ha d several folks from my team, several of our longest-tenured PMs, all the co funders, most of the exec team. And then it let all of leadership together, not in separate meetings where separate things are happening, analyze and commit to a solution.