This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’ll be the first to back up the notion that diverse founders have just as much ambition, drive, intellectual horsepower, creativity—you name it—than anyone else. There is, however, an advantage that some founders have over others that I hate to admit exists—but one that I would very much like to solve for.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture. founders, marketers, investors?—?and no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

His portfolio now includes companies like Compstak, Latch, VTS, 42Floors, and more. Camber Creek portfolio companies benefit from the network effects of his four partners from the real estate world. Founders speak to this network as part of the diligence process and get feedback. Does the founder know their customer?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Nearly half of the teams I’ve backed have female founders.

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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. If youve started a company, and things arent going wellthe best thing you can do for your startup, your investors money, and for your own mental health is to ask for help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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JUNE 17, 2024

The decision to fund a company is a combination of a lot of human factors—an assessment of one group of humans by another group of humans, fraught with apples-to-oranges comparisons. Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( Sorry, you can’t. So, how do you know what truth is?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” On the other had, I wouldn’t be surprised if Miami winds up with a fantastic community feel and vibe but struggles to produce big companies.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fast forward to today, the tech-forward company spans more than 140 stores nationwide; partners regularly with chefs , artists , and cultural icons ; caters to millions of app users; and has officially debuted as a public company on the NYSE. What did we see in the then-regional salad company? As a long-standing partner?—?Revolution

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. We talk to companies all the time that don’t know we’re a sector-specific fund. of the meeting to talk more about you and your great company. So context is key.

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APRIL 13, 2022

I’m incentivized to buy up as much of the company at as low a price as possible and you’re incentivized to sell as little of the company as possible by raising the price.”. Founders seem to get that. Of course, we never say that—and so as investors we probably don’t let founders know where trust has been built up often enough.

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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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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The shift from building a company to becoming an investor is an experience I’ve realized can’t all be learned from a playbook. As a founder, I was used to a fast-paced, high-reward environment. It’s a massive shift I didn’t fully appreciate until I experienced it firsthand.

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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. Contributed to EO by Vladimir Gendelman, an EO Detroit member and founder and CEO of Company Folders, Inc. ,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. 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.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. Rise of the Rest Senior Associate, James Barlia , and Senior Director of Strategy, Jamie Rodota , also headed to the Palmetto State to meet with local investors and judge the College of Charleston Founders Club’s pitch competition.

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Dream It

MARCH 28, 2020

More than 15 Dreamit Healthtech portfolio companies have products that are helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Biomeme has democratized molecular testing with its real-time PCR technology.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

So when someone gives you a single, declarative reason for a pass, they’re either saying one of two things: In my experience, companies that have this particular attribute have an outsized risk associated with them that isn’t in my view made up for by the potential return. Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. Kara said “no” because she wanted to start her own company, which she did and I backed. leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Four decades ago, I co-founded America Online (AOL), a company that helped usher in the Internet revolution. AOL was the first internet company to go public and, at its peak, nearly half of all internet users in the U.S. were on the platform. Based in Washington, D.C., In many other cities across the U.S., These are great stories.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

To shed additional light on this issue and its ultimate impact on startups, I partnered with the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation to ask proptech founders about their capital and strategic partners. So, what does this mean for a proptech founder with a heavy strategic investor base?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2022

Contributed by Libby Rothschild , EO New Jersey, the founder of Dietitian Boss , an online education and coaching platform that shows registered dietitians how to start, grow and scale a virtual private practice. Hitting the million-dollar mark isn’t easy—as every founder who has done so will tell you.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Co-founders Halen Mattison and Luke Neise announced the closing of an $8 million seed round for their startup G eneral Galactic , a pioneer in fossil-free fuel generation technology. The co-founders believe this approach will yield a more elegant and reliable solution for generating sustainable fossil-free fuels, both on Earth and beyond. “We

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Two prominent entrepreneurs share their views on starting a business plus 10 tips every first-time founder should have. A founders journey when taking on the challenge of launching a startup is filled with highs and lows.Their path to success will have challenges, setbacks, and moments of doubt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

With our commitment to driving transformational growth in our members’ lives, EO is proud to congratulate the 228 member-owned companies that earned a coveted spot on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list , which celebrates the fastest-growing privately owned companies in the United States based on three-year revenue growth. “I 433 on the Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. Those in The Fund’s portfolio of groundbreaking companies have the potential to reach similar heights.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

VCs are judging your ability to sell If you are running a B2B company, investors know that you need to “sell” to potential early adopters. To get your company off the ground, you’ll need to sell people on your vision, get them excited, and help them overcome their concerns regarding the risk of getting involved. co-founder).

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Dream It

MAY 19, 2021

Seasoned founders have a particular way of answering this question. In this Dreamit Dose, Managing Director Adam Dakin presents his view on the right way to answer it after hearing hundreds, if not thousands, of founder pitches. When you don’t state the ask upfront, here’s the incorrect answer most founders give when pressed.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Over a decade ago, when I was working for First Round Capital, we opened our doors for “Open Office Hours”—a series of open meetings where any founder could come in and chat with us for 20 minutes each. I’m not sure we backed any of the founders—but that wasn’t the point. We met quite a few smart folks. We had 70 investors sign up!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, explained this well in a tweetstorm last week: He ended with this tweet: Recently Apple announced a way for developers to suggest updates to the App Store policies. They are simply large enough and protected enough to go public with their struggles. It must stop.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Tentpole companies often have a connection to the legacy industry or some other unique advantage their HQ location offers.

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Dream It

APRIL 21, 2020

So the question remains: what is the appropriate amount of funding founders should request? This framework helps founders position their fundraising targets and avoid red flags with investors. Founders commonly frame their ask as an extension of runway (e.g. $1M 1M buys my company 12 more months). Don’t do this.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But Detroit prevailed in large part because a handful of companies within the auto manufacturing community served as “tentpoles,” firms so powerful and successful that they anchored an entire economic ecosystem. That raises the question: How does a young company evolve to become a tentpole of a local economy?

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

One example is whether it’s assumed that seed VCs maximize outcomes by religiously holding their shares until the company itself exits. Growth investors were the ones who added structure to deals and best companies typically just raised a single growth round ahead of IPO. I mean, we’re investors, not traders, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 22, 2023

You know that many startups fail to take advantage of one of the best kept secrets of product management and company strategy, the customer council. If you’re invested in a growing company that does not yet have a customer council, you may want to encourage the founders to create one.

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