Dream It

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

co-founder). This shows that you’re comfortable at “trial closing” and the type of founder who actively looks for the “obstacles to sale.” It set you miles apart from other founders and quickly demonstrate your sales skills. Those are the 5 MORE things VCs wish startup founders knew before pitching.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Founders seem to get that. Don’t get me wrong—I don’t mean trust in the sense that VCs think founders are just going to get a fake passport and move to Fiji, or that investors are secretly plotting to take over the company. Maybe that would be helpful for a founder to share: “I’m excited to have you as part of this round.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Kristin Marquet , Founder, Tech/Analytics/PR Expert, Academic Finance Background at Marquet Media.

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Dream It

JULY 12, 2021

We hear founders say “I did a SAFE and inventors get a 20% discount and a $7m cap”. Sophisticated investors will argue that an uncapped note or SAFE misaligns founder and investor interests. As long as the next round is priced higher than the cap, both founders and seed investors are aligned and want the valuation as high as possible.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s your job as a founder to find out the specific risk associated with that attribute and to find out if the reason given is the only reason. But if these people are willing to come on without the co-founder title, that’s between them, you and their employment contract. Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Shivani Gupta, EO Queensland, multi-business founder, author, speaker and coach Profit from profit My big learning from EO Malaysia member Fong Leng Wong is: Profit from profit. My first female mentor was the incredible Janine Allis , founder of Boost Juice. Express your view in a calm and professional way.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Whether true or not, startups with multiple founders face key issues that will affect the company and its ability to raise money, grow, and ultimately be successful. Conventional wisdom is that startups with cofounders succeed more often than startups run by solo entrepreneurs.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Co-founders of sportsbook FanDuel, Nigel Eccles and Rob Jones, announced this week the public launch of their cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook B etHog and its closing of a $6 million seed funding round. Consumers now have a trusted brand of a first-class online casino and sports betting experience not found anywhere else.

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The founders of medtech startup T33 Dental explain how they prioritized developing a sustainable company from the earliest stages, and how other entrepreneurs can do. The post How These Founders Are Building Sustainability Into Their Medtech Startup appeared first on VentureWell.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Six startups showcased at Investopia 2025 represented a diverse range of industries, demonstrating the breadth of innovation within Crimson Founders 2025. HexemBio received The Crimson Founders Most Innovative Tech Award for its advanced stem cell therapy, which aims to enhance longevity and rejuvenate the immune system.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts from BERKONOMICS – Dave Berkus After 50 years in entrepreneurship and 200+ startup investments, here’s what most first-time founders get dangerously wrong: They obsess over the wrong metrics. The post What founders often get wrong! ai, still in restricted beta. Picture created using DALL-E3.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Founders are not machines. The rate is even higher among founders: Studies reveal that entrepreneurs are more prone to depression (30%) and anxiety disorders (27%) compared to non-entrepreneurs (Journal of Business Venturing). A founder’s wellness can have a ripple effect, influencing everything from team morale to investor confidence.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

These techniques enable founders to show up with their full brilliance when the pressure goes through the roof at work. Contributed to EO by Aaron Houghton, an EO Colorado member who is the founder and CEO of Dory , the world’s largest community (10,000+ members) dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2024

At EO’s 2024 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Singapore, the more than 1,800 attendees from 65 countries sat in on an energetic fireside chat with Chatri Sityodtong , founder and CEO of ONE Championship , the world’s largest martial arts organization. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 1, 2025

That kind of determination and conviction is exactly what defines the very best YC founders. I can’t wait for all YC founders to benefit from his mentorship and land those crucial first customers faster. In the end, his vision paid off spectacularly when he sold Clever for $500 million.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 13, 2025

Recently, Lightspeeds Mercedes Bent offered founders some reasons why a VC might ghost a founder. The post was met with a bunch of founders responses, mostly from men, that equated a lack of response with disrespect. Is it possible that theyre missing out on a deal from a founder because they ghosted the last deal?

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Built on the award-winning Forged in the Dark framework, this experiential learning tool places participants in the roles of startup founders racing to bring their vision to life before time and resources run out. Forge the Future allows you to experience these challenges firsthand.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

I started out as a founder — I launched an edtech company focused on improving childhood literacy. That’s really where I started developing a lens for evaluating early-stage companies — not just for product-market fit, but for founder clarity, business model resilience, and global scale potential. Thank you so much for joining us!

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

Seven Stars is positioning itself as a launchpad for the next generation of AI founders, providing them with pre-seed and seed-stage funding, to help build products that aim to empower billions globally—not just the top 10%. As a former partner at SV Angel , Lee has worked with hundreds of founders and has helped startups raise over $1.25

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

On the other hand, a solid financial background will mitigate some of the stress-inducing factors of entrepreneurship, preventing you from experiencing burnout (which is something that 54% of founders experienced in 2024). Team up with fellow founders to co-create businesses. Find opportunities to join advisory boards.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. An examination of several high profile stories this past year about female CEO issues lays bare the other reason: It’s not “founder friendly.” It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that. Travis should hire her back?? He should have been long gone.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 27, 2025

Company: KEVO | Founder: Paul McMahon | Hometown : Mercer County From tinkering in his garage to refining cold brew coffee for the masses, Paul McMahon the founder of KEVO, is on a mission to make better coffee more accessibleand healthierfor everyone. What was your first big mistake as a founder? But hindsight gave him clarity.

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MAY 2, 2025

nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Investors can sign up for a two hour slot here to get six intro meetings to founders.) The founder barely knows who you are and you dont have a board seat. No one likes obligatory meetings, least of all the founders.

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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. When my wisdom teeth came in over the years, there were a few days here and there that the pain got so bad that had I woke up feeling as bad as I did the next day, I was going to do.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

Teaching Responsibility Thinking to Startup Founders Later, at Launch413, I helped startup founders navigate their growth journey. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. ” Founders, like many good employees, are biased toward action. “Isn’t it obvious what I need to do?

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 29, 2025

Having worked for top tier investment banks and sold a SAAS business and having been backed by some of the worlds top accelerators i have some idea of what it takes to become a great leader and i will use this to share a little bit of experince with what i think it really take to be a great leader.

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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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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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JANUARY 30, 2025

Founders still want to get press and investors to notice them, but they dont have a lot of money to work with. Founder podcasts and interviews are a great resource for launch hacks. What are they supposed to do today? There are lots more ideas to be had.

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Venture Well

MAY 27, 2025

Founder mental health isnt a peripheral issue. Its a critical factor in startup outcomes. The post Stepping Back To Move Forward: Practical Strategies for Healthier Startup Cultures appeared first on VentureWell.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The other super power should be in service of the founders you back. Pick something that is matched against the stage and markets you partner is investing in and just become the go-to person for the founders. Maybe you are just excellent at sourcing new grad engineering hires from your old school. Or running data analysis projects.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During Q&A, both sides start engaging in a sort of conversational dance - with one side leading (VC/customer) and the other side following (founder). But often, we’ll hear founders misstep and repeat easy mistakes that throw off Q&A flow and cause startups to lose points.

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StartupNation

JUNE 13, 2025

Here’s what I’ve learned about growing a LinkedIn presence—and how founders and startup teams can use it to grow their influence, too. Why Founders (and Their Teams) Should Be on LinkedIn In the early stages of a company, people aren’t buying your product—they’re buying into you. —on LinkedIn).

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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.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic sense. Help founders think two steps ahead. And if you can, bring a co-founder along for the ride to lean on.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( The other day, I had a difficult conversation with a founder who clearly felt like VCs were the problem in her fundraising process. I don’t need to remind such a founder how the world is stacked against them. Then, there are nuances.

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