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. I reached out to about 15-20 other investors, of which about half were interested in taking a meeting. Every founder believes what they have is fundable, otherwise they wouldn’t try.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors. Does the founder know how to sell into real estate?

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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. It’s similar with investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

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 wrote about how “ both things can be true ” here. So, how do you know what truth is?

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This is going to be BIG.

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.” You might be surprised, because I think it has a lot to do with issues no one ever really seems to talk about. Startup founders always need help.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. The third quarter total also amounts to a 48% drop in funding from Q2, when female founders received $841 million across 132 deals. It feels like positive change is happening.

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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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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. of the meeting to talk more about you and your great company. That’s something I didn’t realize when I was a founder sitting on the other side of the table. For example.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. What happens sometimes is that we don’t have an honest conversation about that.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the lessons that I learned about startups was you can move quickly alone, but you can move fast further as a team, Godby said. 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.

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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. I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Wait, What About Yves?

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Dream It

MARCH 28, 2020

Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Testing & Diagnostics Biomeme tests air samples and swabs, serving as a mobile diagnostic lab for COVID-19. Biomeme has democratized molecular testing with its real-time PCR technology.

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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. They’re done by a team of people.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make noise about things that matter to you. When your values are challenged, do something about it. Think about it. 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. Stop being quiet.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences that the two large mobile operating systems have on distribution of software. I am strongly opposed to the monopolies that Apple and Google have over mobile apps that run on iOS and Android.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

What better way to recognize these hard-working innovators than by showcasing female founders who have been featured on EO’s Wonder podcast ? In her interview on Wonder, she talks about racism in all of its forms, her experience as a black female founder and how she’s using her position to make a difference. Listen here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is all about working on and developing an entrepreneurial attitude by making certain shifts in the way that you think. Successful founders also avoid beating themselves up. An excerpt from the book Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur , by Charlene Walters , MBA, PhD. You can’t win ’em all.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But we believed in the founders, Jonathan Neman, Nicolas Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru, and their vision of a healthier way to eat. Specifically, here’s what the founders brought to the table: Passion and Purpose: Fundamental to Sweetgreen’s reimagination of the fast-food system was a vision to build healthier communities?—?a

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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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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. I felt underpaid and undervalued.

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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. Below, I break down the survey results and what they say about the state of the industry.

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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. They want to hear about your big vision and understand what the business will look like in 3-5 years.

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Dream It

JULY 12, 2021

Be clear on the basic terms & key items of notes & SAFEs Before we can start talking about how to set the terms, including cap, let’s quickly review some definitions related to convertible notes and SAFEs. We hear founders say “I did a SAFE and inventors get a 20% discount and a $7m cap”. It’s one or the other, not both.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. I was reminded of this from one of my founders of non-white descent. Three of the founding teams are married couples.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? That said, I knew nothing about this industry. I’m a Sanzo drinker. I’m also a Sanzo angel investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So it’s about 20%. It’s just math.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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Founder Bounty

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Time and time again i hear about founders that have bigger egos then anything else rejecting offers from top tier VC's (like YC ) and eventually leading thier companies to fail. Building a startup is not about having an ego even though its your baby. These VC's will not only help you but will accel your business.

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Dream It

AUGUST 10, 2020

Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, sees founders make the same common pitch mistakes over and over. The self-proclaimed superlatives founders use to describe their startup often fail to elicit the intended response from investors. It’s about showing, not telling.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2021

They had constructed a very specific story about how that company’s features would win out over and above the deal that they missed. For years, he went on to advise other founders about how to generate VC interest, which really could have amounted to, “Be a warm body with a pulse in a sector that firm got shut out of a deal in.”

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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. I became passionate about helping entrepreneurs in this space develop authentic brands that connect with their audiences. Parenting has been another important part of my journey.

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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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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2022

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Read his earlier posts on what EO members wish non-entrepreneurs knew about entrepreneurs, how EO members define success , the impact of core values and lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Venture Studio program provides founders with resources and up to $200K of equity funding to develop their vision into a business with substantial market impact. empowers ambitious founders with bold ideas to create a lasting impact,” said Shintaro Matsumoto, President and CEO of NEC X. Venture Studio.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

In EO, we celebrate the remarkable women entrepreneurs who have shattered glass ceilings and are now paying it forward to pave the way for future generations of female founders to rise. Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By

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