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Pitch Deck and Hiring Lessons That Pay off With VC and Founder Michael Silton
“I love the pre-seed and seed stage of company formation, because this is where the...Read More

Building a Team Early On: Bandwagon Founder Harold Hughes Shares Key Tips
There is so much unpredictability that goes along with the startup journey, especially in the...Read More

Report on Which Financial Software and Firms Startups Are Using
A founder trying to grow a company can get bogged down in operational decisions, such...Read More

Sara Deshpande from Maven VC’s criteria for funding startups
Sara Deshpande, Partner at Maven Ventures, became the company’s first employee in 2014. Since that...Read More

How to Pitch a Non-Silicon Valley Investor
According to a 2021 US Venture Capital Outlook report from Pitchbook, funding analysts expect that...Read More

Keeping More of the Money You’ve Made Along the Way: A Wealth Management Panel
Wade Pitts’ philosophy on taxes is pretty straightforward: “paying what’s appropriate is patriotic, paying more...Read More

Reflections Following a $450M Acquisition: Two Things Giles Palmer Would Do Differently Next Time
After 13 years as CEO and Founder of Brandwatch, Giles Palmer reflects on what he...Read More

The Secrets to SaaS Startup Success with Dave Lambert
Dave Lambert grew up in Colorado and moved to the Bay Area to attend Stanford....Read More

Wattpad’s Allen Lau on Founding a Company with Global Ambitions
Wattpad was started by two immigrants, Ivan Yuen and Allen Lau, in Toronto, which is...Read More

How to Turn a Sales Presentation into a Conversation
“My belief is a presentation should be a conversation, and the dominant force in that...Read More

Should You Outsource Your Product Development?
According to Alvaro Chacon, founder and CEO of the creative and technical digital agency Stateside,...Read More

Pitch Practice With Jackson Square Ventures’ Victor Echevarria
As a founder, it’s your job to know all the ways your startup could potentially...Read More

Leading Product Strategy into a $230M Acquisition
As co-founder of Telesign, Stacy Stubblefield recalls that the startup journey was “painful” at first....Read More

Why Ryan Bennett Hates SMART Goals (And What He Recommends Instead)
“I hate SMART goals,” Ryan Bennett, founder of The Intentional Day, a company that equips...Read More

How An In-Person Networking App Tripled Its Users During the Pandemic
In 2019, the networking app, Plain Sight, raised $1M in pre-seed funding. Plain Sight is...Read More