When it comes to listening to the market, Scoop co-founder Jonathan Sadow can teach you a thing or two. After experiencing the pains of carpooling himself, and meeting with enterprises …
Growth Lessons from Ethan Agarwal
Ethan Agarwal founded Aaptiv in 2015. If you haven’t heard of the mobile fitness app, then you aren’t one of the 200,000 users who have subscribed in the last 2 …
Self-Care for Tech Startup Founders
About Dr. Alexandra Greenhill Alexandra Greenhill, M.D., member of our March ’15 Cohort and founder of careteam.tech, is an award winning physician, health leader, tech CEO and one of WXN’s …
User Acquisition is Like a Campfire
About Luke Ahn Luke Ahn, member of our January ’17 Cohort and founder of Fronto (http://www.fronto.co/), has raised $40M and scaled Fronto to 80 employees and 18M downloads in 20+ …
The Importance of Peer Mentorship for Tech Founders
About Zach Coelius Zach Coelius, member of our fnInvestor Program, is a successful four time entrepreneur and now an independent angel investor in early stage technology companies including Branch Metrics, …
Scaling Culture in Tech Startups
About John Lyotier John Lyotier, member of our September ’16 Cohort, created LEFT as a home for innovative ideas such as YO!, WAVE, Left Travel and Villa (Acquired for $3M). …
Scaling Sales for Startups
About Domingo Guerra Domingo Guerra, member of our April ’11 Cohort, has raised $25M+ through Series B funding rounds and grown a Fortune 1000 customer base. He is a former …
Preventing Burnout for Founders
About Jarie Bolander Jarie Bolander, member of our May ’17 Cohort, is an engineer by training, entrepreneur by nature w/ 20 yrs and 6 startups— one of which was sold …
Why Founders Should Find Peer Mentors
About Kevin Holmes Kevin Holmes started Founders Network in April 2011 to ensure lifelong success for founders through peer mentorship. Prior, he relaunched the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
The Importance of Customer Feedback in Tech Startups
“Make sure you’re capturing customer feedback from the front lines so you can be credible with your organization and make the smartest decision possible about where to go.” – Richard White, …
Key Considerations for Scaling Up Your Startup from Expert Founders
Achieving scale is the holy grail for any tech startup founder, but transitioning from barely scraping by to scaling up effectively can be difficult and unpredictable. So, we rounded up …
Winning Those First Big Enterprise Clients | Scott Coleman, Ignition Ventures
Scott Coleman has 20 years of working at the intersection of tech and finance under his belt— and his mission is to share that knowledge with his portfolio companies. Coleman …
Why the Top Founders Hire Coaches
Helge Hellberg is an Executive Coach, working with CEO’s and people in leadership positions to create empowerment, alignment and clarity in their professional and personal lives. Helge focuses on the …
Mark diTargiani: Creating Trust in the Sales Process
This article is part of the fnSummit Speaker Series. Every October, Founders Network members meet in Napa Valley for 3 days and 2 nights of programming, real fireside chats, break-out …
The Top 50 Vendors Used by Startups
The following is a guest post from fnBlog Contributor David Cheng, Co-Founder/CEO of VendorStack. This post, originally posted on the VendorStack blog, provides an inforgraphic of the top 50 vendors …
