If you’re a startup founder preparing for a growth spurt, you may not be as ready for scale as you think you are. There’s a simple model you can use …
How to Pitch an Early-Stage Investor: Pitch Practice with Rogue’s Caroline Lewis
For Caroline Lewis of Rogue Venture Partners, a lightbulb moment arrived while working at a startup as a recent college graduate. That company, a woman-led, health-focused firm in West Virginia, …
How to Drive Inclusion Through Workplace Social Indicators with Janine Yancey
We all want to build an inclusive workplace. But beyond recruitment and retention, what are the levers that drive better outcomes? Join Janine Yancey, founder and CEO of Emtrain, for …
The Mindset Framework: How Growth Thinking Helps Entrepreneurs Succeed
Successful entrepreneurs share a few common straits: Optimism, open-mindedness, and collaboration, among others. Anne Sandberg, an organizational development coach and Chief Learning Officer at the Center for Growth Leadership, explains …
Black Founders Focus: Overcoming Adversity with Khiry Kemp and Tiffany Dufu
This year has placed a national spotlight on the Black experience, and it’s more important than ever for successful Black founders to share their insight and advice. Oppti founder Khiry …
How to Build Culture from Day 1, Even in a Pandemic with Guissu Baier
Building a successful company is so much more than finding product/market fit. It is equally about culture: How you behave, communicate, create accountability, celebrate wins and learn from failures. With …
Getting Ready for Growth with Rashmi Gopinath
Growth doesn’t just happen by chance. Rashmi Gopinath, General Partner at B Capital Group, explains how to prepare for Series B, C and beyond — and what investors need to …
Thinking Like a CEO with Cam Kashani
Entrepreneur and coach Cam Kashani, also known as ‘The Godmother of Silicon Beach’, goes deep into the ups and downs of founding two startups, bouncing back from failure, and how …
Starting Up in Mexico with Deborah Dana
As the second-largest market in Latin America, Mexico is a critical market for startup founders to understand. Canasta Rosa founder Deborah Dana shares her advice for navigating the booming Mexican …
How to Bootstrap Your Sales Strategy with Stacy Stubblefield, TeleSign co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Stacy Stubblefield, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of TeleSign, sat down with Founders Network to discuss how she bootstrapped her first products and clients, scaled the fledgling startup to a …
Founder and Author Ellie Rubin Talks Entrepreneurship Lessons and Conquering Fear at 16,000 Feet
Entrepreneur, author and speaker Ellie Rubin sits down with Founders Edge to discuss the biggest lessons she learned in building and selling Bulldog, an early leader in digital asset management …
Founders Network Launches Seattle Chapter
Expansion Brings Founder-to-Founder Mentorship to Booming Startup Ecosystem Home to tech giants including Microsoft and Amazon as well as droves of other locally based tech startups, Seattle’s pipeline of locally …
5 Founders Network Entrepreneurs Featured on Ready to Rocket’s List of Emerging Companies
Ready to Rocket, a business recognition program for British Columbia’s technology industry that showcases the “Revenue Growth Leaders of Tomorrow,” featured 5 members of our Vancouver chapter on their list …
Are You Listening? Channeling Voices into Usable Intel
Hillary Sinclair has been a member of Founders Network since September 2018. She’s also been a prominent FN member in our San Francisco Chapter. To receive peer mentorship from Hillary …
Is Your Startup Too Early to Raise Capital?
Nina Stepanov is a mentor in our Investor Program within our global ecosystem of founders. To receive peer mentorship from Nina, over 60 investors, and 600 fellow Tech Founders, please request an invite and …