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 …
Fundraising Prep for Tech Startup Founders
About Daniel Hoffer Daniel Hoffer, member of our June ’13 Cohort, is the former founder of Couchsurfing ($25M Raised, 15M Customers Globally), investor, advisor, and strategic general management professional with …
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, …
How Tech Founders Can Become Fundable
About Mark Breier Mark Breier, member of our fnInvestor Program, was VP Marketing at Amazon.com, CEO of Beyond.com, VP Marketing at Cinnabon and Dreyers and is now a VC at …
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). …
Tech Startup IPO Lessons from Tim Manson
 About Tim Manson Tim Manson, member of our August ’13 Cohort, has 15 years of real estate development, design, construction, property management and finance experience. He had a successful …
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 …
Founders Network 2017 Year In Review
In 2017 Founders Network added over 150 members with over $1 billion in financing raised and from eight different global cities. We would like to give special recognition to the …
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.” –Â Richard White, …
FN Members Mark Oden & Andy Steuer Launch Taskware!
Huge congrats to FN’ers Mark Oden and Andy Steuer who announced the launch of Taskware this week. The official launch announcement reposted below; please share it to help them get …