Nathan has been a member of Founders Network since September 2011. He’s been a prominent FN member in our San Francisco chapter.To receive peer mentorship from Nathan and over 600 …
3 Ways Founders Can be Comfortably Uncomfortable
Jarie Bolander has been a member of Founders Network since May 2017. He’s also been a prominent FN member in our San Francisco Chapter. To receive peer mentorship from Jarie and …
Q&A w/ Beerud Sheth, Co-founder of Gupshup I FoundersNetwork
When did the technology adoption trend that led to gig economy tech startups like Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Thumbtack, and TaskRabbit begin? Back in 1998, in the early days of the dot-com …
Serial Entrepreneur Duke Chung, Co-Founder of TravelBank
It’s time to watch out for budding startup TravelBank. Before founding the travel start-up in 2016, Co-Founder Duke Chung sold his first venture, Parature, to Microsoft for $100M in 2014. …
Gabriel Halimi: Advice for Hardware Founders
“Hardware is hard”, said Gabriel Halimi, Co-Founder of Flo Technologies, when asked what risks he sees down the road for his hardware startup. Indeed, it’s all in the name, and …
Building a Startup in LatAm: Advice from 4-time Serial Entrepreneur Pedro Neira Ferrand
With tech giants like Google making a push to foster LatAm startups in 2018, and a number of unicorns emerging in the region over the last 4 years, Latin America …
fnIRL 2018 | Announcing Our First 1-Day Global Conference!
We’re pleased to announce our first one day global conference, fnIRL 2018! Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, fnIRL will include 100+ tech founders and 20+ investors, and will …
Sam Ryan of Zeelo Talks on the Beginning Stages of a Startup
Sam Ryan and two-time Co-founder Barney Williams were frustrated. They didn’t like the current transportation options available to big events, which saw them regularly experience overcrowding and poor services. Enter …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
