Posts by Blake Coleman
Founder Friday: Fantastic Lists for Startup Resources
We can appreciate that every ounce of research a founder puts into researching a tool or resource is time they aren’t spending growing their startup or cultivating their people. We often find ourselves in the same boat as we look at what resources we should use. Well, luckily, there’s a wealth of information that others…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Building The Right Startup Culture
Building the right culture is hard to do. It is something that founders must be strategic about out of the gates. Here are some helpful hints that we’ve learned along the way from founders in our network and various resources on the subject (sources found below)… What founders have shared with us… As a founder,…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Entrata’s Founder Did What?!
A couple of weeks ago, we shared the story of Better.com’s Vishal Garg’s Zoom firing of 900 employees. It was a colossal misstep that cost Vishal his job. They say misery loves company, so today, we’re sharing a story that emerged this week of yet another founder doing the unthinkable. This time we head to Silicon Slopes.…
Read MoreMinecraft and the Uncensored Library
Minecraft is famous as a platform to expose people to the world of coding, but have you kept up with Reporters Without Borders library map project, The Uncensored Library? So what is the Uncensored Library? It is a massive Minecraft server and map used to house banned reporting from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Egypt. But, you don’t…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Did Reddit Have Two or Three Co-Founders?
Reddit is set to have its IPO at the beginning of 2022. That makes it the perfect time to feature them on Founder Friday. Often, Reddit is credited as having three co-founders, but is that accurate? The answer is yes and no. Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman had come up with the idea their senior year at the University of…
Read MoreWhat happened at Better.com?
Did you hear about Better.com’s CEO, Vishal Garg, firing 900 employees simultaneously on a Zoom call? It is one of the most shocking things we’ve heard of, especially as you dig into the details. We imagine it came as a shock to those 900 people. After all, Better was only founded by Garg in 2016, and in five…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Code.org’s Hadi Partovi
It’s CSEdWeek, so we thought we’d stick with that theme for today’s Founder Friday, featuring Code.org‘s Hadi Partovi. No organization has done more to help champion computer science at the K-12 level. Hadi’s story is truly an example of the American Dream realized. Hadi was born in Tehran, Iran. When he was two, his family moved to the U.S. so…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Choosing the Right Investor
Inc. recently published an article, How to Choose the Right Investor, According to a Coffee Entrepreneur Who Raised $100 Million. In it, Cometeer co-founder Matthew Roberts shares his insights on how to vet potential investors. Some of the key takeaways were… They need to be engaged and interested in your mission What value do they add outside of capital Carta has a…
Read MoreCEOs & The Great Resignation
Two significant tech resignations have already happened this week in Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Kedar Deshpande of Zappos. Jeff Bezos resigned from Amazon earlier this year. And while we’ve written about the Great Resignation previously, we’ve never looked at it at the CEO level. Fast Company posted a story in November titled “The Great Resignation rages on: CEOS are fed up with their jobs, too.” It referred to…
Read MoreGiving Tuesday 2021
It’s Giving Tuesday today. But what is Giving Tuesday? It is a global day of giving, “a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world.” At STEM Search Group, we partner with several nonprofits tied to K-12 initiatives, computer science, and the support of underrepresented founders. Here is some info on the nonprofits we donated to…
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