Posts Tagged ‘Startups’
Founder Friday: Stratasan – Update
We started our Founder Friday posts on LinkedIn before finally starting our blog. Back in May 2021, we featured Nashville startup Stratasan. Here is what we posted… This Founder Friday, we’re sharing a post highlighting lessons learned from the co-founder of Stratasan, Brian Dailey. Stratasan recently celebrated their 10th year being in business, a huge accomplishment for any tech startup. Brian…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Growth vs. Profitability
MRR, ARR, churn, etc. You need to know your numbers. When times aren’t as tight, you might see more emphasis on revenue vs. profitability as startups scale. But, in 2022 and the near term, profitability is vital for startups hoping to lure investment dollars. Hockey stick revenue growth is the goal for every startup. One…
Read MoreFounder Friday: What Cap Tables Tell Investors (SVB)
If you’re a founder and haven’t read Silicon Valley Bank‘s “How to Tell the Story of Your Startup’s Cap Table,” you need to pause and look at this 5-minute read. Why? Well, here are a few high-level points they expand on… Your cap table has signals of interest to investors (ex., when you seek financing, hiring, or…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Are biotech startups a bull or a bear?
We do a lot tied to supporting digital health startups, so keeping up with what’s happening related to healthcare startup transactions is second nature. If you missed it this week, Crunchbase posted, “Which Startup Sectors Are The Bulls And Bears In 2022’s Sluggish VC Market?.” The article identified three sectors as bulls and three as bears related…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Founders & VCs
We couldn’t have Pride Month pass without featuring some of the top LGBTQ+ founders and VCs on Founder Friday. We did the heavy lifting for you and curated some of the best articles we found celebrating the LGBTQ+ startup world… First, we recommend checking out PitchBook‘s “33 LGBTQ+ founders, entrepreneurs and VCs you should know.” You’ll see organizations and platforms you know…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Sequoia Capital “Adapting to Endure” – It’s time to embrace the muck
You can’t be in the tech arena and not know who Sequoia Capital is. From its first investment in Atari to some of its notable investments in names like Apple, Google, Cisco, Uber, Nvidia, Airbnb, Zoom, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Unity Technologies, YouTube, 23andMe, Instacart, Klarna, Snowflake, Stripe, WhatsApp, Tumblr, UiPath, BitClout, Bolt, FTX, and Wiz.…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Mental Health Unicorns
Earlier this week, we shared a list of 55 Mental Health Resources for People of Color. If you spend much time online, it’s hard to miss the increased awareness of mental health. We thought we’d use this Founder Friday installment to look at the mental health startup ecosystem. Seven. By the end of 2021, there had been seven mental…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Atlanta’s STORD
In September of 2021, STORD became one of Atlanta’s growing list of unicorns. In today’s Founder Friday, we piece together Sean Henry and Jacob Boudreau‘s founding story and STORD’s meteoric rise. Not familiar with STORD? It is the cloud supply chain startup rapidly changing the 3PL arena… As a teenager, Sean first got the idea for STORD when he was…
Read MoreFounder Friday: The Most Important Things to a VC
There’s a 2015 blog post from Taiwan Startup Stadium titled “Pitching ain’t easy: Robert Neivert of 500 Startups on how to grab & keep your audience’s attention.” Pitching ain’t easy. Short. Simple. True. Pitching is even more challenging if you don’t know what motivates a VC to want to invest in your startup. So, that begs the…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Into the Metaverse
This week, TechStartups published the article “Investors Are Throwing Big Bucks Into The Metaverse: Here’s Why.” It’s a great piece on the new frontier that is the metaverse. It got us thinking, what are the top metaverse startups to watch. Thanks to StartUs Insights, we don’t have to figure that out on our own. They identified 5 Top Metaverse…
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