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Founder Friday Hard Truths About the Founder’s Journey with Alex Zorychta What Alex Zorychta discovered after studying hundreds of entrepreneurship programs shocked him: they didn’t work. “The students who were most likely to be entrepreneurs anyway didn’t feel supported by the universities. And the students who didn’t end up actually
How TopDog Law Reimagined Legal Marketing What would make a soon-to-graduate law student turn down a six-figure corporate law position to start his own firm? For James Helm, founder of TopDog Law, a friend’s success story sparked an unexpected entrepreneurial journey. “Watching my friend grow a business from zero to
Founder Friday: The Road Less Traveled with Killian Dunne Killian’s journey from being an early team member at 82i to a startup founder offers a candid look into the challenges and triumphs of the entrepreneurial world. His story is filled with practical lessons, unexpected opportunities, and the tough decisions that
Scaling to $20MM Series: Putting Your People First… The Right Way When starting your business, people are inevitably the X factor. You can have a sales and distribution plan perfectly in place, a comprehensive marketing plan, and clear goals for business development, but it takes the right people on your
Scaling to $20MM Series: When Does Your Growing Startup Need to Hire a CFO? Founders need vision to scale their company, but it’s also crucial to have the right financial structure and people to support that strategy and measure its success. However, even if a founder is a financial wiz,
Scaling to $20MM Series: From Skynet to WALL-E: Navigating Tech Takeovers as a Startup If you’ve started your company in the last decade, chances are that technology has already overtaken your business. Like Skynet, is it creeping into everything threatening to take control of your business? Or like WALL-E could
How TopDog Law Reimagined Legal Marketing The world of venture capital is constantly evolving, and 2023 is proving to be a year of significant change and challenges. As entrepreneurs and investors navigate through a dynamic landscape, it becomes crucial to stay informed about the latest updates in the VC market.
A CEO’s Journey to Overcome Burnout and Thrive Meet Steve. He’s in his late 30s, married with a young family, and started his company just a little over three years ago with some friends from college. Steve and his co-founders each came to the table with a wide range of experience,
The Other Dating Game You know this night is important, and so naturally you want to look your best. You spend hours and hours primping nervously, going over every last inch, and every last detail, making sure that you make the best first impression you possibly can. Usually you aren’t nervous
Scaling to $20MM Series: Optimizing your Product Org Scale. For founders, this is either something for which you excitedly yearn or it’s keeping you up at night. In a world in which most boards and investors aren’t exactly patient, most really need to get it. And while there are plenty
15 Common Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Capital and How to Avoid Them Having spent over a decade as an investor hearing pitches from almost a thousand founders, I’ve been fortunate to come across many founders who are amazing visionaires with a real penchant for identifying opportunities and then pouncing
The Closing of SVB: Lessons for Founders Who would have thought that one of the banking mainstays in the U.S., an institution with over $200B in assets, would suddenly close without barely any notice. What happened two weeks ago with SVB is an awful reminder of just how challenging entrepreneurship
What’s in a Name? Here’s What’s in Ours Whenever we introduce our business as 82i, people inevitably ask us how we got our name, and what the ‘i’ in our logo stands for.It all started with an idea. Actually, it started with 1,000 of them. In his previous role at a
