Hiring a Generalist or a Specialist? Making the Right Choice for Your Team
When hiring, it’s easy to say you want a “rockstar” or a “perfect fit.” But what does that actually mean?
Async Interviews: Better & Faster Hiring
You want a world-class team that sets your company apart, but you also don’t want to spend all your time filtering through resumes and conducting endless interviews. Traditional hiring processes often fail to efficiently surface the best candidates, especially in a global, remote-first workforce. That’s where asynchronous (async) interviews come in
How to Hire Well: A Founder’s Guide
Hiring is one of the most critical skills for any founder. Get it right, and your company takes off. Get it wrong, and you spend months (or years) fixing costly mistakes.
Investor Profile: Thomas Schulz
In this edition of our investor profile series, we spotlight Thomas Schulz, founder of Healthetia, an angel syndicate with a strong focus on healthcare startups. With a background that spans healthcare, AI, and venture building, Thomas combines decades of industry expertise with a deep passion for empowering founders and solving meaningful problem
Investor Profile: Zhichao Li
In this edition of our investor profile series, we’re spotlighting Zhichao Li, founder of Nestra, a firm focused on public equity value investing, option premiums, and venture capital. With a diverse background–spanning engineering, IBM, and machine learning–Zhichao brings a unique lens to the investment world, combining technical expertise with strategic capital deployment.
Leadership as a Solo Founder
Even if you don’t manage a team, you are still a leader. You lead your vision, your stakeholders (clients, investors, customers), and yourself. This is where self-leadership comes into play. It’s about managing your time, energy, and focus with the same discipline you’d expect from an employee.
Mastering the All-Hands Meeting
When it comes to startup culture, the all-hands meeting is more than just a recurring calendar event. It’s a powerful tool for alignment, engagement, and influence. Often, founders and leaders turn these gatherings into elaborate presentations or boring updates. If you’re not using your all-hands meetings to influence how your team thinks and acts, you’re leaving value on the table.
A Guide to Thriving for Solo Founders
Starting a business is hard enough, but being the visionary founder who also has to juggle networking, marketing, branding, social media, and sales? That’s a whole different challenge.
This post will dive into strategies to help you avoid burnout, tackle decision paralysis, and optimize your approach to growing profitably.
Investor Profile: Vasana Ly
In this profile, we are pleased to feature Vasana Ly, an investor with ICA Fund, whose dedication to community development and inclusive business creation is inspiring. Their focus on fostering opportunities for underrepresented entrepreneurs is core to their investment approach.
Investor Profiles: Andy Weyer
In this edition of our investor profile series, we’re spotlighting Andy Weyer, Partner at Spinta Capital, a leading debt advisory firm serving startups in technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors. With over two decades of experience in venture debt, Andy offers a unique perspective on navigating this often-overlooked financing option for startups.
Investor Profiles: Matt Wanlass
In this profile, we’re excited to introduce Matt Wanlass, a technology-focused investment banker at Peak Technology Partners, who helps founders navigate capital raises and M&A opportunities to achieve optimal outcomes.
Avoid Wasting Time on Small Team Decisions
Making decisions as a team can be crazy-making. We can spend hours debating something only to find out later that we were mostly wasting our time.
How can we do less of that?
Investor Profiles: John Peters
We’re thrilled to introduce John Peters, Chairman and President of the Sacramento Angels, one of California’s leading angel groups. With deep experience in early-stage investments, John sheds light on what the Sacramento Angels group looks for in startups, his approach to investment, and his advice for founders.
10 Common Pitch Deck Mistakes
Raising money is hard. It may be the hardest part of starting a company. But you don’t have to make it even harder on yourself through unforced errors in your pitch deck.
Developing Your Pitch Ladder
It’s difficult to calibrate our pitch or description of our company to our conversation partner’s appetite to listen.
Here’s some tips to help you fix that.
Investor Profiles: Jessica Moon
With a unique blend of experience across health equity research, venture capital, and founder support, Jessica offers an insightful perspective on early-stage investing and the intricacies of supporting new ventures.
Navigating the New Investment Landscape
The investment landscape is constantly evolving, and businesses must adapt to these changes if they want to attract investment and thrive.
Investor Profiles: Maria Odiamar Racho
In our latest investor profile, we’re excited to introduce Maria Odiamar Racho, Venture Partner at Qubits Ventures and Founder of Kapwa Capital. Maria shared her perspectives on investing in deep tech and supporting founders from historically underrepresented communities.
Building a Money Machine
This term, often used by investors, refers to a business model that generates consistent, repeatable revenue, ideally with compounding growth. Let’s dive deeper into this concept that every entrepreneur needs to understand.
Investor Profiles: Paul Ratner
In our latest investor profile, we are excited to introduce Paul Ratner, Vice President at Marble Bridge, who shared his perspectives on alternative capital solutions for growing businesses, particularly how Marble Bridge operates at the intersection of investment and lending.