A new study that zeros-in on the founders of so-called “unicorns” — companies worth over a billion dollars — has found most have “underdog” founders who are often drawn from th
Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders who are explicitly al
The journey of building a startup is an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns, much like the construction of a dream home.
Pitch competitions are a bright spot for underrepresented founders but not without burdens that regular funding doesn't have.
The succession process requires an open and genuine dialogue between the senior retiring and incoming management teams.
Early-stage founders face many challenges. Some of the trickiest and most foreign are legal because the legal world is unfamiliar and ever changing.
Josh Claman Contributor Share on X Josh Claman is the CEO of Accelsius, makers of direct-to-chip, two-phase cooling technology. An advocate for the power of transformative technology throughout hi
Syed Balkhi Contributor Share on X Syed Balkhi is founder and CEO of Awesome Motive, a software holding company that provides website tools to help small businesses grow and compete with big companies
The sheer number of non-economic mistakes made by VCs due to their human nature is seriously underestimated.
Exits are few and far between and founders are burnt out. Even if they don't have immediate plans to leave, planning for it makes it easier.
For startup founders, the ability to inspire has everything to do with the ability to get others to see the world the way you do.
Founders are inherently optimists, but they should plan for worst-case scenarios so they aren't blindsided if something does happen.
A January Ventures survey found that the fundraising market is starting to turn back in founder's favors but not all founders are so sure.
Founders get bombarded with invitations to events, and not all of them are worth it, but there are ways to figure out which will provide value.
There are many founder-focused events but are they actually helpful or just a distraction? Founders need to strike a balance.
Parker Conrad may be best known as the founder of both Zenefits and Rippling, but he is also arguably the best-known founder to have gone through Y Combinator’s accelerator program twice. Of cou
Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek made a surprising confession in a recent post to X (formerly Twitter), where he admits not only that he didn’t come up with the idea for Spotify’s flagshi
There hasn’t been a ton of research on the prevalence of mental health issues among founders, but what there is speaks loudly.
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Not to get all GrumpyManYellsAtCloud.gif, but I’m getting pretty tired of the myth of the dropped-out-of-college founde
Having a strong culture can lead to less churn and more efficient teams, and that is even better for the bottom line.
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