"People assume that giving and receiving feedback is easy or intuitive, but it’s not.”

—Mathilde Collin on 7 do’s and don’ts to get better at giving and receiving feedback

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Founder: Brock Lister

Company: Visitry

Thoughts: ...don’t fall in love with your product, fall in love with the market instead. This will allow you to make the necessary adjustments required to find product-market fit.

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Funding Florida's Growth

Meet Florida's Financial Regulation Commissioner Russell C. Weigel III

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Thursday, August 12 at 5:30PM ET

STRIVE Open House

Entrepreneurship Program for Veterans, Active Duty, Reserve/Guard, and Spouses

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Wednesday, August 18 at 5:30PM ET

[Virtual] UNLOCK YOUR FUTURE Tampa Bay Conference

Illuminating, Educating, and Inspiring You to Reach Your Fullest Potential

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Friday, August 27 through August 29

Embarc Collective's Freelancer Program

Embarc Collective • Embarc Collective is searching for great freelance talent in Tampa Bay to participate in our 4-week Freelancer Program. Craft a playbook to grow your client pipeline and better serve high-growth startups.

San Francisco Fintech Startup Fast to Open East Coast Hub in Tampa

TBBJ • Stripe-backed (almost) unicorn, Fast, announced that it will open its East Coast hub in downtown Tampa. 

Tampa Tech Startup Snags $4.6 Million, Totals More Than $8 Million in One Year

TBBJ • Embarc Collective member, Professional Credential Exchange, recently raised $4.6M to help the team onboard its pipeline of clients to its digital marketplace for verified professional credentials.

University Hospitals, Cleveland and Edgility to Expand Collaboration

Yahoo! Finance • Edgility, an Embarc Collective member company, has been selected as the technology platform to orchestrate University Hospitals (UH)’s Hospital-at-Home offering - the first in the country of its kind.

Company: Pocket Network

Elevator Pitch: Pocket Network is the leading decentralized blockchain infrastructure protocol designed to connect DApps to a distributed network of full-node operators who are incentivized to maintain uptime and correctness of data.

Position: Marketing Director

Position Highlights: The Marketing Director will develop and execute a marketing strategy for the protocol and its products and build the necessary team, tooling, and processes to scale marketing effectively, and regularly monitor and report on key performance indicators and user insights.

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This week at Embarc Collective we are hosting a member session on giving and receiving feedback. Here are a few of our favorite resources to help you.

🔍 A few frameworks I’ve learned on how to give feedback - guidelines and frameworks for sharing feedback to implement in your work.

📝 How to give (and take) constructive criticism like a pro - learn the risks of giving bad feedback and offers tactical tools to improve.

💪 Stop softening tough feedback - this HBR piece suggests moving away from the "compliment sandwich" and gives guidance on how to deliver direct and actionable feedback.

TechWomen Rising

Powered by JPMorgan Chase, this program from Tampa Bay Wave is a 90-day business accelerator program designed for women-led startups enabled by technology. Participants will benefit from intensive mentoring, peer networking, investor coaching, and establishing business connections.

Deadline: August 7

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Dreamit Ventures - Open Call for Health and Security Startups

Dreamit Ventures is an early-stage Seed and Series A investor, which focuses on Securetech (cybersecurity, physical security, anti-fraud, GRC) and Healthtech (digital health, medical devices, diagnostics). Dreamit looks to co-invest $500K-1M.

Deadline: August 10

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2021 Startup of the Year® Community

This is an opportunity for early-stage startups and founding teams from across all verticals to join the 2021 Startup of the Year worldwide community. If you've raised less than $5M in funding and have a functional prototype, consider applying.

Deadline: September 31

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