"I don’t aim to please everyone, but rather write for a few real faces that I know share the excitement that I have. When creating content and building a community, you have to listen to superfans and ensure you are building for them."
St. Pete Catalyst • The annual Startup of the Year competition recognized four companies from the Tampa Bay region, including Embarc Collective member companies: Grifin, JustProtect and RxLive.
Rentals United • Rentals United has listed Embarc Collective member company, FabStayz, an inclusive accommodations platform for LGBTQ+ travelers, as a top 10 inclusive vacation rental website. By listing on FabStayz, property managers can open their rentals to a community of LGBTQ+ travelers who travel twice as much as the general public.
PR Newswire • Embarc Collective member company, ProCredEx, a digital marketplace for verified practitioner credentials, has been endorsed by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA), which represents all 134 community hospitals across Michigan and the communities they serve.
Embarc Collective • With the support of JPMorgan Chase, Embarc Collective is studying the state of women tech entrepreneurship in Florida. As a preview to the full report which will be released later this month, we're sharing an excerpt that examines the participation of women investors in Florida-based startup funding rounds. The summary: We've got work to do. Want to be part of the solution? Submit an interest form to participate in the upcoming Glaring Gap Summit.
Embarc Collective • For the second year, Embarc Collective is hosting a CEO Summit, a half-day event dedicated to founder mindset, strategic growth plans and leadership. This year the focus is on Embarc Collective member companies targeting a Series B or C raise in the next year. We collaborated with many of our Southeast venture partners to include their portfolio companies who are in a similar stage. Speakers include Matt Salzberg (Blue Apron), Brian Murphy (Reliaquest) and Jan Seale (Havenly).
Elevator Pitch: SpotMyPhotos by CloudSpotter is a pioneer in automated private photo sharing and uses AI-technologies to go beyond facial recognition to let your photos find you. Through a patented advanced photo delivery platform, CloudSpotter’s SpotMyPhotos platform empowers photographers and content creators to seamlessly deliver high-quality photos from SLRs to those photographed, in as little as 5 seconds.
Position: Fullstack Software Engineer
Position Highlights: The Fullstack Software Engineer will be confronting new challenges that are pushing the realm of possibilities for photo sharing today. SpotMyPhotos is looking for an engineer to work off of its product roadmap, aimed at continually iterating upon the private photo-sharing platform.
Newsletters are a great way to connect with existing customers, potential customers and other key stakeholders for your business. Over 50% of businesses put out an email newsletter, so if you're not, it may be time to consider it. As The Weekly Collective hits 100 editions, we're taking a deep dive into the best practices to develop a quality newsletter that helps build brand awareness and grow your audience.
📚 Great Resources For Newsletter Creators - an unbelievably comprehensive compilation of different resources and tools from Letterstack that will help you get off the ground with your newsletter and help existing newsletters grow.
🚀 How The Hustle Grew by 5x in 12 Months to Reach 550,000+ Subscribers - as one of the fastest-growing newsletters in the tech community, there is a lot to learn from The Hustle. In this interview, they walk through some of the techniques they used to become a household name in the tech community.
🎉 Reaching 100 Weeks of The Weekly Collective - upon hitting this exciting milestone, we reflected on lessons learned in building The Weekly Collective for the startup community.
So You Want to Write a Newsletter
The team from a16z sat down with four newsletter creators—an artist, a technologist, a journalist, and a clinical researcher-turned-psychedelics scholar—about choosing an audience, deciding between building a paid or unpaid newsletter, measuring results, among other topics.
This virtual forum will convene 50 current and future women startup investors to lead, fund, and impact the future of Florida—free to attend through the support of JPMorgan Chase. Learn the frameworks and strategies to invest in startups from industry expert speakers including Alexa von Tobel, Founder of LearnVest (acquired by Northwestern Mutual for $250M), now Managing Partner at Inspired Capital and Angela Lee of Columbia Business School and 37 Angels, among others.
Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Morgan Stanley's Multicultural Innovation Lab, and 100 Black Angels & Allies Fund will invest $2M in 3 companies. Teams who are 18+ years of age with founding team members who identify as Black, are US-based and are headquartered anywhere in the United States except for Silicon Valley, CA; New York City, NY; and Boston, MA, are encouraged to apply.
Stitch Fix is awarding 5 companies with a $25K grant and ongoing mentorship from the Stitch Fix team. At the end of the program, the grantee's products will be sold on the Stitch Fix platform. BIPOC-owned apparel companies generating $50K-$1M in annual revenue are encouraged to apply.
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