"When early-stage start-ups say they need a 'flexible team player,' they really mean it. Luckily, almost everyone you’ll be working with has the same ownership mentality. That means less social loafing, and greater commitment to the company’s success."
Thoughts: No one will care or understand the magnitude of what you're building at first. Keep talking about it, keep pitching it to everyone, and be humble about what's not working or when you're wrong. Double down on what is working and you'll start to notice when potential customer's eyes light up.
TBBJ • Israel-based health care company, Aviv Clinics, announced an expansion to the Villages last week. Aviv Clinics was a part of the latest cohort from the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator, which brings Israeli startups to the Tampa Bay region.
PR Newswire • Venture Atlanta, a venture capital conference that highlights the Southeast's most promising tech businesses, announced the 100+ companies that will present at this year's event, including Tampa Bay-based startups (and Embarc Collective members) ProCredEx, Chattr, Immertec and Knack.
TBBJ • Florida Polytechnic University is working to expand the STEM talent pipeline. High school students will be tutored virtually by Florida Poly students, with the help of local online tutoring startup and Embarc Collective member company, Knack.
St. Pete Catalyst • Tampa Bay Wave announced an upcoming accelerator program focused on cybersecurity startup technologies. This initiative, supported by Bellini Better World, A-LIGN, KnowBe4 and EY, will launch in January 2021.
Elevator Pitch: The Visitor Relationship Management Company, helping thousands of media publishers worldwide target, engage, and grow first-party relationships with their visitors to increase average revenue per visitor (ARPV) and prepare for post-cookie monetization.
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Position Highlights: As a Billing Associate at Admiral, you’ll help the team keep up with growing publisher demand by managing financial data, distributing invoices, tracking collections and more. The Admiral finance team is growing, and the Billing Associate will play an important role in constantly improving our financial controls and processes. As with everyone at Admiral, the right candidate will live and breathe the team's commitment to Customer Love.
Working in a startup is often glamorized, but what is the day to day really like? And how do you get a job in a startup? This week's resources are for job seekers who are considering a transition to the tech startup world, especially given the current jobs landscape impacted by COVID-19.
💻 Tampa Bay Startup Jobs - this newly optimized site, built by Embarc Collective, aggregates open positions across the Tampa Bay region. The site is updated daily so bookmark it to keep tabs on new opportunities.
💬 Starting Out: What It's Like to Work in a Startup? - last week, three startup team members who are early in their careers shared what it's like to work in a startup with high school students participating in the Ryan Nece Foundation leadership program.
❓5 Things You Should Know Before Working at a Start-Up - working in a startup is inherently faster, more agile and less stable than working in a large organization. The Muse outlines expectations to keep in mind when pursuing a startup job.
🔎 How to Land Tech Jobs During COVID-19 - Nick Singh outlines different tips and tools for how to obtain a technical job when active recruiting has slowed down.
🗂️ New Job Seeker COVID-19 Resources - the team at Kapoor Capital has outlined a list of action items for anyone trying to find a startup job at this time.
Succeeding as the First Marketing Hire
Being one of the first hires in a startup is a complex undertaking. You need to immediately take the reins from the founder while thoughtfully building organizational infrastructure to enable scaling. In this episode of SalesHacker, Nicole Wojno Smith of Tackle.io walks through her approach as a first hire.
Alexa Fund and All Raise are hosting a virtual pitch event to offer up to $1M in investment for women entrepreneurs from Amazon’s Alexa Fund. Women inclusive of non-binary individuals, and especially individuals identifying as Black, Latinx, Native American and Indigenous, are encouraged to apply.
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.
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