"Community is important and lasting. Find a way to bring your community together around a common mission, passion, or 'cool factor.' Identify and cultivate your super users and ambassadors to understand their goals."

— Tiffany Luck on a growth mindset: strategies and learnings for B2B and B2C

Featured Growth Story: Mclain Roth

Role: Head of Growth

Organization: Phonism

Hometown: Cleveland, OH

Tactical advice on building a startup: One of the things I learned early on is to eat your own dog food and make sure to eat it before you sell it.

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Synapse Summit Launch Event
Learn How to Maximize Your Company's Experience at the Synapse Summit
Presented by Synapse 
Tuesday, August 20 at 5:30PM - 7:30PM


Trep Talks
Staffing and Talent Panel Discussion for Entrepreneurs and Startups
Presented by EDi2 and the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center
Tuesday, August 20 at 6PM - 7:30PM


Connection to Innovation
Panel Discussions on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Food, Beverage & Restaurants
Presented by Florida-Israel Business Accelerator 
Wednesday, August 21 at 5:30PM - 7:30PM

The $450M industry in Tampa Bay That You're Not Noticing
TBBJ • Cybersecurity is taking Tampa Bay by storm. With startups like JustProtect, KnowBe4, Malwarebytes and A-LIGN headquartered in Tampa Bay, our region is slowly developing a reputation as a cybersecurity hub. In less than five years, those firms and others in the industry located in Tampa Bay have garnered at least $450M in funding.


Real Estate, Business Service, Cybersecurity Companies Lead List of Tampa-St. Pete Firms in 2019 Inc. 5000 List
St. Pete Catalyst • The Inc. 5000 list is out and 93 Tampa-St. Pete firms made the list. The list is based on percentage revenue growth from 2015 to 2018. Recent unicorn KnowBe4 made the list at No. 161, which makes this its fourth consecutive year on the list.


SOMA Global Expands into Missouri, Announces New Public Safety Platform Upgrade
SOMA Global • SOMA Global, a Tampa-based platform that provides solutions to public safety institutions, has contracted with Missouri's Ballwin Police Department to implement a cloud-based computer-aided dispatch and public safety solution — a first for the state. The deployment also features platform upgrades including an optimized user-experience, integrated voice recognition and updated case management for detectives and investigators.

Company: Presence

Elevator Pitch: A campus engagement and learning platform for institutions that provide world-class student opportunities to learn and succeed.

Position: Engagement Specialist

Position Highlights: Presence is looking for an Engagement Specialist to join their team. This role will be responsible for working with student affairs divisions and higher education institutions from initial consultation through sign-up. The Engagement Specialist will also build international relationships with prospective partners, consult with SAPros, student affairs divisions, and institutions as a whole to communicate Presence's solution, as well as create and drive interest in Presence's product.

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Developing an SEO-Focused Content Strategy
Ranking in search engines requires your startup to create and publish content that is useful to your potential customers. Some of the top-performing companies have had measurable success from content in blogs, white papers, guides, and tutorial videos. The secret to their content is that it doesn't overtly sell their product, but instead helps customers solve a problem. In this resource, we go over what an SEO-focused content strategy should look like, how you should go about planning one, and what conversions should happen as a result of a well-planned strategy.


What is Product Led Growth? How to Build a Software Company in the End User Era
New software startups launch with the intention of experiencing high growth similar to that of Slack or Hubspot, but don't know how to actually get there. OpenView Partners, a venture fund that invests in SaaS companies, breaks down what product led growth (PLG) is. They also share the three eras that have existed in the software sales process, explaining in detail about the era we're currently in, the end user era. In this resource, learn how to design and market to the end user to increase product led growth.

Dreamit Accelerator
Dreamit offers programs that provide startups with direct access to customers, investors, executives, and thought leaders in three verticals. Healthtech (digital health, med device, and diagnostics), Securetech (cybersecurity, anti-fraud, and physical security), and Urbantech (real estate and construction tech) startups that are pre-Series A can apply.
Deadline August 3
Apply Here


SWSW Pitch Applications
SXSW is selecting 50 interactive technology companies in 10 different categories to pitch to a live audience and participate in Q&A with their panel of judges. Startups that have raised less than $10M in funding are encouraged to apply.
Early Deadline September 6 (before application prices increases)
Apply Here