"Building up employees into future leaders requires you to help them adopt mindsets that will shift their attitudes. If they can master those mindsets, they can find satisfaction, stay engaged, and fulfill their long-term potential."

— Jerry Connor on coaching junior employees with 4 conversations

Featured Growth Story: Christina Valenziano

Role: Senior Marketing Strategist

Organization: Peerfit

Hometown: Tampa, Florida

Tactical advice on building a startup: You’ve got to keep your eyes and heart on the mission of your organization to stay afloat and move forward.

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Bunker Labs Tampa: Chapter Launch Party
Featuring Speakers Lauren Weiner, WWC CEO and Lakshmi Shenoy, Embarc Collective CEO
Presented by Bunker Labs Tampa
Thursday, September 26 at 5:30PM – 8:00PM


Women Lead Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay Women Entrepreneurs Share Honest Insights on Thriving in Business
Presented by Startup Sisters and SoGal
Friday, September 27 at 8AM


Token Talk with Tracie
Session on JPMCoin with an Introduction to Quorum
Presented by BlockSpaces and J.P. Morgan Chase
Wednesday, October 2 at 7PM – 9PM

Lunchpool Launches Corporate Partnership with KnowBe4
St. Pete Catalyst • Lunchpool, a Tampa Bay-based startup focused on bringing people together for lunch, has partnered with KnowBe4, a cybersecurity training company headquartered in Tampa Bay, to have its employees serve as pilot participants on the Lunchpool platform. Lunchpool is currently building a program to work with more corporations to offer this service as a perk to their employees.


Venture Atlanta Unveils Its List of Presenting and Showcase Companies
Venture Atlanta • Venture Atlanta, the premier venture capital conference in the Southeast, announced its 2019 lineup of the region's most promising tech companies that will present and showcase during this year's event taking place October 16-17. 78 companies, including Tampa-based startups Phonism and World Watch Plus, Gainesville-based startup Admiral, and St.Pete-based startup Intrinio, will present onstage or showcase to conference attendees and investors.


Tampa Bay Innovation Center Launches Accelerator
St. Pete Catalyst • The Tampa Bay Innovation Center, a business incubator and coworking center, announced the launch of its Tampa Bay Entrepreneurship and Investment Challenge earlier this week, a 12-week program focused on preparing technology ventures to scale their companies. The program includes mentorship by serial entrepreneurs who've made successful exits. The accelerator is open to participants nationwide free of charge, with no equity required.


Behind The Scenes: Making The Women Founders and Investors in Florida Report Medium • Anna Warnke, a senior at The Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, joined the Embarc Collective team as an intern this past summer. Her main responsibilities were conducting research and compiling data for our Women Founders and Investors in Florida report published last week. In this piece, Anna reflects on her time at Embarc Collective and the lessons learned working on the report.

Company: The Penny Hoarder

Elevator Pitch: One of the largest personal finance websites that helps millions of readers earn and save money by sharing unique job opportunities, personal stories, freebies and more.

Position: Office and Administrative Assistant

Position Highlights: The Office and Administrative Assistant role is a multifaceted position juggling a number of tasks from managing busy executive schedules to daily facilities and office management. This role requires high attention to detail, superb written and verbal communication skills, a team player mindset, self motivation, strong organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines. No two days are going to look alike so you must thrive on change and be extremely action-oriented.

Apply Here

Roll Call: Women Founders and Investors in Florida
To achieve balanced representation, we need to enable founders to develop a community of peers, encourage investors to diversify their deal flow, and identify new voices to present at conferences, events and networking dinners. In our effort to narrow the gender gap in Florida's tech startup community, we compiled an open-source list to recognize women founders and investors in Florida. For the purpose of this research, our dataset includes women co-founders of technology or tech-enabled startups and/or women currently working in an investment-focused role across institutional or corporate funds or established angel investor networks.

What Killed Your Startup - Twitter Thread
New founders can never have enough valuable advice from seasoned startup operators. Learning from others' mistakes not only helps build a stronger startup community, but allows those who are currently in the process to avoid their own pitfalls from other's lessons. In this Twitter thread, entrepreneurs and startup operators candidly share what caused their startup to fail and offer guidance on what other founders should prepare for as they build their companies.

Palm Beach Tech Hackathon
The Palm Beach Tech Hackathon is a 24-hour event where participants form teams, vet ideas, create a project, then present their work to an expert panel of judges. The themes this year are Smart Cities and Hurricane Relief. Engineers, designers, developers and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend.
Deadline October 3
Register Here


ROBOTICON 2019 Industry Showcase Exhibitor Challenge
The goal of the Industry Showcase is to get participating students as well as event guests excited about the real world applications and career possibilities of the science, technology, engineering, manufacturing and related knowledge and skills students are exercising in the course of their competitive robotics seasons.
Deadline October 11
Apply Here