This week: #startupadvisors -- Tampa-based Cope Notes founder featured in Fast Company, St. Pete city establishes business resiliency team, Immertec earns honorable mentions
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"What I learned from this interaction was that validation from an advisor can have an exponential effect on your company. Because Jason supported me, I felt more confident in what my entire company was doing and transferred that confidence to the rest of my team."
Thoughts:If you've got a great idea, prove to yourself (and others) that you can develop a business model that creates a capital-efficient, profitable operation using realistic resources, sales, and operating expense assumptions.
Stories of Resilience Live Broadcast Virtual Conversation with Brené Brown and Eric Rodriguez from Common on Cultivating Brave Leaders Presented by Salesforce Thursday, April 30 at 12PM ET (Today)
5 Founders on How Bad First Jobs Inspired Them to Become Entrepreneurs Fast Company • For plenty of founders, their first jobs sparked a desire to strike out on their own. For Johnny Crowder of Tampa-based Cope Notes, his work at another startup that scaled too quickly and owed employees a backlog of paychecks before ultimately declaring bankruptcy became his catalyst for starting a company of his own.
Resilience Team Launches to Help St. Petersburg's Small Business St. Pete Catalyst • St. Petersburg has assembled a Business Resiliency Team to help establish relationships with business owners and key community leaders to ensure the long-term survival of the city's small business community.
Meet the 28 Republic Venture Partners Leading Through This Crisis Medium • Republic's Venture Partner program, a curated community of mission-aligned individuals from across America focused on supporting startups both inside and outside the Republic ecosystem, announced the addition of 28 leaders to its program including Embarc Collective's Platform Director, Allie Felix.
Elevator Pitch:A patent-pending technology that lets you automatically buy stock where you shop.
Position: Technical Developer Intern
Position Highlights: Grifin is looking for a Technical Developer Intern to join its team. This role will be responsible for assisting the Grifin development team in improving the app's features. The ideal candidate has an interest in the stock market, knowledge of how the stock market works, and has the potential to work with databases and conduct data analysis.
Time is a finite resource for early-stage founders. Maximizing your time in the early-stage can have a profound impact on how quickly your company gets off the ground. In times of uncertainty, leveraging advisors and mentors can help you work through ideas to create a plan of action. By recruiting key experts, an advisory board can help early-stage startups scale to a strong growth phase. We've pulled together two in-depth resources to help you maximize startup advisors.
The Complete Guide to Forming and Managing an Advisory Board In this comprehensive guide from DI, learn the basics of what an advisor is, how to find the right ones for your type of business, and how to compensate and contract advisors.
Get the Most Out of Your Startup's Advisor First Round has sourced 7 tactics from expert advisor Phin Barnes on how to get the most out of your startup's advisors. The interview covers when to pull in an advisor, how they can help you through tough scenarios and ways to best leverage their network to provide you measurable value.
Building the Right Technical Advisory Board In an episode from the a16z Podcast, four technical experts from PayPal, Cavirin, Twitter and a16z discuss the right way to form a technical board to help an early-stage company overcome with technical speed bumps as well as advice for those who want to serve on a technical advisory board.
GuideWell COVID-19 Health Innovation Collaborative Applications GuideWell is launching the COVID-19 Health Innovation Collaborative to identify and support solutions that can immediately increase the scope and scale of resources aimed at reducing the complex stress factors COVID-19 is bringing to bear on the U.S. health system. Participating companies will receive non-dilutive award funding to validate your solution’s impact and the opportunity to partner with GuideWell and other healthcare partners. Deadline: May 8 Apply Here
Salesforce Care Small Business Grants Salesforce is partnering with Ureeka to offer eligible small businesses the opportunity to receive a $10,000 grant to help them through the COVID-19 outbreak. Companies that have between 2 to 50 employees, have been in business for 2 full years as of March 2020 and have an annual revenue between $250K and $2M are encouraged to apply. Deadline: Not Specified Apply Here
COVID-19 Support from Hello Alice Hello Alice, with the support of Verizon, Silicon Valley Bank, eBay, and others, is offering $10,000 emergency grants to be distributed immediately to small business owners impacted by this pandemic. If your business has been severely impacted by COVID-19, you are encouraged to apply. Additionally, Hello Alice has set up the COVID-19 Business Resource Center to help you source additional financial support, find resources and programs specific to where you live, learn how to pivot your small business and more. Deadline: Not Specified Apply Here
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