"You don’t have to become friends, but understanding how the other person thinks and what is important to them can be key to understanding their attitude and preferences, creating the basis for good cooperation."
How I Leveraged Pitch Competitions to Raise $500K In-Depth Virtual Workshop Led by Nichelle McCall Brown, Former Founder of Bold Guidance Presented by Grasshopper Bank and AWSM Thursday, July 23 at 4PM ET (Today)
Savory Selects SiteZeus to Help Fuel Nationwide Expansion PR Newswire • Embarc Collective member company SiteZeus, a predictive modeling platform that helps multi-unit brands with location-based decisions, was selected by Savory, a Mercato Partners Fund, to help make fast and effective real estate decisions for its portfolio brands.
St. Pete Catalyst • The University of Florida's Office of Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Tampa-based startup, Knack, have expanded an agreement to run a pilot program and extended tutoring program for students. The Embarc Collective member company will offer UF students free tutoring services and provide an opportunity for tutors to earn $12 an hour.
Lakeland, Tampa Startup Relationship Strengthens with Latest Florida Funders Partnership TBBJ • Florida Funders has partnered with Florida Polytechnic University to grow the talent pipeline in the region. In the new partnership, Florida Funders will work with the university's entrepreneurs by connecting with potential opportunities for professional development and furthering their ideas.
GlobeNewswire • Embarc Collective member company GreenScreens recently launched Service Q, an integrated, screen-based point-of-sale platform that goes beyond product menus and advertising. This new platform for cannabis retailers enables real-time order fulfillment through backend screens while consumers place orders via touchpads on the sales floor.
Elevator Pitch: A hybrid between a venture capital fund and angel investor network that discovers, funds and builds early-stage technology companies in Florida.
Position: Director of Marketing
Position Highlights: Florida Funders is looking for a Director of Marketing to join its team. The Director of Marketing will own all marketing strategy, implementation, and execution company-wide. This position reports to the VP of Investor Relations of Florida Funders. The role's primary responsibility is lead generation for the Florida Funders Investor Relations and Deal Flow team. Additionally, this position owns all Investor and Founder events as well as managing all content, digital marketing strategy, and implementation of those strategies.
Relationship building is a skill founders and startup operators need to practice in order to build richer and more meaningful connections. This week we've pulled together a few helpful resources that will help improve your networking skills.
🌐 Networking for Startups - this guide from Holloway provides an in-depth playbook on ways founders can build successful relationships that help build their ventures
☎️ My Homegrown, Personal CRM - this tutorial walks you through building a centralized and organized system for your contacts
Building Relationships to Grow On this episode of the Startup Finance Podcast, host Dr. Sean Wise is joined by seasoned venture capitalist and former principal at iNovia Capital, David Nault, to discuss tips on building lasting relationships with investors. David also shares his experience as a venture capitalist and what he's learned from founders who've leveraged connections they've built to grow their company.
Reshaping Health Access Challenge Florida Blue and parent company GuideWell have launched the Reshaping Health Access Challenge and are now accepting submissions. The Reshaping Health Access Challenge is a four-month competition that seeks organizations with novel approaches to enabling access to quality, affordable health care and health education to populations and communities in Florida experiencing high levels of health inequity. Applicants showing the most potential will be selected to compete in one of four regional pitch competitions taking place in Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami this Fall. Due to social distancing restrictions in response to COVID-19, the regional pitch competitions will be hosted virtually. Awards range from $5,000 to $40,000. Deadline: July 24 Apply Here
Fueled by Purpose Micro Grant Application Fueled by Purpose micro grant is seeking women business owners to apply for a $500 grant. Every Monday beginning April 20, 2020, one $500 grant winner will be randomly selected from grant applications submitted the week prior. Grant winners will be contacted via email and announced on My Founder Story’s website and social media. Applications are limited to one entry per week per business and business owner. Deadline: Rolling Apply Here
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