How Founders Can Lead Through a Pivot with Clarity and Confidence
Thinking about pivoting your startup? Learn how founders can navigate major shifts with clarity, transparency, and purpose—while keeping their team and investors aligned.
Cultivating Culture in Fully Remote Startups
Traditional advice often falls short; overscheduling meetings, excessive communication, and micromanagement can erode trust and autonomy. So, what do we do?
Tariffs, Tension, and Team Health: What the Macro Climate Means for Your Micro Culture
If you’re feeling pressure to cut costs, stretch cash, or rethink hiring... you're not alone. But here's the risk: while you’re focused on runway and survival, your culture might start unraveling.
Leading Through Economic Uncertainty: How Great Founders Stay Calm When the Market Doesn’t
When the market sneezes, early-stage founders feel it like the flu. Learn to lead with clarity and calm during market chaos.
Building Your Trusted Advisor Group
Learn how to assemble your Trusted Advisor Group (TAG) — a team of tax, legal, and financial experts who work together to support your startup’s success. Discover who to hire, when to bring them in, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Mastering the Professional Services Interview
Avoid costly hiring mistakes. Learn how to interview bookkeepers, fractional CFOs, and controllers like a seasoned founder. Get the right fit for your startup's next phase with this step-by-step guide.
Finding the Right Fit for Your Outsourced Finance Team
In this series, we are collaborating with Miguel A. Delgado, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, to explore what it takes to select financial advisors who truly fit your business. Beyond reputation, you need a team that understands your industry, shares your values, and can scale with you as your startup evolves. Here’s how to find a great match.
Investor Profiles: Will Decker
With a background spanning early-stage venture capital, startup advisory, and even being a founder himself, Will brings a wealth of insight on what it takes to build and scale a successful business.
Hiring a Generalist or a Specialist? Making the Right Choice for Your Team
When hiring, it’s easy to say you want a “rockstar” or a “perfect fit.” But what does that actually mean?
Async Interviews: Better & Faster Hiring
You want a world-class team that sets your company apart, but you also don’t want to spend all your time filtering through resumes and conducting endless interviews. Traditional hiring processes often fail to efficiently surface the best candidates, especially in a global, remote-first workforce. That’s where asynchronous (async) interviews come in
How to Hire Well: A Founder’s Guide
Hiring is one of the most critical skills for any founder. Get it right, and your company takes off. Get it wrong, and you spend months (or years) fixing costly mistakes.
Investor Profile: Thomas Schulz
In this edition of our investor profile series, we spotlight Thomas Schulz, founder of Healthetia, an angel syndicate with a strong focus on healthcare startups. With a background that spans healthcare, AI, and venture building, Thomas combines decades of industry expertise with a deep passion for empowering founders and solving meaningful problem
Investor Profile: Zhichao Li
In this edition of our investor profile series, we’re spotlighting Zhichao Li, founder of Nestra, a firm focused on public equity value investing, option premiums, and venture capital. With a diverse background–spanning engineering, IBM, and machine learning–Zhichao brings a unique lens to the investment world, combining technical expertise with strategic capital deployment.
Leadership as a Solo Founder
Even if you don’t manage a team, you are still a leader. You lead your vision, your stakeholders (clients, investors, customers), and yourself. This is where self-leadership comes into play. It’s about managing your time, energy, and focus with the same discipline you’d expect from an employee.
Mastering the All-Hands Meeting
When it comes to startup culture, the all-hands meeting is more than just a recurring calendar event. It’s a powerful tool for alignment, engagement, and influence. Often, founders and leaders turn these gatherings into elaborate presentations or boring updates. If you’re not using your all-hands meetings to influence how your team thinks and acts, you’re leaving value on the table.
A Guide to Thriving for Solo Founders
Starting a business is hard enough, but being the visionary founder who also has to juggle networking, marketing, branding, social media, and sales? That’s a whole different challenge.
This post will dive into strategies to help you avoid burnout, tackle decision paralysis, and optimize your approach to growing profitably.
Investor Profile: Vasana Ly
In this profile, we are pleased to feature Vasana Ly, an investor with ICA Fund, whose dedication to community development and inclusive business creation is inspiring. Their focus on fostering opportunities for underrepresented entrepreneurs is core to their investment approach.
Investor Profiles: Andy Weyer
In this edition of our investor profile series, we’re spotlighting Andy Weyer, Partner at Spinta Capital, a leading debt advisory firm serving startups in technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors. With over two decades of experience in venture debt, Andy offers a unique perspective on navigating this often-overlooked financing option for startups.
Investor Profiles: Matt Wanlass
In this profile, we’re excited to introduce Matt Wanlass, a technology-focused investment banker at Peak Technology Partners, who helps founders navigate capital raises and M&A opportunities to achieve optimal outcomes.
Avoid Wasting Time on Small Team Decisions
Making decisions as a team can be crazy-making. We can spend hours debating something only to find out later that we were mostly wasting our time.
How can we do less of that?