Start-ups

Building a Contemporary, Incentives-Aligned Marketing Company: Elias Rubel of Matter Made

Building a Contemporary, Incentives-Aligned Marketing Company: Elias Rubel of Matter Made

Today’s guest is Elias Rubel, a serial founder and currently the Founder & CEO @Matter Made. His company is a B2B growth firm, focused on helping clients accelerate their outcomes through marketing, especially at the Series A level (post product-market fit). In this video, Eli talks about building a contemporary, incentives-aligned marketing company to support early-stage and growth start-ups.

Founder Lessons on Identifying, Securing, and Scaling Excellence: Adam Lawrence

Founder Lessons on Identifying, Securing, and Scaling Excellence: Adam Lawrence

Today’s guest is Adam Lawrence, a serial founder and currently the COO @Bolt. Adam is a growth-oriented startup leader with unique insights about manufacturing luck, hiring and unlocking talent, and being uncompromising about excellence. Adam is low-key, humble, and a builder by nature. His insights are based on first-hand experiences in the startup world. Enjoy! 

Enabling High-Octane Founders From Day 0 and Beyond: Manan Mehta of Unshackled Ventures

Enabling High-Octane Founders From Day 0 and Beyond: Manan Mehta of Unshackled Ventures

Founder talent finds its way from all across the globe. However, not all of them have the right networks and resources to go from great idea to effective implementation. That’s where Unshackled VC comes in. Manan and the Unshackled VC team bring a high-performing approach to investing. They take the best, timeless practices of VC and make them even better!

Productive Vs. Busy: The Difference

Productive Vs. Busy: The Difference

There is a distinction between the habit of being productive and being busy —

  1. Being busy is activity-based execution with no direction.

  2. Being productive means executing the activities that bring you closer to the experience of personal and professional fulfillment.

So, review your activities and ask yourself:

  • What will completing those activities do for me?

  • What end result or goal do they lead me to?

Placing Founders at The Center of Your Efforts: Miles Lasater of Purpose Built Ventures

Placing Founders at The Center of Your Efforts: Miles Lasater of Purpose Built Ventures

Today’s guest is Miles Lasater, serial founder turned investor and the founding partner at Purpose Built Ventures. As a founder, he helped Higher One scale to over $200MM in revenue and eventually, a public offering. In this interview, Miles shares his journey as a founder turned investor and illuminates insights from having experience on both sides of the venture capital marketplace!

Productivity: Optimizing for Energy and Time

Productivity: Optimizing for Energy and Time

By nature, life is about prioritizing activities that bring us the most fulfillment and de-prioritizing activities that bring us least fulfillment. However, there are often more things to be done than we can possibly do within a given frame of time. But time is just one aspect of the equation…

The Core Values & Traits of Successful Founders: Ullas Naik of Streamlined Ventures

The Core Values & Traits of Successful Founders: Ullas Naik of Streamlined Ventures

Today’s guest is Ullas Naik, Founder and General Partner @Streamlined Ventures. His notable investments include; Addepar, DoorDash, Rappi, and FLYR, for example. Ullas has been an investor for over 23 years with 400 companies worth of investment experience. He has steadily weathered the ups and downs of markets, and more importantly, been a steady, guiding hand to portfolio founders.