Culture plays a pivotal role in the story of any startup. Create and cultivate a culture conducive to high-performing behavior and values-aligned talent, and great things can happen. Here are seven tips that can help you codify your startup's culture and bake it into the foundation of everything you do.
Accountability Frame for Early-Stage Founders: Transmuting Actions to Outcomes
In this post, we share the 5-Questions (Our Accountability Frame) that can inspire and encourage accountability— one that works with human nature rather than against it. The Accountability Frame can be used when addressing someone 1:1, addressing a group (1:many), and working with ourselves more importantly.
Rounding the Founding Team: The Balance of Natural Talent
How exactly can you quickly tell whether someone’s natural capabilities are complementary to yours without conducting a long-winded psychometric analysis? How do you determine the likely natural talent gaps in your initial founding duo or founding team? There are many ways to do this. But over the years, we have observed a pattern across multiple psychometric models and frameworks—one that can be distilled into four distinct talent footprints.
What’s ‘Next’ in Sports, Health, and Wellness? Melanie Strong of Next Ventures
Today’s guest is Melanie Strong, Managing Partner at Next Ventures and former Nike executive for over 18 years. With a history of leading diverse international teams, Melanie is one of the most passionate leaders you can find in the sports, health and wellness space.
Building Companies, Building Companies, and Building Companies: Hiten Shah of FYI
In this interview, Hiten shares some great insights into problem-hunting, product-development, and the performance psychology behind ‘0 to 1.’ Throughout this interview, you will experience his deeply empathetic, humble, and more importantly, engaging approach to company-building! Especially if you possess the ‘company-builder for life’ mentality that so many great founders have!
14 Traits of Top Early-stage Founders
Fundraising: 4 Tips for a Successful Early-Stage Fundraise
Due to the fast-paced nature of startups, founders don’t always have the luxury of taking their time when pitching potential VCs. So, how do you balance the components of speed and diligence while fundraising? Here are four tips to help you find the right investors quickly and secure the funds you need to scale so you can go back to building your business: