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What 14 Years of SEIS Investing Teaches You About Backing Founders 2026 investment investor investor circle seis september Sep 11, 2026

Investor Circle with Jeffrey Faustin of Jenson Ventures

When Jeffrey Faustin joined Jenson Ventures in 2012, he joined as an intern.

The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) was new. Jenson Vent...

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Why Purpose Matters More Than Your Startup Mission Statement 2026 founder friday founder story september Sep 11, 2026

Why This Problem?

Why this?

Of all the businesses you could build and all the problems you could solve, why have you chosen this one?

It's a question worth asking because startups are hard.

There...

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Believe It, Prepare for It, Be Yourself: Seif Eldeen Ibrahim Wins the Canopy People’s Choice Award
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Believe It, Prepare for It, Be Yourself: Seif Eldeen Ibrahim Wins the Canopy People’s Choice Award 2026 august global demo night peoples choice Sep 04, 2026

What makes one startup pitch stand out when an audience has spent an evening watching talented founders demo ambitious ideas?

Sometimes it is the innovation.  Sometimes it is the traction.  Sometimes...

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Everything Is On Fire  2026 founder friday founder story september Sep 04, 2026

What Resilience Really Means for a First-Time Founder

Startups have a strange relationship with resilience.

We celebrate persistence.

Never give up.

Keep pushing.

Work harder.

But after listenin...

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Stacy Quackenbush and Hive3 Win the People’s Choice at Canopy’s July Global Demo Night 2026 global demo night july people's choice Aug 28, 2026

Stacy Quackenbush and Hive3 Win the People’s Choice at Canopy’s July Global Demo Night

What happens when founders join a startup Demo Night from New Jersey, Lisbon, Palestine, Portugal and the UK, wi...

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Entrepreneurship Is a Team Sport  2026 august founder friday founder story Aug 28, 2026

Why First-Time Founders Need People More Than They Need Answers

The popular mythology of entrepreneurship loves the individual.

The visionary founder.

The brilliant idea.

The person who saw someth...

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Seif Wins the People’s Choice at Canopy’s August Global Demo Night 2026 august demo night global demo night people's choice Aug 26, 2026

What can a first-time Founder learn from watching three early-stage startups pitch live to an international panel of experienced operators?

Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Today, Canopy Community host...

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From Zero-G to Startup Founder: Lessons from Gianluca Memoli and Metasonixx 2026 august founder friday founder story Aug 21, 2026

Listen to the Founder Friday series at https://founderfriday.buzzsprout.com/


What can training for zero gravity teach you about becoming a startup founder?

For Gianluca Memoli, Co-Founder and CEO ...

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The Founder Is an Apprentice  2026 august founder friday founder story Aug 21, 2026

Why First-Time Founders Don't Need to Know Everything

One of the most dangerous assumptions a first-time founder can make is that everyone else knows what they're doing.

They don't.

After interview...

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Give Yourself Permission to Be a Founder 2026 august founder friday founder story Aug 14, 2026

There is a persistent myth about entrepreneurship: that founders are a particular kind of person.

They studied the right subject. They started young. They grew up around business. They understand fin...

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From BBC Studios to Britain's Classrooms: Katie Grayson and Zillah Watson at Phase Space 2026 founder friday founder story july Aug 14, 2026

 

Katie Grayson and Zillah Watson used to describe their first pitch conversations like walking a dog on Hampstead Heath during lockdown and hoping someone was listening. This summer, the schools sec...

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Stop Selling the TAM. Investors Are Backing Teams, Not Slides. 2026 august investor investor circle Aug 10, 2026

For many first-time founders, fundraising starts with the pitch deck.

Hours are spent refining market size calculations, perfecting the Total Addressable Market (TAM) slide and explaining how the bus...

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