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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One of the biggest myths about entrepreneurship is that successful founders start with the perfect idea.
The reality is very different.
When Andy Bird and Steve Baker joined Founder Friday, they sha...
Every founder dreams about raising investment, landing major customers or achieving a successful exit. Yet, according to entrepreneur and angel investor Matt O'Donovan, the foundation for all three is...