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Founders do not need everyone to see everything. But they do need someone to see behind the mask.
How do we make sure the right people can afford to keep doing the work without losing the soul of the work?
If you lead a startup community or operate an ESO, you are going to run into three types of people.
The aspect of remote work that is most missing is the classic water-cooler effect — a sociological phenomenon in which coworkers gather in shared spaces to have casual, spontaneous conversations.
Here is the only question that you need to decide if you are failing: are founders better off?
Five key warning signs that indicate a startup community's collective energy is fading.
The biggest challenge for an early-stage founder is not raising money. The biggest challenge is figuring out whether anyone actually wants what they are building.
Every meaningful venture begins with a founder willing to say, “I think this problem matters enough for me to do something about it.”
John Machacek reflects on how a decade of curating Techstars Startup Digest Fargo has fueled his professional growth and strengthened his local startup community.
The community exists because entrepreneurs are crazy enough, bold enough, and stubborn enough to build something from nothing.
I don’t know a single ecosystem that, at some point, doesn’t have to look in the mirror and say, “We’ve got some culture issues we need to improve.”
The goal is not just to produce one successful company. The goal is to create a system where today’s founder becomes tomorrow’s angel investor, mentor, board member, or second-time entrepreneur.
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