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Give First: Susan Standiford on the five traits of leadership

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Advice

Sell More Faster, Part 2: Proving your W3 through the Customer Development Process

Sell More Faster, Part 3: Building a Winning Startup Sales Process

Sell More Faster, Part 1: Why You Need a Sales Strategy For Your Startup

Why Smaller Cities Can Be the Perfect Place for A Growing Company

Measuring What Really Matters When You Start Up

3 Ways to Bring Your Remote Team Together & Create an Inclusive Culture

Podcasts

Founder Rising: Finding Motivation by Battling Yourself – with Shastri Mahadeo

Give First: Susan Standiford on the five traits of leadership

Founder Rising: Hacking Resilience by Celebrating Small Wins — with Laura Spiekerman

Founder Rising: Take All Advice With a Grain of Salt — with Christie Horvath

Founder Rising: Jenny Fielding Hosts Techstars’ New Podcast That Goes Behind the Scenes of Starting Up

Give First: Joy Taylor on taking the concept of Give First to the nth degree

Startup Profiles

4Degrees: Intelligent Relationship Management for Deal-Driven Teams

Make Music Count: Learn Math And Music, Anywhere

Finli: A Better Back Office for Neighborhood Businesses

Slingshot Aerospace: Bringing Clarity to Complex Environments

Courtroom5: Representing The Unrepresented In Court Cases

Zogo Finance: Gamifying Personal Finance Literacy

Innovation In Action

How a Virtual Past Prepared Us for the Virtual Future

California's Flourishing Startup Scene Goes Far Beyond Silicon Valley

Innovating Insurance: How MetLife Partners with Startups for Lasting Success

Don’t Underestimate the Power of One in the Climate Change Fight

Accelerators, Intrapreneurship, Corporate VC, and More: Understanding Your Corporate Innovation Options

#ClimateTech: How Climate Change is Creating the Next Big Disruptive Technology Cycle

5 Questions

5 Questions with Kartik Varma
Get to know Kartik Varma, Managing Director of the ABN AMRO & Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator
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5 Questions with Elle Bruno
Meet Techstars & Western Union Accelerator new Managing Director Elle Bruno and learn about the startups she's interested in working with in 2021
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5 Questions with Andres Barreto
"I see startup ecosystems as a powerful tool to create access to upward socioeconomic mobility."
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5 Questions with Waseem Daher, Founder of Pilot
"This sounds hard to believe, but almost all of the things you might be worrying about as a first time founder don’t matter."
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5 Questions with Travis Holoway, Founder of SoLo Funds, Helping People Through Financial Hardship
"We find that borrowers on our platform are simply trying to cover basic necessities like rent, groceries, medicine, gas, and utility bills."
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A Critical Gap On the Factory Floor: Automated Designation of Asset Downtime Reasons

7 Bad Pitch Personalities - Which One Are You?

LaunchPad Student Entrepreneurship Outlook

Entrepreneurship in Venezuela: Starting a Company in the Third Most Difficult Country in the World to Run a Business

A Startup’s Physical Location Matters Less Than Ever Before

Are Entrepreneurs Born or Designed?