Student Startup Squad Takes Off With Flight Business
Olivia Keneipp is giving you more options when taking to the skies. It’s time to soar! Olivia is the CEO…
Crowdspring gives artists a foot in the door
Crowdspring CEO Ross Kimbarovsky was tired of lackluster web design offered by expensive firms. So he democratized the industry by allowing…
There’s No Such Thing As “Free” Funding for Your Startup
Unless you are one of those entrepreneurs who has made a boatload of money for venture investors before, you have…
Startup Finance: A VC’s Thoughts on Wash-Out Rounds
One of the more exciting—or excruciating—venture investment scenarios (it depends on whether you tend to focus on clouds or silver linings) is washout financing…
5 valuable lessons you can apply from SXSW 2014
Couldn’t make it to SXSW? That’s ok! I’ve got you covered. After ten exhilarating days in Austin, I’ve compiled the…
Understanding—and Managing—Investor Expectations in the Midwest
Living in the Midwest—a place where venture capital investors are scarce and generally smaller than their venture center counterparts—presents high impact entrepreneurs with a number of challenges not generally encountered by their peers in places like Silicon Valley…
When Building a Startup, Data is King—But Not for Everything
In some contexts, data is important and makes its way into other aspects of our lives too, mostly without us consciously recognizing data’s role…
Non-Technical Founders: Stop Trying to Learn How to Code
Strong computer science talent is a dime a dozen these days and with the surge of tech companies growing and starting, the demand seems to be outweighing the supply…