June 19, 202419 min
51. Spiro - Exit 101
Spiro co-founder and CEO, Adam Honig, recently sold his buisness and discusses the things he wished he knew about prior to starting the process.
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Jun 2024
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About the show
So you’re launching a new tech business! If it's your first, there is much to learn, from IP strategy to fundraising to sales & product management to executive leadership-- and you need to learn it fast. Enter The Fundable Founder, which offers tips for first-time founders in short, incisive interviews with dozens of business experts. Hosts Charlie Hipwood and Stacy Swider are former founders themselves, now investors, who spend innumerable hours coaching and advising entrepreneurs, and now they’re here for you.
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February 2, 202420 min
50. Pison - Dexter Ang
Dexter Ang, founder and CEO of Pison, talks about the challenges of raising venture capital. "Do VC discovery quickly and find the ones that will fall in love with you instantly. Our backers were obvious fits."
January 26, 202417 min
49. Planning and Launching a Product
Ready to launch a new product? How do you build a customer base and scale up your sales? Yael Avidan, senior director of product at Chewy gives topline advice to first time #founders in this episode. Learn such tips as: 1) Be specific with your hypothesis for customer need so that you can measure your progress, 2) Fall in love with a problem, not a solution, 3) Measure, measure, measure! 4) Be objective with your data.
January 19, 202418 min
48. Product Management 101 - Kaitlyn Kirkaldy, Zipcar
Developing your MVP as a startup can be challenging. You need to be data-driven, good at understanding business needs and technical requirements, and ruthless at prioritization. And you also need to be able to communicate with diverse groups and motivate a team while having empathy for customers. In this episode, Kaitlyn Kirkaldy, senior product manager at Zipcar gives excellent advice on how to succeed at product development.
January 12, 202416 min
47. Orienting Around a Mission
Serial founder Greg Segall discusses what drove him to found Alyce, a mission-oriented business, and why that's important. Segall talks about the benefits, including attracting the right talent, building a tighter company culture and gaining competitive advantage as a business.
January 5, 202415 min
46. Importance of Culture
As a startup, how do you think about and build culture? And how do you hire for it? Joshua Summers, CEO & cofounder, clypd, inc. shares fascinating insights with Charlie Hipwood in this episode.
December 15, 202319 min
45. Fairmarkit - Kevin Frechette
Kevin Frechette, co-founder and CEO of Fairmarkit, talks about the challenge of growing a business while raising venture capital. "Don’t oversell where you are at as a company."
December 8, 202319 min
44. Priya - Building Eng. Teams
As a tech startup, being able to innovate and deliver complex projects on a dime is essential for growth and revenue. And to do that, you need a resilient, effective engineering team. Before joining MassVentures as VP of Investments, Priya Yadav grew and managed an engineering team, from 3 to 350 people, at Intel. In this episode, she offers advice for building and managing effective, resilient teams. "You have to constantly work at it, evaluate the gaps, put processes in place to address the gaps, and don't underestimate the importance of it. Leave no stone unturned."
December 1, 202328 min
43. Alyce - Greg Segall
Founder and CEO of Alyce, Greg Segall, sits down with Charlie Hipwood to talk about his fundraising journey. Segall discusses the importance of creating a company around core pillars and a mission. “(If)you are a product-based CEO, you’re job is to say no…focus is success."
November 17, 20239 min
42. Diversity and Inclusion
Diverse organizations outperform is MassVentures' investment thesis. And research backs that up. But how do you build a truly diverse organization, and maintain that diversity as you grow? It takes intentionality, time, transparency--and a lot more, but the rewards are well worth it. In this episode, Charlie Hipwood discusses how MassVentures puts its investment thesis into practice.
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