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Featured Member: Bobby Napiltonia, Serial Founder

Bobby Napiltonia, Serial Founder Check out our Member Brief with Bobby Napiltonia here. Q: Can you share a little about your journey and background? Bobby Napiltonia: I’ve spent 37 years in the tech industry, beginning with distribution roles and evolving through significant positions at Salesforce, State Software, and Twilio. I often describe myself as [...]

November 4th, 2024|

To Affinity… and Beyond!

If you've been in the startup ecosystem for more than a minute, then you've probably heard (or said yourself) something like this: Being a startup founder is: very hard, very stressful, and very lonely. The 95% failure rate might be all you need to know to understand that being a founder is hard. But [...]

September 4th, 2024|

MONEYBALL

Blog from Bob Crimmins Moneyball is a must-see movie for founders. It might be the most important startup movie ever made. (-: Briefly.... In 2002, Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane, was faced with one of the smallest player salary budgets in the league -- $40M vs the Yankees' $126M. Beane bucked [...]

August 9th, 2024|

Lily Pads… All The Way Down.

If you know Seattle, then you know Green Lake -- a fabulous park with a 2.8-mile running/walking/riding path around a lake with swimming/paddling/fishing… and much more. Truly a lovely place to hang out. Ironically, also the birthplace of the GroundWork Framework. But that's a story for another time. I took a walk around Greenlake [...]

August 5th, 2024|

Feeling Weird About Returning to Startup Haven?

Monday, June 17, 2024 1:02 PM We've been hearing from some alumni members that re-engaging in Startup Haven feels a little weird. The two reasons we've heard: returning to any kind of networking has been hard post-COVID and some members are uncertain if they would still be welcome. Regarding the post-COVID networking doldrums, we [...]

July 8th, 2024|

Featured Member: Julie Saltman, CEO and Co-Founder of Standd

Julie Saltman, CEO and Co-founder of Standd Q: Why does the world need your company? A: M&A deals create trillions of dollars in value every year around the world. But these deals take a ridiculous amount of work to close – months of long, tedious days, and millions in consulting and legal fees. And [...]

July 8th, 2024|
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