Feel the Boot
By Feel the Boot
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Feel the Boot delivers advice and experience to entrepreneurs, helping them create and grow successful businesses. We help founders go from overwhelmed entrepreneur to successful CEO.
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Investors Judge You Before You Say a Word
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Stop Asking for Warm Intros First (They Come Last)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Friends & Family Round: How to Protect Your Relationships AND Raise Money
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May 19, 2026 |
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How to Build a Go-to-Market Engine That Makes Investors Pay Attention — with Javier Lozano Jr.
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Your Product Won't Speak for Itself — Why Technical Founders Get Overlooked | Shayna Davis
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Hockey Enforcer to $110M: Dave Burnett on Grit, Time, and Making AI See Your Startup
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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The 4 Filters: Why You Aren’t Fundable... Yet
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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The Investor Warm-Up Protocol: How to Turn Cold Investors into Warm Leads
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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The Super Connector System: David Homan on Building Relationships at the Speed of Trust
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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124. The 6 Startup Pitches Every Founder Needs
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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123. Founder/Market Fit: Your Startup’s Early-Stage Advantage
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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122. How Founders Sabotage Themselves with ChatGPT
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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121. The mindset shift that separates stalled founders from successful ones – David Neagle interview
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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120. Unlocking Startup Growth: Fundraising Strategies and Resilience Tips with Paulo Andrez
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May 01, 2025 |
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119. Pre-Sell Before You Build: Avoid Costly Startup Mistakes — with David Hirschfeld
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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118. Avoid These Startup Finance Mistakes — Insights from a Fractional CFO
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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117. Cold Start Your Startup Pitch: Hook Investors from the First Second
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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116. Fear is the Startup Killer: How to Overcome It and Get Started
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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115. Why Startup Plans Fail (and Why That’s Okay)
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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114. Building Products Right: Essential Advice for Early-Stage Founders by Chad Perry
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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113. Effective Team Building and Self-Management for Founders – Emily Hawkins Interview
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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112. Go Niche or Go Home: Why Your Startup Needs a Narrow Initial Market (and How to Pick One)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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111. Freemium Business Models: The Good, the Bad, and an Alternative You Should Consider
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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110. How to Pivot Your Startup Before You Launch Pre-Pivot Strategies for Entrepreneurs
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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109. What is Secret Sauce? Why Every Startup Needs It!
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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108. The Waiting Game: Why Pre-Seed Investors Delay and How to Speed Up Commitment
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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107. Startup Failure Analysis Key Lessons from Abby Sugar
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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106. Why Startups Fail: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid
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May 25, 2024 |
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105. How to Make Your Startup Elevator Pitch Effective and Get Venture Capital Investment
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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104. Negotiation skills for startup founders
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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103. Better than TAM SAM SOM startup market sizing
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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102. Testing Startup Ideas and Assumptions ⚖️ John Li of PickFu Interview
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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101. Decoding Startup Sales Strategy Michael Regnier Interview
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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100. Recognizing and Surviving a Startup Heart Attack
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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99. The 10x rule Why better is not enough
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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98. Startup Fundraising Facilitators Surviving the Pit of Serpents!
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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97. Exposing the top reasons for angel investment pre-screen rejections
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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96. Startup Privacy Policies What you need to know about GDPR, CCPA and beyond!
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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95. You’re delivering your pitch deck ask wrong What you should say instead
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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94. Escape the Startup Paradox Strategies for Funding Product Development
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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93. Startup Branding and Positioning Mara Rada Interview
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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92. The Economics of Angel Investing Angel Investing 101
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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91. Non-monetary Startup Rewards and Recognitions
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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90. Thirteen Key Considerations for Evaluating Angel Deals Angel Investing 101
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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89. Non-Dilutive Startup Fundraising SBIR Grants for Innovation
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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88. Talking to friends and family about investing in your startup.
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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87. Get Angel Investor Dealflow
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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86. BoD vs. Shareholder ⚖️ Startup Corporate Governance
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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85. How venture capital kills startups ☠️
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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84. How to start angel investing
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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83. Angel Investing 101
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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82. Startup Fundraising in a Bear Market
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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81. My worst day as a founder how we pivoted, survived, and eventually thrived
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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80. Fire the Founder? Take the initiative and replace yourself as CEO
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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79. Cofounder Vesting Handling founder shares when things go wrong
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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78. Investment Term Sheets: Explanations, Red Flags, and where to push back
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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77. Pitching when tech’s glitching. Handle PowerPoint failure with style!
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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76. Investor Updates: how, why, and an investor update template
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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75. Surviving a Short Runway. Startup burn rate < 6 months cash
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May 20, 2022 |
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74. What is a Cap Table? Tracking VC Investments and stock option grants
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May 02, 2022 |
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73. When your startup hits hard times: quit, pivot, or persevere?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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72. Get more value from your startup advisors
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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71. How to get startup mentoring and advising at Feel the Boot
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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70. High valuations can demotivate employees and derail investment
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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69. When to sell your startup? ♂️ Equity and Valuation vs. Risk
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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68. How to recruit the perfect advisors (or directors) for your startup
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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67. Blitzscaling vs. the 4 hour work week – choose the kind of company you want to create and run.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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66. Pre-revenue startup funding: valuations & venture capital
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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65. Task Management ✍️ make time for strategic thinking
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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64. Feel the Boot 2021 year in review
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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63. Focus on the fundamentals to create a marketing strategy for your startup – Tim Fitzpatrick Interview
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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62. Design your C-suite with care. Consider the next 2 years of your startup when handing out titles
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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61. Understand founder equity dilution and how your decisions impact what you keep.
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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60. Top Insights From 25 Years as a Founder, Angel, and Advisor
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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59. Asking your customer these questions can prevent massive wasted effort
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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58. How I learned to master complex B2B sales meetings as an inexperienced startup founder
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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57. Startup Lifecycles and Surviving No Man’s Land – Ruth King Interview
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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56. Bootstrapping vs. VC funding: which is right for your startup?
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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55. Create a pitch deck that investors can read in seconds, because that may be all you get
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May 03, 2021 |
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54. What projects to prioritize, and which you should kill, in your startup
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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53. Virtual Pitching and Fundraising Over Zoom, What Founders Need to Know
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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52. Slow down and say less to communicate more when pitching startup investors
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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51. What founders need to know about patents and intellectual property for startups - Adam Philipp
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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50. Bad startup advice creates cargo cult thinking. Learn to spot and avoid it.
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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49. Six reasons to delay automating processes in your startup as long as possible
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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48. Who is Lance, and why is he talking about startups?
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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47. Ten Common Startup Fundraising Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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46. I picked the wrong year to stop sniffing airplane glue - looking back at 2020 and to our future.
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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45. Founders, your competition might not be what you think it is
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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44. Che Voigt - Feel the Boot Interview pt. 2
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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43. Sales Aren’t My Thing: How To Reframe Your Perspective and Close Multi-Million Dollar Deals
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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42. Johann Moonesinghe - Feel the Boot Interview
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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41. Joy Hermsen - Feel the Boot Interview
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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40. How to make luck and exploit hidden business opportunities
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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39. Michele Chaboudy - Feel the Boot Interview
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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38. Identify the one strength you must emphasize in your fundraising pitch with four startup case studies
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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37. Lisa Tamayo - Feel the Boot Interview
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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36. A tool for choosing the best business direction and strategy for your startup. Part 2
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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35. A tool for choosing the best business direction and strategy for your startup. Part 1
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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34. Iris Fujiura - Feel the Boot interview
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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33. Five step process to create a killer pitch deck for your startup
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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32. Interview with Che Voigt, CEO & Co-Founder of Altwork
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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31. Nine things angel investors look for in startup fundraising pitches
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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30. Elizabeth Gore’s Feel the Boot Interview
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May 24, 2020 |
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29. Escape the busyness trap that tricks entrepreneurs into working hard while accomplishing little
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May 17, 2020 |
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28. How to create financials for early stage pre-seed startups that will wow investors
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May 03, 2020 |
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27. How To Launch A Startup With Zero Capital
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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26. Five critical steps to save your startup during a catastrophe like COVID-19
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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25. In startups, distractions are everywhere. Entrepreneurs must find the fine balance of intense focus without rigidity.
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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24. Why do most founders and entrepreneurs feel like frauds and suffer from impostor syndrome?
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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23. Why are even successful startups and entrepreneurs having trouble raising their Series-A rounds?
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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22. One thing most successful companies share: a pivot
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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21. Build a strong foundation for your startup by testing assumptions first
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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20. Passion is the secret weapon of successful entrepreneurs. Learn how to identify and leverage it.
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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19. Raising Capital: Why you need more money than you think
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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18. While starting a business, when should you quit your day job?
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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17. Nail the start of your investment pitch
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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16. Why founders don’t delegate as much as they should
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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15. Priorities and Perseverance: Finding balance and moving forward in the face of major adversity
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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14. My #1 advice to startups: Always be due diligence ready
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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13. The three kinds of viral growth and how to use them in your startup
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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12. How to pitch your blockchain startup to a skeptical investors
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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11. Understanding Control and Power in Your Startup
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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10. Understanding how and why to leverage stock options in your startup
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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9. Understanding stock options from the employee perspective
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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8. Pre-Seed Through A and Beyond: What are all those investment rounds?
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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7. Why ideas matter less than execution to investors and your startup business
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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6. How to get funding for your startup company - answering a viewer question
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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5. The two pitch decks you need to get angel investment
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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4. Your Non Disclosure Agreement can poison the well for angel investment
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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3. Are angels greedy to demand a massive 20X return on investment?
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May 20, 2019 |
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2. Why I don’t care about your technology!
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May 06, 2019 |
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1. Is your passion project worth a day of your vacation time?
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Bad presentations can scuttle your startup, make yours soar.
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Apr 01, 2019 |