Everything you need to do business is on the web. From funding to finance, setup to staffing, branding to biz-dev, co-hosts Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy have between them, more than 50 years of success in nurturing businesses to become global brands. Gillian co-founded Moz and serves on boards on four continents. Anne was a founding board member of Helium.com and guided numerous Internet start-ups, including Zillow. Together, and with occasional guest experts, they break down the art of small business from the ground up.
We continue our conversation with Janis Machala about how to seek early stage investing, because we just couldn’t get everything we wanted to hear from
Janis Marchala of Palladin Partners has been called the ‘Oracle of Startup mentoring and early-stage investing” which she has been doing since the mid-1990’s in
“Silicon Valley is the only place in the US where rich people want to meet with poor people” — that is, if they have compelling
How important is it to raise your head up from your startup and read blogs regularly? Very important. A breadth of sources gives you a
Gillian and Anne revisit metrics to take a deeper dive into finding the right measurements in your business for clarity and intelligence-based decisions. Rigor is
While it’s true that VC funding to women founders has more than doubled in 10 years, the actual amount is paltry. Anne and Gillian discuss
Every startup needs a cap table, even if the only shareholders are the founder and perhaps a partner or two. As you grow, you will
Eventually your startup will need a board of directors. But, when do you shift from advisors to directors, and what are the need for them,
Every successful person speaks of mentors that led the way and provided encouragement. This is especially true when you are founding a startup, a time
Term Sheets 101Terms sheets are good news, but they can be intimidating. Gillian and Anne break down what some of the confusing terms and what
Gillian and Anne continue their discussion of the best ways to fund your very early stage company. This week is all about how to find
Gillian and Anne discuss ways to get your very early stage idea funded. Maybe it’s not even a product yet, just a good idea. Where
Only .05 percent of startups get VC funding. And it takes a long time. Hard news. Gillian and Anne talk about why this is so,
Guest Stephanie Lampkin tells how to hire for merit alone, and get past unconscious bias on gender, race or age, and more to point, why
Raising capital is critical to your startup’s success. So is running your business. Gillian and Anne discuss how to manage both, and why your fundraising
Gillian and Anne challenging every speaker, mentor, advisor, event organizer, company and organization leader, and department head to do something about the dearth of gender
Bringing a Company to the Next Level as Gillian has a conversation with Jay Love, CEO Slingshot SEO, a SEO agency that helps customers increase
Self funded growth and how to grow revenue without a marketing budget. as Gillian interviews with the co-founder and President of Slingshot SEO, Kevin Bailey.
Welcome to the Incubator. What Do You Do First? From getting the most out of networking, and avoiding the distractions, Gillian offers some insight so
Anne and Gillian discuss IT project management, in particular how to manage development projects and maintain forward progress and your sanity. Learn project management tips
Guest Rebecca Lieb of Altimeter explains what analysts do and how they can be of benefit to entrepreneurs. Most importantly, she details what every start
Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy discusswhy start ups succeed: most often its timing. It’s a lot like love. Or anything else in your life that’s
Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy chat about Cognitive Bias. The dynamic duo define what cognitive bias’ are, and mention that they can disrupt your decision
Need some practical productivity tools? The best streamline your process and keep you on track and distraction-free. Anne & Gillian talk about their favorites. It’s
Inclusion and Why It Is Good for Business. Inclusion is a key driver of internal innovation and business growth. Anne Kennedy and Gillian Muessig discuss
Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy discuss the Basics of Board Meetings. How to stay on top of them, how to control them and how to
Gillian and Anne discuss benefits and drawbacks the three most popular ways for investors to join your seed round — traditional equity, convertible notes against,
Startup Weatlh and Leadership In a Fast Growing Organization as we look back at two favorite interviews: ‘StartUp wealth” author Josh Mayer, and Moz CEO
Best of CEO Coach: Looking back to best of CEO Coach for 2016: How to build a better founder, why your founder should give away
The holiday season is about giving, but how do you honor that when your startup is still subsisting on ramen noodles, and likely you are
Inclusion is the future, says Nitin Rai, entrepreneur, investor and impact investor. He is making 50% of his Elevate Capital investments in women-led startups, and
Your business plan is your roadmap for your company’s growth and success, and is your internal key to organizing your own thoughts at a deeper
How do you really qualify potential investors, so you don’t waste time one the ones who are not going to fund your startup? Start with
This month it is critical to review your employees’ performances, especially if you are a lean early stage startup. You have no room for any
Last year Fortune magazine reported on gender and racial diversity in nine leading US tech companies, with disappointing results. Anne Gillian go back for another
Fourth Quarter expectations lead to questions about your revenue. Anne and Gillian discuss some great steps to Ring the Freaking Cash Register, as referenced by
Anne and Gillian discuss Leadership Speaking Style and Communication Killers as they reference a blog post from Ian Lurie entitled These 10 Phrases Are Killing
September is time to tune up your systems and processes, and CEO Coach turns to another century-old method, this time from Lillian Frank Galbreth who
Time to step up your game in productivity. Q4 is nearly upon us. The summer doldrums are over. Hopefully you took Gillian and Anne’s advice
How abundant thinking makes you a better CEO as Anne and Gillian look at the work of Bay Area executive coach Katia Verresen and what
Laura Weintraub, CEO of renowned digital agency Aimclear joins us to talk about leadership and managing growth at her company, one of Inc’s 500/5000 for
Anne and Gillian talk about why taking a vacation will make you a better CEO and your company more successful, and why you must make
Pre-money. Preferences. Dilution. The vocabulary of start up funding has a language all its own. What’s more, pitfalls await the unwary entrepreneur. Yes you can
What attributes make a good founder? Gillian and Anne review characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, with input from Fast Company, Compass and Techstars. Patterns emerge from
What do you do when a big VC firm or a Really Big Company wants to invest and become your strategic partner? Push the euphoria
Fine-tuning Your Fundraising Part 3: Rejected! What to Do Next. In a continuing series on how to boost your fundraising results, Anne Gillian talk about
When you pitch to potential investors keep control of the conversation. Drive the car, says Elizabeth Yin, entrepreneur and partner at 500 Startups. Avoid letting
In the first of a multipart series on fine-tuning your funding, Gillian Anne discuss the difference between angel investors and seed VC’s, and why understanding
Anne and Gillian look at the work of Bay Area executive coach Katia Verresen and what she calls the remarkable advantage of abundant thinking. It’s
What can you learn from The FBI about closing sales? Plenty, according to Chris Voss, former FBI international kidnapping negotiator and author of “Never Split
