Skills and insights picked up along the way before becoming a startup founder that were helpful in the journey and can be learned through other means.
Foundational things we set in place that served us well in our 5 years of Accompany.
Thoughts on raising the war chest and keeping the team motivated while seeking out product/market fit.
Our experience moving the measure of success from individual user decisions to the aggregate impact based on C-Suite objectives.
Thoughts on generating inbound interest for your business and our experience with the exit.
Thanks to Ryan McDonough, @BerkeleyHaas '97 & co-founder of Accompany (acquired by Cisco) for kicking off @Cal_Launch Demo Day. 💙💙 his values! 🐻🐻 pic.twitter.com/LLx9Ine745
— BHEP (@UCBStartup) May 2, 2021
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Last week, I had a chance to share some thoughts on my founder experience (Accompany 2013 – 2018) with Aaron McDaniel’s Haas MBA 295A entrepreneurship class.
Fundraising is a constant focus for us as entrepreneurs, and it’s a topic that comes up nearly every time we meet. The startup world is filled with stories about founders pitching to dozens of VCs, going from meeting to meeting, before finally securing that elusive first round of funding. For those of us willing to invest in our networks, I completely disagree with this approach.
When we founded Accompany back in 2013, we decided to deliberately set our company culture. Before we even had a name, an office or even a first employee, we had our values.
