So excited to see Mezo join Property Meld! Big shoutout to Mike, Erin, John, and the whole team for all the hard work and passion you've put into this. Their journey as @joinffl.com alumni will keep inspiring others who are just starting their own paths. propertymeld.com/blog/propert...

1/ Huge congratulations to Mudit, Ian, and the whole team at Qventus. @joinffl.com is glad to have played a small part in their journey. www.qventus.com/resources/bl...

Starter pack of VCs, startup accelerators, and people who work at them on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/5KqKYBg

1/ Early-stage founders often feel like they’re carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Building a business from scratch is daunting, and the isolation can be overwhelming. The truth is, no one can do it alone.

1/Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures is a VC who has his finger on the pulse of the startup world. So when he weighed in on Chris Neumann's post "In Silicon Valley, No Answer is an Answer," it definitely caught my attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Xh...

1/ When a startup doesn't work out, it's really important for founders to wrap things up properly and land the plane. I was pretty surprised by what Dave Morin, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Offline Ventures, said he heard from an investor:

Made a starter pack of VCs and startup accelerators for tech startups on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/5KqKYBg Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you know that 89% of recent SAFEs were issued with a valuation cap? 📊 This trend highlights how both founders and investors are seeking clarity around equity stakes and valuation in early-stage startup deals.

"It's your audience first and foremost. I mean that should be the start and end of every conversation. Everything else is helping you run a business, but at the end of the day it's a battle for attention."

"I've met incredible fellow founders through FFL! The community is really supportive." - Jason Liu, Co-founder & President at Peblla in Silicon Valley, California and former Engineering Manager at Google. Learn more and apply by June 15th for the 2023 Summer Class at: https://www.joinffl.com/

1/ "The peer mentoring session with other founders was really useful, and the cloud credits are a major benefit for startups looking to scale fast." - Lars Bakke Krogvig, Chief Data Engineer and Co-Founder at Nansen in Oslo, Norway and previously worked at Unacast and BearingPoint.

"FFL is a great forum to meet a community of founders and share challenges and solutions in a group that has or is walking the walk." - Audrey Walby, Founder and President at SAFIO Solutions in Brookfield, Wisconsin and previously worked at BuySeasons, Nine West Group, and VF Corporation.

1/ "FFL provides mentorship, credits that save your startup many multiples of the entry fee, and a fantastic community of other entrepreneurs and leaders. We loved our time as part of FFL and would recommend it to other startups, especially those at the beginning of their journey."

"Apply to FFL summer program, network with mentors and entrepreneurs, and receive a large sum of cloud credits. Been there, done that, and will recommend!" - Zheng "Bruce" Li, Co-Founder at New Kind of Network (NKN.ORG) and previously worked at Google, Nokia, and Nortel Networks. #entrepreneurs

2 weeks left to apply for the 2023 Summer Founder Friendly Labs Class! Join other experienced professionals and receive #startup and cloud credits from #AWS, #GoogleCloud, #Stripe, and more. Apply for free by Thursday, July 15th: https://www.joinffl.com/ #founders #community

1/ "If you are a first-time founder, this [Founder Friendly Labs] is the BEST founders' community that you want to be part of!" - Michelle Zhou, Co-Founder & CEO at Juji, a startup that powers Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistants in the form of chatbots.

"It was a great experience for me and ProtectOnce to join the Founder Friendly Labs - the startup community for experienced founders - www.joinffl.com We learned so many new things from other great startups." - Dan Benger, Co-founder and CEO at ProtectOnce and serial entrepreneur.

Great post from @dunkhippo33.bsky.social: "Doing a startup is HARD, because it’s hard to see the long-term ups of where you’ve come from and how much you’ve accomplished." https://elizabethyin.com/2023/05/05/im-still-not-crushing-it/

1/ Building a startup is hard. Really hard.It's full of uncertainty, long hours, and a lot of rejection.The vast majority of startups fail, and those that do succeed often take years to reach profitability.

"The FFL community is so supportive of it's startups! So cool to have access to an engaged group of like-minded professionals to go to for advice and ideas." - Maureen Pozen, CTO at SAFIO Solutions and previously worked at Boats Group, NCR Corporation, and Intuit. https://www.joinffl.com/

1/ We're excited to have LokiBots as an alumni of Founder Friendly Labs. Applications are open until June 15th for the 2023 Summer FFL Startup Accelerator Class. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joinffl_congrats-to-lokesh-nandula-and-the-lokibots-activity-7042624054083649536-EmM7/

Excited to be helping more founders with another FFL Startup Accelerator Class! If you have some prior work experience and are aspiring to or have recently started a tech startup, check out this equity-free program: https://www.joinffl.com/

1/ Should you start a startup? Starting a tech startup is not for everyone. It requires immense effort, dedication, and a lot of hard work. While you may have a great idea, the reality of running a startup can be vastly different from what you had envisioned.