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Founder Paradoxes- Challenges to Manage, Not Problems to Solve

One of many challenges involved with being a startup founder is holding two things of a weight at the same time. Some would call it a…

Jan 29

Founder Paradoxes- Challenges to Manage, Not Problems to Solve

Jan 29

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Soul of Startups

Necessary Narcissism? The Real Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

Sometimes, often even in the world of venture, founders are narcissists. In the beginning, it’s a survival trait — a healthy dose of…

Jul 17, 2023

Necessary Narcissism? The Real Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

Jul 17, 2023

Julie Penner

7 Considerations for Founders Thinking About an Accelerator

After five years running the Techstars Boulder accelerator program and another four years running hyper-accerators at the Telluride Venture…

Jul 12, 2023

7 Considerations for Founders Thinking About an Accelerator

Jul 12, 2023

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Soul of Startups

Four Steps to Move Through Conflict at Work Skillfully

At the heart of most conflict, at least the ones that leave us with an unsettled feeling afterwards, there is something with an emotional…

Jul 11, 2023

Four Steps to Move Through Conflict at Work Skillfully

Jul 11, 2023

Julie Penner

Words that Work: Rupture and Repair for Cofounders and Teams

We are all humans, and we inevitably do human things. Mistakes happens. We don’t use our best judgement. We leap before we look. We make…

Aug 12, 2022

Words that Work: Rupture and Repair for Cofounders and Teams

Aug 12, 2022

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Soul of Startups

Founders’ Heartbreak, A Weight Many Carry

Sadness.

Aug 3, 2022

Founders’ Heartbreak, A Weight Many Carry

Aug 3, 2022

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Soul of Startups

8 Steps for Bringing People Together (Team Formation & Creation)

This week, one CEO downsized the team and wants to re-energize and reset the group that’s left, another CEO is bringing a new person to the…

Jun 8, 2022

8 Steps for Bringing People Together (Team Formation & Creation)

Jun 8, 2022

Julie Penner

5 Things VCs Over-Index on in a Startup Fundraise

Putting money into a company you don’t control, as many early-stage investors do, is an opaque process at its best- like seeing part of the…

Jun 7, 2022

5 Things VCs Over-Index on in a Startup Fundraise

Jun 7, 2022

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Soul of Startups

Startups, Uncertainty, Work You Love and Why Founders Start Fires

It’s a surprise to no one that startups deal with a high degree of uncertainty. What is less intuitive is how to break uncertainty apart in…

Jun 6, 2022

Startups, Uncertainty, Work You Love and Why Founders Start Fires

Jun 6, 2022

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10 Ideas to Make “Day One” Special When Your Team is Remote

I believe in a big day one. I call it Radical Welcoming and it’s something I’ve thought a lot about along with my colleagues Natty Zola and…

May 26, 2022

10 Ideas to Make “Day One” Special When Your Team is Remote

May 26, 2022

Julie Penner

Julie Penner

Founder and author of Soul of Startups and #Ruleof5. Venture Partner at Frazier Group. EIR at Techstars Anywhere and Watson Institute.

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