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📣 Happening this Thursday 📣 Join us September 12th, for our next workshop: "Annual/Quarterly Planning – How to Plan Like a Pro" led by Brett Gilliland , Co-Founder and CEO of Elite Entrepreneurs. In this workshop, you'll learn how to: 🙌 Focus on future-proofing your organization 🔎 Create a clearer vision of working ON your business 📈 Implement proven planning exercises for long-term growth Tickets are FREE and limited, secure your spot now: https://lnkd.in/gxhpSqev #PHXFWD #entrepreneurship #planning

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Big thank you to Jake Huber for hosting an amazing workshop last week and to everyone who came to learn about best practices for hiring top talent for your startup ✅ Our next workshop is happening on September 12th with Brett Gilliland with Elite Entrepreneurs! He'll be teaching all about planning like a pro and giving you a clear vision of what it looks like in very practical terms to work ON your business and not just IN it. Save your spot FREE here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gxhpSqev

We held our first Pitch Practice of the Fall this week! Huge shoutout to these Founders for giving their pitch 👏 Ruben Mercado with Allegor.ai Erica Sietsma with Autofluencer Kyle Desousa with Koko Ni Junchen (William) Wu, PhD, CFA with Menos AI David Storrs and David Newton with Chase the Zen And a big thank you to our judges Chris Chumley, Aly Saxe, Gregg Davis, Jeff Kerr and Trevor Reeves. If you want reps giving your pitch and getting feedback, sign up for a future Pitch Practice by filling out the form here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8XHWkew

Only a couple of seats left for our Startup Hiring 101 workshop with Jake Huber happening this Thursday! Don't miss it 👉 https://lnkd.in/g9jfs67J

🚨 Startup founders and hiring leaders! 🚨 We're so happy to be back for fall events. In just a week, we almost filled our next workshop! Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from Jake Huber, Founder and Managing Partner of Venture Scaler, as he shares his expertise on building a strong and reliable team for your startup. 💪 📅 Event: Startup Hiring 101 📍 Location: 51 W 3rd St, Tempe, AZ 85281 🗓️ Date: Thursday, August 29, 2024 🕐 Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM MST By the end of the workshop, you'll have a solid playbook for: • Defining your startup's hiring needs • Conducting effective interviews • Assessing cultural fit • Onboarding new hires • Retaining top talent 👉 Spots are filling up fast, so don't wait! Register now to secure your seat: https://lnkd.in/g9jfs67J We'll see you there! #startups #hiring #entrepreneurship #networking #Tempe

📣 Are you a pre-seed founder or investor in Phoenix? We're making pre-seed funding easier than ever. 🌱💸 PHX Angels is simple - we collect pitches from early-stage SaaS ventures in Arizona and send a roundup email to investors with information about potential deals. 🚀 For Founders  Raising capital is challenging at every stage, but especially pre-seed. Finding and getting in front of investors can feel like an impossible road. Submit your pitch to PHX Angels and get in front of accredited, active pre-seed investors looking for deals in Arizona. 🤝 For Investors Join the PHX Angels investor community to access a pipeline of Phoenix startups. We don't conduct any due diligence before we send pitches to you. 🌵 Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for software founders to get their pitches in front of pre-seed investors, to increase deal flow in Phoenix. We believe that in order to connect local founders with local funders, we only need to create a simple point of connection. Submit your pitch and get involved at https://www.phxangels.com/ #phxangels #phxstartups #preseedfunding #founderscommunity #angelinvesting #vcfunding #phxinnovation PHX Ventures Gregg Scoresby Chris Chumley

How to Think About VC _______ I stumbled upon this podcast by Heidi Roizen of Threshold Ventures. It’s a great primer for founders who aren’t familiar with how VC works. Here are three things from this episode that I wish every founder who pitched PHX Ventures knew: 1. "Venture capital is a hits business – and in order to attract VC money, your startup needs to have the potential to be that hit. That usually means not only are you addressing a large market, but you have a credible and compelling plan to dominate that market." 2. "It turns out that the VC model is not a good fit for the vast majority of startups – and in fact, more than 99% of US startups build their businesses without VC money." 3. "It’s only a good deal – for both the VCs and the entrepreneurs – if the money invested is used to capture and hopefully dominate a large market. And it’s usually some type of business that wouldn't have been able to do so without the venture capital."

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🚀 Calling all Founders and Hiring Leaders! 🚀 Are you ready to take your startup's hiring game to the next level? Join us for an exclusive FREE workshop, "Startup Hiring 101," led by the incredible Jake Huber, Founder and Managing Partner of Venture Scaler! 🌟 🔑 Learn how to: - Create a targeted recruitment strategy - Conduct effective interviews - Assess cultural fit - Onboard and retain top talent - & more Jake brings expertise from scaling 3 unicorns (Uber, Veho, Industrious) and growing teams from 0 to 250+. Don't miss this opportunity to build your dream team! 💼 Save your spot now: https://lnkd.in/gh6bMTSY #StartupHiring #Recruitment #Entrepreneurship