Happy Thursday,
This was officially our second week of Accelerator engagement (online). We had Chip Andrews as our guest and speaker. He shared insights from his career and teams drove the conversation around strategy and storytelling. It's always great to have Chip over. We have many more great mentors helping our founders grow their companies this summer. Can't wait to share the updates with you.
Thought of the day:
“Why think? Exhaustively experiment, then think”.
― Claude Bernard
The Lineup:Top FiveEvents The Scoop
TOP FIVE
🚀Vision / Every year, one of the first things we cover in the accelerator is Team Dynamics. Much has been written about the role of teams in startup failures. Over the years, we have noticed how little thought is put into sharing the same values, aligning on goals, and skills mapping. So today, we want to share a small hint of one of the exercises we do with our founders: Skills Mapping. Repeat this with your team and I promise you will find nuggets of insight that will help your team succeed.
🌵Trailblazing / Apparently Ray Dalio gave a Myers Briggs to top performers like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and I totally missed it. CNBC covers the main takeaways in this article.
🦄 Venture Capital / As the Crypto market rebounds, I thought it may be useful to see what top VCs portfolio companies are trying in the space. Andreessen Horowitz's Crypto School is a good place to start. Here are their videos.
👍SaaS / Ever wonder why investors pay 10x revenue for SaaS companies? Kenn so breaks down the math in this 2 min. article. Geek out here.
📈1:1 / MIT Tech review released "How to stay sane when the world’s going mad". It's a breakdown of available tech tools and apps for people in any scenario.
EVENTS
Coffee - GrepBeat
"Eight days from the next episode of the Coffee & Conversation web panel series next Friday (June 5) at 9 a.m. thanks to our sponsor Hutchison. Our topic will be “Angel Investing in the Triangle” and we’ll be welcoming three great guests: Jan Davis (Founder of Davis Growth Partners and an active angel), Mark Friedman (President of RTP Capital and Portfolio Manager of The Launch Place) and Randy Myer (Managing Director of the Carolina Angel Network). Register now!"
New Online Course: Enviro Behavior Change
Content:
I encourage you to take a look at a new online course running this fall called Environmental Behavior Change taught by Dr. Eli Typhina. This advanced course gives students the opportunity to create an intervention to address an environmental problem by way of researching past solutions and collaborating with community partners to create something new. Projects from past (in-person) courses include: stormwater pollution capture system, start-up business sustainability guide, and a food waste reduction mobile app.
By the end of the course students will have:
connections with potential employers,
experience they can write on their resume,
an innovation proposal they can submit to NCSU’s Make-a-Thon, LuLu E-games, and Sustainability Fund, to fund their idea
Graduate students - a draft thesis or dissertation chapter
This course is capped at 15 students, so consider registering soon by searching the following:
Undergraduate credit: ES 495-601 Spec Topics Environ Science (Lecture)
Graduate credit: NR 595-601 SP Topics Nat Res (Lecture)
If you have questions on this course, email Dr. Eli Typhina at eli.typhina@ncsu.edu
THE SCOOP
Young Founders Institute
Hiring an Entrepreneurship Program Director for Young Founders Institute, which is a summer program where we coach ambitious middle and high school entrepreneurs through launching and growing their businesses. This is a paid position.
Hit reply for an intro.
Sonnen Inc
Sonnen develops energy storage system for renewable energy down in Atlanta, GA. They have an opening for firmware engineer on the R&D team.
Here is a link for the junior firmware engineer positions.
See you next week friends.
Gabe