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The Impact of Stress on the Well-being of Startup Founders and CEOs

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Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. The startup grind takes a major toll on a founder’s mental health. It’s the largest study of its kind.

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Founder Mental Health Pledge

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Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. While this de-escalated on Sunday night after the US Government took decisive action, the level of stress and anxiety, especially for first-time founders, was extreme.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

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Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective.

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Q&A With The Founders Of AgileZen

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Recently AgileZen has topped the leaderboard for TwtPick.in’s survey on tools and services for a lean startup. Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder, thought it would be a great opportunity to do some Q&A with Niki and Nate Kohari, the founders of AgileZen. What is your mantra and secret to success ?

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Startup America Partnership

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On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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