article thumbnail

Female Founder Interview – Olga Camargo Leads Latinas Fintech Advisory

The Startup Magazine

Olga has a great story as CEO and Founder of SHENIX , a Chicago-based fintech app company focused on financial education and advisory services for Latinas. Negocios Now named Olga among Chicago’s Most Influential 50 Latinos. Crain’s Chicago Business named Olga among “Chicago’s Most Powerful Latinos” in 2019.

Founder 146
article thumbnail

What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Your product demo crushed. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. But the real product being bought or sold is “trust.” You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. everything.

article thumbnail

Female Founder Interview: Debra Sunderland – Conscious Leadership Coaching

The Startup Magazine

Her background in Psychology, competitive cycling, and a challenging upbringing provided Debra a unique set of tools and insights that she uses to teach others to strengthen their leadership skills. Debra has grown Sunderland Coaching into an 9 professional team with offices in Chicago and Nashville.

article thumbnail

Making The Transition from Entrepreneur To Leader

YoungUpstarts

Many of his thoughts are reflected in the following article: In the tech world, many new entrepreneurs have never before held leadership positions. They have brilliant ideas, they’ve researched their market, they’ve pulled together teams to turn their ideas into products and bring them to market. Leadership vs. Authority.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #223 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Influences People To Buy Products or Services? Very good overview from Chicago Tribune on Chicago’s coworking spaces – crowdspring.co/1uUmhyF. 1g5sEuQ.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #222 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is an interesting project from Strava, showing a heatmat of bike paths in the Chicago area. This is Chicago area – crowdspring.co/1j3qZ8y.