Founder stock vesting can be a touchy subject. If an investor asks you to vest your shares, you might worry that you will lose control or that they will take your ownership and kick you out.

Michele Chaboudy, experienced senior executive, serial entrepreneur, consultant, angel investor, and vice-chair of the north bay angels shares tons of useful advice for any founder or CEO.

When you pitch to investors, your audience will only remember a couple of ideas. Learn what about your company will wow investors.

Lisa Tamayo, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, CEO/Co-founder of Scollar, talked about their pivot from product to platform, and shared her hard-won experience about the startup process.

I will share my proven five-step process for building a killer pitch.

Che Voigt, co-founder and CEO of AltWork and chair of the North Bay Angels, talks about their innovative workstation and how the work from home trend is driving sales and their experiences with a China based supply chain during COVID.

Elizabeth Gore, co-founder and president of Alice (helloalice.com), shares numerous insights that will be of great help to any small business owner..

Learn how to launch a company without savings or investment.

What’s the difference between an intentional pivot and just having no clear direction? Learn to achieve focus with flexibility.

Founders often feel like frauds. Learn the nearly universal reality of impostor syndrome.

Almost all successful companies share one thing in common: a pivot. Learning and adapting can be the best path to growth and success.

Passion provides a gigantic competitive advantage. Learn how to connect your business to your passion.

One of the most frightening moments as an entrepreneur is when you finally quit your day job. You can risk reduce that transition and improve your chances for angel funding at the same time.

As a human, you don’t scale well. That means delegating, which can be painful but is the only path to growth.

What are the best ways to use stock options to motivate employees?

What are stock options, and how do you explain them to your employees so they appreciate them?

What is the difference between pre-seed, seed, A, B, and C rounds?

Why do investors want to hear about your ability to execute more than your idea?

A deck you present won’t work when read alone, and vice versa.

Asking investors to sign your NDA before seeing your pitch will kill most deals. Why is that?

Why do angels & VC demand 20X or better returns? It all comes down to the economics of startup investing.

I don’t care about your technology when you are pitching me as an angel investor. What should you be focusing on instead?

Sometimes you need to make a sacrifice to get your big dream off the ground. What’s it worth to you?