WatchPitch Podcast: For Start-Ups & Investors - Episode 33 - Malinda Gagnon - Part 2 with Uprise Partners: Getting to Soul, True North and Trust (in Order to Grow)

Episode 33 - Malinda Gagnon - Part 2 with Uprise Partners: Getting to Soul, True North and Trust (in Order to Grow)

06/03/19 • 56 min

WatchPitch Podcast: For Start-Ups & Investors

Our guest today is Malinda Gagnon CEO with Uprise Partners and this, Part 2 now of an Interview with this group’s shared leadership with her husband, Brian Gagnon, in Episode 31 of our WatchPitch Podcast. We dive a little deeper into the metrics of what moves investors towards their investing; resources, time and expertise into a start-up. And perhaps you would be surprised to learn that some of this goes as deep as your soul. If a Founder and their team are not operating from a place of trust and a shared understanding of what true north means, to everyone, once faced with success or failure, this could spell for a less than brighter future if their understanding of this compass bearing is not shared. Give this a listen, you will be inspired and especially delighted to hear how a couple manage to invest their time together into future high growth businesses in parts of the country that are under-served and under-represented.

We learn from Malinda how a company’s soul must be at the forefront of understanding by everyone on the team, sharing common values to help guide the business through both successes and failures as well as the importance of having advisors who you can lean in on for counsel. Starting a business is tough and not for the fair-hearted, but rather for those whose passion can fuel their ideas, their teams and their advisors with a willingness to connect through thick and thin.

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Episode 32 - Aaron Welch & Woorly; Serial Entrepreneur, What it Takes and Don’t Follow Me !

We learned from Aaron the importance of taking breaks, cautioning against investors who may have different ideas about your future than you do and also, how building a business through its various stages requires discipline, practice and listening to what works and avoiding that onslaught of bullets that as entrepreneurs we are so often willing to push through. We look forward to learning more in his new book - Don’t Follow Me and his FaceBook Page, Ready, Start, Go!

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Episode 34 - Alexandra Herman & The Asheville Wedding Collective - Pitch Winning with WatchPitch

Our guest today is Alexandra Herman and she is particularly special to the WatchPitch Podcast guest list because recently, she participated in a Start-Up grant application that required a Pitch Video. She used WatchPitch to create her video pitch submission and, well, she won the grant. We chat together about how she did that and the collective she has created with others, to revolutionize the wedding industry and experience ...not just for the bride and groom but for all of those vendors that insure that special day, is indeed, special.

We learn from Alexandra how she in fact won her grant application using the WatchPitch App and platform alongside the community development of creating a collective where everyone is partnered to deliver value to the special day of a wedding. Collective and community building may indeed be the eco-system that moves many of us from business as competition to business as cooperation. Thank you for listening !