Discover the partners
that build better startups.
Each week, from July through August.
Week 8: Leadspicker
Category: Revenue
Audience: Global
Access real-time data on LinkedIn and discover verified business email addresses effortlessly.
Embrace the Evolution of Outreach
Find prospects more likely to buy your product - in less time - and nurture them more effectively - with less effort!
Seamlessly capture leads from LinkedIn, optimize your email strategy with tailored outreach solution, and harness the power of email rotation for a guaranteed high delivery rate.
Empower your outreach with high-quality data. With Leadspicker, ensure your emails make an impact, not land in spam.
Elevate Your Lead Generation
A single platform that merges prospecting, high-quality data enrichment, and state-of-the-art outreach.
Why use outdated databases? Instead, import leads directly from LinkedIn and ensure the validity of their contact information by employing our waterfall enrichment.
Enhance your outreach volume and efficiently manage campaign dispatches from multiple email accounts, all from one centralized place.
Don't spend time manually crafting sequences; leverage AI to effortlessly generate complete message sequences.
Resources to Guide You
You’re never on your own.
Leadspicker’s provided resources make sure your domain, mailbox, profile, and more are perfectly set up before you even start.
Read the Case Study
See for yourself how Develogi dramatically boosted their sales response using Leadspicker.
““As we established in week 3 of Build with Backstage, sales are vital to the health of any business.
But how do you actually find your target customers?
You need leads!
We are excited to partner with Leadspicker to help you find and connect with your target market customers .
I encourage you to check them out!””
50% off to get started
Leadspicker appreciates the Founders Live community so much that they're giving everybody a crazy 50% off discount on their first subscription!
Discover more about Leadspicker
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 7: Title3Funds
Category: Funding
Audience: North America
Crowdfunding for growth-focused companies to raise the capital they need.
Your Partner in Funding
"At Title3Funds, we have a deep respect for founders and their journey.
Our goal is to demystify crowdfunding for early-stage startups, providing a clear and honest overview of how it works.
We don’t have salespeople chasing commissions; our focus is entirely on supporting founders.
Whether you're ready to jump in or need to test the waters first, we’re here to guide you through every step.
Our goal is to ensure you understand the process so you can make the best decision for your business."
— Bruce Virga, CEO of Title3Funds
In 99 seconds or less
Founder Bruce Virga explains in under 99 seconds why Title3Funds is a great fit for early-stage founders seeking to raise funds, why they're different, and how easy it is to get started.
Startup Equity Crowdfunding Tips
Ever consider crowdfunding?
In this Conversations session with Nick, Bruce shared tips, strategies, and best practices for startup equity crowdfunding.
Of course the crowd asked questions, too!
Your Path to Funding
It’s All About Trust
In the world of crowdfunding, trust is the foundation of success. Founders and investors alike must have confidence in the process to achieve their goals.
Without trust, there’s no transparency, no support, no growth—no success.
Title3Funds specializes in guiding entrepreneurs through the regulated crowdfunding process with no varnish- just the truth. Their team of professionals provide founders with the platform, tools, knowledge, and support they need for a successful raise while ensuring investors have confidence in the site’s available opportunities.
If you have a loyal customer base, followers, and supporters who believe in your vision, you may be ready for crowdfunding with Title3Funds.
““Operational capital is one of the most important aspects of a healthy business.
Startup Funding comes in different methods and modes. Angles. Friends and Family. Venture Capital, and many others.
One method is Crowdfunding, which is emerging as a great way to seed your company in the early stages of growth. What better way to fund your startup than engaging your community and larger circle of friends and believers to help back your venture?
We are excited to partner with Title3Funds to educate and power early-stage startups with their crowdfunding needs.
I highly encourage you to check them out and connect with CEO Bruce Virga to gauge your prospects of a crowdfunding campaign.””
Discover more about Title3Funds
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 6: Light Legal
Category: Legal
Audience: Global
Light-weight, light-touch, light-speed legal services for startups and growing companies.
affordable, fractional-general-counsel legal services
THE DILEMMA:
Many founders know that it is important to seek proper legal guidance early on.
BUT
BigLaw charges extremely high fees that makes it prohibitively expensive to engage those legal services.
AND
The costs of correcting the lack of legal services later on tends to be exponentially higher.
SO
Light Legal has cut the fat out of the law firm model to provide premium, AI-supported "fractional general counsel" to founders at about half the price of BigLaw.
In short, it is a law firm that puts the founder's mindset at the heart of providing legal services – think lean legal guidance for lean founders.
In 99 seconds or less
Light Legal founder Brooks Lindsay explains how they’re so different from traditional BigLaw, which makes them so right for modern startups.
Bonus Download
Get Brooks’s Full Presentation
Brooks has graciously made his entire presentation from our recent Founders Live Conversations session available to our community.
Legal for the modern founder
Built for early-stage startups
Early-stage founders need important corporate documents, equity matters, cofounder agreements, IP matters, and customer and vendors agreements all set up correctly.
Don’t make the mistake of having to claw back inappropriate equity grants, not obtaining IP assignments from employees or contractors, or giving away too many rights to vendors or customers.
Just like in building a home, if you don’t seek professional guidance in building the foundation and infrastructure of the home, it will cost much more later to repair the disfunction.
““The word *legal* often brings up uncomfortable feels and thoughts.
For you, as a founder, it should also represent “protection” and “getting established properly.”
One thing I did as early as possible in my journey as CEO of Founders Live was to seek out proper legal representation so that our corporate documents, cofounder and advisor agreements, contracts, and all other important materials were set up adequately.
I highly suggest you do the same.
Light Legal is here to help startups with cost-effective legal support.””
Discover more about Light Legal
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 5: Morphic
Category: Marketing
Audience: Global
Create professional websites affordably and quickly, with no design or development experience required.
Your website can be amazing
Morphic empowers startups to establish their brand and compete from day one by generating agency-quality websites in seconds.
By democratizing access to world-class design, they give founders their time back, so they don’t have to overspend or add “become a designer” to their to-do lists.
Morphic offers seamless onboarding and tools for easy updates, from text changes to full rebrands.
Their platform evolves with your business, adapting to new offerings and industry changes instantly.
Plus, their in-house creative team is always available to help visionary entrepreneurs create industry-leading websites.
In 99 seconds or less…
No Design Expertise needed
Get the website you always wanted
Morphic founder Weston Baker shared the latest tools and resources founders can use to create awe-inspiring websites and apps.
It’s this easy to use Morphic
“Let’s face it, most people judge books by their covers. And they judge companies by a quick look at their websites.
Yes, it is unfair. But it is also reality!
So, how do you pull together a website that looks fresh, new, updated and that doesn’t cost you thousands of dollars?
Luckily, there are new tools out there that make creating a website seem like magic, and Morphic is one of them.
You gotta check them out. You can try it quickly - maybe with a side project or quick personal site. They are perfect for small projects as well as for large company sites.
You will never look at creating websites as such challenging obstacles ever again.”
Discover more about Morphic
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 4: MJL Recruiting & Consulting
Category: Talent
Audience: North America
Finding skilled talent for startups that fits within your budget.
Meet the People Who Find the People
MJL Recruiting & Consulting supports start-ups because it is absolutely vital to have the right partners at that key stage of a company's growth process.
They love working with companies that are growing, doing ambitious things and are ready to grow and change, and aren't afraid to go about it in an unconventional way.
They believe that working with startups is a great way to help people realize their dreams, take bold steps and change the world in the process.
They love being part of that process and can't wait to work with your startup to accomplish the same goals and dreams!
In 99 seconds or less…
Find and Hire All-Stars
Best Practices when Hiring
Watch our recent Conversations livestream with Nick and Matt to find out how to hire smart so you get the right fit without wasting time and money.
Finding You the Employee of Your Dreams
“By going the retained search route, I am able to put all of my effort into crafting the right plan to find you the people that you need yesterday. Working in partnership with you, I will advise you as to what I believe the right course of action is to fill your openings when you need them filled, not just with another warm body with skills, but with the right person, who wants to be there, is invested in the company and will be there for the long-term.
Hiring the right talent can be a confusing and frustrating process. I will guide you through it step by step and make it as painless and quick as possible to find you the right people that you need to help you take your company and organization where you want to go.”
- Matt Luensmann, Founder
If you are
A founder
Need an employee to start in less than 3 months
Have at least $12,000 per role budgeted for assistance
“We hear all the time about surrounding yourself with incredible people:
”Be the dumbest person in the room,” and, “Team is everything.”
But how and where do we find these people?
How are we supposed to build a world class team - whose skills and talents complement each other - when the challenge seems to be understanding how to attract and hire world class talent in the first place?
This is where seeking out professionals and services who can help in these areas is one of the most important decisions a startup can make.
I encourage you to seek out assistance so you can find the very best talent for your startup company. ”
Discover more about MJL
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 3: CF Closers
Category: Revenue
Audience: North America, EMEA
Helping scaling startups build and manage high-performing remote sales teams.
It all comes down to sales
In early days, a startup will be made or ended based upon 1 thing: Customers!
Without customers, you have no cash flow, projections, investment - Business!!
While CF Closers can’t help every business, they can help those who rely on B2B sales but don’t have budgets for experienced full-time “Head of Sales & Operations” roles.
In 99 seconds or less…
Optimize your sales process
Want to win more business?
Watch our Conversations session with Nick and Keith to get a huge jump on reviving your sales process.
If you are
A founder
Looking for an All-Done-for-You Solution
Have at least 1 full-time salesperson/manager
Have an active marketing pipeline
“As Mark Cuban is known for saying, “Everything starts and ends with sales.”
No matter B2B or B2C, if companies or people are not buying what you are selling, nothing else matters in your business.
Growing revenue has to come from somewhere, and a proper sales strategy, process, and team are the essential ingredients to make that happen.
I fully recommend getting serious about your sales process, and working with services like CF Closers to help startups get their sales ramped and growing. ”
Discover more about CF Closers
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 2: Countsy
Category: Finances
Audience: North America
Outsourced accounting and HR/people operations for startups, scaleups, and spinouts.
Time to Manage Your Business
Top-performing companies are aware that early implementation of robust infrastructure is critical to smooth and effective scaling.
Countsy introduces their clients to a scalable technology stack, complementing it with high-quality service and team, surpassing any in-house efforts.
Their team is not only experienced; they are at the forefront of industry trends, gathering insights daily from a wide array of companies, not limited to just one.
In under 2 minutes…
Count on Countsy to manage your back office.
Your comprehensive back office department
Countsy’s offering includes a dedicated Fractional CFO and CPO, all the necessary back office experts.
AND
Your comprehensive back office platform
Countsy’s offering also includes a technology platform for billing, payroll, expense management, reporting, and more.
They help thousands of businesses grow and provide outsourced services for scaling companies and independent CFOs who need to supplement their departments.
“There’s nothing more important to the health and success of a startup than the financial side of the business. If not recognized and adequately addressed as early as possible, grave consequences lie ahead.
As Founders Live started to take shape, one of the first things I did was set up our initial accounting tools and financial processes.
I highly recommend you do the same.”
Discover more about Countsy
in the Backstage Marketplace
Week 1: AdvisoryCloud
Category: Advisors
Audience: North America
Recruit, build, and operate an advisory board with leading professionals from across the globe.
Who Doesn't Need Expert Advice?!
A founder doesn't need to know everything to be great.
In fact, great ones don't.
One of the smartest things we did at Founders Live from the very start is seek out advisors to guide us - and to keep us grounded with hard truths.
Now with AdvisoryCloud, you can get a whole board of advisors customized to your exact preferences in almost no time.
In 99 Seconds or less…
Build an advisory board in Minutes
Build a virtual advisory board that can help you navigate challenges and seize opportunities with personalized insights from seasoned professionals.
It’s easy to start
1. Build your advisory board
2. Setup your digital boardroom
3. Interact with your advisors
“One key to the success of Founders Live was adding a trusted board of advisors from the very start.”
Discover more about AdvisoryCloud
in the Backstage Marketplace
AdvisoryCloud > Advisors
July 1:
Countsy > Finances
July 8:
CF Closers > Sales
July 15:
MJL Recruiting & Consulting > Hiring
July 22:
Morphic > Websites
July 29:
Light Legal > Legal
August 5:
Title3Funds > Crowdfunding
August 12:
leadsPicker > Audience Targeting
August 19:
Watch for more to be announced
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