Embarc Collective Expands Support for Growth-Stage Companies with Three New Coaches
At Embarc Collective, we know that building a company is not a one-size-fits-all journey. Since 2019, we’ve delivered over 9,300+ hours of coaching to Florida’s most promising startups, driving unprecedented success rates: 96% of our original member companies are still in business today, with seven reaching Series A or beyond and three achieving successful exits. […]
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From Surviving to Thriving: Cultivating the ‘Outlast’ Mindset in Entrepreneurship
Startup building is an endurance sport with highs, lows, and everything in between. Our community of 100+ startups recently hit a major milestone: an impressive 96% survival rate over five years, soaring past the national average of just 50%. Talk about beating the odds! Embarc Collective’s annual Leadership Summit, powered by The First Bank, was […]
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Your Startup Guide to Strategic Planning
Use this outline to guide your annual planning process As we dive deeper into Q4, it’s an opportune time to reflect on your startup’s past year of growth and plan for what comes next. This is a critical practice for startups—to zoom out of day-to-day execution and make a deliberate effort to work on the […]
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Starting Out: What’s It Like to Work in a Startup?
Once again, Embarc Collective had the opportunity to partner with the Ryan Nece Foundation, a youth leadership program, on a workshop with high school leaders about technology startups. With guidance from members of the Embarc Collective community, these students learned about what it’s like to work in a technology startup in Tampa Bay. At Embarc […]
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Lessons on Building a Brand: One Year with Embarc Collective
As a Tampa Bay native, this region holds a special place in my heart and is home to my most cherished memories. From attending college at my parents’ alma mater to building a business and career here, I’m definitely what you’d call Tampa Grown. After college, despite having opportunities available to me around the country, […]
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How To Choose a Scalable CMS
This guest post was contributed by our partner, Bayshore Solutions. If your website is the face of your company, your content management system (CMS) is the bones and the brain. Choosing the right CMS for your website is a decision you should not make impulsively. Before you set your sights on a specific platform, pay […]
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What (Really) Matters When Hiring Your First Employees
This guest post was contributed by our partner, Established. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford As one of the greatest innovators in American history reminds us, the team you build around you — and how you develop them — will ultimately be what determines whether […]
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