With 99.5% of companies never getting venture capital funding, founders and operators need to figure out how to generate revenue early. Teams look to build a profitable business, to reach the inflection point, where your profits lead to more growth & stability in your business.
This is why we started INFLECTION, a conference and community to learn from experienced founders and operators who have dealt with all the natural ups and downs as they built their companies. Hear the gritty founder stories, get one-on-one feedback, and connect with like minded entrepreneurs.
Hear the story about how Cesar self-funded his 1 Second Everyday (an app that helps us meaningfully remember our lives), to be the #1 paid app in the app store with a distributed team of 12, on pace to do $2mm in sales this year alone. Cesar's premiere of 1 Second Everyday at TED 2012 has been viewed over a million times.
Devin is the founder of Group Raise, the most delicious way to change the world. It's a social fundraising platform that encourages millennials to use their social connections and hunger to change the world by eating out at local restaurants. He has made his living off of cold emails. Learn from him.
Bea is a host for her own digital series on Women@Forbes. As the first African American woman to be accepted into the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program, she created a new machine learning mental health startup The Difference, which uses artificial intelligence to develop emotional intelligence.
Bianca is the Co-founder and Creative Director of Small Girls PR, a boutique digital PR agency in New York servicing brands like GE, Norma Kamali, Saucony, and Smarties. Small Girls has championed a personal approach to public relations, which has been integral to their success. Learn how they built relationships that grew their business
.Elisabeth is an independent communications consultant and advisor to startups, consumer brands and venture capital firms, based in New York City. Most recently, she was the Director of Communications at Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that has backed companies like Twitter, Oculus VR, Slack, Warby Parker.
Alexa is the CEO & Founder of Orchid and the creator of the Mental Health Pop Up. The Mental Health Pop Up is a "gym for the mind". She is passionate about making mental health easy and fun and is an advocate for creating in-person experiences as a means to foster connection, community, and reduce stigma.
Denis is the Director (M&A) at PALAZZO Investment Bankers focused on marketing, media and related tech verticals. He's worked on $4B+ of transactions in FinTech, AdTech, MarTech and EdTech.
He has a decade of experience in sports corp dev at two media holding companies, two agencies and NBA Entertainment.
Andrew Stivers is a Senior Director at Lighter Capital where he focuses on sourcing and executing investments in early stage technology companies. He was previously a VP at Jefferies' investment banking group where he executed more than $10B in transaction value across the software, digital media, semiconductors, and tech-enabled services sectors.
Lori Cheek-- Architect turned Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd— a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. A Shark Tank veteran, she has been named "The Digital Dating Disruptor” and listed as "One of the Top 10 CEOs to Watch." A University of Kentucky Architectural Graduate, Lori is no longer building structures. She's now building relationships.
Alejandro Cremades is a serial entrepreneur and founding partner at Panthera Advisors, a premier investment banking and financial consulting firm. The firm focuses on small to medium size companies that are looking for M&A advisory as well as support with fundraising efforts. He recently launched The Acquisition Accelerator, which helps founders and CXOs generate a successful acquisition.
Michael is Co-Founder and CEO of Exitplace, a tech-enabled marketplace for businesses under $10M of revenue. 80% of small businesses fail to sell; our mission is to change that. Exitplace is based on lessons learned in acquiring, transitioning and running several small businesses after its founding team learned M&A at large investment banks.
Scott Pollack is the Founder & CEO of Firneo, which builds peer communities for new and emerging career tracks like Business Development, Data Science, and Product Management. Prior to starting Firneo, Scott was the VP of Business Development at WeWork, Head of Business Development at SumAll. Scott also authored a book calledWhat, Exactly, Is Business Development which was a #1 new release on Amazon..
Melissa is the co-founder of New Women Space, a community event space that invites self-identified women, femme, queer, transgender and gender nonconforming individuals to lead powerful in-person gatherings and start new, timely and critical conversations. Prior to NWS, Melissa worked on Kickstarter's community team to support project creators throughout all stages of project launch and fulfillment.
Carleen Pan is a launcher with 10 years of experience bringing products and brands to market. She's now launching WHIM, a smart home product reinventing the way that people experience digital stuff in their homes. Previously, she launched Digital.NYC and worked with city governments to map out their tech ecosystems.
Bridging the gap between technicality and practicality, Tristan specializes in creating systems for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency implementation and innovative business models. Tristan works with various teams from multinational corporations to startups and social ventures to explore how Blockchain technology can further enhance current/future business models.
David is a friend that leads the largest in-person event series of young professionals and emerging leaders in NY at brunchwork. Prior interviews by David have included WeWork Chief Growth Officer, Google Docs Co-founder, and SoulCycle SVP of Innovation and Strategy. His passion is bringing people together over new ideas and the future of work.
Frank Denbow is a computer scientist and entrepreneur from New Jersey. He is the founder of INK’A , a platform for producing top quality custom apparel for companies and influencers. Frank has bootstrapped INK’A into millions in revenue and enjoys supporting other entrepreneurs in the startup ecosystem. He started INFLECTION to showcase the alternative paths in entrepreneurship and to surface the great stories of entrepreneurs who are under the radar.
Lighter Capital has created a new fundraising path for early-stage tech companies. We understand that an entrepreneur’s two greatest constraints are time and money, and we’ve developed a funding instrument that solves for both. We provide founders up to $2 million of non-dilutive growth capital in a fraction of the time it takes to raise from traditional sources. Based in Seattle, we’ve invested more than $100 million in more than 250 companies across the US.
https://www.lightercapital.com/
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