Tying the knot with your board & advisors

I, startup founder, take you, investor, for my Board of Directors, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in growth and in recession, until series B or C do us part. The relationships formed between a founder and...

Cooper Workshop: Visual Interface Design Tidbits

Beautifully designed interfaces can seduce users to spend more time with a product, share it and be more forgiving when something goes wrong. So how does one go about building an alluring experience that makes people stand up and take notice? The talented Nick Myers...

The Rock Weekly – August 22

Last week we rock and rolled through a week of angel investors, Chinatown shenanigans and incredible mentors. Tuesday, Cooper Design hosted office hours and offered specific feedback on their products, scenarios and personas to ensure they are building them right from...

How do you talk to an angel?

When you’re an early stage startup (or in our case, 10 of them), there are a lot of questions about angel investing. What is it, how does it work, who should I talk to, how do I know when I’ve met the right one and the list goes on. We decided to crack the...

The Rock Weekly, August 15th

We took the creative energy from our new anatomically-inspired artwork, courtesy the talented Christina Gualy, into our Tuesday design session with Cooper, where the teams finally got to roll up their sleeves and put a few interfaces together. Thursday it was business...