Resources
How to Build a High-Performing Team
Your key ingredients for business success are capital, talent, and customers. So, you already know that learning how to build a high-performing team is essential to success. But what does that look like? How do you know you have the right people in the right seats to...
Building A Business Foundation That Wins
Entrepreneurs and founders are used to the daily grind of trying to get traction. It’s easy to forget about the core foundation: what’s the vision of my company? What’s my mission? What values should guide our decision-making? To some, thinking about those things may...
Navigating Startup Success Outside Silicon Valley
While Silicon Valley is often hailed as the holy grail for tech startups, my story proves there's a vibrant world of entrepreneurial success thriving outside of the typical startup hubs. Building our Birmingham-based healthcare tech company, TheraNest, into a $1.25...
Birmingham Entrepreneur Who Previously Sold A Company For $1.2B Sets His Sights Even Higher
"Founder Shegun Otulana is using his big win to transform Birmingham, AL. The post Birmingham Entrepreneur Who Previously Sold A Company For $1.2B Sets His Sights Even Higher appeared first on AfroTech. Otulana became acclimated with the city after moving from Nigeria...
Family, faith, growing up where everyone “looks like you” inspired Nigerian tech entrepreneur’s huge success
"A lot of entrepreneurs who’d built an innovative tech company worth hundreds of millions would be touting it to the hills and flooding our social media timelines with its praises. Otulana, though, is still most comfortable behind the curtain—a reflection of an...
A Strategy for Outsized Returns: Building a Capital Efficient Business
Capital efficiency is back in style for startups, which is a great thing. The habits and mindsets we are forming — and in some cases, forcing — now around capital efficiency will serve founders well. In my founder journey, it was invaluable. I was trying to...
Decision Making and Problem Solving
Good decision-making and problem-solving are critical for success and are also some of the most challenging skills to master. In many cases, decision-making is not about always making the best decision, as things are not always so clear-cut. Most times, it’s about...
One of Birmingham’s Brightest Entrepreneurs, Shegun Otulana, Sold His Company for $1.2 BILLION
Otulana plans to use what he learned from creating TheraNest and Therapy Brands to build Birmingham’s economy. With his new entity, Harmony Venture Labs, Otulana’s goal is to create software as a service, specifically B2B SaaS. “HVL takes a venture equity...
A Winning Strategy Mindset for Minority Founders
The startup founder journey in America is unique for minorities in various ways. It has become one of the most common questions and inquiries I get from many black and Hispanic founders and some white, Asian, and other founders across the racial spectrum. As part of...
Doing More Faster
Some insightful highlights from my conversation with Gayle Lantz on the theme of “Do More Faster.” You can listen to the full episode here. Making decisions quickly is essential at a startup. Decisions ultimately drive outcomes. The leader sets the tone,...
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Get access to me and other founders to ask questions about hiring, fundraising, capital allocation, & more. I started the Let’s Build Community as a way of scaling my ability to help and advise early stage founders. With a “bootstrapper” mentality we’ll be here for you at every step of your startups’ journey. Let’s build! – Shegun