Two days remain before the TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, convenes founders, investors, and operators at the SoWa Power Station to discuss building companies from Boston and beyond.
November 4 is the ideal opportunity to forge meaningful founder-focused connections, gain practical insights, and engage in conversations aimed at propelling your startup forward. This date also marks the final chance to secure a pass before ticket prices increase and all special group discounts vanish, so secure your savings today.
Steve Fredette, President, Co-founder, and Director of Toast, brings one of the city’s most recognizable founder stories to the stage. Toast’s journey offers a look at finding customers, developing product-market fit, scaling a company, and continuing to evolve after the original idea succeeds. It proves that founders do not have to leave Boston to build a company with national and global reach, serving as a Boston company that became much bigger than Boston.
Chase Garbarino, CEO and Co-founder of HqO, will tackle the geography question directly. He has built from Boston for more than a decade, raised significant capital, and expanded HqO internationally without relocating the company to a traditional West Coast startup hub. His conversation will dig into the advantages, disadvantages, and realities of building where the startup playbook wasn’t necessarily written.
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The Founder Summit is not solely about the speakers on stage; it is equally about uniting Boston-area founders, investors, and startup leaders in a single room. Braindate networking facilitates the discovery of conversations centered around shared challenges.
Roundtables facilitate closer interaction between founders and venture capitalists, addressing specific problems through interactive sessions led by scaling experts.
Official Side Events aim to extend these relationships beyond the main event, fostering connections across the broader Boston startup hub.
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