In our latest installment of Sonan Insight's Founder Focus, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Ugenie's Founder, Susan Kabani. Susan and her team are aiming to make the world of community building accessible to businesses and organizations of many shapes and...
Founder Focus
Goodlawyer’s Brett Colvin on Demystifying Law for Entrepreneurs
The problem is two-fold. The more obvious one is that law firms are expensive and scary, and people avoid calling them. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken to a founder, and they avoid calling law firms because last time they did — they got a $400 bill. Or...
Uxcel’s Gene Kamenez on Nurturing The Next Generation of Designers
The ultimate problem we are seeing is that designers are placed in an unfair position when it comes to skills development. Comparing the space to those looking to get into development—where there are extensive resources for anything from skills-development to...
LeadDelta’s Ved Rasic on Taking Charge of Your Social Capital
In the process of building our last startup, I became very passionate about software and just building different projects. That's when I started LeadDelta, which is your social capital manager. We are trying to disrupt how people connect, how they generate value, and...
Chartd’s Hanan Shpungin on the Importance of Financial Planning for Your Business
As part of our Founder Focus series featuring conversations with up-and-coming SaaS companies, we had the pleasure of interviewing Hanan Shpungin. Hanan Shpungin is the Founder and CEO of Chartd, a B2B SaaS platform that helps owners of small businesses make...
Vonza’s Uyi Abraham on the Benefits of Consolidating Your Business Tools Into One Platform
Our first few customers joined without us spending any money. Social media is free. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok—if you just keep talking about your business every day and the problem it solves for your audience—people will come.-Uyi Abraham As...
Folio’s Amy Tang on Improving the Guest Experience for Short-Term Rental Hosts
Raising capital was both harder and easier than I thought it would be. As a first-time founder, it was all new to me. I quickly learned that the way you sell your company to investors is very different than the way you sell your product to customers.-Amy Tang, Founder...
Village Wellth’s Robert Irwin on Shaking up the Outdated Business Acquisition Industry
Similar to a real estate transaction where you would typically have a buy side and a sell side realtor, in the world of small business acquisition, there’s very little buy-side support to help buyers navigate this system.-Robert Irwin, CEO of Village Wellth As part of...