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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Oct 1, 2026
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How Kickstarter can help founders prove product-market fit before seeking venture capital (opens the original)
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For years, crowdfunding had a reputation as the place founders went when they couldn’t raise venture capital. Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor thinks founders should look at it very differently. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Everette to talk about crowdfunding as an alternative and sometimes a precursor to traditional venture funding. Everette’s own path into entrepreneurship was unconventional. Growing up in Richmond, Virginia, far from Silicon Valley, h
How a first-time founder bootstrapped her way to a $47.5M exit (opens the original)
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Ashley Tyrner-Dolce spent more than a decade building FarmboxRx without taking a single dollar of venture capital and ultimately exited the company while still owning the majority of it. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Ashley to talk about what bootstrapping actually looks like when you don’t have money from a previous exit or a wealthy network to fall back on. Ashley started the company after experiencing food insecurity herself. Years earlier, while preg
Archer went public just 3 years after launching and it paid off (opens the original)
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Building flying taxis takes billions of dollars. So instead of relying on traditional venture rounds, Archer Aviation went public just a few years after it was founded. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Adam Goldstein, founder and CEO of Archer Aviation, to talk about the unconventional fundraising strategy behind building one of the most capital-intensive startups around. Archer is building electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, designed
How Mbodi is solving robotics’ scaling problem, with Xavier Chi (opens the original)
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Robotics is having an AI boom, but don’t expect it to have a ChatGPT moment. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Xavier Chi, co-founder of Mbodi, a startup building AI software that lets people teach industrial robots new skills using natural language. Xavier first joined Isabelle on the Startup Battlefield stage, where Mbodi became a crowd favorite with a live robot demo. Now he’s back to talk about what happened after Startup Battlefield and why he believes
What $1B+ in startup fundraising teaches you about investors with Sasha Orloff (opens the original)
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Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle and Startup Battlefield alum, to talk about what he’s learned from building companies that have raised more than $1 billion collectively. Sasha bre
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