The Startup Council
Empowers Founders.
Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Startup Council is a volunteer community service group dedicated to accelerating the success of early stage entrepreneurs and investors worldwide.
Our mission is to increase access to relationships, expertise, and capital for innovative entrepreneurs, especially first-time, minority, and under-represented founders.
Services for Startup Companies
The Startup Council serves and connects all the players in the startup ecosystem. These include startup founders, investors, service providers, universities, community organizations, incubators/accelerators, government agencies, ecosystem professionals, and more.
Our many services below offer everyone in the ecosystem improved opportunities to locate resources, participate in events, learn how to build startup companies, negotiate better venture capital investment deals, and accelerate high growth startup companies.
Our services are inclusive and transparent. We offer a “big tent” that is open to all - worldwide - without regard to founders’ background or location. Our mission is to share Silicon Valley style venture expertise with everyone who is willing to work hard to benefit from it and improve the world through innovation.
We help startups find the resources and capital to succeed.
Entrepreneurs can attract investors by listing in the National Startups Directory.
Entrepreneurs can find the “right” investors using the Startup Investors Directory.
Startups can access Member Benefits that can help grow your company - including discounts on valuable services - attorneys, accountants, credit cards, insurance, HR, and more.
Services for Startup Investors
Investors join the Startup Council to support the startup ecosystem and get listed in the Startup Investors Directory to attract more qualified deal flow from early stage startups worldwide.
Publicize your investment thesis and deal criteria to attract more targeted deal flow
20% Off listings in the National Startups Directory for your portfolio companies
We help angel investors and VCs find better deals.
Investors, incubators, and accelerators publish your criteria, investment thesis, and portfolio interests to attract deal flow from qualified startups worldwide.
Subscribe to our free newsletters for industry updates and valuable deal news.
Participate in the many events we host and publish to meet promising new founders and companies.
Services for Corporate Partners
Law Firms, Software Shops, Accountants, Design Agencies, Real Estate Pros, Marketing Experts, and Consultants of all types join to get listed at StartupHelpers.org and attract more business.
Explain your services to a highly targeted audience
Promote special deals or your content
We connect community and corporate partners with startups.
Law Firms, Software Shops, Accountants, Design Agencies, Real Estate Pros, Marketing Experts, Consultants, Universities, non-profit Services and more all attract more business.
Introduce and explain the value of your services to a highly targeted audience.
Promote special deals or your content to attract inquiries from startups and investors.
How We Help Startup Founders
✓ Education for 1st Time & Underrepresented Founders
✓ Networking, Events, Community and Ecosystem Building
✓ Investor Resources - Transparent and Equal Access to Angel & Venture Investors
✓ Publicity for Seed Stage Startup Achievements & Founders
Startup Council Member News
Publicizing the achievements of startup founders.
Free newsletter updates from innovative startups worldwide. Featuring the latest launches, investment news, acquisitions/exits, pitch competition winners, hires, job openings, thought leader articles, special offers for entrepreneurs, and more!
Free Startup Fundraising Office Hours
Get your Startup Questions Answered - FREE!
Our monthly free #livestream brings Stanford, Silicon Valley quality venture advice to you - anywhere in the world. Watch via LinkedIn Live, Facebook, or our popular YouTube channel.
Startup Council CEO Scott Fox answers founder questions LIVE. These fun, interactive AMA Q&A sessions focus especially on fundraising strategy for pre-seed and seed stage startups seeking capital from angel investors and VC firms.
MasterMinds Startup Accelerator Workshops
Since 2017, the Startup Council has been hosting Startup Accelerator Workshops designed to help founders. Instead of panel discussions or speeches, these are interactive group workshops where founders bring the questions and their investor pitches to practice.
Attendees include founders, startup team members, angel and VC investors, service providers, and startup veterans - all working together to build community and accelerate your startup’s growth.
Learn More about MasterMinds Startup Accelerator Workshops
Startup Investors Directory
Find the RIGHT investors using this specialized, low cost database of early stage startup investors. Designed specifically to help first-time founders research and identify angel investors, venture capital firms, banks, private equity groups, and lenders who are ALREADY interested in startups like yours.
National Startups Directory
We created the National Startups Directory to offer a low cost way for startups worldwide to promote themselves to US venture investors. Get a low cost listing for your venture to share your vision, team, deck, traction, and fundraising deal with our audience of professional startup investors.
Events are the best way for entrepreneurs to meet potential investors, team members, and partners. Join our free email list to be alerted about the best VIRTUAL events for founders and friends online.
You don’t have to live in California to attend - these are all ONLINE events for startups!
Hosting a Virtual Event for Startup Founders? Submit your online startup event here. If it meets these criteria, we’ll publicize it to our worldwide entrepreneurs mailing list for you.
Find Startup Events - Calendar & Newsletter of Virtual Events for Startup Founders Everywhere
We support more than 50,000 local entrepreneurs in groups in 40+ cities around the world. Find a group online today to meet fellow founders, investors, and partners.
Don’t see your city (or country) yet? Start a Meetup in your town and let us know. We’ll be happy to help publicize it and share events to help support your local startup ecosystem!
Meetups Worldwide - F2F Networking in More than 40 Cities and 10 Countries
We can help promote the events in your startup ecosystem to attract more founders, investors, and community involvement.
Publicize your virtual startup events to founders and investors worldwide for online attendance, plus we can publish event announcements and details to our dozens of entrepreneur Meetup groups around the world if you want to target a location.
Startup Events Publicity
Startup Jobs
The Startup Council can help you find a job, or help grow your startup company by helping you find qualified new talent to hire. Visit our Startup Jobs board to see the latest job openings, or post your own.
Specialties include technical talent for high growth, venture-backed software, life sciences, and hardware companies.
3 Best-selling Entrepreneurship Books
The Startup Council’s CEO, Scott Fox, has written 3 books to help entrepreneurs worldwide develop and implement their own visionary startup businesses.
Translated into many languages (Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Polish, etc.), the books are pioneering guides to developing businesses based on your own interests and strengths in order to make some money and make the world a better place, too.
Available worldwide in bookstores and online at Amazon.com.
Private Startup Founder Coaching
Startup Council CEO, Scott Fox, is a world-recognized serial entrepreneur, 3x best-selling entrepreneurship author, and active angel investor. Founders worldwide turn to him for strategy and fundraising advice.
If you would like Silicon Valley quality, board level advice to discuss your startup’s challenges, Scott offers a limited number of private coaching calls each month. Learn more here.
Sponsors
Thanks to these Sponsors for supporting the work of the Startup Council. Entrepreneurs worldwide appreciate their investment in the future.
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Mission
Mission: The Startup Council supports entrepreneurs worldwide, especially first-time, women, minority, and under-represented founders, including those in under-represented geographies.
We do this by:
increasing transparency in the angel and venture capital startup investing process
increasing access to “insider” expertise and networks
offering free and low cost resources that early stage founders and team can afford
Our goal is to offer free and low cost services and events that make it easier and more equitable for anyone to gain access to Silicon Valley type expertise and connections to build new ventures that make the world and humanity better.
What Startup Founders Are Saying…
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— Quote Source
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— Quote Source
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
