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.
Startup Company Memberships
Join the Startup Council to attract investors by getting listed in the National Startups Directory, plus tons of Member Benefits that can help grow your company!
Discounts on valuable services - attorneys, accountants, credit cards, insurance, HR, and more
20% Off access to the Startup Investors Directory
Investor Memberships
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
Service Provider Memberships
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
Join as a Startup Company
Join as an Investor
Join as a Service Provider
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
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 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!
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.
Find Startup Events - Calendar & Newsletter of Virtual Events for Startup Founders Everywhere
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.
Meetups Worldwide - F2F Networking in 30 Cities
We support local entrepreneur groups in 30+ 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!
Startup Events Publicity .com or .org?
Promote the events in your startup ecosystem to attract more founders and investors.
Publish event announcements and details to one of our dozens of entrepreneur Meetup groups around the world, and publicize your virtual startup events to founders and investors worldwide for online attendance.
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.
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.
Attract Investor Attention with Free Publicity on Podcasts & Radio Shows
Have your startup’s founders or top execs tried appearing as a podcast or radio show guest? Broadcast interviews are a great, free way to attract publicity.
RadioGuestList.com has been connecting experts, authors, celebrities, and marketers with free “on the air” publicity interview opportunities since 2008.
Positioning yourself as an expert in your field is a good way to build credibility for your startup, and attract the attention of investors. InterviewGuestsDirectory.com exists to help promote your expertise to the media, including journalists, bloggers, and podcasters.
Learn how you can post a Guest Expert Profile to attract more public relations and media attention.
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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meetups worldwide: give a list of all cities and links - dont see yours? add one and share with us, we’ll provide events to help you grow your local ecosystem and connect entrepreneurs!
Member News - connect typepad or Squarespace blog (as subdirectory??)
jobs = category of blog, just link to that like on ocsorg
Add FEEDS of things to make the site alive and current: news, new NSD/SID listings, jobs, photos, events, etc.
RECOMMENDATIONS - subdirectory? separate BD site??
FOOTER WITH LINKS: submit, join, news, jobs, events, email signup
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.”
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“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
