Find Your Breakaway Move: AMA with Dave Hersh - Presented by Ascend
Nine out of 10 startups fail because founders fall prey to a common set of hidden challenges that could be avoided with awareness, focus, and grit. Learn these patterns and how to optimize your company's trajectory (and happiness). Drawing on a litany of stories and research, Dave Hersh will illuminate the underside of the startup journey and how to boost your likelihood of being in the elite 10%. Wherever you are in your journey, this talk will help you understand the hard but rewarding path to becoming a breakout company.
Dave Hersh is the author of Reignition (Inc. Originals Press, April 2024), a practical and deeply-researched playbook for helping startups and growth companies get “unstuck” and find their breakaway path. He is a general partner at Metamorph Partners, was the founding CEO of Portland-based Jive (NASDAQ IPO in 2011), served as a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and has advised hundreds of startups over three decades.