Building the communities that build businesses

Nicole Glaros is a community builder like few others: as arguably the very first employee at Techstars, Nicole helped scale the accelerator from one program to over 50 and, simply put, is a legend in the early-stage startup community.

And not surprisingly so, Nicole has, amongst other notable achievements to numerous to fit in here: invested in more than 100 startups; co-founded the new professional women’s Soccer team in Denver; been recognised by publications like Business Insider, Marie Claire, and Entrepreneur Magazine; spoken at events like SXSW, TEDx, WebSummit, and Pioneers Festival; has been a competitive sportsperson and outdoor adventure guide; and has previously sat on the board of the Leeds school of Business and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch 😅

To say we were honoured and educated to have her as our guest is an understatement.

You can and should follow Nicole's writing at https://nearlynicole.com/

Nicole is a multi-unicorn backer and you can find her VC work at https://www.matchstick.vc/team

You can email us at haightenedsenses@gmail.com or message us on LinkedIn

Christo and Brendan are both active on LinkedIn and open to all genuine new connections, you can find them at https://www.linkedin.com/in/christo-van-zyl-innovator/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/ respectively

You can find more of Christo at chaos-out-of-order.com

Brendan's other podcast is www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show

Show art is created in Canva, show music is created with suno.ai

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