Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: From Founders to Fortunes: Lessons from Building Breakthrough Startups
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In this high-impact session, veteran startup leader and investor Larry Udell, Founder of the LES Silicon Valley Chapter, draws on his extensive experience launching, scaling and advising tech companies to reveal how founders transform bold ideas into enduring success. You’ll gain an inside view of the pivotal decisions, growth inflection points and mindset shifts that mark the journey from founder to fortune.
Larry will walk through real-world startup case studies, exposing what works, what fails and why. He’ll guide you in avoiding common traps — from premature scaling and product-market mismatch to culture breakdown and capital misallocation — and show you how to build a resilient foundation for long-term value creation.
This isn’t just theory: you’ll leave with actionable frameworks and concrete steps to apply in your own venture. Whether you’re pre-seed, scaling or pivoting, you’ll walk away with insight to sharpen your strategy, team and execution for breakthrough growth.
✅ What You’ll Learn
How to identify and validate a startup’s high-leverage inflection point
Key metrics and signals founders should monitor for scalable growth
How to build the right team culture and leadership structure for long-term success
Decision-making frameworks for choosing when to scale, pivot or pull the plug
Strategies for aligning capital, product and market to create sustainable value
Our Speaker:
Larry Udell is the Founder of the LES Silicon Valley Chapter in 2000 and a member of www.lesi.org since 1982. He has devoted over a half-century of mentoring inventors and researchers in transforming a technology into a successful product. He left the corporate world on March 31, 1964, and has served as a consultant to government, universities and corporations. He founded the California Invention Center while teaching new ventures at CA State University. Larry is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and advisor with decades of experience launching and scaling breakthrough technology companies. He has mentored hundreds of founders, guided startups through commercialization, and helped transform innovative ideas into high-growth ventures. Larry is widely recognized for his strategic insights on intellectual property, market entry, and building companies that achieve lasting impact.
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