Since April is Stress Awareness Month, In The Soup hosts Jenn Summe from Primordial and Melissa Crosby chat with founders about how they manage their stress while managing a company.

For this week's episode, they discuss with Akash Ganapathi from Opine and Lucy Kosturko from Social Cascade about how they balance their companies with, arguably, the hardest thing in life: babies. Not that babies always equal stress, but they're a lot of work—and these founders can agree. That's why they offer tips and advice on how to manage both your business and your baby. 

Happy In The Soup Day! Taking investment from VCs can be a tricky process, especially when you don't know what to look out for.

That's why hosts Jenn Summe from Primordial and Melissa Crosby from Colopy Ventures are joined by experienced startup leaders to relay some lessons learned before and after working with VCs.

This week's guests are Brian Reale of ProcessMaker and Susan Wall of Corevist. 

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We are back with another episode of In The Soup! Since it's the last week of March, hosts Jenn Summe of Primordial and Melissa Crosby wanted this episode to go in tandem with Women's History Month.

That's why they are joined by Cara Marin of Stashpad and Lauren McCullough of Tromml to talk about what it's like being a female founder in tech spaces and industries that are normally male dominated.

Conference season is revving up in the Triangle, with CED's Venture Connect starting next Wednesday. In The Soup will be taking a break to celebrate the summit, but don't worry! Hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are taking this week to share advice on how to network effectively not only in general, but especially at conferences.

In this last part of their special edition conference season tips series, they are joined by Lucy Kosturko of Social Cascade and Austin Armstrong of Syllaby to hear how they network and build connections.

In today's episode, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are continuing their conference season theme by talking with investors on the importance of having an advisory board when raising pre-seed and seed rounds—something to keep in mind when making a pitch deck for potential investors. 

They are joined by familiar local investors: Abby Phillips from Wolfpack Investor Network and Jason Caplain from Bull City Venture Partners.

Conference season is revving up in the Triangle, so it's the perfect opportunity for In The Soup hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby to discuss some tips on how to prepare yourself and your company for these big events. From proper networking to successful pitching, they've got you covered on what you need to know.

In this week's episode, they are joined by Jason Gillikin from Earfluence and David Mayer from Elemmir to talk about how to pitch your startup when the business or idea is complex.

Creating a startup is hard work and unfortunately doesn't come with any instruction manuals. Thankfully, the guests in this week's episode of In The Soup has got you covered with advice on how to avoid some common, big mistakes you might make as a startup founder.

Hosts Jenn Summe of Primordial and Melissa Crosby are joined by Chris Geiss of Seguno and Brian Reale of ProcessMaker.

In today's special episode of In The Soup, hosts Jenn Summe of Primordial and Melissa Crosby talk with some local startup couples who founded their companies together while being together. They give some pros and cons to starting a company with your significant other and advice on how to maintain your relationship while maintaining your business.

They are joined by Tina Tang and Anthony Alers from Bristles.ai, Cara (Borenstein) and Theo Marin from Stashpad and Andrea and Charles Inokon from Cadence Cash.

Spoiler alert: there is no cursing in this week's episode. But in lieu of cursing, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby do discuss some common legal f-ups (we didn't actually say it) and some advice from familiar, local lawyers on how to avoid them.

Joining them are Venus Liles from Liles Law and Trevor Schmidt from Hutchison PLLC.

On today's episode, hosts Jenn Summe of Primordial and Melissa Crosby finish their Investors Series with exploring what happens after an investment and what portfolio support for companies look like from their investors.

They are joined by some familiar voices from the local VC community: Jason Caplain from Bull City Venture Partners, Abby Phillips from Wolfpack Investor Network and Lister Delgado from IDEA Fund Partners.