Events

Join us for our next in person community event in Venice - same location as last time! We will mingle (of course) and are running a panel with Kinsey Grant & Josh Kaplan from Thinking is Cool, a new media company. Kinsey's spent the better part of the last decade as a journalist working to empower everyone to understand and participate in the stories that shape the world we share.

Robert Richman, former Culture Strategist for Zappos, joins us in a live interactive workshop sharing a module from his Culture MBA course. Robert will walk us through one module of the course focused on how to understand, gauge and develop your culture

Join us for a discussion on accelerators, funds, and studios with three leaders from a pre-seed accelerator and fund, an accelerator, and a venture creation studio.

We're excited for you all to meet each other IRL! This is a meetup to socialize with other members, and we'll also do a short panel spotlighting two founders on a panel (Christina Perla, Co-founder of Makelab, and Adam Klein, Co-founder of Season Three).

Come by Domino Park to hang out and grab food / beverages. We'll likely schedule another meetup in June, in addition to the June 12th one. Hope to see you at 1 or many!

Join us for a discussion with Jhanelle Elissa, actress, director, producer, and the founder of the new live events platform for making real-life friends, Jiive

Join us for a #smallgiants discussion with Mark Cassidy. Mark currently operates and runs his family's business, Westside Family Therapy. He's attended Stanford GSB and now leads a team of over a dozen people covering 10+ locations. They have not taken outside funding at this point.

We're featuring leadership coach Ally Sprague for a workshop on meeting your saboteurs. Our saboteurs’ patterns of thinking, feeling, and reacting become soft-coded in our brain through neural pathways. When these neural pathways are triggered, we are “hijacked” by our saboteurs and feel, think, and act using their patterns. As a member of Propel, you get access to these workshops for free and the opportunity to do complimentary consults with our coaches if interested (and a Propel discount if you move forward)

Join meeting #7 for Idea Propeller - for members interested in sharing business ideas and incubating them. Join #idea-propeller to follow updates.

Join us for a discussion on impact investing and building social impact products with Sarah Millar and Louis Bickford.

This event will be our first sponsored LA event for Propel. Besides hanging out with other members of the community, you'll also get to hear from a panel of consumer leaders: we'll be featuring Karine Hsu, Partner at SLOPE and former founder, and Ben Knox, SVP at Super Coffee and Founder at Keto Farms. We're stoked to talk to them about their stories founding, building, and growing e-commerce consumer brands.

No one teaches you how to legally form a company in school or what you need to do when you hire employees. Come hear Hardy Farrow (ex-Google/Forbes 30 under 30) answer the most common questions that founders have when starting and expanding companies. Topics include:

Join Propel members Jared Scheib, Tiffany Patterson, and Paul Klein in discussing what it's like to partner with folks with technical expertise.

Welcome to the Propel book club crew! We'll be covering this quick read by Patrick Ryan Madson, who shares 30 years' experience on thinking on your feet, loosening up, and taking everything life has to offer with skill, chutzpah, and a sense of humor.

This is for anyone in the community that wants to discuss equity and transparency in salaries across levels and functions. For more info, join our #womxn-in-tech crew on Slack and read here for more info on what we'll cover!

Join our #ecommerce crew on Slack and read here for more info on what we'll cover!

Welcome to the Propel book club crew! We’ll be kicking the second one off with a non-fiction book, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Join our #product crew on Slack and read here for more info on what we'll cover!

Join our #socialimpact crew on Slack and read here for more info on what we'll cover!

Join meeting #6 for Idea Propeller - for members interested in sharing business ideas and incubating them.

Sarah Flaherty is the Head of People of seed stage startup, Orum. She was previously a Business Partner at Capsule, and before that at Northwestern Mutual and Learnvest.

Details TBD, follow-up convo from last session!

We'll catch up about updates on this call, with a focus on designing your offerings, pitching clients, and finalizing pricing.

We're hosting an AMA with Shray, Head of Growth & Digital at Health-Ade and previously building out the brands Nuggs and Cha Cha Matcha. We'll talk about the trends he's seeing in e-commerce brand growth and digital customer acquisition. Send any questions, topics, etc. to Emily!

This event will be hosted similarly to #idea-propeller. We're looking for folks that want to pitch a partially baked or fully baked business idea!

Aditi has worked in blockchain & crypto for a few years, and will explore trends with NFTs and DeFi during this conversation.

We're co-hosting a #smallgiants event with Rob Dube, Co-CEO of imageOne, Forbes Small Giant, podcast host, and Founder of donothing.

Join meeting #5 for Idea Propeller - for members interested in sharing business ideas and incubating them.

Workshop Outcome: Come to this workshop to learn a better framework for how to think about the choices in front of you and in turn, make better decisions (based on what you're trying to optimize for).

We'll catch up about updates on this call, with a focus on designing your offerings, pitching clients, and finalizing pricing.

This event will be hosted similarly to #idea-propeller. We're looking for folks that want to pitch a partially baked or fully baked business idea!

Our #crypto crew has showed interest in the technical aspects of blockchains as well as crypto as an asset class. The goal is to have everyone more versed in how to engage with the major projects in the space.

Join us for a discussion about product, connection, and conversation with Lexy & Jeff. They've worked for unicorn tech companies building messaging and social platforms, and are actively building their own things right now!

Sankeetha Selvarajah is the Principal Shareholder and Managing Attorney of Selvarajah Law P.C., a civil transactional firm located in Boston. Her practice has an emphasis on general business law and mergers & acquisitions. Sankeetha is also the Founder of Bizto.Co, a business educational platform designed to assist small business and startup founders with short/long-term strategic planning through subject-specific seminars, and corporate coaching.

Join us for an AMA with Peter, a finance and accounting leader currently working at Teampay, a Series A fintech company

The purpose of Idea Propeller is to create time, space, and accountability for members to pitch ideas that they are thinking about or starting to work on. 3 people pitch each session. Join to give feedback!

REPLAY PASSWORD: 1m@bdkw= | Learn how to compile small checks and keep your cap table clean with Sydecar's Nik Talreja and Robert Petrarca from Maxine's Heavenly.

In this session, we talk about how to Raise Your First Angel/Pre-Seed Round

Let Ahrif know if you'd like to pitch! Idea Propeller is a pitch practice session held monthly on the third Wednesday. Join #idea-propeller in Slack to follow updates.

 In this session, David will speak about creating a circle of influence and using a personal project to boost one's career

Propel and Pear VC are co-hosting an intimate social event

At this event, founders will better understand how to create software that embraces business strategy, design, and project management.