Uprise Partners Blog

Achieving product market fit dramatically increases a startup’s odds of success and arms startup founders and investors with intelligence that will help them.

Leading off our feature founder series, Sam Smith of Vishion is everything you could want in a founder. She’s bright, dynamic, enthusiastic, and energetic.

How we can use our networks to support underrepresented founders and bring more diversity into entrepreneurship.

What if I told you that there is one thing that could make you absolutely love what you do? And what if I told you that the same thing could also help you do your best work? Good news, it exists, and it’s called compassion. Sure, we all know compassion from our personal relationships, but how many of us think about compassion in our professional settings?

As designers and developers, we spend a great deal of time thinking about the ways users will interact with the sites we build. But what if that user has a visual impairment and isn’t able to view the site as you had originally intended for it to be seen? The result is a site that no longer provides value and the user grows frustrated. Worse? The site in turn effectively discriminates against them. Luckily, there are laws today that protect Americans with disabilities.