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A Call for Founders: Four Venture-Scale Ideas for 2025

Over the past three months, the Forum Studio team has evaluated new ideas, searching for ideas that fit our key criteria for venture success. After evaluating nearly 100 ideas, we’ve identified our top four opportunities

Dallas Price
January 15, 2025
B2b SaaS Product

Building an MVP with a Lean Team? Here’s How to Stay Focused and Move Fast

Learn how to build a focused and efficient MVP with a lean team. This guide offers actionable strategies to validate early, prioritize meaningful insights, and launch quickly—helping you make meaningful progress in the chaotic 0-1 phase without overextending your resources.

Teija Bean
January 15, 2025
AI Agents

A Call for Founders: The Future of Applied AI for 4 Emerging Sectors

Dallas Price
October 29, 2024
Forum News

Forum Ventures Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List

The Founder-Friendly Investors list celebrates the investors who believe in backing founder-led businesses and helping them thrive

Alexis Clarfield-Henry
October 29, 2024
Market Insights

2024: The Rise of Agentic AI in the Enterprise

Exploring enterprise AI agent adoption: Trust, integration strategies, and key priorities from a survey of 100 senior IT leaders.

Forum Ventures
October 8, 2024
Forum News

Around the Campfire: Lessons in Community, Vulnerability, and the Founder Journey

The founder journey is often isolating, filled with high stakes and constant decision-making. Founders often feel immense pressure to always be in “go-mode,” expected to have everything figured out, even when the reality is far more uncertain. It’s rare to create a space where people can be vulnerable, share their challenges, and truly feel seen by others who get it. That’s exactly what we set out to do at Forum Fireside Camp 2024.

Maggie Bolt
September 19, 2024
Fundraising

The Most Founder-Friendly Investors in Chicago

Founder-First Award, recognizing investors who go beyond just writing checks—they become true partners to founders, offering unwavering support, mentorship, and strategic guidance.

September 19, 2024
B2B Marketing

Midnight Text: Early-Stage Marketing

Early-stage marketing is much like early-stage sales—it's about understanding your market, your customers, and how your product fits into their lives.

Daniela Pico
September 10, 2024
GTM and Sales

Essential Strategies for Founders: Creating a Sales Deck and Navigating Early Customer Conversations

Guidance and tips to early-stage B2B SaaS founders on their sales deck effectiveness, and tips for getting your first design partners and paying customers.

Bocar Dia
August 29, 2024
Midnight Text Resources

Midnight Text: Founder Green Flags

Without many validation points, most pre-seed investors are betting on the people behind the idea. They are betting that you and your co-founders will figure things out and forge a path ahead.

Daniela Pico
August 27, 2024
Fundraising

Understanding How Early-Stage Investors Evaluate Investment Opportunities

Learn how investors evaluate early-stage opportunities. How to present your market opportunity, team, and product in a way that resonates with investors and increases your chances of securing funding

Maggie Bolt
August 15, 2024
Market Insights

Disrupting Legacy Systems: The 4 Key Areas Forum's AI Studio is Targeting

Today, we turn our focus to traditional sectors like legal, energy, and engineering, where economic factors are creating massive opportunities in industries that are yet to be transformed.

Dallas Price
August 7, 2024
VC Landscape

State of the VC Market: Pre-seed and Seed 2024

We surveyed 150 active Venture Capitalists in North America, analyzing over 300+ B2B SaaS pre-seed and seed deals closed between January and October 2024 to understand the early-stage funding environment

Forum Ventures
December 18, 2024
Vertical AI

Navigating the AI Wave Through the Lens of Verticalization

Navigating the AI Wave Through the Lens of Verticalization

James Murphy
September 13, 2023
VC Landscape

State of the Market: Pre-seed and Seed Valuations

Mike Cardamone
December 13, 2022
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