UPWEST

Building a founder community is much like finding product-market fit - it requires real immersion, deep listening, and constant adjustment. Over the years, we've built the largest portfolio of Israeli startups in the US, and our approach to supporting founders reflects that experience. For us, building a strong community means staying in touch with our founders and responding to their evolving needs. Our annual retreat is one of those moments where we pause, listen, and fine-tune the "fit" of our community... As we reflected on the past year and looked ahead to 2025, our team kept coming back to three specific insights. If we could sit down with every founder that is starting a new venture in 2025, these are the lessons we'd tell them. And yes, AI made its way into this list…more than once

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