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A message to founders everywhere: DON'T WAIT FOR PERFECTION TO START!

doola and Stripe Atlas are joining forces. 🤝 doola now recommends Atlas for founders incorporating a C corp to raise VC. Atlas incorporates 1 in 4 Delaware C corps, recently including Cursor, Lovable, and Linear. And Atlas now recommends that LLC founders use doola to manage compliance, finances, and ops so they can focus on building. See which is right for you: https://lnkd.in/gxdN3zga

New office. Same mission. Helping founders everywhere build their American dream.

What did you fail at today? Growing up, Sara Blakely’s father didn’t ask her how her day was. He asked her what she had failed at. If she didn’t have an answer, he was actually disappointed. That single mindset shift is why she was able to build an empire from a pair of scissors and a dream. Most entrepreneurs treat failure as a funeral; Sara treats it as tuition. If you aren’t failing, it may be a sign that you aren’t pushing your boundaries. Real failure isn't a bad product launch or a missed target, it’s the decision to stop trying because you’re afraid of the friction.

Remote work is cool and all, but sometimes building is better when done TOGETHER ⚡️ Comment your coffee order ☕️

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to doola's CEO Arjun Mahadevan! You've brought people around the world together to build something incredible for entrepreneurs everywhere. LET'S DOOLA THIS! ⚡️

E-COM BIZ OWNERS... DON'T MISS OUT!

Most founders start with a great idea, but very few start with a protected one. If you're operating as a sole proprietorship, there is zero separation between you and your business. If things go wrong, your personal assets are on the line. Formalizing your structure isn't just "admin", it's your insurance policy. We’ve mapped out the exact 2026 document checklist: 1️⃣ EIN: Your business's Social Security Number. 2️⃣ Articles of Organization: The document that makes you "official" with the State. 3️⃣ Operating Agreement: The internal rules that prevent future disputes. Infrastructure is the springboard for growth. Build on a foundation that protects you.

This Women's History Month, we want to shine a light on six women who changed what it means to be a founder. Not because their paths were smooth. But because they weren't. Sara Blakely failed the LSAT twice, sold fax machines door-to-door for seven years, and launched Spanx with $5,000 in savings and zero business training. Manufacturers rejected her for two years. She wrote her own patent to cut costs. Spanx made $4 million in its first year, She maintained 100% ownership for 21 years until a $1.2B majority deal in 2021. Whitney Wolfe Herd helped build Tinder from the ground up, was pushed out after facing harassment, and left the company at 24 with her reputation under attack. She turned that pain into purpose. Bumble Inc. launched in 2014 with one core idea: put women in control. By 2021, she rang the Nasdaq bell as one of the youngest woman to ever take a company public, with her son on her hip. Melanie Perkins came up with the idea for Canva at 19, teaching graphic design at a university in Perth, Australia. More than 100 investors rejected her. She had no connections, no technical background, and wasn't based anywhere near Silicon Valley. She literally learned to kitesurf to build relationships with VCs at a retreat. Canva launched in 2013. It's now valued at up to $40 billion, and she's still running it. Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first television job and told she was unfit for the screen. She went on to build the most recognisable media brand in the world, and in 1986 became the first Black woman to own her own production company. Arianna Huffington had her second book rejected by 36 publishers. She kept going. In 2005 she co-founded The Huffington Post with almost no institutional backing. AOL acquired it in 2011 for $315 million. It later won a Pulitzer Prize. Katrina Lake spent years pitching Stitch Fix to investors who told her retail was a dying industry. She bootstrapped, raised what she could, and kept building. In 2017 she took Stitch Fix public at 34, becoming the youngest woman to lead an IPO on the Nasdaq. Six stories. Six different industries. The same theme running through all of them: nobody handed them anything. If you're a founder still in the middle of your hard chapter, you are in very good company. Happy Women's History Month from all of us at doola. We exist to help founders everywhere build something real, no matter where they're starting from.