Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

I love what I call déjà vu travel – to go back to a place 10 or 20 years since my last visit. I like to see how towns and cities have evolved and innovated along the way. In the.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Being in charge of your own business is pretty appealing. It means that you can be your own boss, and run your company the way you want. However, it also means that you are fully accountable for everything your own business does. If you are considering starting up a business that you want to run alongside your current full time job, then there are things you need to think about.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

As a surfer I was interested to see how Quicksilver has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the USA. A once formidable and dominant player in the surf industry, one of the Big 3 – Ripcurl, Quicksilver and Billabong. The Big 3 surf brands have all had their troubles in recent times; Billabong is currently valued at less than 5% of what it was at it’s peak on the share market ($14.06 vs $0.60 today) and Ripcurl has delayed a public float more than 3 times.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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