Wed.Feb 01, 2017

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5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My Business (So You Don’t Have To)

Up and Running

It is daunting to start your own business—very daunting. There are a hundred and one things that can go wrong, and inevitably it will the thing that you’re least expecting. To be honest, it doesn’t matter if you are starting up a business for the first time, or kicking off your latest venture; it doesn’t get less challenging. This is why advice from people who have gone through something similar can be both hugely helpful and crucially important.

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Don’t Let Your Business Dreams Die Full Of Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. I’m always excited by the dream, and disappointed by what I perceive as a lack of courage in many people to take the actions required to realize the dream. I’ve always wished I had a magic metaphor to motivate the best dreamers to become the best entrepreneurs.

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The Great Voice Consolidation

View from Seed

Speech is our fastest natural means of communicating. Until we’re all chipped and can talk in wordless brainwaves like Professor X, voice is the human ceiling for external command and expression. With a new market emerging around advances in neural network recognition of vocal inputs, efficiency may well be the core advantage that drives user adoption and so overall maturation of the voice sector.

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How Sam Mizrahi Is Bringing Old World Elegance To A Modern City

YoungUpstarts

They say Rome wasn’t built in a day and the same is true of what could be called the “new Toronto”. For those who do not live in the city or are otherwise unaware, Canada’s largest and most populous city has been undergoing an extensive redevelopment for several years, one that includes a large-scale revitalization of its centralized train hub, Union Station, not to mention preparation for 10 proposed new skyscrapers that are in various stages of development and promise to alter the familiar lin

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Congratulations to Angela Tran Kingyens, our newest Principal

Version One Ventures

Out of all the posts I’ve written over the years, this one gives me the greatest pleasure. I am thrilled to announce that my colleague of over three years, Angela Tran Kingyens , has been promoted to Principal. In this new role Angela will start leading deals for Version One and this will obviously increase our investment capacity. When I first started Version One in 2012 , I wasn’t sure if it would stay a partner firm forever or ultimately evolve into a partnership.

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Fear And Anxiety Caused By Change

YoungUpstarts

by Ralph Masengill, author of “ Conquer Change and Win “ Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. —Mandy Hale. Change creates a feeling of loss, which in turn creates some form of fear or anxiety or both. When any of us go through change, whether positive or negative, we suffer from the pain of fear or anxiety.

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Introduction to the New York Fintech Community

David Teten

I recently met with a friend who’s a senior executive at a large investment management organization. She said, “fintech is really interesting, but I don’t have a clue as to how to get started.” So I shared with her my notes on who the players are in the ecosystem. If there are additional players I should add, please ping me and I’ll add them. NY Fintech Hubs.

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The Power of Listening

Mike Michalowicz

The key to networking is not in the talking, it is in the listening and asking questions. This is true for a few reasons: 1. People like people who are interested in them. The more you ask questions about them, and simply listen, the more they will automatically like you. 2. You learn from listening, not talking. By asking questions you will learn about this person, and you can find if there is a connection for business or something else. 3.

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This Page Intentionally Left Blank

Feld Thoughts

For some strange reason, I woke up thinking about one of my favorite things to discover in a book or an article. I know there’s deep meaning in the notion that it was the first think that floated up to my consciousness when I awoke this morning. Like any good zen koan, I’m going to let it roll around all day. In the mean time, I look forward to my digital sabbath on Saturday to put the thought into practice and just do nothing.

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UT at Austin Professors Present Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Startups

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The StARTup Studio put on by the Innovation Center at the University of Texas at Austin had a decidedly pharmaceutical focus during its January presentations. Three professor-led startups presented a variety of ideas including a traumatic brain injury treatment drug, a peptide sequencing platform to combat bacteria […] The post UT at Austin Professors Present Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Book Short – A Smattering of Good Ideas that further my Reboot path

OnlyOnce

Book Short – A Smattering of Good Ideas that further my Reboot path. Ram Charan’s The Attacker’s Advantage was not his best work, but it was worth the read. It had a cohesive thesis and a smattering of good ideas in it, but it felt much more like the work of a management consultant than some of his better books like Know How ( review , buy ), Confronting Reality ( review , buy ), Execution ( review , buy ), What the CEO Wants You to Know ( buy ), and my favorite of his that I refer people to

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RxWiki Merges with TeleManager Technologies and Launches Digital Pharmacist

SiliconHills

Austin-based RxWiki, a digital health company, has announced its merger with TeleManager Technologies, a communications solutions company based in Newark, New Jersey. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Together, they have launched Digital Pharmacist with 55 employees. The company provides digital, communications and other solutions for 5,500 pharmacy locations, national pharmacy wholesalers, […] The post RxWiki Merges with TeleManager Technologies and Launches Digital Phar

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Opportunity & Danger on February 1st

Growthink Blog

February 1st is a great day to look at the various start-of-year economic and business predictions, and at our business resolutions and plans to profit from them. Famously, the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters, respectively signifying “opportunity” and “danger.” What a great description for 2017 one month in! Opportunity. With the new administration in Washington comes high hope for reform in five areas of strong business interest and concern: Corporate Taxes, Regulation,

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Speaking, Storytelling, and Making Sense of the World

Duct Tape Marketing

Speaking, Storytelling, and Making Sense of the World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Tamsen Webster. Storytelling is how humans as a species rose to the top of the food chain. Our ability to make up stories and get large groups of people behind ideas – real or imagined – is what it means to be human.

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The view of technology at my end.

Transformify

Taking a quick peep at the cities of Nigeria, ranging from the busy Lagos state and the crowded population in Ibadan. For every twenty individuals you see on the road, sixteen of them, especially youths, are either glued to their mobile phones, gadgets, tablets either listening to an awesome song on their playlist, checking out the updates on their Instagram timeline or streaming live videos online… Cool isn’t it???

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The Campus as Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Campus Entrepreneurship

I am in the midst of writing a paper that explores the campus as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Much of the preliminary work, thinking, and formation of this idea took place while I completed my PhD. Here is the work in all its glory: Campus as Frontier: High Growth Student Startups at US College and Universities. And here is a snippet regarding looking beyond PhD and lab science for innovators on campus: Policy makers should consider Jefferson’s radical idea of offering choice for undergraduates

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The business part of social & lifestyle businesses

The Startup Toolkit

I’m sitting in an island hut in paradise, Thailand, listening to the owner yell at his staff (bamboo walls don’t block sound) that he needs to make more money or he’s going to have to close it all down and everyone loses their job. This is particularly worrying since the resort is fully booked. Seems like the business model math doesn’t work out.

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Why Your Startup Should Be A Dating Site

YoungUpstarts

by Alex Reddle, Flirt.com. If you’re on the fence of where to begin your startup, or don’t have an idea but are searching for the next big opening in a market to sow your ingenuity and create something successful, profitable, and maybe even leave a legacy, then here’s a tip: one of the best choices is right under your nose. Here are 5 reasons why your next startup should be an online dating site: 1.

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The changing face of the multinational corporation

deal architect

The Economist says the multinational corporation (MNC) is in trouble Mr. Trump is unusual in his aggressively protectionist tone. But in many ways he is behind the times. Multinational companies, the agents behind global integration, were already in retreat well.

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