Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. But what if you are an introvert, or new to this game, and don’t know where or how to start? The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Since Hong Kong started operating as a free port, it has emerged as an unbeatable financial hub. It is the undisputed fort that every investor would dream of as a Launchpad to fire a business to regional and international realms. For startups, Hong Kong nurtures and sets them on the path to prosperity. Why look elsewhere when a ready, tested & proven, and highly viable that is Hong Kong is open for you?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 25, 2016

I had a great digital sabbath yesterday with Amy and my friends Dave and Maureen. I had a cold so I took a three hour nap in the middle of the day. For the rest of the day, I sat around in my PJs. I read Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. Amy and I loved Season 1 of the Amazon series but struggled with the first episode on Season 2 (I’m sure we’ll fight through it and watch it this week.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Design a workspace with peak focus,
 creativity, and comfort in mind.

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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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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, I wanted to share my response to venture LPs who ask about the effect of “so much money” flowing into the seed space and how we think about its competitive impact upon our fund Homebrew. [Context regarding our fund’s strategy is important here: we make 8-10 seed stage investments per year, where we’re leading or co-leading the round and stepping up to serve as a committed, proactive investor for the company in the y

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