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6 Critical Steps To A Winning Company Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. Simply speaking, culture-driven businesses put their people first, and people make the business, rather than the other way around. Today’s business mantra must be “Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.” Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done.

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Up Close and Personal: Conversations on Entrepreneurship and Mental Health

Feld Thoughts

I’ve talked openly about my struggles with depression over the years and have engaged deeply in an explorations of entrepreneurship and mental health through several different organizations I’m involved in. On February 16th, from 3pm to 5pm , I’m doing a free public event with the Carson J Spencer Foundation about entrepreneurship and mental health.

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How do seed VCs pick their investments?

Hippoland

On Friday, I spent a couple of hours at my alma mater talking with student entrepreneurs about their companies. When I got there, most of them wanted to know how do VCs pick their investments and what does 500 Startups look for? I didn’t answer this. Instead, I said, “Let’s pretend we’re all forming a VC firm right now. And there’s an entrepreneur coming into the room in 10 minutes.

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What to do about people judging you

Start Up Blog

A friend works in a creative field. He’s a talented artist and was telling me how he hates being judged while presenting his work. So he prefers to do the work and let others sell or pitch it. I told him this: You’re being judged anyway. Best you inform that judgement with your presence. Hiding from reality rarely changes the outcome, but when we do hide, we can never iterate on the fly, we can only wait for the news.

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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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True Made Foods Wins the Food+City Challenge Prize for 2016

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News True Made Foods took first place in the second annual Food+City Challenge Prize competition held at the University of Texas at Austin campus on Saturday. The New York-based startup won the $30,000 grand prize and beat 19 other startups from all over the world. In addition to […] The post True Made Foods Wins the Food+City Challenge Prize for 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “Men Build Things, Then We Die”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “Men Build Things, Then We Die”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Dealing With Generational Change at VC Firms

Both Sides of the Table

Dan Primack and Fred Wilson sat down for an interview last week at the Upfront Summit and the results were amazing. It’s 25 minutes and it’s both a pleasure to watch and is super insightful. You can watch the interview embedded above of click on this link: Dan Primack interviews Fred Wilson at the Upfront Summit. The interview was wide ranging and discussed everything from USVs investment thesis over the past 10 years to what some emerging themes are around blockchain and artificial