Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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8 Ways To Relate To Peers That Can Make Or Break You

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs, and members of any small team, naively assume that the key to their success is hard work, dedication, and long hours in the business. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. First they need to decipher correctly every relationship as a workship, friendship, or foe.

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How Technology Can Support Security Best Practices for Volunteer Boards

Board Effect

Mission-driven organizations are using technology to make good things happen. But while technology can help deliver positive outcomes, it also brings problems, like the challenge of keeping information safe and secure. As a volunteer board member helping to make important decisions for your organization, you also have a vital role to play in security: making sure private information is kept safe, that stakeholder trust remains intact, and that your organization continues to deliver the services

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How To Get Started In Real Estate Investing

YoungUpstarts

It can be difficult and daunting to enter real estate investing. Zain Jaffer offers a few key tips to help you get started in real estate. The post How To Get Started In Real Estate Investing appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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A reflection on a decade: 10 lessons after 10 years in VC

Version One Ventures

It may not feel like it, but fall is upon us. Professionally, this is always a reflective time of year for me and today, it’s even more so as I entered the world of VC ten years ago. Ten years. Where does time fly? On my first “VC anniversary,” I wrote about how VC aligns with my core values of continuous learning, compassion, and freedom (which is why I love this work and career so much).

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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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What do you give up when you take outside investors?

Gust

Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first. From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground.

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. ChatGPT, and to a large extent LLMs, burst into the scene only in November 2022 (after many years of research). Large language models (LLMs) have not only transformed the activities performed by computers but have also fundamentally altered the core nature of human-computer engagement.