David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

When I meet with executives from large corporations, they’re often worried. And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. To quote a friend, if you’re an executive at an established company, your job is to blow on the ice cube to delay its melting as long as possible.

Venture Capital 85

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs like Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Chris McCormick of L.L.Bean have long realized that networking is no longer something that you do to get what you want, but requires listening and relationship building to do what the other party wants, with a win-win outcome. We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect, so it’s a bad idea to go into a networking situation thinking you’re going to talk somebody into doing your bidding.

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Networking Entrepreneur Reputation Social Media 218

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Establishing the business credit of a new company can be extremely difficult. After all, without a credit history, credit report, and credit score, lenders and creditors will be less likely to be willing to give you the funding you need or the access to the credit that you require to do business daily. Therefore, taking steps from the launch of your company to establish a positive credit rating is imperative.

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Limited Liability Company LLC Naming Reputation 149

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

My idea of a really good afternoon on a three day weekend is to lay on the couch and read a book. Other than a nap in the middle of the experience, that’s what I did today. I read the Supersymmetry by David Walton. It’s the sequel to Superposition , which I read earlier this year. They are both excellent near term sci-fi in the action/adventure save the world while learning physics genre.

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Email 126

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

Startup

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Founded by Pierre Omidyar, online auction and shopping site eBay first burst unto the Internet in 1995 just before the dotcom bubble and managed to survive through that collapse unlike many of its online counterparts. Today the company is a multi-billion dollar business with operations in over thirty countries, but most of us have probably forgotten its humble beginnings – originally known as Auction Web, the first ever item sold on the site was a broken laser pointer sold for a princely

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Internet Web Operations Management 145