Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca For the first 5 years or so after I became a VC I didn’t talk much about what I thought a VC should be excellent at since frankly I wasn’t sure. I was mostly doing my job and trying to figure out how to be better every day. After a decade on the job I’ve started to speak more openly when newer industry colleagues now ask me what I’ve learned.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Guest post by by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The solution to long-term innovation in companies obviously isn’t having one person come up with all the bright ideas and then translating those ideas to teams that execute them. We’re looking at huge shifts in workplace structures that involve reimagining things like who holds the power to make decisions and how we judge performance, all the way down to how we run meetings to encourage constructive disagreement and a diver
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 11, 2016
As a business owner, you probably already know the importance of training new employees. But the business landscape is constantly shifting and your team will need new skills as you grow. Here are some of the top reasons your employee training should be permanently ongoing: 1. Knowledge Capital. No matter how experienced you team is, there’s always more to learn.
deal architect
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight, Red is gray and yellow white, But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion? The Moody Blues wrote those famous lyrics nearly 50 years.
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
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 11, 2016
by Cameron Johnson. In an increasingly competitive business world, corporate leaders who want to emerge as industry leaders who consistently earn excellent conversion rates need to optimize their business processes. Luckily, there are several strategies you can implement to accomplish this objective. Here are five of them: 1. Develop A Strategic Plan.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Today Optimus Ride announced a $5.25M seed round of funding to continue developing their unique approach to autonomous transportation. NextView is pleased to co-lead this round along with our friends at FirstMark Capital as well as participation by other investors, and I’m excited to join Optimus’s board. For those who follow my writings on my AgileVC blog or on Medium, you’ll know that I’ve been thinking about the autonomous vehicle space for some time.
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Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 11, 2016
We’re enjoying the first few weeks of Fall and before we know it, 2017 will be upon us. It has been a busy summer for our portfolio companies – here’s a quick recap of some of the highlights from Q3. Portfolio companies in the news. Several V1 portfolio companies were recognized for their growth. Top Hat was named the 12th fastest growing company in Canada by PROFIT 500, with a five-year revenue growth of 5,359%!
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Here’s something not many people talk about: no one at your organization really wants optimization to succeed – at least not in way that is most powerful and revenue impacting. Let that sink in. They will all talk about it, they will assist in practice, they will push you to do more and they will say all the right things. But the second a result does not go there way, they will turn on you faster than it takes you to read this overly wordy introduction.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2016
As you can see, it’s always better to be cautious than to rely on sheer optimism to get you through the rough patch.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 11, 2016
I always told myself that I would stop pushing forward when there was an overwhelming force from the outside saying that this is not working. But even when I reached that point, I continued to try to brute force it into existence. I wound up losing a lot. We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Once you've secured a spot at a local or international trade show, it is go big or go home.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 11, 2016
I always told myself that I would stop pushing forward when there was an overwhelming force from the outside saying that this is not working. But even when I reached that point, I continued to try to brute force it into existence. I wound up losing a lot. We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
OCTOBER 11, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Should I hire differently for different people? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 11, 2016
It’s been a while since I shared my phone’s homescreen (looks like January was the last time ). And there are quite a few new apps that I’ve been using, or at least that have risen to the Holy Grail of the phone’s homescreen. Some notables: Reminders : Currently I’ve moved my to-do process over to Reminders. I have tried all the swell apps out there for managing to-do’s and tasks, and I just finally landed on the simplicity of Reminders and the ability to add
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Vi Nguyen and Lan Chu are the founders of Austin-based Homads, a marketplace for month-to-month rentals that connects homeowners and… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Up and Running
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Instagram is arguably growing as the most powerful social media platform around. By 2019, Instagram’s audience is projected to make up 55.8 percent of social network use in the United States. It is especially popular with teens and the coveted millennial demographic; Instagram is considered the most important social network by American teens, and is second only to Facebook for overall usage amongst Americans ages 12-24.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2016
October 16, 2016: As the founder of a startup, you have 3 constituencies — your customers, your team, and your investors. Being a low… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 11, 2016
What does it take to be successful as an entrepreneur ? The short answer would be a lot more than most people realise. There are probably plenty of twenty-year-olds right now that love the idea of becoming the next rich entrepreneur. It’s completely understandable because this is the ultimate business dream. Imagine, reaching the heights of the market, purely on an idea that you conceptualised and created.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2016
It’s been almost six months since Uber and Lyft left Austin and the sky has yet to fall. Recently, Uber spoke about rejoining the Austin… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Yesterday, Elizabeth Kraus, a good friend and the co-founder of MergeLane (we are investors), sent me the following blog post and asked me if I would reblog it on my site. After reading it, I felt she expressed her thoughts on Trump’s “locker room talk” extremely well. The original post appears at Please, Mr. Trump, Stop Calling This “Locker Room Talk”.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2016
“Beginner’s luck. Bet you can’t do it again.” -young male techie sceptic Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2016
By Dennis Yang, CEO, Udemy Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
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