YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

By Greg Waldorf, CEO of Invoice2go. Being a one-man or woman-show is a tough gig, but for someone taking the leap of faith on a business idea, and taking control of your own destiny outside the 9 to 5, it can be extremely rewarding too. There are many solopreneur success stories out there. Some of these businesses are founded by people who are passionate about a cause, like Saha Global ’s mission to help with the world water crisis, others are entrepreneurs seeking to fill an underserved niche,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. That’s like trying to sell part of something to a stranger for big money when you haven’t fully defined it yet. It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy).

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Yesterday I talked briefly about taking a break from media. However, I wasn’t precise, as the one thing I read each week is the New York Times Sunday paper. When Amy and I lived in Boston we started reading it every Sunday morning and continued whenever we travelled. Several years ago I started having it delivered to our house on Sunday morning and it is a delightful Sunday morning ritual for us.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! Over the last year or so, I’ve been writing about tactical fundraising to try to help new entrepreneurs with their seed rounds. But, having been there myself, I realize that even with all the help in the world, it’s still really really hard to raise a seed round. Everywhere I go — whether it’s here in the Bay Area or on the road — entrepreneurs tell me that it just takes so much time to connect with investors.

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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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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Wow. My weekend reading was Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. I can’t remember who recommended it to me but it was on my Kindle and my random next-book-to-read selection process brought it up. When I finished it a few minutes ago, I only had one word for it – “wow.” I knew a little about Thurgood Marshall , such as he was instrumental in the NAACP , desegregation, and was the first African-American Supreme Court Jus

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The term “silver bullet” has been around for literally hundreds of years, where tradition has it, a bullet made of silver was supposedly the magical method to kill werewolves. We’ve come a long way since the werewolves, but we’re still looking for the simple, magical solution to complicated problems. You can’t begin to solve the problem until you know why it exists We have become a society of “instant gratification,” with 140-character reactions and solu

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The term “silver bullet” has been around for literally hundreds of years, where tradition has it, a bullet made of silver was supposedly the magical method to kill werewolves. We’ve come a long way since the werewolves, but we’re still looking for the simple, magical solution to complicated problems. You can’t begin to solve the problem until you have your answers We have become a society of “instant gratification,” with 140-character reactions and solut

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