Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 27, 2016
Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 27, 2016
by Tom Silk, Executive Vice President at WorkStride. I’ve always believed that the best lessons are learned through experience rather than in a classroom. And unfortunately, the best of those life lessons usually comes from failures or near-failures, when you’re forced out of your comfort zone. It’s at those moments when you feel like you’re doomed that you’ll often come up with your most creative solutions.
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 27, 2016
I was catching up on a bunch of reading on the web from last week and came across a post by Lars Dalgaard titled Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies. I don’t know Lars, but know of him as the founder/CEO of SuccessFactors and now a partner at A16Z, and was curious after recently reading a Forbes article about Zenefits a few weeks ago titled ‘A Lot Of Things Went Wrong’: Lars Dalgaard On Zenefits Scandal.
Hippoland
MARCH 27, 2016
The startup industry should stop using the word “pitch”. It suggests that entrepreneurs should go into an investor meeting with a deck and stand in front of the room and start presenting. Doing a Demo Day or a startup pitch competition is NOT the same as a pitch meeting with an investor. Yet, too many entrepreneurs think that this is what they are supposed to do when they walk into an office on Sand Hill Road.
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
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 27, 2016
I’ll be doing a one hour live chat on Product Hunt on Tuesday, 3/29 at 1pm PST. Join me and ask me anything you want about anything. The post Tuesday 3/29 Live Chat on Product Hunt appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
Austin Startup
MARCH 27, 2016
Medicine has made great strides over the last 50 years. Modern medicine looks a lot different than the medicine of 1966. Today providers… Continue reading on Medium ».
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Austin Startup
MARCH 27, 2016
Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State Continue reading on Medium ».
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 27, 2016
I get a lot of "Do you know anyone for this?" e-mails. It's good to know what people are searching for, but the chances that an investor knows the right person are quite low. Here are five tips for improving your chances: 1) Hire someone to do the blocking and tackling. This is a volume game, just like sales. In my estimation, you need to reach out to roughly 100 people to score 10 interviews to hire 1 person.
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