Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2014

All the team is thinking about is what they’re missing while at the office. Make it clear that office equipment, as well as personal devices, are not to be used for holiday shopping when an employee is on the clock. Be strict about this, and don’t violate it yourself. Be realistic about holiday banter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods. Steven Hodas will be speaking at the conference about applying Lean Startup methods within extreme bureaucracy—in his case, the New York City Department of Education. But as we tried to sell it—crickets.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

In this article, we’ll introduce you to some of the most important contract terms to watch out for when negotiating an agreement to accept outside investments, and explain why they’re worth worrying about. See Also What Being on Shark Tank Taught Me About My Business. Structure of the investment. Liquidation preference.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

And that’s what we talk about on this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. But today we’re going to talk about a new book called Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction. John Jantsch: So there are two words in this title that I want us to spend some time on. Focus and productivity.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The market for pre-seed and seed rounds should remain relatively active, since those companies are many years away from even thinking about going public. Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news. It’s an investors market.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

About $1 million. Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. I hadn’t really thought about it.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 7, 2013

” Seems an appropriate question since this is somewhat of a reach based on my past, so I spent some time thinking about why I’m bullish on mobile gaming. Zynga has shown us that gaming is huge, but mobile is the future. And I’m not even talking about the tablets which are quickly becoming as powerful as laptops.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In this episode, April Rinne talks about her new book Flux and the 8 powerful mindset shifts that enable people of all ages to thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. 5:22] Are you advocating that we have to actually go out there and seek change and make change instead of letting it happen to us? [9:54]

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2012

And Mr. Parthasarathi’s story is not an isolated one: In recent years, New York’s colleges and universities have ratcheted up their commitment to supporting budding entrepreneurs. Later, “A lot of us who actually do it don’t subscribe to this method of building companies.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 12, 2010

There have always been speakers from the US but this year I feel that a lot of non-speaker attendees made it over. LeWeb couldn't do anything about it but the fact that it started snowing while I was waiting and heavily at that didn't help things. . Taxis.forget about it. It really is a shame to wait 30 to 40 minutes in line.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

It makes us more cautious. It makes us over-invest in prevention. It makes us less willing to trust, to communicate openly, and - most painfully - to take risks. Reducing fear is a heuristic we can use to judge process improvements. The interesting thing about fear is that to reduce it requires two contradictory impulses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. Today I want to talk about another archetype: the incredibly high-IQ hacker whos trying to be a leader. (As What a waste. Whats wrong with this picture?

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 25, 2012

At Return Path , we have always had a commitment to community service and helping make the world around us a better place. We ratcheted that up a lot in the last year, which is why we added the following statement in as one of our 14 Core Values : Think Global, Act Local. Think Global, Act Local.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” Anxiety slowly crept into everyone’s world. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Don Charlton points out, “We’re most sensitive about discussing bias when it involves African-Americans because of our history of slavery and racial segregation. If we would start admitting our bias comes from lack of familiarity, not always racism, we’d be able to have more honest discussions about how we look at people and their ideas.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

In this week’s episode, we use the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand to show you how to write a business plan in under an hour. We also learn about content marketing from Candice Landau, and share our thoughts on 3D printing. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Peter: I agree. Jonathan: Okay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

6:27) Their original vision for their company, YourChoice Therapeutics, and using niclosamide for contraception. (8:05) 8:05) Discussion about niclosamide and safety. (10:58) 21:16) Moving drug compounds from Europe to the US after the flight embargo and what the data showed. (22:57) 2:16) Nadja Mannowetz on her background. (2:38)

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The nation is also a major exporter of washing machines, selling 21 million units abroad worth just under 19 billion yuan (US$2.9 He vowed to tear up the 5-year-old Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, calling it unfair. The biggest change from rhetoric to reality has been in US relations with China.

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