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7 Strategies To Solve Your Business Problems Faster

Startup Professionals Musings

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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Baby Boomers Are Surpassing Gen-Y As Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 60% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least seven more years, to 2020. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.