Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? After all, most great breakthroughs, like a computer in every home, seemed like a crazy idea before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it happen.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

by Cameron Johnson. Do you want to hear the cold, hard truth? 9 out of 10 startups are set to fail before they can even make money. Now while this is the reality you have to wake up from, it’s certainly not a fixed and unchangeable outcome for your entrepreneurial venture. Your success or failure will not rely upon the historical data and industry statistics, but from how well you manage daily operations.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Recently, Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital announced Brett Berson 's promotion to Partner. For the last six years, Brett had been building the platform team at FRC. The firm scaled assistance to startups in a way that for outpaced the resources any investment team could provide as individuals. I got to work with Brett for two years while I was investing at First Round, before I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The motor trade business imperatively entails handling customer vehicles. You also need to sit behind the wheels of unsold cars at the showroom. Although you would be very careful, yet accidents can and do happen at times. A suitable insurance coverage offers the financial protection you would need. A motor trade insurance is not only suitable for sellers and private garages, but also for services such as valeting or roadside breakdown coverage.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Colin Kaepernick is going to make almost $12 million this year. He profits from a league that routinely disregards the health and safety of its majority black player base--so, to me, he comes off as a bit hypocritical in his public protest. And yeah, it bugs me when a guy who has never served in the military won't respect our flag and anthem in front of the veterans who project our freedom.

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I wrote a post last week about the challenges in valuing portfolio companies in venture capital that I thought was wonky and inside baseball.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Founder: And then that angel investor said, “This is definitely interesting. Lemme intro you to these two people.” This has happened 3x in the last 2 days but none of these angels have written a check - is this bad signaling? Me: Oh, not necessarily. Angel investors are not professionals, so it’s not necessarily bad signaling since they may not do many investments.

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Guy Nirpaz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The post This is what you get when you mess with us… appeared first on Thoughts from my startup journey.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

On this 15 th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I am particularly aware of the march of time and how, as each year passes, those who study it or learn about it outnumber those that experienced that day. The picture I posted with this blog post is one I took at the 9/11 Museum – a mosaic of people’s remembrance of the color of the sky that day.

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Guy Nirpaz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The post We can be heroes just for one day appeared first on Thoughts from my startup journey.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Share Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Guy Nirpaz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The post Is there life on Mars? appeared first on Thoughts from my startup journey.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past six weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “I honestly don’t really care about business all that much…It’s not really my first motivation.

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