Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. After you’ve covered the team and have established some credibility around your company, it’s time to talk about the “what”. What does your company actually do?
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Medical tech startups are regulated by the FDA and must abide by strict regulations at all times. For example, all medical devices must be approved by the FDA. Acting outside of the FDA’s regulations can result in harsh penalties including fines and even jail time. Whether your medical tech startup produces low-risk or high-risk devices, compliance is a crucial and complex necessity. 1.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
I am a nonprofit board member, and I will tell you: For the most part, I pull my hair out at board meetings when we get to the budget. Usually, there is a series of QuickBooks reports, presented as PDFs, in a teeny-tiny font. . The line items don’t always make sense, and it is often very hard to tell if a particular initiative is actually financially healthy for a nonprofit. .
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
Board Effect
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Well-organized companies and organizations begin planning board meetings as soon as the previous meeting ends. Other boards fly by the seat of their pants and throw an agenda together the week before the meeting. Board meetings are serious business. If it’s important enough to have a board meeting, it’s important enough to plan appropriately for it.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When you’re working hard to launch a business, one thing is for sure – you’ve undoubtedly got way too much on your plate. From preparing your latest pitch for funding , to improving your customer service , generating content for your website and even chasing up unpaid invoices, you’re likely to be doing a million different things yourself or with a very small team in place.
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Women Entrepreneurs Can
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When it comes to building a business, it can be easy to lose sight of your initial goals and objectives, and become a slave to the daily grind of simply running it. Things like payroll , recruitment, IT support, buildings maintenance, housekeeping, and general administration all take a considerable amount of time, and can consume most – if not all – of the time required to grow and scale.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Starting up a business is an exciting and exhilarating experience. However, it can also be a risky and stressful enterprise, especially if you begin to have resource issues. If these issues become serious, they can have a significant impact on both your work and your personal life. The worst case scenario for entrepreneurs is that their business fails and they are unable to support themselves financially.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Virtually every startup has to find funding somewhere. Although some founders take venture capital in exchange for equity, that’s not the only way to do it. To learn more about the pros and cons of venture capital — and founders’ funding alternatives — I caught up with Mark McKee. Before being named president and COO of OnPay , a growing online payroll solution for small businesses, McKee worked as managing director of The Lenox Group, where he advised growing companies on how best to raise and
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ Whether or not you realize it, brand is tremendously important to every aspect of your business. A well-crafted and well-executed brand strategy can cut through the noise of a million messages, articulate your promise to the customer, set you apart from the competition, scale your business, and establish yourself as a leader in the space.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
If you are planning to manage your own startup or business after being employed or working as part of a larger business, this can be a daunting process. Managerial skills take some study and practice. There are a number of different factors that you have to take into consideration such as finances and employees that you will not have had control of in the past.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The newly-appointed prime minister, Boris Johnson, recently addressed the members of parliament in a public letter informing them of the upcoming parliament suspension. This has not only caused an uproar with opposing parties but has also raised several Brexit-related questions. Many queries are coming from businesses and entrepreneurs who are worried about their ventures.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Successful founders and CEOs utilize a few essential practices to help them push forward in the most difficult of times.
VC Adventure
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
A few years ago I wrote two posts – Venture Outcomes are Even More Skewed Than You Think , and Some More Data On Venture Outcomes – that challenged the mythology that only 1/3 of venture-backed deals failed and showed just how rare large (10x and greater) venture returns really are. I think the sharpness of the curve surprised a lot of people and contributed to a bunch of discussion at the time around just how rare “venture outcomes” really were.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Imagine you are a customer browsing through a website, and you see something that interests you. However, before deciding to make a purchase, you need to ask some questions to the business for clarification. You then go ahead to call them, but the number does not go through. Frustrating right? You decide to send them an email, but two days later the email is not answered.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Rebranding isn’t a band-aid and is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Your valuable brand equity takes time to accrue and it shouldn’t be squandered lightly and without good reason. So, why rebrand your company? Rebranding may be the key to getting your business back on track. Rebranding is rarely a sign of weakness. It’s more often a sign of a company in tune with its customers and its market.
Mike Michalowicz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When you think of your business as a whole versus day to day operations, what is your vision? Are you proactive or reactive? Do you create and follow a well analyzed plan, or are you adding systems on here and there, ultimately building a maze? In my next book, Fix This Next , this is one of the topics I discuss and I use The Winchester Mystery House as an analogy.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Here are a few easy and inexpensive office space design ideas that startups can use to build a welcoming and comfortable workplace.
Mike Michalowicz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’re going to get what you’ve always got.” -Henry Ford (Then Tony Robbins, followed by other forward thinkers!). In other words, when you’re through changing, you’re through. (I said that. After I heard it… ). Ok, this guy just told me not to change too much in his last post, that my business will morph out of control!
Andrew Payne
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
If you’ve missed the breaking Jeffrey Epstein-MIT Media Lab-Joi Ito drama, you can catch up quickly: Joi Ito apologies for taking Epstein money , an all-hands lab meeting gets messy , Ronan Farrow reveals more details , and Joi Ito resigns. Now, Larry Lessig argues “ because [Epstein’s gifts were] anonymous, the gift wasn’t used to burnish Epstein’s reputation. ” And, therefore, it was OK to take his money.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. If you don’t believe it, don’t do it. You don’t just mistakenly become great at something. You have to make sacrifices to become great. Greatness is a lifestyle. We are all capable of greatness. The post Monday Motivation: GREATNESS HAS A COST – Motivational Video appeared first on Hearpreneur.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
David Cohen and I will be at the Fort Collins Barnes and Noble from 6pm – 8pm on Tuesday 9/10/19 to sign copies of the 2nd Edition of Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. Over the next few months, we’ll be doing a handful of public appearances around the book. It’s the first book I wrote and – with David – really learned how to write a book almost a decade ago.
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
In New Zealand, employment agreements (formerly known as employment contracts) set out the terms and conditions that govern the employment relationship, and under the Employment Relations Act 2000, every employee must have a signed, written employment agreement. An employment agreement is the fundamental legal document between an employer and an employee.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The Classic Pitfalls of Innovation. Mandates, Training, Process, Talent, Conflict, Risk. Where Have Your Initiatives Failed? Innovation programs are like a labyrinth designed to have you lose your way — and die! Organizations fail with initiatives for many reasons, with lots of good intentions. I was thinking about an upcoming talk I’m giving on innovation pitfalls — and got bored looking for graphics.
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