Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Whether your company is a startup or a mature business, the last thing you need in the office is a toxic work culture. Yet, according to a recent study , more than half of tech employees see their current office culture as toxic. That can’t possibly be healthy for employee morale, productivity, or customer focus. The sad part is that many executives still don’t know how to recognize the signs.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. Three of the founding teams are married couples. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
One Thing That Great Leaders Understand I was scanning Twitter this past week and I came across these great Tweets by Michael Seibel at Y Combinator. When I was young I thought management was about distribution/delegation of responsibilities. I now realize it is truly about the maintenance of morale and motivation. Morale and motivation are moving targets that require consistent and proactive effort to maintain.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Volo co-founders Nicola Donadini, Melissa Mitchell and Lotis Bautista The Forrest Four-Cast: February 18, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.
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
deal architect
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Dennis Howlett writes about the "current levels of public angst among independent industry analysts at the state of enterprise software". He cites Raven Intel, Josh Greenbaum, Upper Edge, Brian Sommer, Jarret Pazahanick and me pointing to different problem areas in.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The right office space and location has huge impacts on your business. So, be careful when looking for office space. It’s very important for your business. Not only does it affect your brand image, staff motivation, but also your daily operations. The following are some tips to help you select the best small office space for lease in your town. 1. Determine Your Budget.
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
by David Deacon, author of “ The Self Determined Manager: A Manifesto for Exceptional People Managers “. At the heart of the job of managing people is the imperative — and opportunity — to create the environment within which the team does their work. The best managers know that the informal rules around how people should work make a substantial difference to what people do and what they pay attention to, and they seek to shape that in a way that maximizes success.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Social media isn’t a perfect source of market research: It’s not a representative sample and, for small businesses, it’s simply too small of a sample. But for large organizations, it’s still a critical one. Why? Because it includes your most passionate fans. It’s also a rare source of candid consumer opinion: 80% of social media posts are about ourselves, and those opinions and beliefs—expressed individually and within a community—are not interrupted or biased by participation in a formal
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
By YFS Magazine. Today’s companies are moving toward smarter, more holistic ways to guide employees to their full potential. Turns out it's also good for the bottom line.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
“Is Austin Racist?” That’s a Good Question I owe a lot of my professional and personal growth to Austin. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Austin is my first love. So much of my world opened up in this city when I started driving down here on weekends my senior year of high school to see concerts at Austin Music Hall or La Zona Rosa?—?or just to walk around downtown, which was way more fun than walking around Killeen.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
By YFS Magazine. Farmers will soon realize the benefits blockchain technology provides as they grapple with a need for transparency, supply chain supervision, and financing.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Payday is typically a moment people look forward to. But for many small businesses and startups that are just getting started, it’s a huge source of stress and frustration. Why? Because payday means payroll—and payroll is complicated and takes time. Twenty percent of small business owners reported spending more than six hours a month handling payroll taxes.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
By YFS Magazine. Entrepreneurs that find success have one shared experience: at one time in their career they have reported to a bad boss.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Now it all makes sense! Bezos’ post about his penis and HQ2 dramatic break up with New York City was all just a con man’s swerve, a magician’s distraction, to cause us to look one way while the real story happened under our noses (and keyboards): Amazon built their Westworld ! As we now know, the plot conceit of Westworld is that there’s a corporation mapping our every desire to build the ultimate marketing database!
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
By YFS Magazine. Becoming an investor is one of the best decisions an entrepreneur can make in the pursuit of long-term solvency and security.
Hearpreneur
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Face your demons. Develop the bulldog mindset. What if your best shot is not good enough? Keep on keeping on. Challenge yourself today.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Tankee CEO Gerald Youngblood with his son. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 18, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Social activist Betty Friedan once said , “The problem that has no name — which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities — is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”. Of course, she is absolutely and unequivocally right. The good news, however, is that we’ve come a long way as a society, particularly in regards to affording women the appropriate power and responsibility they deserve.
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