Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2016

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley. Yet the process is eerily realistic, and every entrepreneur can glean some important lessons.

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Guy Nirpaz

JUNE 11, 2016

I’d like to introduce you to the blog of Farm Don’t Hunt – The Definitive Guide to Customer Success book. It is located at BLOG.FARMDONTHUNT.COM and is hosted on Medium. In the past few months, since I’ve published the book , I’ve been getting daily feedback from customer success leaders and practitioners: comments, questions and suggestions.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 11, 2016

Discomfort is normal. Not dealing with it can jeopardize your success.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 11, 2016

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Mark Suster , Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and indeed a smart, insightful investor. In this brief clip (via Gust ) , Mark shares some words of wisdom with respect to being a successful CEO, including the following: “A great person doesn’t want to work

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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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