Board Effect
JULY 11, 2019
Board culture is a key factor in board effectiveness. Boards of directors that enjoy strong relationships and good board dynamics have a positive effect on the leadership. Leaders who are motivated and encouraged are better able to lead an organization to success. Board dynamics are the way board directors interact with each other in carrying out their duties.
NZ Entrepreneur
JULY 11, 2019
Doing a business feasibility study first will help you figure out whether your new business idea is worth your time, energy and money – all very precious commodities. It will help you calculate, analyse and project what will be involved and the likelihood of success. Your big, bold business idea. So bright and shiny, it’s been keeping you up nights.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2019
by Joy L. Wiggins, PhD and Kami J. Anderson, PhD, co-authors of “ From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace “ Hostility between working women is trending. A study of one thousand professionals on leadership qualities found women consistently rate female colleagues lower than their male colleagues on workplace competencies.
View from Seed
JULY 11, 2019
On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. Otis is founded by Michael Karnjanaprakorn, and is focused on creating a marketplace that enables fractional ownership of culturally relevant assets. That sentence is quite a mouthful :), so I wanted to share a bit more about why we were excited by the team and concept and were the first investors to join them on this journey.
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
YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2019
You’ve worked hard to get where you are — but you still have so much further to go. And if the next step on your journey is landing your next big job, then you’re going to want to be careful. You’re at an exciting juncture, but this is also a time when things can go wrong. Nobody wants to learn that they’ve missed out on their big chance for a job they really wanted, yet many people make simple mistakes and fail to consider key issues as they apply and interview for jobs.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 11, 2019
It’s not uncommon for budding entrepreneurs to be racked with anxiety before plunging into uncharted waters. Entrepreneurship is a daunting undertaking of vast unknowns, but with some grit and resilience, anyone can conquer this giant. Source: Pixabay. For those who are looking to launch their own business but are uneasy about the journey that awaits, below are some tips on how to squash those fears.
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SiliconHills
JULY 11, 2019
A robot rolling down the road bringing butter, milk, and eggs. That’s on the horizon for San Antonio-based H-E-B. Texas’ largest grocer announced Wednesday plans to use an autonomous van to deliver groceries in San Antonio. The pilot program will roll out later this year. Customers in Olmos Park, north of downtown San Antonio, will […]. The post H-E-B Tests Driverless Vans in San Antonio to Deliver Groceries appeared first on SiliconHills.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2019
It’s typical of companies that use the traditional approach to invoice approvals to be slow and to some extent, inaccurate. Human error cannot be quantified and in a professional capacity, what may appear as minor errors can come back to haunt you in a devastatingly big way. If left to its current state, invoice approval can be a slow and extremely excruciating process.
YFS Magazine
JULY 11, 2019
I have a theory, and it has everything to do with how you price your services and how easy – or hard – you make it for people to hire you.
Berkonomics
JULY 11, 2019
Are you a virtual manager? Can you be effective if you are a “virtual” manager, commuting from home or a home office and being with your employees only part time? Measuring your performance. In a virtual environment, people measure you mostly by your actions, and remember only the most recent good work you’ve done for them and for the organization. The typical scenario for a virtual manager.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 11, 2019
Leasing a new or used van is a big decision to make. It means helping your business get started with the right equipment, or that means replacing the vehicle that you’ve owned for years. There are several things you should consider before leasing a van. Since this process can be overwhelming, this guide will provide you with some advice that will help.
David Teten
JULY 11, 2019
You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. So when a company in which I’m an investor is raising a later round, should we (the VC investor) keep our pro rata or get diluted? . My view is that one should always make this decision on an individual company basis. Almost all VC investments include pro rata rights. These give the right to invest more money in a company sufficient to keep the same percentage ownership, for so long as we have both the cash and the appetite.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JULY 11, 2019
In business, you know that you’re always going to need to invest in the right things. Because if you want to grow and head in the right direction, embracing the best resources to do that is just so important. Yet, how are you to know what they should be? And where’s best to invest for your company? Let’s take a look at three ideas. People. To start with, we have the idea of your people.
Board Effect
JULY 11, 2019
The concept of shared governance in the higher education space came about during the 1960s, which was a time when colleges began to modernize many of their processes. Today, the meaning of shared governance has become distorted. It’s a complex term that members of the faculty and administration often misperceive because it means different things to different people.
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