Sat.Sep 15, 2018

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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6 Market Research Sources That Fit A Limited Budget

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away.

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The Millennial’s Dilemma: Working For Money Or Working For Purpose?

YoungUpstarts

Today’s millennials are faced with no shortage of questions when it comes to what to do with their life. Work or college? Save or spend? Even the sarcastic suggestion that they have to choose between getting a mortgage, or continuing to enjoy their avocado toast and brunch is still doing the rounds in the media. However, one of the biggest quandaries facing millennials today is the question as to whether they should follow their passion and work for a ‘purpose’, or knuckle down and focus on work

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Weekend Favs September 15

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs September 15 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Tips To Value Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Startup valuation, under no circumstances, can be described as a simple affair. While valuing a publicly traded company is more or less straightforward, the case with a rarely profit making startup is not quite the same. Here are several factors that are taken into account while these startups are evaluated. How would the value of a publicly traded company be determined?

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Reflections On The Big Shake-Up At Kleiner Perkins

Haystack

For folks who know me, they know I’m obsessed with Twitter, but this week, I had so many work-related and personal/family things going on, I simply couldn’t keep up. That said, I did certainly see all the email subject lines this morning about Kleiner Perkins, the famous Sand Hill venture capital firm, splitting up. We have to step back and pause for a minute.