Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

If I had just one wish for VCs it would be that they would preview the Ted Bunch “Man Box” talk at the Upfront Summit at their Monday Partner Meetings. I would love it if startup leadership teams would preview it to their executive leadership. We need to learn from women and listen to them. We also need to start having a conversation amongst men about how men talk and behave and about the silence that leads to consent if we’re going to make necessary changes.

Non-Compete 210

Non-Compete Conversion Leadership Video 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c

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Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud Agile 150

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There’s nothing that we as a society get more excited about and panicked by than technological progress. On one hand, we understand that innovations like artificial intelligence and Bitcoin are autonomous, powerful entities that many of us will never truly know — and what we don’t know, we don’t always trust. On the other hand, we recognize that these technological advancements were created to make our lives easier.

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Artificial Inteligence Web Technology Finance 167

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

by Sebastian Wedeniwski and Stephen Perun, co-authors of “ My Cognitive autoMOBILE Life: Digital Divorce from a Cognitive Personal Assistant “ Love your car? Get ready to say goodbye: Soon it will be obsolete. We’re moving far beyond cars we drive to cars that drive us. But it won’t stop there. In the next decade, cars will be highly cognitive, sophisticated mobility machines powered by AI.

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Germany Singapore Mobile Design 140

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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Once you finally reach a certain point then reflection can truly begin. Finding the motivation in running your business keeps it from becoming stale in the long run.

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Entrepreneur Employee Community Channel 102

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

If Harry Potter had a LinkedIn profile, what would it look like? His headline would probably read something like “Classically trained wizard with a proven record of conflict resolution.” Harry would do all the right things in his profile (with help from Hermione Granger, of course). He’d have a great profile picture and use relevant keywords and phrases in his about section.

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Social Media Elevator Pitch Reputation Video 133

The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

“I’ve got a great idea for a business. I know it will work because nobody is doing it! I need to move quickly before someone else does it first.” As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living and hears a lot of business ideas, this type of business pitch puts up a big red […]. The post Just Because Nobody is Doing it is not a Reason to Launch appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Entrepreneur 46

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

“What did you change about Homebrew III to better fit ‘seed phases’ versus seed rounds ?” a fellow VC asked me after my previous post. That’s a great question! One consistent LP complaint I hear about new’ish fund managers is that they forget a bunch of fund construction and portfolio modeling decisions are connected. The amount you raise, the average check size, your follow-on strategy, the fund staffing and so on — these aren’t single points but instead need to all be driven from one’s m

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Product IRR LP Seed Stage 82

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In the last couple of weeks, I've had two similar conversations with my portfolio companies. They were just starting to build out their marketing strategy and they were faced with the challenge of how to staff it. Do you hire someone senior who might feel like the execution of the work was beneath them--or who simply hadn't done it in a while? Or, do you hire someone adept at the actual creation piece, but who needed guidance around how things were strategically put together at a high level?

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Marketing Channel Portfolio Hiring 62