Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2023

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2023

Like many of you, I’ve been reflecting on the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank quite a bit this past week, now that the initial panic has faded into a dulled sense of disbelief. Certainly, there were warnings that SVB was in trouble ( most notably from Seeking Alpha – in December – asking if SVB was a blow-up risk and, as if time traveling, describing almost exactly what would come to pass just a few months later).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 19, 2023

The other day, I posted what was basically the same message on Twitter and LinkedIn, around the same time, edited for Twitter size limitations. LinkedIn: Twitter: I have over 44,000 Twitter followers, yet just under 8,000 LinkedIn followers. My LinkedIn Post did 4x the reposts, 10x the comments (and that was after I realized that comments aren't open by default, so it would have been more), and 13x the likes.

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Our Own Start-up

MARCH 19, 2023

If you travel often for business, it can be tough to keep up with your work and personal life. Here are must-have services for frequent business travelers. The post 5 Must-Have Services for the Frequent Business Traveler first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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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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