Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. me: Oh great! Who is he/she? Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. Person X isn’t well-known. I want “value-add” investors in my round. So, I’m thinking about declining the money. I have this conversation all the time with portfolio companies. This especially happens when founders start getting a lot of inbound requests from investors to meet, so they think that they have a lot of investor options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. There are many levels of innovation that go beyond copying someone else’s idea, but stop short of pushing the leading edge (bleeding edge). Many of the major business successes started this way.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2016

by Adam Carlson, CEO of Soar Payments. If you’re starting a business you’ll likely want to accept credit cards, and to do so you’ll need a merchant account. Credit cards are, of course, a convenient and popular way for your customers to pay, but unfortunately they’re also a key vulnerability point through which fraudsters and hackers can target your small business.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2016

An annoying thing about Twitter Search is that it’s not good enough to help me find who tweeted at me that Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is something I should read. I scrolled through my @mentions until I was annoyed after trying to search but not being able to figure out how to scope the search so I could only search @mentions = bfeld (or maybe my problem is that it should be @mentions == @bfeld).

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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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David Cohen

AUGUST 21, 2016

I’ve seen a few cases recently where a startup decided to remove a particular investor from their regular “update” emails. The startups were doing this because they found out that the investor had invested in (or otherwise supported) another company that they viewed as competitive. Fast forward a year or so, and the startup needs more money.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2016

The second Reboot VC Bootcamp is happening at my place from January 19th – 22nd, 2017. The reactions to the first VC Bootcamp were awesome and I’m excited about doing this again with my friends at Reboot. Apply here. The post VC Bootcamp – January 2017 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2016

Share André Gide wrote that,”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Quotes are an important part of motivation, though many of them are repeats of another turn of phrase. Business owners are particularly partial to famous quotations. Reading a motivational speech from a business legend or famous creative mind can give you a spark.

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