Fri.Jul 26, 2019

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10 Elements of a Coaching Culture and Why You Need It

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. I often hear the excuse that coaching takes more time than simply diving in and doing the job for the other person, but is that really true? In fact, studies have shown that the long-term value of coaching has a return of at least 2x to more than 100x times the cost.

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Friday Funism – Favorite Future

View from Seed

Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g. sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. We were excited to talk about our vision and aspirations for the new VC firm we were building, but also intrigued by this as a general question.

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What To Consider When Choosing Airport Parking Space For Your Business Travels

YoungUpstarts

Airport parking space is important for anyone planning to use the airport, whether you are picking up or dropping off your business clients or for those planning to travel for personal purposes or business trips. For those in the business world who have to make constant business trips, they understand the importance of securing an airport parking space in advance before the day for the travel.

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Friday Funism – “Favorite Future”

Agile VC

Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post also appears at NextView’s blog. Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g. sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView.

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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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TripActions?—?An outlier company just raised another $250M to continue to raise the bar on business travel.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post TripActions?—?An outlier company just raised another $250M to continue to raise the bar on business travel. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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The Benefits And Challenges Of Marrying An Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

Getting married is an eye-opening experience for anyone. Here are a few perks and challenges to expect when entrepreneurs say I do.

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What Startups Need To Know About PCI Compliance

YoungUpstarts

60% of businesses that undergo data loss due to a breach never survive for more than six months after the event. While some will close shop due to their loss of customers, others find it hard to handle the costs of trying to survive the breach. Sadly, it can be even tougher for a startup to survive such disasters, especially if it hasn’t yet attracted a good market share.

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