Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

Meetings. The bane of many of our existence. They suck up time and are often unproductive or don’t yield the results we expect. I want to talk about a specific type of meeting today — a Board Meeting — but this could easily apply more broadly. A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.

Metrics 196

Metrics Strategic Investors Later Stage Management 196

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2016

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. More and more professionals agree that a better strategy is to explore and fine tune your assumptions before declaring a specific plan with financial projections based only on your dream and passion.

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Startup Lean Matching 154

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2016

by Tom Caesar , Managing Director of Positive Lending Solutions. Unless you’re one of the lucky few who manage to obtain financial backing to start your new business venture, chances are you’re going to be borrowing money to get your ideas off the ground. Going into debt isn’t necessarily bad for businesses, in fact there are certain advantages to doing so, but the type of debt and your options for finance can be limited by your credit rating.

Finance 103

Finance Security Conversion Management 103

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

Valuation is a nebulous topic amongst early stage startups, so I thought I’d really spell it out in detail. In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand. Your startup’s valuation is not based on a proforma of your revenue. And therefore, it’s also not quite analogous to the market cap of a publicly traded company.

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Seed Stage Valuation Vertical Demand 76

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

Startup

Scott Edward Walker

JULY 24, 2016

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

Entrepreneur 46

Entrepreneur Business Model Video 46