Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market. Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The evolution of technology brought smokers a different experience called ‘vaping’. The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

by Leslie Peters, author of “ Finding Time to Lead: Seven Practices to Unleash Outrageous Potential “ My team and I recently led a two-day training course at a 120,000-person company. At the beginning of courses like these, we always ask attendees: “What do great leaders do?”. Do you know what makes it into the top three answers 90 percent of the time?

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For Entrepreneurs

JUNE 28, 2018

I recently gave a talk at the 2018 SaaStock NYC conference in June. I had two goals I wanted to accomplish, present a simple model to understand SaaS business and to show a simple model of a SaaS business and to show the key levers a CEO can pull to achieve the greatest impact on their business.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

In an industry that primarily targets men — leaving women out as an afterthought — Empower Cocktails is disrupting the distilled beverages market as a woman-owned company that puts women’s empowerment at the heart of their mission. While cocktails are the face of the Empower Cocktails brand, its greater intention of serving women is at heart. Empower Cocktails CEO, Tiffany Hall has not only begun to fill that space in beverages, but she has also utilized the Empower Cocktails platform to partne

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

If you have a great idea for a startup but not enough funds, launching a Kickstarter campaign is a good option for procuring them. This crowdfunding website is very open with its stats , so you can see exactly how good your chances are depending on your chosen niche. Nearly 146,000 projects have already been founded by successful Kickstarter campaigns, but if you want yours to join this number, you’ll need to run it wisely.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2018

Mona List Overdrive has come true. And Pattern Recognition is on the horizon. I knew that Dominos was paving America’s roads , but I didn’t realize they were branding them. Farhad Manjoo has a good article in the NYT titled How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities. A key trope in sci-fi is that corporations will take over, well, everything.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

Businesses have two main ways to raise capital with a specialist lender: 1) Through a business loan, or 2) by refinancing the equipment they already own. Source: Pixabay. Both options are viable for a healthy business, although they cater for different circumstances. Below, we’ll take a look at the key differences between a business loan and asset refinance to help you better understand which is right for you.

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David Cohen

JUNE 28, 2018

What makes an effective Key Performance Indicator (KPI)? How do you design your metrics to help your company achieve its objectives? First off, a good KPI will actually help you make a decision. The information should clearly tell you where you’re at and give you something actionable to do. Secondly, a useful KPI will typically be a ratio —one thing divided by another.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

Entrepreneurs are often looking for ways to make an extra income, apart from their business. And while there are various side business ideas available, not all entrepreneurs have the time to commit to being writers or tutors, for example. This makes holiday rental a great side hustle for busy entrepreneurs – it’s flexible, and since the holiday rental market is booming, the extra income will probably be considerably high.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 28, 2018

[Article originally posted here by Kelsie Cox.] Warning: sarcasm. (Don’t even consider coworking, why pay when working from home is free!?) 1. You can stay in your pajamas all day long. Why would you think about what to wear, what shoes to grab, how to style your hair, plaster on makeup, or whatever else makes you look…presentable? Nobody will see you anyway!

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 28, 2018

The post The Journey of Forty Seven?—?Doing What Matters. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 28, 2018

At this time of year, a lot of businesses are starting to wonder if the sales targets and goals they have just set were realistic. We thought it would be timely to share the biggest mistakes we see businesses making when it comes to sales planning. Mistake 1: Accelerated Growth Rates. In this context, your growth rate is the percentage change in your turnover each year.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a highly prized qualification. Despite this, several prominent voices in the world of business have criticized business schools for encouraging a herd-like mentality. But is this fair? You don’t necessarily need an MBA from Harvard Business School to be a success, but there is growing evidence to suggest that it can help boost your career to the next level.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 28, 2018

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). * RFK. My favorite Bobby Kennedy book remains Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye, but as a self-diagnosed RFK junkie, this book was pretty good. Jack Newfield definitely has more inside scoop than most Bobby authors, as he was a writer that spent a great deal of time with Bobby during his last several years.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

It’s true, starting as a CFD trader is much more relaxed than some other types of trading and indeed involves a much lower capital, to begin. But, that doesn’t mean you can jump in, feet first, without any planning and start making a load of money. The key to success, with CFD trading , is all in the preparation and plans you put in place. Here are some top tips to becoming a successful CFD trader. 1.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 28, 2018

Close. There is more money lost in businesses today from inefficient processes than any other single area. Yet this is not a place where most managers feel comfortable deconstructing and rebuilding. Somewhere out there is a consultant or future employee (or even suggestions from present employees) that will provide the roadmap toward making your processes run more smoothly, more quickly and more inexpensively.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 28, 2018

We run a massive employee survey every year or so called The Loop, which is powered by Culture Amp. We are big fans of Culture Amp, as they provide not only a great survey tool but benchmarks of relevant peer companies so our results can be placed in external context as well as internal context. The survey is anonymous and only really rolled up to large employee groups (big teams, departments, offices, etc.), and we take the results very seriously.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 28, 2018

We run a massive employee survey every year or so called The Loop, which is powered by Culture Amp. We are big fans of Culture Amp, as they provide not only a great survey tool but benchmarks of relevant peer companies so our results can be placed in external context as well as internal context. The survey is anonymous and only really rolled up to large employee groups (big teams, departments, offices, etc.), and we take the results very seriously.

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