Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 31, 2019
Every business professional needs to stay cool under pressure, to be a top performer, and for the sake of their own health. Yet everyone has a melting point – a critical threshold where pressure causes them to respond irrationally. Many people believe their threshold is permanently set by family genetics, or cultural influences, but I believe anyone can train themselves to stay cool.
View from Seed
MAY 31, 2019
As you might suspect, we talk a lot about entrepreneurs around the NextView offices, which bring us to this week’s installment of our Friday Fun-ism series. Our investment team here frequently actively discusses what qualities make a founder a top.01% of all entrepreneurs with the potential to start a uniquely transformative company. Do they have have a superpower that perfectly aligns with getting the venture off of the ground?
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2019
There will come a time where your business will need to operate on more than just a gut feeling and some industry experience. User testing goes beyond just reason, it takes a deeper look at the motivations of users to create something that resonates with their wants and needs. User testing will help you sneak up on an idea, although it’s advantageous to set out with some parameters in place before you start your research and testing.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 31, 2019
I was at a board meeting last week that introduced something new into the mix that I thought was brilliant. At the beginning of each section of the board meeting, there was one slide that was titled: “What Are We Trying To Get Out of This Section.” Before we started into a section, whoever was leading it walked everybody in the room specifically through what she was expecting to get out of the section.
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
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2019
by Norm Laviolette, author of “ The Art of Making Sh!t Up: Using the Principles of Improv to Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse “ Coming up with dazzling and novel ideas isn’t an innate ability, but can be a learned skill that you and your team develop. It’s actually possible to train your mental radar to repeatedly sweep back and forth in search of those blips of inspiration that have a possibility of turning into something exciting and concrete.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 31, 2019
Whether you’re trying to release your first short film, need a corporate video, or a few explainer videos, finding the right company for your project is key if you want your vision to come to life and get the results you need. However, if you think you’ll be able to find a great company by running a Google search, you’ll soon realize that there are thousands and thousands of companies offering the same service.
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Board Effect
MAY 31, 2019
This is not a drill – your CEO is leaving. Whether it’s tomorrow, next month, next year or in five years, the executive leader WILL leave your organization. The questions, therefore, are not whether and when this leadership change will occur, but rather, are you ready and what will it mean for your organization? Among the eight nonprofit organizations I know that faced executive transitions in the past six months, only one had a succession plan.
Austin Startup
MAY 31, 2019
Sometimes you just need a private meeting space in Austin. Like when you’re gathering a big group of people. Or when you’re discussing confidential items that you don’t want the rest of the coffee shop to hear. Or when you’re meeting with a dreamy potential investor and want to make a professional first impression. Luckily Austin is home to dozens of high-quality meeting spaces where you can hold your next event.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill
Austin Startup
MAY 31, 2019
How Parade Media used AdInMo to get their TV products in front of elusive audiences. The Problem Like most media companies, independent TV distributor Parade Media relies on a multi-channel distribution strategy to engage those audiences that just don’t watch traditional linear TV anymore. The popularization of on-demand TV has isolated a whole consumer segment of ‘cord-cutters’ and ‘cord-nevers’ from advertising by siloing them within subscription services.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2019
by Steve Moskowitz, founding partner of Moskowitz LLP. If the 2018 tax season left you reeling, you are not alone. Taxpayers and professionals are still working to make sense of the sweeping changes brought about by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The TCJA implemented the broadest reforms in decades, leaving many Americans wondering how to adjust.
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