Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. It wasn’t always like this and frankly it took a lot of joy out of the industry for me personally. What happened? How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The end of every year is the opportunity to reflect on a 365-day journey. 2022 may have been a bad year for some; to others, it was a great one. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. Pivots were made and goals were shattered. In the last few days of 2022, we asked a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

After many years of working with angel investors seriously trying to find new ventures worthy of their hard-earned money, I find their frustration often exceeds that of entrepreneurs sincerely looking for financial help. That’s a lose-lose situation, so I’ve given a good bit of thought to how every entrepreneur can improve their odds, and keep investors less frustrated at the same time.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 11, 2022

As part of the launch of the Business as Unusual book (click on badge on left to get to the Amazon page) by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier that we helped conduct interviews and research for, we will share excerpts.

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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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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The modern age, and all of the means that have come along with that, primarily through factors like the internet, have allowed for the emergence of a greater number of successful startup companies than ever before. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sure thing if you’re behind such a venture, but it does mean that you have a much higher degree of flexibility in your approach than you would have had previously.

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What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In this post let’s look at Generative AI for beginners. Everything except this one sentence is written by the AI.

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