View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

How to Conduct Your Own Total Online Presence Audit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Wondering why your prospects don’t find you on Google, or why your website doesn’t generate traffic and leads like you thought it would? How about why your competitors seem to show up for coveted keywords above you in search results? These are good questions that you should have the answers to.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This post is part of theBoardlist ‘s #BeABetterBoard series of posts and interviews with leading CEOs and VCs from the tech industry. Thought leaders share what they’ve learned while serving and managing boards, what they wish they knew when they started, and what they’re focusing on now. Here are a few of my reflections. The ideal board member should have skills, knowledge, and a network that is mission-critical to the company, but that you cannot easily hire.

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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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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

When I think back to a recent dispute with a client, I realize how important it is to navigate client confrontations with a plan.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: September 12, 2017 One of the many unanticipated consequences of the Information Age is the unprecedented spike in disinformation. If we thought that the worldwide web would bring us closer to some kind of objective truth, then we were completely wrong. Instead, every day, every hour and every minute, we are bombarded by even more content that is completely false and fabricated — but it harder and harder to recognize as such.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Retail stores are closing in large numbers. Despite the fact that, according to at least one study Gen Z shows a preference for shopping in stores some of the time, at least 22 brands are closing locations in 2017. At the same time though, dollar stores are on the rise. What does this tell you? For starters, it confirms that the way consumers shop has fundamentally changed.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

These days not a single meeting with a fellow VC goes by without talking about Blockchain and how to invest in this space. We are all a bit puzzled by how quickly this market has evolved. With a combined market cap of all crypto currencies now topping $170b , crypto has become more than a third of an Amazon or a Facebook. It has 10 times the market cap of SNAP, the most prominent IPO of 2017.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Retail stores are closing in large numbers. Despite the fact that, according to at least one study Gen Z shows a preference for shopping in stores some of the time, at least 22 brands are closing locations in 2017. At the same time though, dollar stores are on the rise. What does this tell you? For starters, it confirms that the way consumers shop has fundamentally changed.

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