View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Here are some of the industry-wide mega shifts I’ve overheard as central points of water cooler discussion: the ever-increasing check size for seed rounds, the ever-changing “hottest” vertical that folks are jumping at the bit to invest in, the mere existence of platform as an arm within venture, the absolutely manic market, crypt

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Federico Omani shares a few tips and best practices to driving your organization’s transition to a remote-first workforce, and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction alongside business success. The post Remote Workforce: A Guide To Managing Your Employees appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Here are some of the industry-wide mega shifts I’ve overheard as central points of water cooler discussion: the ever-increasing check size for seed rounds, the ever-changing “hottest” vertical that folks are jumping at the bit to invest in, the mere existence of platform as an arm within venture, the absolutely manic market, crypt

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Eric Strafel shares 3 factors for small businesses need to look at to establish processes to manage employee performance, provide feedback, and develop their teams. The post Building An Empowered Workforce appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Taxfyle is an innovative consumer, small business and enterprise SaaS accounting-tech company. Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. While working at PwC, he obtained his Master of Accounting and was inspired to start Taxfyle, having witnessed firsthand and learned about the systemic ineff

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The post SumUp Buys Fivestars for $317 Million to Target U.S. Merchants appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Voice-of-customer (VoC) research, user research, competitor research, and insights on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) can inform your marketing strategy. . Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off. Brand tracking provides both qualitative and quantitative answers to crucial questions: How do your customers perceive your brand?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Most innovation occurs when creative people are relaxed and thinking about other things. Coffee, wine, quiet time, showers…. How it occurs in large companies…. We all can picture the corporate R&D lab with tens of scientists working at white boards, or over computer models, or with prototypes.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As I stared at a dugout of dispirited 14 year old boys Saturday afternoon in our tournament championship game, I found myself talking to my fellow coach Mitch about a book I’d read a few years ago (turns out 14) called Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End , written by HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kantor. While that original blog post is pretty specific to something that was going on at that point in time in my prior company, the thinking in the book about moment

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s a lot that contributes to business success. One of the often-overlooked elements is the working space where you and your employees are working. If that’s been set up for success, then it’ll be much easier to achieve your goal; if it’s not, then you’ll face an uphill battle. After all, the working environment has a direct impact on productivity , and productivity impacts profitability.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Empowering Women To Write Their Own Story written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jess Ekstrom. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jess Ekstrom. Jess is on a mission to help women tell and sell stories through writing and speaking. She’s also the creator of an organization called Headbands of Hope.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There are bad leaders, there are good leaders, and there are great leaders. What separates the great ones from the rest? A whole host of leadership skills are necessary, but there’s one thing that perhaps defines the great leaders ahead of the good ones. Yes, as you can see from the title, we’re talking about their ability to manage relationships.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Building a successful investment franchise over the past few decades required finding a distribution advantage as products have been mostly undifferentiated. The largest and most successful US franchises — Blackrock (founded 1988), Vanguard (founded 1975), and Fidelity (founded 1946) — are now managing close to $20 trillion in assets. . While traditional finance offers few options for product differentiation, decentralized finance (DeFI) is the opposite.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A few years from now, every country will have a very different, national internet. Yes, we’ll still have access to many global platforms, but very soon using the web in different parts of the world will be more like visiting a foreign country was in the 1970’s. A nuanced and culturally different experience. In the long arc of history, national and regional policies move like tides, across generations.

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