Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Sometimes I like to drop the comment socially that “I knew Bill Gates back when he was a regular guy.” I know that dates me a good bit, but it also shows that I have been hanging around startups for a long time. The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC.
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Disclaimer: I’ve never been hired by a venture firm. Ok, now that’s out of the way, here’s the advice I give folks who have 2–3 years of work experience and are looking to get an entry-level role at a venture firm (typically called an Analyst or Associate). “Hi, thanks for reaching out. Since I need to prioritize my family and my fund, I might not have time to jump on a call to answer your questions about breaking into venture.
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YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2020
If you're ready to cruise past startup burnout, checkout these five tips to increase the productivity of your startup.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Slingshot Aerospace announced last week that it has raised $8 million in funding. ATX Venture Partners led the Series A round. To date, Slingshot Aerospace has raised $17.1 million. Other investors in the round include Revolution’s Rise of the RestSeed Fund, Techstars Ventures, and Okapi Venture Capital and several angel investors. “Slingshot Aerospace is providing government and […].
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
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 31, 2020
$14 billion. That’s how much money was spent across federal and congressional races in 2020 and that’s not even counting local elections. Is it any wonder people are saying they’re tired of politics? Just today, I turned on the radio in the car and heard an add bashing a local politician that I know well. It was full of gloom and doom about New York City—a vision of crime and despair that just doesn’t reflect what’s actually happening here on the ground.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Procore Technologies increased its footprint in Austin last week with its acquisition of Esticom, an Austin-based estimating software company. Procore, which has more than 500 employees in Austin, makes construction management software. Its acquisition of Esticom will allow the company to add estimating to its Procore platform, which general contractors and specialty contractors use to […].
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