Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Organizational Design and Modern War.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneur, even if you are a corporate employee. According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and over 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2020

by Rod Robertson, Managing Partner of Briggs Capital and author of “ Winning at Entrepreneurship: Insiders’ Tips on Buying, Building, and Selling Your Own Business “ While news of vaccines on the horizon signal hope, some analysts think a sizable chunk of the U.S. economy has been damaged permanently by COVID-19, with more layoffs and business closures still to come in 2021.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Collaboration is vital for the success of a startup. Through collaboration, teams will come up with more original, creative, and fleshed-out ideas than if they were working individually. Teams can rebalance workloads to make sure no team member is overworked or underutilized. They can also build camaraderie and morale, which may lead to greater productivity all around.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We just held our sixteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Acquisition and Sustainment and Modern War.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. StockTrim came out successful – oversubscribed, in fact. The fund raise required three in-person pitches, seven Zoom pitches and 30 Zoom calls before closing successfully in August.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The pandemic caught the entire world by surprise. During the first few months of the crisis, boards scrambled to make decisions about whether they should continue meeting in person, set up virtual meetings, or delay board meetings temporarily. As the months went on, and the virus continued to spread, it soon became clear that there was no way to know when it would be safe to meet in person again.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Every new year brings with it a new form of excitement and anticipation. The reason is that every new year brings about a “newness” for lack of a better term when we are able to start fresh and erase those things that we did bad or things we have been thinking about doing. For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. So that’s why we are excited about 2021 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Electronic prescribing is completely revolutionizing the way in which hospitals and clinics deliver healthcare today. It is also playing a remarkable role in the nation’s attempts to augment the quality and safety of the prescribing process. A recent study conducted by the Everett Clinic in partnership with the University of Washington’s School of Pharmacy found that e-prescriptions improved patient safety by minimizing potential medication errors which, in turn, lead to adverse drug reactions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Restaurateurs have experienced a tough year, what with lockdowns ongoing and new restrictions to adhere to. Now more than ever, it’s important to improve your restaurant management, to stay afloat, and boost success. To support your restaurant management in 2021 and beyond, take a look at these software options and tips. Restaurant management software. 1.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Running your own small business can be a truly rewarding experience, but changing with the times in an essential step that you must take to ensure you can secure long term success. Modernizing your small business is so key when attempting to maintain healthy profit levels, and it needn’t be as difficult as you might think to get started today! So, if you would like to find out more, then read on to uncover some of the best tips and tricks that you can utilize now to update and upgrade your small

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most entrepreneurs are so overwhelmed by the day-to-day challenges of their business that they rarely take the time to work on longer-term strategy (they work in the business versus on the business). As a result, strategy decisions are made in the same ad-hoc crises style as operational decisions, and the business suffers. Gut reactions are rarely the optimal solution to any problem.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. This essay is based on a Greymatter podcast episode, which you can listen to here. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB. Ironically, I missed my first opportunity to invest in Airbnb.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Humans have been investing in silver for decades, with the precious metal serving as a valuable alternative to traditional stock trading. Like gold, silver is a safe haven asset. During 2020, as more alternative investment options open up, many are wondering if silver is still a safe investment. In this article, we’re going to answer just that.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This winter is an excellent time to review the SEO of your online business and optimise it for success. SEO is often changing, and the search engine crawlers are continually mining the Internet for quality and relevance; this means you have to be on your toes when it comes to your SEO and make sure you have all the pieces in place. What to look out for is listed below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and having graduated from a big company myself, I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I typically suggest that the grass always looks greener on the other side, and the move from employee to entrepreneur is very risky and not for everyone.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer and Managing Partner at Sapient Insights Group presented highlights.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Do you own a relatively new business that has been struggling to stay afloat in the hostile year that 2020 was? Maybe you managed to do okay overall, but not as well as you had originally hoped and forecasted. It’s only natural to have big goals and milestones for the upcoming year, but without some changes to the business itself, the odds of success and reaching those goals are limited.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Most founders know the value of publicity, but earning press can be a massive headache. The media world is notoriously difficult to navigate from the outside, and working with PR agencies can be even more of a black box. When I joined NextView Ventures as an investor after building my career as a journalist, I knew that helping founders more effectively engage with reporters would be among my top priorities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

With all the uncertainty in the world today, its hard for any business owner or entrepreneur to stay positive. Based on my experience and a business advisor and mentor, this is the ideal time to get back to the basics of business leadership and innovation. There is no magic formula, but I’m certain one of the keys is to build and maintain a positive team culture, despite all the unknowns.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. During the pandemic, a lot of attention has gone to the CHRO and the.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2020

by Kathryn and Michael K. Redman, co-authors of “ Fulfilled: The Passion & Provision Strategy for Building a Business with Profit, Purpose & Legacy “ Isn’t it amazing that in the middle of chaos and confusion and frustration that entrepreneurs somehow see opportunity? What is it about us that looks at the impossible and thinks, “Well, maybe…”.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Earlier this year, I published a post that was very bullish on an emerging electricity grid powered primarily by distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, wind, and batteries. The crux of the piece was simple: decades of compounding 10-20% cost reductions present us with a world where it’s now cheaper to build new DERs than it is to operate existing coal or natural gas plants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. They forget that top performance is a two-way street, requiring comparable initiative and responsiveness on the part of the leader, as well as contribution from each team member.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 6, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I have had two Workday Ventures portfolio companies present as part of this series.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2020

by Ines-Ruiz Navarro. Let’s face it: Being a teacher right now carries a lot of stress these days. There’s still much uncertainty about the health risks of teaching in the classroom, and it makes sense that some teachers are thinking about a career change in the not-too-distant future. For years, teachers’ roles have been undervalued, and now COVID-19 has made being a teacher even more overwhelming as we try to navigate this pandemic and still teach our students.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Amy and I just finished allocating our 2020 year-end charitable contributions from our Anchor Point Foundation. Given our charitable contributions around Covid and Racial Equity throughout the year, we were extremely overallocated going into our end-of-year gift cycle. This morning I got a note from a Jenny Thompson who said: I’m writing today because I only just learned that cash donations are 100% deductible this year as part of CARES.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. “We recently announced that Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood Shores, California to Austin, Texas,” according to a statement from the company. “We believe these moves best position Oracle for growth and […].

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deal architect

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Podcasting is a great way to send your message, connect with people, and expand your personal brand. As long as you’re passionate about your advocacy and the message you share, you can really make a difference in someone’s life. If you’ve been in the podcasting world for years, you’re doing what you love. Did you know that you can make a living out of it?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Landscaping involves changing the land’s terrain and adding plants such as trees, flowers, or shrubs to make it more beautiful and attractive. The process helps to preserve natural resources such as water. Both residential and commercial landscaping is beneficial not only to homes but also businesses by: Source: Pixabay. Helps with Environmental Conservation.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April of this year I wrote “ Are financings and M&A slowing down during the pandemic? ” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. Remember, the graphs show when the activity starts (comes across our virtual “desk” at Techstars for the first time).

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deal architect

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series - see index here For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Last week Rob Kugel of Ventana joined us.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2020

by Dr. Jason Selk, author of “ Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance “ Are you the type of person who does 99 things right in a day and one thing less than perfectly, only to focus on that one shortcoming? Does your mind often go to what could potentially go wrong, rather that all that is going right ?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In a world overly-saturated with mass-produced products, people are becoming more and more appreciative of the novel and the distinct. Thus, foundry work is once again amassing an increasingly growing audience. . From [link] , here’s why bronze casting is not only an excellent investment but a unique form of art you can use to create a business as an artist and to treasure personally for ages to come. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A good logo must reflect your brand, and be memorable, unique, and timeless. Discover the 7 biggest and hottest logo design trends of 2021.

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