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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

For the last several years, the early stage investing market was driven largely by the F ear O f M issing O ut, AKA FOMO. This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as employees early in their careers) have gone virtual. Pre-pandemic these coffees were usually about what startup to join or how to find product/market fit. Though in the last month, even through Zoom I could sense they were struggling with a much weightier problem.

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Resilience and leadership during crisis: A conversation with Alex Shootman, CEO of Workfront

deal architect

Alex Shootman, CEO of Workfront is one of my favorite tech execs because he is always positive - and that in an authentic way. I had enjoyed his book, Done Right (my review here) because he had so many examples.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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What Do I Do If My Business Runs Out Of Cash?

YoungUpstarts

by LJ Suzuki of CFOshare. First, take a deep breath. Exhale. Do it again. Count 6 things in the room around you: computer, a glass of water, my bookkeeper looking panicked…. Once you have achieved a calm headspace, take a survey of your cash position: How much cash is left? Is it enough to cover payroll? If no…. When is the next payroll due? If you answered “no” to #2, you need to scramble to get cash in time for #3.

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How to Choose the Best Project Management Software for Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Many fail to understand the importance of project management in meeting key business goals. After all, even those who work on a given project may not see the complexity of tasks involved in the broader effort. Managing employees, time and budget are the primary concerns, but among that, keeping track of every little detail is a concern for project managers.

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The novel coronavirus could accelerate digital healthcare

Version One Ventures

It’s been over five years since my friend Jonathan Libov and I wrote a blog series on digital healthcare. I revisit these posts every so often – most recently, when I wrote the 2020 edition of our areas of interest in healthcare. Each time I go back, I’m reminded that despite so much development in digital healthcare technology and infrastructure, we have yet to see mainstream scale. .

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5 Tips To Help You Lead And Experiment During COVID-19 

YoungUpstarts

by Melanie Parish, MCC, author of “ The Experimental Leader: Be a New Kind of Boss to Cultivate an Organization of Innovators “. These are crazy times we are living in. As a leader, during COVID -9 (or any crisis) it can be hard to find your feet and to feel confident in your path. You may feel inadequate, unsure and out of your depth. That is to be expected.

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How The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Helps Business

The Startup Magazine

Ever heard of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)? Perhaps not. American Psychological Association (APA)? Definitely! Well, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology is the 14th division of APA. It is a professional organization that seeks to promote the teaching and practice of the science of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology.

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Top Java Engineers Attracted by DHL ESS, the first and only DHL Freight R&D team based in Sofia, Bulgaria

Transformify

Most people associate DHL with logistics, and few are aware of the fact that DHL ESS team develops Enterprise Software Solutions. What is even more interesting is that DHL Freight opted to base its first and only R&D team in Sofia, Bulgaria. " DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technolo

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Driving Innovation with Business Testing

Duct Tape Marketing

Driving Innovation with Business Testing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Alex Osterwalder. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast I visit with business theorist, author, and speaker Alex Osterwalder. Every business wants to be innovative, but smart innovative ideas can’t be pulled out of the ether.

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Why Every Small Business Needs An Automated Invoice Data Processing System

YoungUpstarts

It’s not too difficult for small businesses to manually process invoice data. Accountants have been manually capturing and entering accounting details into paper ledgers for decades. The thought of automating this process sounds more like a luxury than a necessity, but here’s why even the smallest business will benefit from automating this process. 1.

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6 Habits to Become a More Empathetic Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a business and entrepreneur advisor over many years, I’m convinced that the days of the “ command and control ” business leader are gone. Your employees have higher expectations of you than just defining their job – they want inspiration, motivation, and purpose. They respond with trust and commitment if they sense empathy for their needs and feelings.

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Top Java Engineers Attracted by DHL ESS, the first and only DHL Freight R&D team based in Sofia, Bulgaria

Transformify

Most people associate DHL with logistics, and few are aware of the fact that DHL ESS team develops Enterprise Software Solutions. What is even more interesting is that DHL Freight opted to base its first and only R&D team in Sofia, Bulgaria. " DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technolo

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Use Reinvention in Your Business to Thrive

Duct Tape Marketing

Use Reinvention in Your Business to Thrive written by Jenna Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Alex Kantrowitz. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News and author Alex Kantrowitz. Alex’s first book “Always Day One” dives deep into tech titans’ ability to continue to invent like a startup.

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User Acceptance Testing 101 For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

User Acceptance Testing, or UAT, is performed by a client or end-user to verify a software system. Once this phase of testing is complete, the software application is moved to the production environment for final testing (which includes testing the system for integration and function). UAT is important to validate the complete business flow. The focus of UAT testing is not testing the system, looking for spelling errors or identifying cosmetic issues.

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6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Many are just not facing the reality that their passion had a critical business flaw. As I was contemplating a classic book “ Dead Companies Walking ,” by Scott Fearon, who runs a hedge fund that profits from businesses headed toward b

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First COVID-19, and now WeWork is giving hard time to Indian startups

Our Own Start-up

COVID-19 pandemic have shaken up the global economy and young Indian startups is no exception. They are going through very hard time right now. Several young Indian startups are now facing a death knell due to contractual technicalities and indifference from co-working major WeWork.

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Setting Yourself Up for Success: Building a Business Before Having Kids

Women Entrepreneurs Can

We’ve all heard the difficulties of balancing career and kids as a woman, and the media constantly likes to remind us that we can’t ‘have it all.’ But while it’s not easy, it’s not impossible so don’t be deterred or let anyone tell you that it is. If you’re in the fortunate position of being earlier on in your life/career and wanting to plan for the future, setting up a business venture that will allow you to easily earn money once you start a family can be an excellent move.

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Three Steps To Ensure Productivity In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs around the world needs to be on constant focus all the time, when driving their businesses to growth. This require huge amounts of self-discipline, a great deal of work-moral and last but not least high levels of productivity. Especially the last three of these key factors are amongst those who can influence a lot, and this article we delve into the phenomenom of productivity.

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What Does It Take To Apply For an EIDL Grant Due to COVID-19

The Startup Magazine

COVID-19 continues to become a global disaster, and various things across the world are affected due to this disease. If you are an entrepreneur, you have already noticed a vast difference starting with the customer turn out. However, it is no doubt that most states across the globe are taking actions to ease the burden on taxpayers. Various programs are in place to help most businesses during this period of time.

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Sachin Bansal, Flipkart Co-founder appointed as Managing Director of Venture Navi Technologies

Our Own Start-up

Sachin Bansal has made several investments into companies and start-ups such as Altico Capital, U Gro Capital, IndoStar Capital, Vogo, Bounce, KrazyBee, Ola, Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and completed a degree in Computer Engineering in 2005. After graduation, Bansal worked at Techspan for a few months and later in 2006 he joined Amazon Web Services as a Senior Software Engineer.

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SEO Spring Cleaning

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There is no doubt that we are living in uncertain times. Our daily lives have been disrupted beyond belief and many people are finding themselves with more time on their hands. Every cloud has a silver lining (let’s be positive!) and there is no better time to roll the digital sleeves up and engage with some spring cleaning of your website. Everyone is online and search engine optimization(SEO) is as important as ever to ensure that your website is found by those looking for your products / serv

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The Importance Of Embracing Sweaty-Palmed Conversations

YoungUpstarts

by Mike Robbins , author of “ We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging “ A mentor of mine said something to me years ago that I think about and reference often. “Mike, you know what stands between you and the kind of relationships you really want to have with people? It’s probably a 10-minute, sweaty-palmed conversation you’re too afraid to have.

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15 Ideas for Businesses to Start in a Crisis

Up and Running

If you’ve been laid off during the current health and financial crisis or you’re just looking for a way to make extra income from home, there are still plenty of business opportunities. While some parts of the economy have ground to a halt, many sectors are still growing. In particular, delivery services, e-commerce, home fitness, collaboration tools, and remote workforces have seen a surge in growth. .

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Leadership is Pulling Together, Not Tearing Apart

Feld Thoughts

Our Colorado governor, Jared Polis, displayed an amazing act of leadership in his response to what I consider a question posed in an extreme and divisive way yesterday. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis gets choked up when he's asked about people who have compared COVID-19 stay-home orders to Nazism. Polis is Colorado's first Jewish governor. pic.twitter.com/noJqbqVObZ — Next with Kyle Clark (@nexton9news) April 15, 2020.

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The future of events in a social distancing era

VC Cafe

The conference and event circuit took a big hit on account of the pandemic. Even as governments discuss their ‘exit strategy’–meaning slowly relaxing quarantine measures over the course of weeks or months–it’s hard to imagine conferences going back to normal in the near future. It’s in this setting that we’ve seen events emblematic of physical space and mixing, like Burning Man, go completely online.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Social Media is a funny place. We’re all used to seeing countless celebrities flaunting themselves in Instagram stories, or the endless stream of “lifestyle bloggers” writing about how to decorate your house for fall, and what nail polish goes with auburn hair highlights. There is a new breed of blogger (and vlogger!) making waves across the platforms; the medical professionals.

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6 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make During the Nascent Stage of Their Startups

ReadWriteStart

The year 2020 marked the end of a fantastic decade. A decade where we all witnessed the emergence of new businesses that changed how we humans functioned. Be it related to how we worked, how we traveled, or how we bought our daily amenities, everything became interconnected and much more efficient. And all of these were made possible by some brilliant entrepreneurs across the globe.

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Digital Sabbath in the Time of Covid

Feld Thoughts

I usually do a digital sabbath from Friday sundown to Sunday morning. No email. No meetings (except urgent ones). I used to do no phone, but the text dynamic to coordinate getting together has made that difficult (even in the world of Covid) so I check the lock screen on my phone a few times a day and deal with anything important. Until yesterday, I hadn’t had a digital sabbath since 3/14.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

Pragli is a virtual office for remote teams that facilitates faster communication and increased closeness between teammates. Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. I happened to see Jeff’s tweet on my timeline and thought to myself: “I have no idea what this company does yet, but I like how they think.

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How To Hold Onto Your Customers In A Crisis

YoungUpstarts

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave “ Subscription-based businesses seem to be the most resilient during this time of crisis. With predictable recurring revenue, they have greater flexibility to withstand the storm. But there’s more to it than just revenue.

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Tips on How to Pick a Legit Quality Moving Company

The Startup Magazine

Over the previous decade, there has been an ascent in the number of complaints against moving organizations. You should find movers with good qualities. A moving company should move your possessions starting with one area then onto the next in mint condition. Yet, discreditable companies adopt you if you don’t know about the regular tricks occurring today.

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My Mother’s Prom – 1959

Feld Thoughts

It’s another Monday in the time of Covid. Recently my family had an email exchange about prom and it reminded me of the following scene from Contagion. This morning, my mom ( the artist ) reminded me about her email and suggested I start the week off with something joyful. So, I thought I’d write about her prom with pictures from 1959. Her email is in italics below.

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The Rested Entrepreneur: Your 8-Step Field Guide to 40 Winks

YFS Magazine

In this period of social distancing on shuttered businesses, entrepreneurs have even more stress than usual, making for a lot of sleepless nights.

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Tips For Starting Up As Self-Employed

YoungUpstarts

Are you standing on the edge of the cliff – nervous and excited – but ready to jump into the deep, blue ocean? You might feel this way, when your about to start up your own company. It’s new, it’s frightening, and it’s awesome. Being self-employed basically means being your own boss and being financial independent. In other words, you don’t have an employer to watch over you and you alone decides when to work, how much to work and therefore also the amount on your paycheck.

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