May, 2023

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Burning Platform: SAP Sapphire 2023 Sneak Preview

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In the 88th episode of Burning Platform, we host Clare Henry of SAP. Nice of her to take time out of a hectic week with last minute prep to provide us a curtain raiser on the Sapphire event next week.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. Often, despite your passion and expectation, customers don’t immediately see the value and need that you see, and you have no idea why the initiative is stuck , and what could be the real customer issue or fix.

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Do You Pay For These Hidden Publicity Fees?!

Rembrandt Communications

Where does your public relations budget go, anyway? You just hired a PR, or public relations, company to help you get some publicity. Things are moving forward just fine. Then, you get your big, monthly retainer bill. Yikes! Since public relations’ activities take a lot of time and effort, they can be expensive. Plus, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes research, media pitching, copywriting, and follow-up that goes on.

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The Significance Of Marketing When Opening A Medical Practice

YoungUpstarts

As businesses in the health and wellness sectors become more complex and digital technologies continue to develop, entrepreneurs in health and wellness must be prepared to adopt a digital marketing strategy. The post The Significance Of Marketing When Opening A Medical Practice appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

ReadWriteStart

The Metaverse, a virtual universe where people can interact with each other in a 3D environment, is rapidly gaining traction as an emerging market, attracting businesses, investors, and talent from all over the world. However, despite the hype surrounding the concept, Europe still faces significant challenges if it wants to establish a strong presence in the Metaverse.

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5 Keys To Personalized Team And Customer Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

The days of leadership without engagement are gone. With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership.

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The Evolution of Tech Wars: Past, Present, and Future

VC Cafe

Like many ideas, this post started with a Tweet… Until Now: – Smartphone wars (Apple won) – Console wars – (Microsoft won) – Streaming wars (still going) – App store wars (Apple won) – Bundle wars (Apple won) What's next? – LLM wars – Smart cars wars – GPU wars – Space race 2.0 What else?

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How To Choose Your E-Commerce Platform For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Selling things on social media? You need your online store hosted on a good eCommerce platform to ensure business success. The post How To Choose Your E-Commerce Platform For Your Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Reincorporating Your Non-US Startup in the U.S. through the “Delaware Flip”

Gust

Imagine that you are the founder of a Brazilian B2B SaaS startup that has landed a few enterprise clients and has some good traction. Your sights are now set on raising capital in Silicon Valley to scale your business and reach new markets. While your conversations with U.S. based investors are productive, you soon realize that they are unwilling to invest in your Brazilian startup as it is governed by laws they are not familiar with.

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The Impact of Stress on the Well-being of Startup Founders and CEOs

Feld Thoughts

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. Clearly, the emotional state of founders and entrepreneurs in any period, especially now in this economic environment, is a critical driver of success.

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“Back to the Future” at SAP Sapphire

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I skipped SAP Sapphire Celebration night at Universal Studios last week. One of the reasons was that park no longer has the Back to the Future ride. Besides, I got plenty of the juxtaposition of the past, present and future.

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5 Keys To Capitalizing On Nondisruptive Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs and aggressive business owners I meet in my consulting practice are focused on finding new disruptive solutions and killing competitors as the key to success. If you are one of these, you may be missing win-win opportunities to incrementally expand existing markets, create new ones enabled by new technologies, or do good for society in this new age.

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Scaling Smarter: How Payroll Platforms Benefit Startups

The Startup Magazine

Starting a new business can be an exciting journey where you’re bound to experience your fair share of ups and downs along the way. In this regard, one of the necessary evils startups have to deal with is finances, especially when it comes to managing payroll. The issue is, how can you even think about scaling your business when such a bottleneck is staring you right in the eyes, with each mistake having costly ramifications to boot?

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Young Employees Want Leaders Who Care About Them. But What Does That Really Mean?

YoungUpstarts

We all know today’s talent wants great relationships with their leaders. Gary Harpst says there’s no way to fake it: We must genuinely love our employees — and that can be shockingly difficult. The post Young Employees Want Leaders Who Care About Them. But What Does That Really Mean? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Unveiling Possibilities: Learnings from TED 2023 in Vancouver

VC Cafe

I got back from the picturesque city of Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, after attending TED 2023 (the main conference) for the second time. Apart from being one of the best events from a production point of view (lots of attention to detail from communication to infrastructure and design) it was an opportunity to learn, network and get inspired. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Possibility’ and there was a significant focus on AI and generative AI, and the possibilitie

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Hello May, Hello Journal Postings!

Brandanew

For the last 9 years, Brandanew’s audience has had tons of content coming from this blog, as well as newsletters, and social media content from various channels. Today we are officially moving to the Peerbagh Journal as an official partner for weekly newsletters. The Journal covers topics like storytelling, creative confidence, and inclusive stories.

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Burning Platform: a pivot point for Enterprise Software

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In the 90th episode of Burning Platform, we host Bob Evans, founder of Cloud Wars and co-founder of Acceleration Economy We discuss the state of enterprise software in the middle of 2023 with the end of the COVID pandemic and.

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7 Likely Criticisms Every Founder Needs To Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their dreams, aspirations, or intentions – they are remembered because they achieved results.

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Female Founder and Author Interview: Minué Yoshida

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. The Academy hosts a series of experiential workshops for participants to know themselves, find and amplify their voices, and learn to deliver your unique message in an impactful, assertive, relevant and memorable way in

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Advancing Your Career In Education

YoungUpstarts

Whether you want to advance your career in teaching or move into administration, an online master's degree can provide the skills and experience needed. The post Advancing Your Career In Education appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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19 Years Ago Today

Feld Thoughts

I got an email from Matt Blumberg this morning with the above image that said, “We have been blogging for 19 years. I can remember sitting together above Super Liquor futzing with Typepad like it was yesterday.” “Super Liquor” is Superior Liquor in Superior, Colorado, which was on the first floor of the building off of Hwy 36, which was my office at the time.

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Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

VC Cafe

“The old capitalism was about making money. The new capitalism is about making a difference.” Sir Ronald Cohen, Impact Sir Ronald Cohen is considered by many to be the father of Impact investing. He was born in 1946 to a working class immigrant family in London and attended a State school. After graduating from University, he joined McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm.

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Burning Platform: Zoho – humble beginnings, ambitious future

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In the 89th episode of Burning Platform, we host Tony Thomas, one of the co-founders of Zoho. On this blog we have covered many aspects of Zoho – its unique culture, its vertical integration, its business model, its commitment to.

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7 Keys To Making You A Team Leader And Future Manager

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is that managing and leading a team is a scary venture into the unknown for many people, even if they have worked as a business professional for years. Having worked in my own career on both sides of the fence at various times, I recommend that everyone practice thinking like the boss in every role to prepare.

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Uncovering Trends and Insights to Craft Compelling Messaging

The Startup Magazine

Are you leveraging data to uncover trends and insights that can be used to craft compelling messaging? Data-driven marketing is about staying on top of consumer needs, behaviors, and expectations to deliver messages that resonate with your audience. You need access to reliable data sources and the right tools to identify current industry trends and create dynamic content that speaks directly to your customer’s interests.

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“Women, We Are Our Own Best Resource”: Deb Boelkes

YoungUpstarts

A significant number of young women aspire to reach the upper levels of leadership. As this year’s graduates embark on their careers, entrepreneur and author Deb Boelkes shares eight valuable pieces of advice to help them achieve their goals. The post “Women, We Are Our Own Best Resource”: Deb Boelkes appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Book: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Feld Thoughts

John McPhee’s Levels of the Game was published when I was three. I’ve read many books about tennis, but it’s still my favorite, with String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis coming in a close second. Both books share extraordinary writers and a topic I can relate to, given my short but profane junior tennis career. I’ve become annoyed by the writing that ChatGPT produces.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

There are a ton of different ways to promote your app or software. You can run ads, post on social media, or even go old-school and hand out flyers. But one of the most effective (and affordable) ways to promote your app is through online directories and review sites. Not only do these sites help you reach a wider audience, but they help people find your app more easily.

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Building on the Salesforce Stakeholder Impact Report template

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It’s the time of the year for annual reports and shareholder meetings. I recently watched Warren Buffett preside over the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. Berkshire owns over 60 companies and has major shares in hundreds of others. 30,000 attended.

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6 Keys to Superior Thinking in Business Innovations

Startup Professionals Musings

As I work with aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear about stress and disappointment from a great idea or innovation that failed for reasons that you don’t understand. When I dig deeper, I find that many of you are easily excited by a great new idea, but fail to diligently follow a validation process to test the limits of your thinking, before proceeding to rollout.

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How Businesses Can Make Money Using Old Equipment

The Startup Magazine

As businesses grow and evolve, old equipment often gets left behind. It can be difficult to know what to do with outdated machinery, but there are ways to make money from it. Here are five strategies businesses can use to turn old equipment into profit. Sell It One of the easiest ways to make money from old equipment is to sell it. While it may no longer serve your business’s needs, it could be exactly what another company is looking for.

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Five Tips To Know Before Launching Your Tech Startup

YoungUpstarts

Starting a tech company is not for the faint of heart. Be prepared to spend a good 2 to 3 years of your life with very little pay and possibly no return at all. The post Five Tips To Know Before Launching Your Tech Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Benchmarking LLMs performance

VC Cafe

The battle between the various large language models (LLMs) is heating up. I previously wrote about the big tech titans battling the area of AI supremacy , mainly Google vs. Microsoft (via OpenAI) and also the past, present and future of tech wars. The market share of chatbots, and LLMs (that will later on be sold to enterprises) will be heavily influenced by user perception.

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6 Key Components Of A Business Plan Executive Summary

Gust

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. This one had better grab their attention, or they won’t look further. The post 6 Key Components Of A Business Plan Executive Summary appeared first on Gust.

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Business as Unusual – Conversation with Peter Maier at Sapphire Orlando

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At SAP’s Sapphire event in Orlando this week, ASUG kindly invited Peter Maier and me to present themes from the Business as Unusual book at their Hub on the show floor. We covered how the book came about, discussed some.