NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We help co-lead the execution of Startup Aotearoa, a one-to-one program for first-time entrepreneurs to get coaching and advice from a startup advisor or mentor as they navigate the first time they’ve gone through the journey. For us, it was not a good use of money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. This is a classic mistake many entrepreneurs make so I’d like to offer some constructive advice on how the savvy hand would be played. Why You Should Pre-Meet Board Members.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Professional advice in this area is highly advised. Some executives think they can mix business with pleasure, with inter-office relationships. Lastly, make good use of your Board Members. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. And most of us start with zero training. It seems like good advice to me. I like that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. In a TechCrunch+ guest post, he shared three fundamental pieces of advice for new founders. Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup. Raising a Series A in a market of mixed messages. Stay tuned!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. In turn, companies across the board missed out on the balance brought by investors’ complementary breadth of guidance. Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When you communicate with each other openly and honestly, people respect that and get on board with your mission. What is your advice for entrepreneurs to achieve such longevity? My advice for longevity is to always stay tuned to your values. It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

An injury or an illness can cause someone to use the internet differently on a temporary basis. Despite this, the relative universal appeal of accessibility as a principle does not mean that it will be as easy as explaining the need and getting people on board to make major organizational changes. You have the why.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. In part this is about hiring people from a mix of backgrounds but also about how it approaches management and how it endorses those with whom it works. ’ was the advice we got.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

” AI in healthcare, historically, has been met with mixed success. The dietary advice use case gave me pause, I must say, in light of the poor diet-related suggestions AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT provides. Hippocratic would only say that it’ll use “de-identified” data for the model training.)

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Dave’s comment: This week we welcome our perennial favorite contributor, Kim Shepherd, CEO of Decision Toolbox, to offer us her sage advice on a subject where she is expert. Outgoing, full of creative ideas, and certainly the best person to teach us how, here is Kim on networking… By Kim Shepherd .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Effectively, all consumer-focused products with a trial using this model (such as ​Headspace​ , ​Peleton​ , ​Spotify​ , etc.) If you’re building a consumer product right now, don’t overthink this; just use a credit card trial upfront. The best advice to early-stage companies is to default to being generous here.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 3, 2019

If you’re responsible for finding and hiring people to grow your team or your business, your thoughts have probably wandered towards recruiting on social media, especially when the job boards aren’t producing the right needles from the haystack. Basically, all of the things that make us human! Social media is all pervasive.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Part of the Network Detection and Response (NDR) market, ExtraHop’s security solutions are for companies that manage assets in the cloud and on-site, “something that could be useful as more companies find themselves in that in-between state,” report Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm. Have a great week, and thanks for reading!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Any advice on how you either kept your confidence through that time or recalibrated? Global Payments have really been rifle shot in terms of distribution before I came on board as CEO. And I’m really happy that in hindsight it worked out. And to your point, you were early and you took a lot of grief. and have it all be seamless.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 14, 2010

&# And I always try to put that into the mix when I’m looking at how they think about the opportunity at hand. Having raised too much money at my first company only to be buried under huge liquidation preferences and a huge board with divergent interests I have a bias for smaller funding rounds and capital efficiency.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Email can be a valuable distribution channel for B2B announcements in the same way as posting on job boards or Linkedin. . This is a great way to show continued value to your board, shareholders, and employees, especially if you send an email to your entire internal list. Little known uses for your product or service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Henry Shapiro is the co-founder of Reclaim.ai, an intelligent calendar assistant platform used daily by over 14,000 companies. Most of those voices — especially those from venture capital or other startups — tend to give you a singular piece of advice when it comes to fundraising: Basically, raise as much as you can as fast as you can.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix. The corollary to this, of course, is having the intelligence to distinguish good advice from bad, and having the strength to push back if it’s inconsistent with the vision, conditions or values of the business. I killed it, everyone did. Rather, get a great executive coach.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? Tomasz Tunguz: Oh, interesting. Mine, I edit constantly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

His initial advice? ” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. .” Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

This way of growing users, by getting third-party brokers to use Wefox to advise their own customers, is how CEO and founder Julian Teicke reckons helped the company double its revenues to $320 million last year. “Our model enables Wefox to drive a superior financial profile which puts us on a clear path to profitability.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

If you've been wanting to learn a new skill or even strengthen existing ones, here are the seven tried-and-trued strategies I used to boost my expertise—and how you can, too. Now that we're on the same page, let's dive into the seven strategies you can use to learn a new skill or enhance the ones you already have.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Platforms that are transforming how people and businesses operate, go about their business or leverage their core assets, using superior products, data and AI. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we overestimated how quickly people would come on board and underestimated our industry’s tendency to move slowly and resist change. As it turns out, trying to change an industry using 100-year-old technology is a bit like turning the Titanic around. It didn’t take long for a pattern to emerge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. Walter Thompson.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? Kelli Dragovich: And using back channels wisely, to the dating example. The mission is the elevator pitch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? Bob Moore: Yeah, great question.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

This may be news, but boards of directors can offer bad advice. A typical board is composed of five persons in a company that has received outside funds from professional investors. The fifth board member often is an expert, but not an executive with operational experience. The board knows best” is not always true.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

All background that makes his latest bet all the more interesting: Mixing Board , a startup to bring together communications and marketing leaders in one spot to help clients avoid “the BS PR stuff.”. Right now, it’s free for comms leaders to join Mixing Board. Over 200 people are in the community to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

So let me use their ratings system to judge their actions to date and explain how I think things will break in the future and why. I use it all the time. But if I were on the board that’s what I’d be complaining about more than the changes to the business, the separation of business units, the loss of some customers, etc.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2019

This may be news, but boards of directors can offer bad advice. Having served on more than forty boards, I’ve seen such a variety of good and bad advice that my stories could fill a book. (oh, They have…) So, lets delve into board composition, risk of an unbalanced board, and one of those stories….

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It always made more sense as a way to mix it up away from another workspace you were more anchored to—the “third place”. Do I use the word “difficult” because I’m generally more used to this behavior in men? I don’t think Audrey was particularly well supported by her high-profile board members. No one ever did.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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