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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend

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The Problem with Startup Advice

This is going to be BIG.

I read this book, " Why We Make Mistake s " and it talks a lot about "recall bias". It could have been that awful hire you made that disrupted the team and you had to let go, but funny enough, that's never the story is it? On average, it's probably nonsensical. Not special? Smart people fall all the time, trust me.

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

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She told of the teaching of the Talmud – a book which scholars use to debate doctrine and from which Jewish people are reminded to always learn and to debate. But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert.

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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. Incumbents can’t react.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. No board is going to give you $25 million up front and then expect your year-one staff expenditures to be $2 million. If you’re a startup or product person and haven’t read his book Four Steps to Epiphany please do.

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There are only a few spots left in Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021

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We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). TechCrunch staff and thousands of Disrupt attendees from across the globe. Exposure, practice and invaluable feedback from the pitch-savvy TC crew — jump on board that opportunity. Your audience?

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. That characterization mostly comes from Hopper’s ability to offer customers financial flexibility around their travel bookings.

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