Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market. Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2018

Written by Felipe S. Ramos, an EO member and entrepreneur. . I remember it as if it happened yesterday. I received a message from a friend about a global entrepreneurs’ organization coming to the city of São Paulo. She invited me to meet the group, and let me know it was looking for entrepreneurs just like me. It was a cold winter evening when I went to learn more about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).

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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

What does a massive telco do to follow up an $85B acquisition of Time Warner? Spend about $1.6-$2.0B on AppNexus, of course. In an age where $7.5B exits like that of GitHub to Microsoft make the big waves, acquisitions like that of AT&T buying AppNexus can feel, relatively speaking, small — but that would be a mistake to perceive it that way.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2018

Earlier this week, I wrote about the collapse in the number of seed investments. I received many questions about the data, all the same. Why is this happening? This is a deeper dive into the data. First, there are fewer seed investors participating in the market than in 2015, about 40% fewer. Second, many of the most active seed investors and institutional seed funds are investing in fewer companies.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 28, 2018

At this time of year, a lot of businesses are starting to wonder if the sales targets and goals they have just set were realistic. We thought it would be timely to share the biggest mistakes we see businesses making when it comes to sales planning. Mistake 1: Accelerated Growth Rates. In this context, your growth rate is the percentage change in your turnover each year.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

By now, one wonders what tech news will be tucked into the public record the days before a major holiday travel week approaches. While I have no horse in this particular race, I was really excited to read that Boston’s PillPack was being sold to Amazon: Let’s quickly unpack the highlights from this deal: 1/ No Schlep Blindness Here – Pillpack succeeded for a variety of reasons, one of them being that the team actually thought about the underlying processes in the industry and r

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2018

In the last six years, the median time between seed and Series A has more than tripled from about 200 days to about 750 days. Why? The seed market is in the midst of some secular changes. Seed rounds have declined 63% from their peak. Total dollars invested have fallen by 37%. But the median round size is up 3x in the same time period. In other words, investors are concentrating capital in fewer startups.

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For Entrepreneurs

JUNE 28, 2018

I recently gave a talk at the 2018 SaaStock NYC conference in June. I had two goals I wanted to accomplish, present a simple model to understand SaaS business and to show a simple model of a SaaS business and to show the key levers a CEO can pull to achieve the greatest impact on their business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 28, 2018

Written for EO by Rebecca Piersol, fashion stylist and co-creator of The Crystal Press. You know the saying, “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have”? This is especially important when you work from home. While it’s tempting to roll out of bed and stay in your pajamas all day, doing so can seriously inhibit your work ethic. It will keep you in the mindset of watching TV and lounging on the couch.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 28, 2018

Close. There is more money lost in businesses today from inefficient processes than any other single area. Yet this is not a place where most managers feel comfortable deconstructing and rebuilding. Somewhere out there is a consultant or future employee (or even suggestions from present employees) that will provide the roadmap toward making your processes run more smoothly, more quickly and more inexpensively.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 23, 2018

“You can’t scale you,” says Nina Kaufman, small business champion, award-winning attorney, podcast host, and trusted thought leader. Knowledge and expertise based businesses are met with unique obstacles when it comes to scalability and sustainability. If you own a business and are the Chief Doer, listen as Nina shares her stories of doughnut holes, whiskey, and scaling.

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