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MAY 7, 2019

When I was growing up, I watched Seinfeld religiously—literally every single Thursday night from the premiere to the end without missing a single one. Not only did I really love the show, but I was that committed to it because of the reinforcement I experienced by being part of a community that also watched when I did. The next day, I couldn’t wait to see my classmates and repeat whatever the key line from the episode was.

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Venture Well

MAY 7, 2019

Julie Bliss Mullen of ASPIRE team Aclarity has learned that it takes a team to make an impact through innovation and entrepreneurship. The post Innovator Spotlight: Julie Bliss Mullen of Aclarity appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2019

Sleepless nights, assessing (and reassessing), pivoting, negotiating, anticipating, spending … Are these keywords describing entrepreneurship or parenting? For all the parents who are entrepreneurs out there, you probably know these endeavors run in parallel. If parenting is akin to entrepreneurship, what entrepreneurial lessons have you learned from your kids ?

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UBI Global

MAY 6, 2019

A Question of Innovation… Corporations may recognize that they could use a good dose of innovation, and some seek startups as a shortcut to creative thinking. They may become enamored by a startup’s product, service, or even social focus. However, they must understand that an investment in time and money needs a more solid justification. […].

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 9, 2019

Brand strategist James Hurman explains why just having a better product is not enough to make your customers care about your business. 93% of drivers think they’re better than average. A researcher called Ola discovered that when he asked Americans to rank their driving skill in the 1980’s. Similarly, 90% of college professors think they’re above average teachers, 42% of engineers think they’re in the top 5% and only 1% of high school students think their social skills are below average.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2019

Written for EO by Russell Benaroya, a member of EO Seattle and currently the owner of Stride , a fully managed back office accounting and HR services company helping high growth organizations move forward faster. My wife is a parenting coach and educator, a licensed therapist and a social worker. And I’m an entrepreneur. I see the world through a lens of abundance and possibility.

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UBI Global

MAY 10, 2019

Activate Corporate Innovation Join us as we tell our journey through seven compelling areas of innovation featuring real-world case studies of corporations that relied on UBI Global research and partners to gain a better understanding of the global innovation landscape. We know that innovation is top of mind for businesses looking to stay competitive.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 10, 2019

A public market investors asked me if there are any patterns in the list of recent software IPOs with the best sales efficiencies. As I looked through the list, I noticed one. All of these businesses sell bottom up with small initial ACVs that grow dramatically. Atlassian, Zoom, Twilio, Slack, New Relic, Elastic. All of them target small groups of users within larger organization who introduce the vendor.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 6, 2019

By Jim Stafford. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Five patients are waiting to see their doctor, each displaying different symptoms. One has a bright rash on her face. Another is suffering from arthritis. Still another has kidney failure, while the fourth patient suffers from heart problems and the fifth is fatigued all the time. Turns out, they all suffer from lupus, which afflicts as many as 1.5 million Americans and 5 million worldwide.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 7, 2019

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs. I also meet a lot of people who want to be entrepreneurs and ask me, “When do you think the best time is to start a business?” Like the tree in the proverb above, it is no different when it comes to entrepreneurship, and to the dismay of many people who ask, my answer is always the same… “Now.” There are two reasons fo

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Continuations

MAY 6, 2019

NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from World After Capital on Mondays. But because I am doing a more substantial rewrite of Part Four, today’s post describes what I am planning to cover. I want Part Four to be more practical by pointing out ways we can take responsibility today for making the transition to the Knowledge Age. Here are areas I am planning to cover.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

Can you taste it? The talk this weekend was Beyond Meat’s IPO, debuting on the Nasdaq (BYND) last Thursday, exceeding expectations. In this Bloomberg interview , OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved explains that for us, it’s not just about another exit – it’s that individual investors got access to Beyond Meat before it went public by investing with OurCrowd. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Oklahoma is a great place to live. Oklahoma is a great place to work. We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. Unemployment is down; the economy is moving along.

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GCUC

MAY 6, 2019

In case you’ve been under a rock and didn’t know – It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. If you are not familiar with us here at GCUC, we strongly believe in advocating and supporting mental health. It’s time that we make a change and destigmatize the conversation around mental health. There is no shame in mental illness- or talking about it.

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Continuations

MAY 8, 2019

Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday is about the risk of inflation. I spend much of my time thinking about company valuations, both as we make new investments and also as we try to mark valuations in existing companies. Of course valuations for private companies are influenced by available public comps and those have been trading at high multiples, including the current crop of IPOs.

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OurCrowd

MAY 6, 2019

The hardest thing was to see what the results were two days after you watered, to see if you were leaching things down or if you were actually applying enough. Born and raised in Colorado, Kendall Nye has been farming as long as he can remember. One of the greatest challenges is determining when and how much to water crops without a real-time indication of the plants’ needs.

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Dream It

MAY 7, 2019

While the healthcare industry’s long sales cycles are a frequent topic of conversation, discussion about the burdensome post-sale process rarely comes up. Yes, we’re referring to the actual integration of your product into a health system’s existing workflows and technologies. From EHR integrations and pilot tests to privacy audits and HITRUST certification, going from an initial contract to a system-wide rollout can take months and cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 6, 2019

As I looked through the list of public SaaS companies this morning, I read their forward multiples. ZScaler: 23.1x; Okta: 21.8x; Veeva: 18.8x; Coupa: 18.6x; Shopify: 17.0x. Those multiples are calculated by dividing the projected future revenue of the company by its enterprise value today. But what do they mean? What do they imply? First, we need to set some context.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MAY 6, 2019

Last week, I was in Denver for an important and interesting meeting of eleven coal-impacted communities from around the Mountain West. The community teams were meeting to develop work plans and to share ideas on how to create new economic opportunities while also responding to job losses in coal-related industries. On Friday, Route 50 published an excellent summary of the session, and our larger project , that is well worth reading.

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OurCrowd

MAY 9, 2019

Sneaker giant Nike wants to solve the “massive pain” you might experience with poor-fitting shoes, so it’s introducing the Nike Fit feature, which allows you to scan your feet from your camera phone and within seconds recommends the right fit for you. Read more here. The post [Invertex in Forbes] Nike Unveils ‘A Game-Changing Innovation’: A Fit Feature To Fix Shoe Sizing Online And In-Store appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2019

Ever stand with someone you’ve never met when at a party, a trade show or just meet someone in the hallway? We all have. And then that person opens his or her mouth and spends a boring two minutes describing their business to you? Leaving you wondering how much of that you got and how much you might retain? We all have. So, here’s the antidote to prevent you from becoming “that” person.

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Y Combinator

MAY 9, 2019

YC China is now accepting applications for their first batch, which will take place Fall 2019. The three-month program will be held in Beijing and tailored to the Chinese market. Founders can apply at apply.ycchina.com. If you have questions, send them to contact@ycchina.com or visit YC China’s public WeChat account: Read more about YC China.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 10, 2019

ERIE, PA – At a networking event held in Ben Franklin’s office in Knowledge Park on May 9, 2019, the finalists in Ben Franklin’s StARTup Contest were announced. This year’s contest challenged tech-entrepreneurs located in Northwest PA, to develop new “game-changing” products, processes, or techniques in creative spaces. With up to $50,000 on the line, in the two months that the contest was running, more than 600 people visited the landing page for bigidea.benfranklin.org to check out the applic

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2019

VAYAVISION, a developer of autonomous vehicle perception solutions based on raw data fusion and upsampling, announced today that it has appointed Carl Peter Forster, an automotive industry beacon, to its advisory board. Read more on PR Newswire here. The post [VayaVision in PR Newswire] VAYAVISION Appoints Automotive Industry Veteran Carl-Peter Forster to Advisory Board F appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Haystack

MAY 9, 2019

Believe it or not, this will now be the second blog post on this site about a billion-dollar exit for a shaving-related startup. It was just about three years ago when the startup world learned that Unilever had decided to plunk down a cool $1B to buy LA’s Dollar Shave Club. Fast-forward to today, and we have a smaller conglomerate, Edgewell, paying a mix of cash and stock for NYC’s Harry’s.

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