The Seraf Compass
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Great ideas are a dime a dozen. Living in the Boston/Cambridge area, we are surrounded by some of the most innovative researchers in the world working at institutions like MIT and Harvard. I’m pretty confident when I say, in Boston, hardly a day goes by when some graduate student or professor doesn’t invent a new product, discover a new molecule or create a cool app.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Written by Annie Button, a content specialist in business growth and development. Annie shares her experiences and knowledge through blog posts in a variety of publications. . No industry is exempt from our constantly evolving business world. Restructures and turnarounds are common scenarios. Companies that resist change and fail to innovate will wither and die.
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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
OCTOBER 30, 2019
By Liliana López-Jiménez, Ph.D. / Business Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Young professionals are bound to encounter ethical challenges quite early in their lives in the workforce. Unfortunately, in most cases, their families, schools, and universities have not prepared them well enough to stand up to unethical requests with integrity.
Venture Well
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Frightened to fail? Face your fears! Download a free stress test to identify your startup's vulnerabilities and brainstorm contingency plans. The post Startup Horror Stories: Scary Situations Entrepreneurs Can Avoid With Stress Tests appeared first on VentureWell.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 28, 2019
This past summer I read a proof of Ben Horowitz’s new book, What You Do Is Who You Are , and I even blogged about it here without naming the book. What You Do is about culture, how you make it, how you keep it, and how the big decisions you make and how you explain them set the culture in your organization. To explain this Ben tells the story of four different cultures that were set by strong leaders: – the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture R
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Revolution
OCTOBER 29, 2019
When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in cities like Detroit, Indianapolis, Denver, New Orleans, Chattanooga, and Phoenix. But our team didn’t stop there. Because the more cities we visited, the more we became convinced that there were amazing companies scaling in these cities led by dedicated and diverse founders who, despite the viabili
Venture Well
OCTOBER 31, 2019
MedLock hopes to help patients recovering from opioid addiction with a secure pill dispenser that tracks and transmits the data to healthcare providers. The post innovating treatment for opioid addiction: q&a with sahil parikh of MedLock appeared first on VentureWell.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Pacing in a VC fund context is how much capital the firm is investing in a given period and tracking that over time. I don’t think a VC firm should manage to a pacing number. It should manage to the opportunity set that it sees. But I think pacing is a great thing to track in the rearview mirror. I like to look at investment pace by quarter and year.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Written by Justin Song, a senior research analyst at LendingTree where he has experience covering topics such as personal loans and small business lending. The average cost of starting a small business in the U.S. is about US$30,000 —the same cost as a three-day medical stay. If you’re just getting started, you may view health insurance as an untenable expense and forgo it all together simply to avoid the monthly payment.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Businesses still have a lot of work to do in the areas of password and access security, according to the latest research in this year’s Global Password Security Report. While some organizations are increasing their use of important security measures like multifactor authentication (MFA), overall, employees still have poor password hygiene that weakens overall company security.
FundersClub
OCTOBER 31, 2019
We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Embark Trucks announced its $70M Series C led by Tiger Global to continue rollout of its autonomous trucking fleet. We invested in the Seed, Series B, and Series C.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 27, 2019
Early-stage companies are exercises in experimentation, iteration, and figuring things out. You try one thing, it sort of works, but you see a tangential opportunity and go after that. Sometimes that leads to a full-on pivot, other times it leads to an evolution of the opportunity. This process can create multiple products, services, projects, and it can look messy.
Impact Hub
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
After six years of collaboration, the global Impact Hub Network and Impact Hub Recife are now parting ways. The entrepreneurial community and coworking space of Impact Hub Recife, embarks this month on a new vision. Moving forward, the local team is setting up a new infrastructure that takes on an independent direction. This decision was made as the Recife team’s expansion goals focus on real estate and innovative ways of work rather than on the social, economic and environmental impact.
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners
OCTOBER 29, 2019
DUBOIS, PA – Do you know Jeff Billett with Billett Electric, Keith Billotte with Doing Time, Peter Schramm with Lattus, Joe Lanich with Laughing Owl Press, Daniel Meier with Lightdrop Harvest, Royce Novosel-Johnson with NoJo Forest Creations, or Harb Nayar with TAT Technologies? If not, you soon will! Someone will walk away with up to $50,000!
EntreWorks Consulting
OCTOBER 30, 2019
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is out with a useful compendium of what’s happening in innovation policy across OECD member economies. This is a look at what’s next in innovation policy, i.e. how are policies evolving to account for the massive changes underway as part of Industry 4.0. The policy brief offers a quick introduction to the history of industrial policy, noting that we are in the midst of a major shift in focus.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 29, 2019
This post is also live on USV.com as we announce all of our investments there with a blog post. Eighteen months ago, I had breakfast with John Heilemann and he told me that his world, political media, was challenged in the shift from linear television (ie cable news) to real-time mobile (ie Twitter). He saw an opportunity to address that by filling the void in between them with news content that was made for real-time mobile consumption but had the journalistic integrity and production values of
Innovation 2 Enterprise
OCTOBER 29, 2019
By Jim Stafford. Once a year, the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) gathers scientists from across the state who are currently receiving funding from its health research program in a sort of show-and-tell educational event. Recently, about 100 OCAST-funded life science researchers assembled at the Samis Family Education Center on the Oklahoma Health Center campus for OCAST’s 32nd Health Research Conference.
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Ian Hathaway
OCTOBER 30, 2019
This morning a friend reminds of a Paul Graham article from 2008 titled Cities and Ambition. It’s excellent. For those of you who don’t know, Paul is the outspoken founder of Y Combinator —a prominent early-stage startup investor in Silicon Valley. The general thesis of Paul’s article is simple yet elegant. Cities speak to us. They influence our behavior.
NZ Entrepreneur
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Time is a precious commodity, and when you’re a small business owner, it’s typically the thing you wish you had more of. When you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day, using the time you do have effectively is crucial. It can be a hard road to navigate, but here are five strategies to make your business more efficient and streamline your small business.
Smart Hustle Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Forbes is an "old media" company chronicling the growth (and demise) of billion dollar companies. It was founded in 1917. Fast forward 100 years, Forbes must stay relevant in a changing demographic with changing technology. No longer is business just about older guys creating billion dollar mega companies. It's now about almost teen founders , moms leaving secure jobs, men who recently served in the military.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 28, 2019
OurCrowd, a global investment platform which brings VC opportunities to accredited investors worldwide, is the leader in equity crowdfunding. Managed by a team of seasoned investment professionals and led by serial entrepreneur and CEO Jon Medved, OurCrowd vets and selects companies, invests its own capital, and invites its accredited membership of investors and institutional partners to invest alongside in these opportunities.
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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
OCTOBER 30, 2019
When facing a conflict of ethics in the workplace, you may feel as though you don’t have the ability to speak up or make a change. “You have more choice than you think you do,” assures Mary Gentile. Mary Gentile, Ph.D., is the creator of Giving Voice to Values (GVV), a pedagogical approach to values-driven leadership and ethics. Mary gives the YLAI Network the essentials to speaking on your values and advice to network members starting their businesses on how to establish a culture of transparen
Continuations
OCTOBER 30, 2019
A question I get quite frequently is “What makes a good leader?” One of the most important aspects of a good leader is that they have values. This may at first sound noncontroversial, but we are surrounded today by leaders who do not have values or whose only values are to get rich personally or to be powerful (or both). Tech investors have been especially guilty of enabling charismatic leaders, and sometimes even non-charismatic but wildly successful ones, who are fundamentally hollow and witho
Innovation 2 Enterprise
OCTOBER 27, 2019
By Scott Meacham. Successful entrepreneurs and innovators are passionate. They know their products inside out. They are driven to ask for feedback and then to listen as their customers describe what they like and what they don’t. They are evangelists for the industry they represent. When that industry is the beverage industry, savvy entrepreneurs know that the best way to tell their story is through taste.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 28, 2019
These past few weeks have been filled with truly exciting events which we are pleased to share with you. In a groundbreaking move to provide broader access to the Venture Capital asset class, OurCrowd and Stifel Financial Corp. signed a major strategic deal, including investment. We’re celebrating our biggest North American institutional partner with tremendous distribution capability to Stifel’s more than 1 million clients through 2,200 financial advisors.
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