This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. Three of the founding teams are married couples. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did.

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Venture Well

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With the right training and support, battery innovators can hold to their environmentally responsible values even in this super-charged competitive space. The post How Battery Entrepreneurs Learned the Power of Environmentally Responsible Business appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A story about innovating your business to stay ahead of the market, written for EO by Floyd DePalma, CEO of UX agency DePalma Studios. It was the beginning of 2018, and my agency had just lost two of our biggest accounts. These are the fears that keep you up at night, the ones you hope never happen. They’re also the moments that cause you to panic and cloud your judgment.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The headlines in the tech and startup world have not been good over the last couple of years. As it turns out, the “move fast in break things” culture was itself pretty broken—full of discrimination and harassment. On top of that, the rise of tech is exacerbating wealth inequality, creating some serious data privacy issues, and allowing hate and misinformation to grow rampant on its platforms.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

By Rosemarie “Bubu” Andres, EO Global Chair, FY2018/2019 , an EO Philippines member and co-founder of Candy Corner , the number one source of quality candies and chocolates in the Philippines. The entrepreneurial journey can be lonely. You’re leading a company, walking an uncharted path without anyone else in the world who can comprehend your unique experience, worries and frustrations.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While most of the money that goes into VC funds comes from institutions that are highly experienced in the asset class, some family offices and high net worth individuals also invest in VC. They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow. A lot of VC fund pitches—and I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living as an institutional limited partner at a pension fund—sound the same.

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UBI Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

What is benchmarking? Benchmarking is a comprehensive process that is used by the top performing business incubators and accelerators in the world. The data that UBI Global collects is invaluable to both new programs just getting started and to well-established, institutional programs that want to remain abreast of the latest paths to success. Benchmarking means comparing one’s processes […].

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

About 3.5 years ago, we met Michael and Lillian from SecondMeasure while they were in Y Combinator. We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

An accidental entrepreneur. That’s how cofounder of retail company Blue Illusion , Donna Guest , describes herself. Being a business owner was not something that she envisioned when she married her husband and business partner, Danny Guest. Becoming a CEO of a company was not something she contemplated before they started the business 20 years ago.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Listen on Soundcloud. It would be fair to say Anthony Baxter has learnt a thing or two about entrepreneurship, since starting his digital marketing agency “ Firefly ” from an Auckland bedroom in 2014. Aged just 23 at the time of launch, and now 28, Baxter has since grown that initial $100 investment into an agency with 15 staff serving customers throughout New Zealand and internationally, and revenues approaching $2M pa.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

As a boxing and MMA promoter, Roy Englebrecht knows something about staying tough in business.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen executive summaries of business plans in which the entrepreneur seeks $5,000,000 to build the business. Four reasons you should reconsider. First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

One Thing That Great Leaders Understand I was scanning Twitter this past week and I came across these great Tweets by Michael Seibel at Y Combinator. When I was young I thought management was about distribution/delegation of responsibilities. I now realize it is truly about the maintenance of morale and motivation. Morale and motivation are moving targets that require consistent and proactive effort to maintain.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Christmas is long gone and the short weeks caused by public holidays are behind us until April. Before you plan the rest of your year, it’s time to take stock and look at conducting this ever-important “annual health check” on your business. The current New Zealand economic climate is buoyant and businesses are well positioned for growth. This means it’s even more important that Boards and owner-operators conduct regular health checks on their business to ensure their operations have a solid fou

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A Smart Bear: Longform

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the "happened-before" relation in almost all cases.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Should You Allow Board Observers on Your Startup Board? Photo by Antenna on Unsplash A board observer is somebody who attends your board meeting but doesn’t have a voting right. There are also certain points in a board meeting where you can ask the board observers to step out of the room unless they’ve negotiated specific rights that preclude this.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. While the management of a startup company deals with the day-to-day decision-making within the company (strategy, budgets, goals, tasks, compensation) ultimately the Board of Directors has the legal governing responsibilities for these things.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Should All of Your Management Team Attend Board Meetings? The age old question for every startup is whom to involve in the board meeting. The reality is that there are some board meetings in which having a broad set of management present is a great idea and there are some meetings where in can be a hindrance. Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash The goal of the best run boards ought to be to balance information dissemination with using the brain trust of the company to guide critical decisions.

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