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Team vs. Timing as a Predictor of Startup Success

Fink About It

I don’t love the title of this post. Because, it’s not either/or, as vs. implies. It’s both and more. However, on just about every panel I sit on, invariably, the question comes up, “What is the most important thing you look for when evaluating a company?” Overwhelmingly panelists answer team. Team is essential for [.].

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Look Before You Leap - The Importance of Due Diligence In Angel Investing

The Seraf Compass

? There are as many different approaches to angel investing as there are investors. Some investors will tell you they invest based on their gut. After a 30 minute meeting with the entrepreneur, they are either in or out. They like to invest in people and that initial meeting guides their decision-making process.

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Building a Better Startup Ecosystem: Strategies for Success

Venture Well

We highlight ways to establish and sustain a healthy startup ecosystem, from coordinating regional assets to accessing capital. The post Building a Better Startup Ecosystem: Strategies for Success appeared first on VentureWell.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Miranda Naiman, accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, member of the EO Tanzania chapter and founder of Empower Limited , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. It is mind-boggling how much time and money is invested in “strategy” at many companies—with some larger organizations even hiring a full-time person or team to oversee “strategy and innovation.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Helium

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

One of the areas of blockchain innovation I am most excited about is building open, permissionless, and decentralized technology infrastructure. The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code execution), storage (storing files, etc), and bandwidth (network infrastructure). And today, we are excited to announce that USV has made an investment in a decentralized network infrastructure project called Helium.

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New Ways to Leverage Innovation: Activate CSR Strategies

UBI Global

How to support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) We know that innovation is top of mind for businesses looking to stay competitive. Many corporations look for new ways to gain an edge, and often that means greater engagement with their employees, customers, and those communities they operate in. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one such way […].

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2 Reasons Why Forums Are Important for the Mental Health of Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Steven Dudley, mindset and performance coach for entrepreneurs and competitive athletes. Forums, also called mastermind groups, hold a special place in the world of entrepreneurship. Forum can provide value for any niche group, but it is especially valuable for entrepreneurs. From my personal experience, the hardest and yet most imperative part of the entrepreneurial journey is the fight between the ears.

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Seven to Ten Years

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have worked in three venture capital firms over the last thirty-three years and am intimately familiar with the performance of the fifteen (ish) venture funds raised and invested by these three firms. Much of what I have written about fund management and investment performance here at AVC over the last sixteen years comes from my observations of these funds and firms.

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Why Product Innovation Slows After the Series A

Tomasz Tunguz

You’ve found product market fit. You’ve hired a team, including some managers. Your initial, small customer base is very happy. You’ve discovered an initial channel of customer acquisition that’s working. You’ve raised a meaningful round of capital. And then, right then, product innovation decelerates to zero. The fast pace that characterized the past 12-18 months, when you would germinate an idea and write the code in less than a few days, has evaporated.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Why our small businesses are a BIG deal

NZ Entrepreneur

In the entrepreneur world we hear a lot of talk about entrepreneurs and businesses needing to be “global from day one” Investors and business commentators lament our lack of large global businesses and say the “three-B” (bach, ‘Beemer’ and boat) mentality of Kiwi business owners is holding us back. In this regard small businesses are often viewed as symbolic of a lack of progress, rather than symbolic of success – the unfortunate by-products of big busin

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Lessons Learned in Parenting and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When we asked EO members to share how their entrepreneurial and parenting endeavors inform each other, we heard from Matt Doud, a member of the EO Baltimore chapter and co-founder and president of Planit. Matt shared what he considers a must-have for both areas of life. “The parallels between parenting and entrepreneurship are countless. There are no playbooks for either endeavor, so you must enter both believing in yourself.

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Inheriting a Legacy: How to Run a Family Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Many of you have a family business that you either inherited, that you bought, that you got pushed into, shoved into, or that you chose to be a part of. It’s important to talk about the route of entrepreneurship when you’re working with or for family. Ramon Ray interviewed Nancy Larick of Larick Associates about stepping into a family business and the interesting dynamics that come along with it.

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Thoughts on my Wedding Day

This is going to be BIG.

I’m getting married today. At least, if she says yes. But, assuming that all goes according to plan, I have a few thoughts on how I got here—given that dating and relationships seem to vex a lot of people. I would say that the most important factor that went into both of us finding someone to marry was that neither one of us felt like we had to find someone to marry to be content.

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Innovation Policy and the Economy: Some New Research

EntreWorks Consulting

We’ve seen a recent flurry of interesting (to me at least) academic writing on innovation policy, much of which is linked to the NBER’s annual Innovation Policy and the Economy conference. Here’s a quick snapshot and some links to some articles that might be worth a scan. The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness (Glaeser/Hausman): Ed Glaeser is considered one of the leading “gurus” on regional economics and innovation.

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Impact Hub Honolulu Is Growing In Hawaii

Impact Hub

#ImpactOnTour ’s next stop this year is Impact Hub Honolulu: at the gateway to the Norwegian fjords…. Hawaii is best known as a tropical paradise, but as the state is making big moves towards becoming an innovation ecosystem, we’re adapting our tropical paradise into a #startupparadise. The founding team at Impact Hub Honolulu is deeply rooted in the entrepreneurship community of the island, and deeply committed to helping Hawaii’s founders, managers, and entrepreneurs thrive.

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Is Holding On, Keeping You Back? Ramon's Phone Upgrade Teaches Him a Big Lesson.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Last week I upgraded to the Samsung S-10 Galaxy phone after having the S-7 phone for many years. It got me thinking, "what else am I holding onto that is keeping me back?". For months I resisted spending the $1,000 (give or take) on the S-10. However, the S-7 had such terrible battery life, I had to charge it every few hours. It was not only annoying but hindering my work.

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Should a leader support constant change?

Berkonomics

The worrying that always precedes a change. When a new CEO or manager is hired into a company, for a while lots of energy flows from the top and new ideas seem to be generated daily. It is one reason not to fear the unknown when upper level management long in place turns over, often leaving most everyone worrying over how they’ll ever do without their lost leader.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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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Oklahoma’s bioscience prowess busy making a difference worldwide

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Kevan Goff-Parker Copyright © 2019 The Oklahoman. Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Manager of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Evan Fay said he believes some people may be caught off-guard by Oklahoma’s growing bioscience prowess. He made his remarks during the final hours Thursday of the Bio International Conference in Philadelphia as the state’s more than 40 OKBio delegates, which included researchers, foundation and university representatives and bioscience and investment companies, continued

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Bringing Hope to Marginalised Young Women

Impact Hub

14 years ago, an American teenager travelled to Zimbabwe to follow one of her passions, mbira music. To fully familiarise herself with the Zimbabwean culture, Jennifer Kyker stayed in the high-density Harare suburb of Highfield, where she became good friends with girls of her own age. A couple of months later, Jennifer returned to America. It was only years later, when she again visited Zimbabwe, that she discovered that most of the girls she had grown to love had left school, ran away from home

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Her Accounting Business Is Rocking. Rachel Michaelov Shares Why at the Smart Hustle Growth Conference.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Several times a day, or so it seems, Rachel Michaelov, founder of Empire Tax Professionals, posts on Facebook one of two things. She posts how she's helped a client or saved them money or helped them in some way OR Rachel's sharing how a prospective client's finances are quite messed up and how she's GOING to help them or a lessons learned. Not only that, but I've observed, over the years, how Rachel is very purposeful in attending premium events and masterminds to educate herself as a business

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Apegarse a la ética en la era digital

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Kameron Dunbar. La llegada de la era digital ha generado nuevos retos en el plano de la ética personal y profesional. Las agencias de noticias y los medios digitales siguen volviéndose cada vez más accesibles, y el aumento en participación ha debilitado la capacidad de muchos medios de regular la diseminación de información certera al público. Entonces, al diseminar información, debemos tener el mayor nivel de compromiso con la exactitud y la honestidad.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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How can we use data to fix the world?

OurCrowd

Kira Radinsky can actually fix the world. At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, eBay’s Director of Data Science and Chief Scientist disclosed how her desire to understand causality between world events led her to develop the ultimate AI data system. Radinsky’s AI system seems straight out of the future: her algorithm-based technique can not only reposition drugs, it can also predict global calamities in an effort to prevent them.

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Turning Streetlights Into EV Charging Stations

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Owning an EV in a dense urban city is challenging. Most people don’t have their own garages and so they park on the street or in large parking garages. We do the latter. About five or six years ago, I walked into our parking garage and saw that the garage operator had installed a ChargePoint charging station in the garage.I literally walked back across the street to our apartment and bought our first EV.

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Norman’s IMMY has global impact, despite humble beginnings

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019 The Oklahoman. Sean and Scott Bauman, CEO and chief operating officer of biotechnology company IMMY, literally grew up in the family business. “There isn’t a job that my brother and I haven’t done,” Sean said, “from sweeping the floor to putting together bulk mailings, whatever needed to be done, we’ve done. Our whole family was involved in the business.”.

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Staying Ethical in a Digital Age

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The advent of the digital age has brought new challenges in the realm of personal and professional ethics. News outlets and digital media continue to become increasingly accessible, and an increase in participation has weakened many outlets’ ability to regulate the accurate spread of information to the public. So when participating in the spread of information, one must maintain the highest commitment to accuracy and honesty in that information.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.