Fink About It
JUNE 9, 2019
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 [.].
The Seraf Compass
JUNE 12, 2019
? 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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Venture Well
JUNE 11, 2019
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.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 14, 2019
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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Dream It
JUNE 12, 2019
In their best-selling book Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth , Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares write about the importance of traction: Traction is the best way to improve your chances of startup success. Traction is a sign that something is working. If you charge for your product, it means customers are buying. If your product is free, it’s a growing user base.
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Revolution
JUNE 10, 2019
Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize. Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 10, 2019
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.
UBI Global
JUNE 12, 2019
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 […].
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 10, 2019
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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NZ Entrepreneur
JUNE 11, 2019
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
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 13, 2019
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.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JUNE 10, 2019
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.
EntreWorks Consulting
JUNE 12, 2019
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
JUNE 11, 2019
#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.
Berkonomics
JUNE 13, 2019
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.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JUNE 8, 2019
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.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
JUNE 8, 2019
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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Impact Hub
JUNE 10, 2019
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
OurCrowd
JUNE 11, 2019
Kiryat Shemona, June 11, 2019 — Finistere Ventures, a global agrifood investment leader, OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investor, Tnuva, Israel’s food manufacturer, and Tempo Beverages, the leading Israeli beverage company, today announce that their consortium has won the tender to operate the FoodTech incubator from the Israel Innovation authority.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JUNE 9, 2019
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
Innovation 2 Enterprise
JUNE 11, 2019
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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JUNE 11, 2019
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.
OurCrowd
JUNE 12, 2019
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.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
JUNE 10, 2019
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.
Haystack
JUNE 13, 2019
Normally, I like to pounce on these big acquisitions quickly with some quick analysis, but big M&A in tech is happening too fast, and it’s graduation season for the toddlers, and family is in town, so for this installment of the blog, we will talk about both Looker and Tableau together, as they’re in the same space. So without further ado, here are my quick takeaways from both acquisitions: 1/ “Not Another BI Startup?
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