Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. Who we took. The mission participants were a mix of angel investors, VCs, and an accountant and lawyer (who manage investment deals) from Queensland and New South Wales.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’re still savoring the success of 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day! For a look behind the scenes of a series of entrepreneurship events that took place during the week, we reached out to Michele Matthews-Morancie and Melissa Matthews —twin sisters and the founders of multiple organizations in Trinidad.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

I’m grateful for all the entrepreneurs who have spent time teaching me how to build their companies. Over these past few days, I have been reading the book Antifragile written by Nassim Taleb. In the book, he writes about many provocative things, but the one that sticks out with me this holiday is about innovation, and it harkens back to the original title of this blog that I started to write nearly 7 years ago: ex post facto.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As I sat in the movie theater watching Justice League, I thought a lot about the idea of a hero in the context of 2017. Generally, we've thought of heroes as possessing some kind of special power--or larger than life. We've confused the powerful and influential for people we should look up to. Yet, as we've seen in the retelling of a lot of the comic book stories on screen, our heroes aren't always purely good, nor are they as good at being people as they are at being powerful.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Close. Avoid long-term commitments. It is statistically true that at least half of the young companies funded by angel or venture investors will not survive three years from funding to demise, and more than that percentage will die with two years if not well financed. The greatest burden of either a growing company or one needing to retract and reduce expenses is the office lease.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

In the eleventh episode of Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman interviews Peter Thiel. The episode revolves around the idea that to truly succeed, a startup must not beat the competition, but break free of competition entirely. The episode has many great points, but the one that stood out most to me is the idea of false competition. You could say that Coke and Pepsi compete very intensely, on the other hand you could say that there’s somehow quite differentiated from a brand so that in practice

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Health Tech Capital

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

This week, EO joins with the Global Entrepreneurship Network in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week (#GEW2017) , which credits the importance and growing impact of entrepreneurship, and features an international calendar of events and partnerships. From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

By Ari Rabban, CEO of Phone.com . One of my biggest and earliest struggles as a small business leader was learning to be patient while creating and adhering to a business model that cultivated growth. Ultimately, after considering the business landscape, my team and I decided against the type of free-services approach some companies take that, while offering a lot of buzz (free service, after all), is very risky—in our case, it would’ve been too costly.

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