Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2019

Ken Honda is the author of Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money. He is a bestselling author of self-development books and has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. While his financial expertise comes from owning and managing several businesses, his writing spans topics that include finance and self-help, focusing on creating and generating personal wealth and happiness through deeper self-honesty.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2019

Why do profitable, mature businesses die away? One of the most obvious reasons mature businesses die away – when we look in the rear view mirror – is that they did not spend to renew their product or service when newer entrants into the business arrived with better products and services built upon newer technology. Should be an easy fix for companies making annual net profit.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 19, 2019

In Part I of this article we discussed the importance of reporting for early stage funds and what information a fund manager needs to properly track performance. In Part II we addressed the most critical metrics used to measure performance, what information should be included when sending reports to LPs, and how to best communicate with investors. But how are impact funds different?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra , was announced today. Libra has been incubated by Facebook. USV will be one of the founding members of the governing body, the Libra Association. Libra is a stable, fiat-backed cryptocurrency that will launch inside some of the world’s largest consumer-facing applications. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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Venture Well

JUNE 18, 2019

An innovator’s journey from idea to market can be challenging and complicated—but also rewarding. Our Innovator Spotlight series explores how inventor-entrepreneurs in our network have. The post Innovator Spotlight: Myriam Sbeiti of Sunthetics appeared first on VentureWell.

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UBI Global

JUNE 17, 2019

Understanding the Innovation Landscape Innovation is a key focus for businesses looking to stay competitive. Many corporations hunt for new ways to gain an edge. Many have also noticed that there are lots of exciting actors in their local (and even wider) innovation ecosystem. It seems like every time they turn around, there are more […]. The post Uncover the Innovation Community: Activate Ecosystem Growth appeared first on UBI Global.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 17, 2019

One of the many great things about vacations is reading books. Vacation is the one time that I can really prioritize reading books (as opposed to everything else I read). I just finished Scott Kupor ‘s Secrets Of Sand Hill Road , a book for entrepreneurs about rasing capital from venture firms. Scott makes the point numerous times in the book that the capital raising process is asymmetric for entrepreneurs in that they do it a few times in their career and VCs do it every day.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 16, 2019

Tomamos nuestros celulares y tabletas y nos preparamos para enfrentar los engaños que seguramente están al acecho tras cada tecla que apretamos o clic que hacemos. El siguiente artículo del blog está adaptado de “ Si todos los días fuera el día de los inocentes ,” columna del personal de Newseum Education publicada hace poco en el boletín informativo First Five del Freedom Forum Institute.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2019

Written for EO by Jim Moran, founder and managing partner of ValueStreet Equity Partners. Shortly after the European Union enacted its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , France’s regulators fined Google $57 million for violating the privacy law. That fine might not be a huge deal for a company the size of Google, but the message to the world was loud and clear: All companies will be held accountable for compliance.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 19, 2019

Jeremy Rossman is the cofounder of Make School. Make School is a college for computer science headquartered in San Francisco. Make School students don’t pay until they have a job after graduation. They were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch. You can find Jeremy on Twitter @jeremyrossmann. Topics. 00:05 – What is Make School? 00:45 – How is their intensive track different than a traditional college course load?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 20, 2019

Jerry Colonna ‘s book, Reboot , came out this week. He had given me the manuscript to read so many months ago that I had to go back and read it again before I could write about it. So I bought the book yesterday and read it again over the last twenty four hours. AVC regulars don’t need any introduction to Jerry. I’ve been writing about him, citing him, and telling stories about him since the very start of this blog.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 18, 2019

I posted a while ago my syllabus on how to manage and invest a VC fund. As a prequel, here are some of the resources I’ve found helpful in launching a new fund: What it takes to start your own venture capital fund. Strategic Considerations For Start-Up Private Equity Fund Managers. Fundamentals Of Private Equity Fund Formation. How to Launch a Private Equity / Venture Capital Fund.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 18, 2019

Have a prototype up your sleeve or an importing opportunity on your mind? If so, there are various product standards you should know about to enable your product to be sold in New Zealand. The history of invention is littered with many forgotten facts, but perhaps chief among them is the undeniable truth that Leonardo da Vinci had never heard of product standards.

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GCUC

JUNE 21, 2019

When a little company formally known as Wework tours their potential clients around one of their 700 locations, they always ask if them if they need enterprise level benefits for their company. When the potential client responds that they do need those services, Wework points them to their partner. GCUC recently went to that same partner and secured a super aggressive deal through our GCUC membership program.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 17, 2019

Antes de compartir un artículo con amigos y familiares, determina si es verdadero o falso. Al desplazarte por el sitio ves fotos del bebé de tu prima, el nuevo perro de tu mejor amigo, artículos de noticias de medios de comunicación de renombre y probablemente algunas actualizaciones de estado con palabras fuertes de amigos y extraños. ¿Qué es lo que más te llama la atención?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 19, 2019

Last year, during its annual “crypto week”, our portfolio company Cloudflare shipped an IPFS gateway. I wrote about that then. This year, they have shipped an Ethereum gateway. It is great to see a very large Internet infrastrcuture provider build and ship crypto gateways. If you are a small developer looking to create decentralized applications, having a web-scale provider offering IPFS and Ethereum gateways is really helpful.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2019

Tel Aviv-based cannabis company Syqe Medical Ltd. has unveiled its first cannabis inhaler Wednesday, after having invested $83 million and eight years into its development. Read more here. The post [Syqe in CTech] Eight Years and $83 Million Later, Syqe Medical Releases First Cannabis Inhaler appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2019

Every six months or so, I take a look at how the public markets are valuing next-generation software companies. There’s been quite a bit of volatility over the last five years, and this update is no exception. As of mid-June, the public markets value software companies at all-time highs. The chart above shows the total enterprise value (TEV)/forward revenue multiple for the basket of public software companies.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 20, 2019

If you’re a woman engineer and you’re interested in meeting with female YC founders & engineers , we’re hosting a small mixer immediately before the Work at a Startup Expo — at 12 PM on 6/29 and hosted at the same venue. Some candidates have noted it’s useful to connect with women founders and engineers to get a better sense of what the team dynamics are like and how they themselves might in.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 15, 2019

The Gotham Gal and I walked into the Musee de l’Orangerie yesterday and found a line of about 20 people waiting to purchase tickets to enter. The Gotham Gal whipped out her phone, went to the Orangerie website, and bought two tickets that were sent to her phone. It took her less than a minute to do it and we walked in. As we were leaving we noticed the ticket line had almost doubled.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 18, 2019

BriefCam, the industry’s leading provider of VIDEO SYNOPSIS® and Deep Learning solutions, today announced that it received the 2019 Frost & Sullivan North America Technology Innovation Award in the surveillance analytics solutions industry. Read more here. The post [BriefCam in Yahoo Finance] BriefCam® Honored by Frost & Sullivan with Technology Innovation Award appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

Over the last decade or so, I’ve compiled a metrics sheet to summarise a SaaS business. While no living document like this is ever perfect, this is currently the best board-level summary of the overall health of a business I have found. I’m sharing it so that others may benefit and improve it. If you have suggestions, please email me. Redpoint SaaS Metrics Template.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 19, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Augmented Reality, the interactive combination of real and computer generated worlds, has been around for a while. AR technologies superimpose a computer-generated text, image, or sound on the view of the real world. If you have pointed your iPhone camera at the night sky to see the names of the constellations superimposed on the image of the stars, or used the IKEA app “Place” to see how a blue chair would look in your own living room, or watch

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 20, 2019

Thirty-two years ago, the Gotham Gal and I got married. We had been together for five years at that time. We have now been together for thirty-seven years. A relationship that has lasted almost four decades is a special thing. There is a comfort, a deep friendship, a mind melding, that develops. At least three or four times this week, one of us uttered something that the other was thinking but just had not said yet.

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Continuations

JUNE 18, 2019

Today we announced that we have joined the Libra Association , the governance for a global stable coin. Nick has written a post on the USV blog explaining our decision. I have argued before that we don’t really know what path will take us to a decentralized future and therefore have to try many things. Some of these paths involve centralized corporations exposing their endusers to crypto.

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