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Want to double your rate of return? Seek counsel from experienced executives

TechCrunch

Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes?

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The Stock Dive: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

This is going to be BIG.

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. Cultivate authentic VC relationships and a leadership profile over time. The incentive is too strong. VCs don’t want to back past performance.

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The Importance of Local Media to Boost Startups in Rising Cities

Revolution

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most. Lastly, all politics is local.

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Joseph Lee, CEO of Kairous Capital, Shares His Cross-Border Investment Philosophy for the Asia Pacific Region

AsiaTechDaily

With that, Joseph Lee shared enthusiastically about Kairous Capital and its cross-border business strategy: Can you tell us about your background and how you started your entrepreneurial journey? What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Skip the Slides: Drive Faster & Better Decisions with a Memo

Reforge

Memos have come in and out of fashion but were (somewhat) recently re-popularized by Jeff Bezos’ 2004 mandate that all Amazon employees had to write a 4+ page memo before presenting to executives. I started in my best power pose and — of course — the CEO interrupted me on slide two to ask how this strategy connected with our onboarding plans.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Those two exercises created an excitement towards achieving the vision of growing by 10 times, and the strategy and execution path to get there. We were off to the races with our WOW-worthy service.