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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Their competitors took advantage—and Kodak went bankrupt in 2012. Fortunately, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has identified strategies help you know when you’re falling into cognitive biases , as well as ways to defeat these dangerous judgment errors in your professional life. It’s not a mystery or an innate gift.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to build a strong online video business it almost certainly must make YouTube an important part of the strategy. I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú?

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

My point is that historically the ecosystem in LA has bred innovations in monetization and technologies but to date hasn’t reached the kind of scale of our major NorCal brethren. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? This is the “utopian” part of techno-utopianism.