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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. In 2013, she sold her business and decided to get “more involved in governance”.

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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

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They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. So, number one is that I needed to be at least engaged enough as an investor to be out there attending gatherings of innovative people.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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And with the three C’s driving many of today’s startups, with the Infrastructure & Web Services largely built and with founders raising smaller pools of capital and wanting to live where they want to live I believe it will continue to push innovation nationally. Investing becomes easier when you already need to be there.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Board Meetings. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. Conferences. Startups Are for Doers.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share).

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Emerging Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: GIST Net Launches

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This public-private partnership is part of the State Department’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative to increase innovation around the world, and was launched today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Morocco. This critical resource could not come at a more pressing time.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. I believe that market conditions drive innovation as much as great entrepreneurs do.