Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Betting Beyond the Bowl: Investing in Sweetgreen Was Always About More Than Salad was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Today, we raise a fork to Sweetgreen. We’re proud to be part of its story.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

Unconscious, or implicit, bias refers to the underlying attitudes or beliefs about other individuals or groups, based on identity traits, outside our own conscious awareness. Here is what young leaders need to know about implicit bias. Factors such as unconscious bias can be a prominent barrier to this growth. Bias shows in many forms.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Lack of representation Female representation in company culture is crucial in many ways: It creates role models for women who may be on the fence about pursuing the industry. STEM careers are all about solving problems and being creative. The post Why there are so few women in tech (and what you can do about it!) Brain power.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 28, 2023

Are you walking around looking for swashbuckling daredevils as investment targets? Do you assume that the process of innovation is a series of great leaps and brilliant insights? You might be making a mistake. Entrepreneurship is arguably much more incremental, and much less risk-centric than that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2022

The rest, according to these studies, is spent on other activities: checking social media, reading news websites, chit-chatting with colleagues about non-work topics, making non-work calls, and even looking for other jobs. They actually spend anywhere from 36 to 39 percent of their time working.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2022

Often, the key techniques for marketing embarrassing products involve creativity and paving the way for people to speak comfortably and openly about the problem. Here are seven things I learned from marketing a product people are too embarrassed to talk about. Root the story behind the product or company in a personal experience.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons, the most famous “tabletop role-playing game” in the world, does an incredible job of letting a group of friends co-author vibrant stories of heroic daring.

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The post what the patent gap tells us about diversity in innovation appeared first on VentureWell. Identifying the U.S. patent gap can help dismantle barriers to invention faced by underrepresented groups and expand the country’s pool of innovators.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. Business is not just about transactions; it’s about people.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

As you progress, the losses can shrink because you know more about your customer’s needs. Before even thinking about an MVP, you need to have done the initial research, studied the competition, be clear on your core product or service and its hopefully unique differential, and have studied the competition. Not enough, probably.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With a rich background in nutrition design for performance athletes, Pete has always been passionate about health and wellness. What is it that excites you about what you’re building? Happie is all about creating a healthier, happier life for our customers through clean, natural remedies. This was very insightful.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

First, think about your time as money! How about young or pre-revenue companies? The post A heartbreaking story about time and money. We’ll get to my heartbreak in a minute. But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this first installment of Kym Huynh’s Leadership Toolkit series, Kym asked what entrepreneurs wished non-entrepreneurs knew about them. We asked successful entrepreneurs from EO chapters around the world, “What’s something you wish people knew about what it’s like being an entrepreneur?”

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 15, 2022

The post All About Acquihires appeared first on Future. Often joining the acquiring company as a unit or existing team, employers also.

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Continuations

MARCH 25, 2023

I am writing this post to organize and share my thoughts about the extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence over the last years and especially the last few months (link to a lot of my prior writing ). I also pretty early on developed a conviction that computers would be better than humans at a great many things.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Should entrepreneurs be worried about the new COVID strains originating in the UK, South Africa and recently identified in the US and their implications on business? The media , medical experts , and government officials have focused on doubts about vaccine effectiveness. What about government lockdowns? Might vaccines help?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

In his session called “How to Think About Accelerators and Incubators,” Segneri will discuss the types of incubators and accelerators available to early-stage founders and what startups should consider before applying, and he’ll provide tips to get the most out of these programs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

She talked with Darrell and Jordan about the challenges she faced as a solo founder/employee raising money for a solution for birth control, why she decided to leave academia and the complicated regulatory maze she had to navigate to get adyn off the ground. Vivian Wang from Landed. Laura Crabtree from Epsilon3.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

For me, I am pretty zen about this after six years of early-stage startup investment. To summarize the key point – I am zen about investor updates or the lack thereof. Would I hope all founders updated their investors, even if briefly? Yes, of course. I now have a different point of view on this argument. Want to send them?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

For starters, venture capitalists need to stop engaging in self-delusion about why a valuation that is too high might be OK. For starters, venture capitalists need to stop engaging in self-delusion about why a valuation that is too high might be OK. There are other reasons why investors may not care about the valuation.

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Deskmag

MARCH 20, 2024

In the last week, I spoke to ten asset managers about improving occupancy in badly performing office buildings with flex space. Here are six things they all got wrong about Flex Space & Coworking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In addition, we’re curious about Hart’s brand and how it’s expanded over the years. Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch. Hart and Roman will discuss these complexities, and Elanjian will give us a look at how institutions are breaking down barriers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from one of the most successful companies in history. Just make sure to learn the right lessons. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Privacy Center, which launched on Thursday, is designed to provide “clear, actionable information” about privacy rights, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The defining characteristic of each round isn’t as much about how much money is changing hands as it is about how much risk is in the company. The company may be about to enter new markets, broaden its product offering or go after a new customer segment. The company becomes more valuable as it reduces its risk.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The post A personal story about quality control first appeared on BERKONOMICS. There are fewer resources and much less of a reserve of goodwill among the customer base to absorb a problem release – or in the example above, inability to fill the void in customer service created by rapid growth.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2024

The post Should you be optimistic about your corporate growth? Next week: It is time to examine the CEO’s relationships with con-temporaries, coaches, good board members and great resources in the community and industry. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

They buy technologies that can solve problems they know about today, rather than those they may face a couple bends down the road. Rather than asking large companies about which technologies they were experimenting with, we created four buckets, based on what you might call “commitment level.” (Our

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

As you survey the job landscape and think about your next steps, we strongly encourage you to consider federal service. An open letter to tech workers about careers in public service by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In addition, they’re about more than financial returns; their investors will be invited to charity events benefiting education, medicine, and animal non profit organizations. What is it that excites you about investing? If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be?

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