Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. No, it’s not fun. Why does this happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.” ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book. Oh, and buy Brad’s book. Here are mine: 1.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Personalized Advice and Guidance One of the most significant advantages of one-on-one mentoring is the personalized advice you receive. With one-to-one mentoring, you aren’t getting generic advice you’re receiving insight applicable to your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

Here are several pieces of advice that I learned the hard way: First, not every successful company starts in an accelerator. And while the accelerators promote their unicorns, they rarely provide full transparency on the companies that fail or limp along. But if you’re starting a business for the first time, then what?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

After analyzing hundreds of sales organizations across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. Pipeline Management Calculate required pipeline coverage : Maintain a pipeline that’s at least 5x your bookings target.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The moment that you have a product that seems to satisfy the needs of a large enough market you enter what startup people like to call “product / market fit&# characterized by the rapid acceleration of customer demand and therefore adoption. In fact, not going fat at this stage can also cause problems. And let’s be clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I hold true to form and follow my own advice. I didn’t sit through any panels (other than the day where I was the emcee and judge for the BizSpark Accelerator program). I booked several high-profile meetings in advance. I had to be on stage at 7.30am for the Startup Accelerator event. About 15 in total.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

Author Greg McKeown wrote an excellent book before the virus. His book, Essentialism , encourages readers to take an disciplined, essentialist approach to their lives. Fear is powerful, but it can also be blinding. Ask yourself if you are doing the right things and for the right reasons. We know time is precious. Essentialism.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, don’t forget that most likely, angels you’re pitching to want to offer their best advice and be part of your journey to success and changing the landscape of an industry. By Alana Hill , Securetech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with the Securetech team. Like it or not, status plays a role for angel investors.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 3) Accelerators.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Brooke is founder and president of Cathedral Capital , which provides strategic financial advice to drive profit by creating customized teams of financial professionals to analyze data trends and guide entrepreneurs through their numbers so they can predictably scale and grow their businesses. Don’t overlook goals achieved. Close , I thought.

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

The diversity of socially conscious entrepreneurs seeking assistance can be seen in this map of applications to Fledge , the conscious company accelerator. Luni is author of The Next Step series of books, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup and The Pinchot Impact Index , a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By asking for help, I’m frequently able to accelerate solutions and growth at levels I wouldn’t have thought possible, and I’m strengthening my relationship with my network, as well. Help doesn’t always have to be advice or mentorship. 17, 2020 wherever books are sold and can be purchased via StartupNation.com.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The point is whatever business your trying to build its good to have coaching advice and mentoring from people in the space your trying to build. Look at joining a pre seed accelerator to accelerate your idea There are a ton of them, but to be honest we recomend trying to get into YC if you can. Get on social media.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

We asked the winners in each city to tell us about their companies, provide advice to fellow entrepreneurs, and share a little more about themselves. What advice would you offer entrepreneurs in Orlando? My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. What does your company do?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Silicon Valley’s undisputed leading startup accelerator is Y Combinator. In my book , I offer a key explanation for this phenomenon: signaling. This acts as the signal needed for accelerators like Y Combinator to quickly sort candidates into how promising they may be. Founders didn’t just stop at undergrad degrees – 35.7%

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Personalized Advice and Guidance One of the most significant advantages of one-on-one mentoring is the personalized advice you receive. With one-to-one mentoring, you aren’t getting generic advice you’re receiving insight applicable to your business.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 24, 2021

It is critical to most ecosystem building work that you are able to build, leverage, and share relational (social) capital to get things done at an accelerated rate. Peter Cimino echoed a key principle from Brad Feld’s Boulder Thesis in his book Startup Communities , that the ecosystem must be open to all. Resilience. Let’s face it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Wilson’s book explores the history of freon, a common refrigerant that was later banned due to its devastating impact on the ozone layer. Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

00:59] Microsoft’s approach to AI [5:55] The next Industrial Revolution [10:27] Developer productivity & flow state [15:26] Reprogramming the American Dream [19:48] Advice to builders Microsoft’s approach to AI Bob: Microsoft has played such a huge role in determining the future of AI. You and I are both knowledge workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. Startups are like families.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Mentors can be a great addition to a startup, as they provide wisdom and advice to emerging businesses. Stephanie Venn-Watson , Co-founder, fatty15 Accelerate Growth and Gain Support Anyone can start a successful business. No course, mentor, or book alone will provide the key to success.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

(This is why we feel confident taking his advice!) He put together a book called Built to Sell , which came out in 2011. He then wrote a book called The Automatic Customer , which is about accelerating the growth of your business once it’s able to thrive without you. So that’s exactly what his new book talks about.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about chief inspiration officers, growing startup accelerators and a rare buzz we’re hearing about one tech company and its public market wishes. My big question is if VCs are taking the same advice that they’re dishing. Book your pass ASAP! Don’t forget VCs, you have VCs too. (

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. When the time came, he recognized that Canada was a missing geography for Eventbrite, and positioned the company to capture that market and accelerate an acquisition. Know when to go.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter we’re talking about Amazon’s new bed, and bad advice from investors. Before Bedrock, Amazon’s interest was best seen through a partnership with Stability AI , and even more recently, an accelerator for generative AI startups. Book your pass ASAP! Are we surprised?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

market: A home testing kit that enables program participants to learn how their body responds to different foods and get personalized nutrition advice. But he says Zoe’s goal is to be able to open up access to personalized nutrition advice much more widely as it keeps gathering more data and insights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. and the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. Early Bird tickets are now on sale through May 12 — book your pass here. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? See you there!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? The question I asked them was this: If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say? Matt Lieber , Gimlet  — My advice to my younger self is to seek help. And I do remember them.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ultimately, there will be acceleration on all of these. I actually think we’re going to see an acceleration of creation. Dynamic, persistent 3D clothing, not in Maya or 3D Studio, but in the experience itself, accelerated by cloud AI tools. What is your favorite book? Then there’s so much leverage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

To that end, the company on Wednesday announced a partnership with Techstars to extend Brex services to companies within the accelerator, following similar tie-ups with Y Combinator and AngelList. Glyman and Kote shared how they’re working to preserve capital, while Blader offered up some of the advice she’s giving to her portfolio companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Currently, I run an innovation consultancy firm called Meet Ventures that helps corporates to run their accelerators and government agencies to run their market access programs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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