Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. He is the founder of Octopus Energy which has $6 billion in revenue after just 6 years. In this insightful episode you’ll learn: How to disrupt an industry and gain millions of customers in a short amount of time. S ometimes that’s true.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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Onevest

MARCH 25, 2015

Deal Flow There are certainly some advantages to investing more money and energy in fewer startups. This type of deal flow means preserving your time, focus, energy, and ensuring you are targeting the best opportunities. Invest in What You Know The very nature of startups is to disrupt and change things. What drives you?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

People start hoarding ideas; withholding information, time, or energy; creating side businesses; doing the minimum required to keep up appearances, etc. ?Thus, Spend the most energy picking your partners and less energy trying to hold something together that is flawed. CHOOSING YOUR PARTNERS ?. Just look at how poorly some ?people

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Berkonomics

APRIL 26, 2018

But when money is the issue, your time, energy and focus are drained from other important areas of your life or business. Any disruption to the tedium of daily activity from weather, disaster, revenues slowdown or product problems will stress the company infrastructure if there is not a cushion to use during such times.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. On Tuesday, May 24 at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. More posts by this contributor.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

If you have a business idea that you believe can disrupt the market and transform into an active source of income, chances are you are already daydreaming about handing in your resignation letter to your employer and taking the entrepreneurship route. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice.

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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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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Your energy, your focus, your enthusiasm, your strengths, and even your weaknesses are what make your business unique. My best advice is to actively surround yourself with people who have more experience and knowledge than you. My advice is to be accountable and focus on continual improvement. By implementing S.M.A.R.T.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. The first is shying away from the hard things, outsourcing leadership including the fundraising portion of it, and underestimating how much time, energy, and effort is needed to fundraise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

. “If you asked one of our partners … I think what they’re going to tell you is that longevity allows us to tell people not just what to do, but that we know why to do it that way, and how to be more pragmatic — save time, save energy, but also know what not to do. Danny walks through a recap of his panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience! Since the pandemic disrupted the social rhythms of work and school, many of us have compensated by changing our relationship to digital media.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

ClimateTech & Energy Prize @ MIT is a competition for student-led climatech startups. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Free advice (worth as much as you’re paying for it). How to get a job in VC.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

EverActive’s battery-free wireless sensors are powered from harvested energy and deliver continuous cloud-based analytics via solutions built upon advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication. EverActive. EverActive is an IoT startup with offices in Santa Clara, Charlottesville (VA), and Ann Arbor. FreightVerify.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. I only point out that there are side benefits of the bursts of energy, enthusiasm and investment dollars. But it’s not enough to justify over-paying for deals. source: Capital IQ.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Yet, there is sage advice behind this statement that I could not ignore placing it right in the middle of these insights. But when money is the issue, your time, energy and focus are drained from other important areas of the business. As an executive, you have many ways you are pulled every day, both tactical and strategic.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right. Startups are like families.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

I guess my thoughts are that if you’re part of the country club you have a vested interest in protecting the existing order and that disruption happens more from those that are on the outside wanting to change the rules. He has so much negative energy it was draining. It’s something I kind of seek out. To be liked?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The driving force of economic growth for the US is gains in productivity driven by calculated risk-takers, passionate entrepreneurs and disruptive innovation. I’m already a busy person, some days having the time and energy to get everything done can be overwhelming. The startup world asks founders to disrupt their industries with data.

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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. A startup is seeded by the financial and validating optimism of bringing the next great idea, killer product, or market-disrupting service to the world. They have already made their mistakes and learned the lessons.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? There are a lot of great developers in Prague, good energy and enough success stories and role models to follow.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On top of inflation and the cost of living, the shortage of skilled employees, supply chain disruption, government spending, and consumer confidence are also factors that some SMEs have told us are on their mind as they consider what lies ahead over the next 12 months,” says Jo. 5) SEPARATE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS EXPENSES.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As someone who moved away from home, I was often scrambling to send birthday gifts to family members across the country, or, as a manager during COVID that led a disrupted team, I wanted to meaningfully show employee appreciation outside of Zoom shoutouts. The energy, smarts, and hustle of the founding team was infectious.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. No Dave S. =

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. That was very, very disruptive from a value prop standpoint, but actually more importantly, it was disruptive from a go-to-market standpoint.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) (Any Without credit, economic activity declines, and therefore less energy is needed. Winter is over in North Asia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The two have a great working relationship, and we’re going to pull out some advice and lessons on building a founder/investor relationship, but also talk about product launching timing and winning a startup competition — Forethought AI won Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018. Apple Podcasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? I also feed off of the energy of others. Who else is complicit and equally bound by The Innovator’s Dilemma ? Will this hold in the future?

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 8, 2020

If you’re likely to have supply-chain disruptions, be open and honest – and let customers know there may be delays. If you are experiencing disruptions to cash flow, get in touch with Inland Revenue Department early to discuss your options. Remember to be transparent and keep them updated with further developments as they arise.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2017

We pull all-nighters and push ourselves to the limit trying to maximize our output—but really, it’s zapping crucial energy that we need to be productive. Turns out, this continued disruption to your sleep patterns will make you more tired than if you got up the first time. I have—and it messed up my natural sleep cycle.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Disruptive companies often start as gimmicks for hobbyists Most radical innovations initially appear like curiosities, only entertained by geeks and weirdos. To go out for a three-mile run was something weirdos did, presumably to burn off manic energy. the way business gets conducted has massively changed since the 60s-70s?—?and

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. The gods saw fit to bless my kingdom with sufficient food and energy to weather this storm. How can the US help?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The advice was one of ten bullet points in a memo meant to help companies navigate the economic downturn crushing tech. It was a blast, and I’m inspired by the energy that showed up both onstage and off. Thank you to everyone who joined us at TechCrunch Mobility this year. Obviously, the show must go on.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. Brian Halligan [01:10] – Well, I have to manage my energy, because people drain energy from me. There’s big a been disruption in the content creation industry.

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