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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Could you imagine trying to measure the equity of transportation by measuring the price of the car purchased? We shouldn’t be taking the advice of the people that are on this kind of track and weaving it into our own fundraising strategy.

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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

Entrepreneurs' Organization

a publicly-traded social service and transportation firm. Rustand says he’s had calls from more than 300 business leaders at small and medium-sized companies looking for advice. That’s the message about COVID-19 from Warren Rustand. Rustand has run more than a dozen companies during this career, most recently Providence Service Corp.,

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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

Both Sides of the Table

It is differentiated from the service of picking up passengers and transporting them in that drivers have to have more specialization in picking up packages and driving them to consumers. You may have some drivers with larger cars and stronger bodies who transport white goods or TVs for example. Startup Advice'

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Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Dream It

Osmosis gives clinicians trusted advice on how to improve on-site processes and deal with COVID-19. Kaizen Health streamlines the logistics of patient transportation to and from on-site visits. Kaizen bridges the gap between healthcare and transportation. Most importantly, this enables physicians to get back to patient care.

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4 Secrets to Responsive Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

These are the attributes that sustain and make a person’s leadership strong in both triumph and crisis, as well as transportable and transferrable in different environments. What advice do you have for entrepreneurs who may be looking to revive their businesses? I call these leadership attributes The Big 4.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. So my only goal is to give you insights into the conversations we’ve been having in case you don’t have the same access or advice. I’m getting so much conflicting advice, whom should I listen to?

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There are too many pulls & tugs at our elbows for time, for coffee meetings, for advice or speaking engagements or cocktail parties or dinners. My general advice is to do less. I offer the same advice for many of my friends who are newer VCs. The best of the best in our industry are feeling it, too. Easier said than done.

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