Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

Some of the best content to be found about startups is locked in books. Thomas Kjemperud asked me yesterday for a 140 character recommendation of one book for founders. These are the books I go back to, time and again, when I have a question or I’m looking for an insight. The BMG is clear and simple but comprehensive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

We thought GSEA would be an excellent framework for exploring another generation of students whose brilliant ideas could become big business.”. We can all take a page from these students’ books and suspend our fear of the unknown to try something new. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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Source Link

MARCH 29, 2021

The SBA Community Navigator framework envisions a lead nonprofit partner who can serve as a hub for the entrepreneurial community and the network building efforts. For those new to the field, we wrote a book on our methodology , which features global examples of people engaged in improving the environment for small businesses to succeed.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The framework could be further altered for other asset classes. Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The framework could be further altered for other asset classes. Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Or, as the late scholar, author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in his classic book ‘Flow’, these are the times we find our most productive flow; our path toward personal happiness. We learned how the RAWI framework can be a simple but powerful method of taking control of the situation. R: are we Ready?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The best book I’ve found on building compelling presentations is Nancy Duarte’ Resonate. To prove the point, Duarte diagrammed the audience’s journey with Luke Skywalker in Star Wars and the book has many similar examples. As Duarte writes in her book, complexity kills presentations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On the flip side, employers sign a contract with Zenjob and can then book temporary staff as needed, including for both short and longer term jobs. “Our approach is 100% digital and we are always working on improving the benefits that we can offer to the people who book jobs through us: Fast payments, 24/7 opportunity to book jobs.”

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 28, 2020

After three eventful years , I’m excited to say that my new book— The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , with Brad Feld —is officially available to the public today! It’s my first book, so this is a new feeling. It wasn’t always fun; writing a book of this nature is really hard work.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2015

Orbiting the Giant Hairball is one of the most unusual business books I’ve read. Gordon MacKenzie, the author of the book, worked at Hallmark cards for 30 years to the day. In his book, he described the way he injected creativity into his working life. I thought it was a great book with three salient themes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. In your book, The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society , you write that the future is about creating value for everyone.

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Continuations

APRIL 30, 2023

Tim Urban , the author of the wonderful Wait but Why blog has written a book digging into how we have gotten here. Titled “ What’s Our Problem ” the book is a full throated defense of liberalism in general and free speech in particular. High-rung politics holds the promise of progress without bloodshed.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. I also set personal learning goals, such as reading at least four business books each quarter. That was in 2000, right before the internet bubble busted. In the past 25 years, I founded different companies and led teams of up to 80 people.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I haven’t read it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Leading the round is Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Gresham House Ventures, Sage and existing investors. Founded in 2017 by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, Countingup now boasts over 34,000 business customers. Countingup , the U.K. million in Series A investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is the foundation of my leadership approach to building a world-class company and the core focus of my new book, Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others , which published last month and is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. I have gone all-in on capacity building as a leadership strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2021

I realized that for so many entrepreneurs, “design” was a mindset: our lives and businesses could be designed with the right series of decisions, habits, systems, processes and frameworks. Some are reading 50 to 100 books each year. I saw myself in that tightrope-walk. Growth and change. the learning and self-development is nonstop.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even The finding allowed the company to expand its book-in-advance offering to give customers more options and freedom.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Co-author of the book "Leaders of Growth," he also hosts its related podcast. This statistic is partially explained by a lack of a good organizational framework for scaling companies across seed to Series C. Here’s our framework: Scaling is a continuum with maturity stages.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For example, Mitre Att&ck framework for classifying threats and alerts (If it’s a SaaS offering) SOC2 certification There are many other certifications such as Common Criteria that provide assurance your product meets minimum requirements. Send your well-prepared A-team and keep these tips in mind to avoid getting an instant no.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

So, that is where Innovamat is starting: It’s rejecting the idea of the hard-bound text book and with a basic curriculum and taking actually a very “tech” approach to this, effectively building out its own data model and understanding of math education. Most of them still work in schools teaching math, the company tells me.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 28, 2013

Sure, eight years of Jesuit high school and college gave me frameworks for learning, but it was never made obvious what I'd use them for and how they tied back into the outside world. I don't know if it was by design that I reference Descartes when I think about risk and uncertainty or by accident, but I wish I had started doing that earlier.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Turo’s launch in New York follows the state legislature’s passing of SB 6715 in December 2021, a law that provides a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer car sharing operations in the state. Prospective hosts can start pre-listing cars on Wednesday, and guests who want to book on Turo can start June 27, the company said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. If you publish a book, how do you get on the NY Times best seller list? Simply write a great book?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to fix it: Build a framework to collect feedback from users, customers, and the team. It’s so easy, and there are many books on how to build startups. Do you still follow the best-practice guidelines from the brilliant books you’ve all read? Do it whenever it adds value. Listen and adjust the rest of the time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

When I was at Open Market in the 1990s, our CEO gave out the recently published book “ Crossing the Chasm ” to the executive team and told us to read it to gain insight into why we had hit a speed bump in our scaling.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There were just very few people who had the practical experience and framework-driven thinking she could bring. So instead she wrote a book , coming out March 7th, and available for pre-order now. Probably the best preview can be found in an interview she did with Elad Gil for his own book the High Growth Handbook (also a must have).

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. From their book, “Designing for Growth,” they iterate a four-question matrix, each with steps for creation through launch. We’ll use this loosely to frame our process.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

. “The reality is, they end up buying because they come to understand the value of the reinforcement learning driven approach to portfolio management, which provides invaluable insights for managing portfolio risk, balancing and growing their book of business.” Image Credits: Federato.

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Continuations

MAY 30, 2022

A highly relevant book is Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies , published in 1988. All in all a very worthwhile read combining a ton of history with an analytical framework. I had two key takeaways from reading it. First, there are way more examples of complex societies collapsing than I was aware of.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 13, 2020

In the upcoming book The Startup Community Way , my co-author Brad Feld and I utilize the framework of complex adaptive systems to explain the behavior of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Our book has been miraculously well-timed. I expect a spike to occur here within the next three weeks.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It provides the framework to grow your business by helping you to gain new customers while you retain the ones you have. Publish blog posts, e-books and other downloadable content, as well as an engaging newsletter. Expand it into a blog post or an e-book. Building a customer acquisition strategy. Offer amazing content.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In this chapter, we are going to look in more detail at the first step of the TUNED branding framework: think IP first. In chapter 3, we became familiar with the concept of IP, and in chapter 2 we had a short introduction to the problems that can arise from ignoring IP in your branding process. You should not be confused for a competitor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 31, 2019

Reading some books including Creative Selection, I’m sure Jobs’ style was more nuanced. Jennifer Garvey Berger applies this framework to leadership. This framework got me thinking about where I am in the Adult Development Theory. Maybe that’s why leadership is so hard to evaluate. Where are you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I bought the most popular book on the topic, “ The Mind of the Strategist &# by Kenichi Ohmae, who is ex McKinsey. I found this book very useful but still a little bit hard to implement. The book is expensive but for me personally this helped me enormously. I’m glad I read it though.

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