StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

In “Competing Against Luck,” disruptor and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen shares his theory for breakthrough innovation: the jobs to be done theory. In illustrating the jobs to be done theory, the authors pose a thought-provoking question throughout the book: “What job did you hire that product to do?”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ryan Breslow has had a tumultuous 2022. It’s not slowing him down. Few outside of Breslow’s world even knew his name a year ago. Then Bolt , a “one-click” checkout tech company that evolved from an earlier idea of his, announced $355 million in Series E funding at a reported $11 billion valuation.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his classic book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.” Then you will get things done, and it won’t even seem like work.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Startup of the Week: Cellium: Indoor wireless done right. The post Newsletter: Future of FinTech + Indoor wireless done right appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. DreaMed, U. of Colorado expand diabetes treatment availability Sprout incubator invests $1M in smart cow sensor firm Protag Introductions More than 4,400 high-tech jobs.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

"When team members know they're being relied upon to get something done for a peer, rather than a manager, I've found there's far less friction in keeping things moving forward," says Elliot Schrock, the founder of Thryve , a mobile development company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Madrid-based TaxDown , which automates income tax filing by calculating regional deductions due to users so they don’t have to navigate complex tax rules themselves, has raised €2.4 million (~$3M) in seed funding. US-based FJ Labs has joined TaxDown’s investment board as it closes the seed round.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 21, 2021

Give yourself a 95% chance of hitting your goals Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Going back to mid-2018, I have detailed notes of all my major decisions. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OurCrowd

JUNE 9, 2020

The post [Lemonade in TechCrunch] Startup dilution done right: Lemonade IPO edition appeared first on OurCrowd. If you are a founder looking for a role model, Lemonade may just be the best scenario you can have while raising nearly $500 million in preferred equity funding across five rounds. Read more here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 31, 2020

Our portfolio company Dronebase is in that business and has been doing “socially distant” missions for over five years.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s fine if you’re at a super early stage, and you’re looking for some direction—trying to figure out if anyone has done something like this, or whether or not, in my “expertise” I believe some aspect of expected consumer behavior. Let’s be clear, however, that’s not fundraising. That’s product research.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

And the story of an old peanut butter cup success Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The post Have you done your annual entrepreneurial health check? The quicker you can recognise any of these signs and act accordingly, the more likely the business can stay in a healthy position and be positioned favorably for growth. appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

What Have We Done? And now I’m off to jury duty to do my civic duty for society. That’s what we do the morning after. We wake up and we march on. We have no choice. Photo via Visualhunt The Morning After.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2020

Can it be done successfully? Walton has had great success using something he calls “spotlight”, where he picks two random people what they have done over the last few weeks that they are proud of. If done regularly, then everyone will understand what winning will look like in six months, 12 months, and even three years from now.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Good business-owners put forth effort, great ones avoid it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In many cases, it’s about taking just a bit of time to get introspective; is that trendy new productivity tool actually helping you get things done faster, or would a simple notes app/spreadsheet work better with the way you think?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Is it imposter syndrome or is everyone else really that much more impressive and accomplished? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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StartupNation

MARCH 20, 2023

Even before Covid-19 forced companies to adopt work-from-home policies, employers were already implementing ways… The post Employee Monitoring Done Right: Finding a Balance between Privacy and Productivity appeared first on StartupNation. Employee monitoring isn’t new.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

According to Des Traynor, Intercom’s CEO, hundreds of in-depth customer interviews uncovered four “ customer’s jobs to be done ” that customers were hiring Intercom’s software to do: Help me observe. In 2019, I worked with a team that understood their “customer’s jobs to be done” and built their business model around it.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In my experience, that often correlates highly to people who have done a lot of work before they've come to me, as opposed to starting with me to get the basics. This way, I have something to point to every time anyone else asks me for the same thing and you’ve also done me the favor of being an outsourced content editor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 29, 2021

In an age of time starvation and scarcity, I choose to believe there is always a way to make something difficult happen. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How it’s done: Go to your IG profile and click on the three-line icon. How it’s done: Go to that specific account, click on the bell-shaped notification icon on the top bar. How it’s done: Tap “Edit Profile,” mention the relevant keyword in your bio, and save it. Sometimes your feed misses posts from those creators.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. This creates an incentive to get the round done quickly, which is what everyone wants in this situation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

The only way to create new products or product improvements that offer customers new and formerly unavailable value is to identify the “job to be done,” then remove friction from the customer experiences surrounding that “job to be done.”. >> Identify the Jobs to Be Done. ” Step 2. List Customer Experience Gaps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

To improve our productivity, we introduced a Getting S**t Done Day (GSDD): Our employees define clear-cut goals and receive specific, usually non-trivial, tasks with little to no communication involved (we encourage our employees to avoid social media on this day, but we are not looking over their shoulder).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 2, 2021

Or, by contrast, they may delegate without setting proper expectations or providing clear instructions, then expect things to turn out exactly as they would have done it themselves. . They’ll justify this by saying, “See, if I don’t do it, it won’t get done correctly.” This creates a vicious cycle that needs to be broken. .

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 31, 2022

We couldn’t have done that without Baer’s help. The company eventually failed, but not before helping thousands of blind people around the world reconnect with friends and family in ways many had not thought possible. He went on to help every student I sent his way, and continued mentoring me on each of my ventures.

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

One of the hardest things about early stage investing is that it is really risky - if you don’t have some suspension of disbelief, and you obsess too much about cataloging every risk, you will never get a deal done.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi’s shareholders have voted to delist the company from the NYSE. The decision is a long-expected result of the company finding itself in hot water with the Chinese government after a rushed and later troubled public-market debut in the United States.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Now I can’t imagine anyone wanting to start a company in any other community—and I’m proud of all the work I’ve done to promote it and build connections within it. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund.

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