Tue.Feb 12, 2019

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. What gives? Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.

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Blind Passion for Your Invention? Time for Tough Love

Venture Well

Innovators need tough love to help them balance passion with data to ensure their invention effectively solves a real-world problem. The post Blind Passion for Your Invention? Time for Tough Love appeared first on VentureWell.

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Personal Commitment: Pay Attention to Your Partnerships

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written by Neen James, motivational speaker and attention expert. I am celebrating my 29th year of marriage. That’s right! When I think about the length of our personal commitment, I reflect on what was required for my husband and I to make it work. It hasn’t been all sunshine and roses and unicorn kisses…. it’s hard work. It makes me realize that there are three key things necessary for us to be more personally committed to our relationships and partnerships. 3 ways to commit to your rela

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In Defense of Troublemakers

Tomasz Tunguz

In Defense of Troublemakers. I love the title. Who doesn’t want to be a troublemaker? Charlan Nemeth is a professor at Berkeley of Psychology. She’s studied the role of dissent in group decision-making and written this book on the topic. It’s a critical part of a functioning team. Here’s what I learned from the book: The minority, dissenting opinion in an argument is essential to ensure we make the best decisions.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.