Fri.Dec 27, 2019

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Focus on Progress Leadership Not Change Management

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dean Lindsay author of Creating Progress In A World Of Change , a keynote speaker and author of award-winning How to Achieve Big PHAT Goals. Just because a business or organization is getting bigger does not mean it is progressing. A serious challenge for businesses large and small is to progress —and not just change. The business term “change management” has been around for a good long while.

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Funding Friday: Flash Forest

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

This project seeks to use drones to plant 1bn trees. Reforestation is an important part of climate mitigation and reforestation projects are behind many carbon offset programs. So technology like this could make all of that a lot more efficient.

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How To Build Product As A Small Startup

Y Combinator

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel shares a process for building product as a small startup. Topics. 00:00 – Have a process to get product out the door. 1:02 – Decide on a release schedule. 1:15 – Put someone in charge of product. 1:34 – Establish KPIs. 1:47 – Create a theme for the product cycle based on a KPI. 2:00 – Product meeting. 2:30 – Brainstorm new features, bugs, and tests. 3:35 – Sort each into: easy, medium, or hard. 4:59 ̵

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[The Bouqs in Fast Company] This startup used storytelling to disrupt the $50 billion flower industry

OurCrowd

Bouqs founder John Tabis tells contributor Mark Miller how frustration—and a love of roses—led to the creation of a farm-to-table flower enterprise. Read more here. The post [The Bouqs in Fast Company] This startup used storytelling to disrupt the $50 billion flower industry appeared first on OurCrowd.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.

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Announcing the Startup School 2019 Grant Recipients

Y Combinator

As part of our efforts to further support founders in Startup School , we awarded $15,000 in equity-free grants to the most promising companies to go through the course. The quality (and quantity!) of founders who participated in Startup School this past year made the grant selection process a tough one. Congratulations to the following startups* for their impressive progress over the 10-weeks of Startup School!

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