A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This past summer I read a proof of Ben Horowitz’s new book, What You Do Is Who You Are , and I even blogged about it here without naming the book. What You Do is about culture, how you make it, how you keep it, and how the big decisions you make and how you explain them set the culture in your organization. To explain this Ben tells the story of four different cultures that were set by strong leaders: – the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture R

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Written by Justin Song, a senior research analyst at LendingTree where he has experience covering topics such as personal loans and small business lending. The average cost of starting a small business in the U.S. is about US$30,000 —the same cost as a three-day medical stay. If you’re just getting started, you may view health insurance as an untenable expense and forgo it all together simply to avoid the monthly payment.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 28, 2019

OurCrowd, a global investment platform which brings VC opportunities to accredited investors worldwide, is the leader in equity crowdfunding. Managed by a team of seasoned investment professionals and led by serial entrepreneur and CEO Jon Medved, OurCrowd vets and selects companies, invests its own capital, and invites its accredited membership of investors and institutional partners to invest alongside in these opportunities.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As a leader of my team at Smart Hustle I often wonder, how much to "help" a team member and how much to get out of the way and trust their genius skills and abilities. This is the dilemma of leadership. In a traditional corporate environment there's the model of management by walking around, which the Wall Street Journal writes about. However, some studies show that this management style could be detrimental to your employees.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A few weeks ago, I installed Windows on my Mac using BootCamp. BootCamp allows you to have both operating systems on your computer at the same time and choose the one you want to use when. I was curious about Windows. So I installed it and tried to use it for a few days. Here are my impressions. Just as background, I’ve been on a Mac since I was seven and I last worked on a Windows machine in 2004.

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Derek Sivers

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Starting today you can follow my podcast at sive.rs/podcast.rss or listen on the web at sive.rs/podcast. Each episode is around two minutes long. They are my posts since September 22nd. 33 episodes so far. I generated the RSS XML feed myself using this Ruby script. The MP3s are just hosted on my own server. I skipped all the podcast hosting services, because I’ll never have ads so I don’t care about analytics, tracking, and all of that.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A while back I recorded an interview with Jason Jacobs for his podcast series My Climate Journey. Jason did a great job pushing me on a number of different issues which helped clarify my thinkings (thanks, Jason). Today Jason launched the episode and I suggest you go and check it out. I love the Jason publishes a transcript also, so if you prefer reading you can do that also.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Milan, Italy-based insurance company Sara Assicurazioni SpA will integrate technology by Israeli startup Ride Vision Ltd. into its policy offerings, the latter announced Monday. Read more here. The post [Ride Vision in CTech] Italian Insurer Partners With Israeli Motorcycle Safety Startup Ride Vision appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Businesses still have a lot of work to do in the areas of password and access security, according to the latest research in this year’s Global Password Security Report. While some organizations are increasing their use of important security measures like multifactor authentication (MFA), overall, employees still have poor password hygiene that weakens overall company security.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 28, 2019

These past few weeks have been filled with truly exciting events which we are pleased to share with you. In a groundbreaking move to provide broader access to the Venture Capital asset class, OurCrowd and Stifel Financial Corp. signed a major strategic deal, including investment. We’re celebrating our biggest North American institutional partner with tremendous distribution capability to Stifel’s more than 1 million clients through 2,200 financial advisors.

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