Fri.Feb 28, 2020

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4 Secrets to Responsive Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What makes a great leader? Nationally recognized leader and executive coach Jackie Jenkins-Scott provides her perspective as she explores examples of responsive leadership in her new book, 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership. While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. .

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Eze Redwood

Forward Cities

This interview is part of the “Ecosystem Builders” series. More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Q:What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . A: Starting out in both the tech sector and restaurants, we made a lot of costly mistakes that made life very hard.

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Funding Friday: Rocketbook Orbit

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Rocketbook is a serial Kickstarter creator, having done five successful projects already. They make notebooks and note pads that you can write on but also save your work to the cloud. They are back with the Rocketbook Orbit which is a “legal pad” that saves your work to the cloud. I backed it this morning. USV TEAM POSTS: Nick Grossman — Feb 24, 2020 Bird by Bird Albert Wenger — Feb 24, 2020 Coronavirus and World After Capital.

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YC S20 Interviews in Western Europe

Y Combinator

Last fall, we hosted interviews in Paris. They were so successful that we’ll be hosting them again this May. Interviews will take place from May 12-14 and are like regular YC interviews in every way. The application is the same, as well as what we look for in the application and the criteria for acceptance. Accepted companies will join the Summer 2020 batch immediately.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Protected: How Neighborhood Resource Navigators are Improving Access to Resources for Entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh

Forward Cities

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Sanders over Trump

Continuations

At the moment it appears as if Bernie Sanders might become the Democratic nominee. Bloomberg having entered the race means that the centrist vote is split four ways between Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar. On the left there are only two candidates with Sanders and Warren. A lot can still change of course, especially with Super Tuesday coming up and there could be a brokered convention.