Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 18, 2018
Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. We recently talked with him about making time for charity beyond his busy professional and family commitments. . Vishal heads up a US$100 million food business in India’s spice sector that exports to more than 22 countries throughout the world.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 5, 2018
At Redpoint’s annual investor meeting earlier this year, I quipped, “The day-trading taxi drivers of the dotcom era have been replaced by crypto-trading Uber drivers.” But over the weekend, a grizzled Uber driver with a mane of grey hair and wind-and-sunburnt cheeks asked me about crypto. “Can you explain to me why public key/private key technology is important on the Blockchain?
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Haystack
MAY 19, 2018
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for many months. Ironically, I’ve haven’t had the time for *this specific* post until now, today. I’m writing while all my three toddlers are napping and my wife went to work to get organized. I’ll likely finish this tonight after putting the kids to sleep. This is a post about time — and various attempts at time management.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MAY 22, 2018
State College, PA – Salimetrics, a company that is widely regarded as a global leader in salivary bioscience, got its start nearly 20 years ago with an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and then received additional funding from the program for a buyout of early-stage investors in 2012. The founder of the company, Dr. Doug Granger, a nationally and internationally recognized scientist, pioneered the use of saliva collection methods and salivary ELISA kits which provided con
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You had an amazing meeting with an investor. Your product demo crushed. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 11, 2018
Written for EO by Justin M. Deonarine, an industrial-organizational psychologist with Psychometrics Canada,an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) -member company. Leadership. It’s a complex and challenging topic. While we would all agree leadership efforts can always improve, few companies are putting the time or money into developing effective leaders.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 28, 2018
Imagine you came across this ad. Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory and makes you more creative. It makes you look more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you from cancer and dementia. It wards off colds and the flu. It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes.
Deskmag
MAY 16, 2018
The typical coworking manager is often seen as a blur whizzing around the workspace. Or as a seemingly stationary robot typing manically on their MacBook Air. While to some it may seem like community managers are getting a ton of stuff done, in reality, community managers are often juggling an impossible load of minutiae at the expense of more impactful things.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MAY 22, 2018
ERIE, PA – More than 15 years ago, a Penn State Erie faculty member, Tom Briselden and his team at Spin-Works LLC, developed an innovative, silicon-carbide radiant tube insert called a SpyroCor. The twisted “Y” design produced non-turbulent, high convection flow creating a high rate of uniform heat transfer. At the time, there were more than 20,000 natural gas furnaces in the United States and Canada, and the cost of fuel was rising.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 14, 2018
I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link. Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else
Berkonomics
MAY 24, 2018
Here’s yet another story that you may identify with – or have yet to experience in your business life. It’s one of those that define your leadership for all to see, sometimes based upon decisions made in the moment – such as this one. A story of a CEO’s snap judgment call. Years ago, when I was CEO of my record manufacturing company in Hollywood, I happened to walk around the plant into the press room just as Bobby, one of the employees’ favorite coworkers, was offering stolen merchandise to his
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 8, 2018
You know that employees benefit from constructive feedback. You understand that the opportunity to apply helpful criticism helps an employee perform better and even grow more loyal. Still, it’s hard to deliver effective feedback. Even the greatest leaders struggle with providing constructive and beneficial performance reviews. Follow this feedback primer to practice delivering effective criticism. 3 TYPES OF FEEDBACK: Positive: “You’re doing a great job in this area.” Neu
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 19, 2018
Technology innovations swing to a pendulum’s cadence. Sometimes innovations begin with infrastructure changes and reverberate up the stack. Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. The last major epoch of front end evolution has celebrated its ten year anniversary.
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Haystack
MAY 5, 2018
The public’s interest in learning more about and participating in venture capital seems to grow more and more each week. I have written a few posts here lately sharing my own experience and point of view, but then realized we all may talk about “getting into VC” as if it is a monolithic endeavor — and that would not do us or the reader justice.
Deskmag
MAY 22, 2018
For many big coworking spaces, integrating broker firms into the sales strategy for their space is the norm. Yet for others, it’s unknown territory. Whilst brokers may have previously been associated with traditional offices, many coworking operators are now utilizing their capabilities to minimise vacancy rates. However, creating an effective relationship with a broker firm isn’t something that happens at the touch of a button; there are ways and means of ensuring the working relationship fully
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 28, 2018
There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Founder: “$8–10 million” VC: “What’s your current burn rate?” Founder: “$250k / month.” VC: “So at a constant rate of burn rate you’d be raising enough for 2.5–3 years.
Berkonomics
MAY 17, 2018
Here comes another story. Of course. This one may be like one or more you have experienced in your company. It is a story about focus upon the customer, first. And about reinforcing the culture of the company in support of that important focus by senior management, and by all employees who see that leadership in action…. Some examples of celebration you can use.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 1, 2018
Written for EO by Jackie Roberson, writer. In many companies corporate culture is never explicitly defined, but rather implied. It shows up in the way that employees interact with each other, the way they dress and maintain their work areas, the hours they work, and how they conduct business with the outside world. Culture is defined through the satisfaction of the employees and the clients, the way the office is set up, and the benefits offered to employees.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 8, 2018
I remember the first time I wrote an OKR (objective and key result) at Google. “You should set your goals so that you attain 70%. That’s success,” my manager told me. “Even better if you have a moonshot goal in there, with a 5% likelihood of success.” I was uneasy with calling 70% goal achievement as success. The habits formed from 17 years of schooling and a 100 point scale run deep.
Derek Sivers
MAY 31, 2018
In my first book, Anything You Want , I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my company. As part of selling the company, I signed a non-compete agreement that said I couldn’t do the one thing I’d been doing since I was twenty-seven years old. So I had to make a real change in my life. I thought a lot about what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen.
Deskmag
MAY 24, 2018
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2018
There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. It’s the antithesis of “ready, fire, aim” which seems to be so prevalent in today’s society. The benefits you will receive from doing even some basic planning before you hit the fund raising trail are enormous. This post has some basic advice on how to plan your raise before you hit the road.
Berkonomics
MAY 10, 2018
Here is one that is so important to the continued health of a growing company that it cannot be overstated. It’s a bit complex for novices. But hang in there as I explain a bit about accounting classification of assets and liabilities. Differences between types of assets and liabilities. First, let’s be sure we know what is short in term and what is long in term.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 14, 2018
Written for EO by Jackie Roberson. When you’re managing a business and trying to grow it, being able to lead a team to greatness is key. You know you must hire the right people, learn how to delegate and communicate effectively to be a strong leader. But beyond these basics, what do truly great leaders need? Consider these four key traits. 1. A Growth Mindset.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 1, 2018
“Don’t be so hard on yourself when things go badly and don’t be so proud of yourself when they go well.” I think this is one of the hardest pieces of advice to follow. Chance is an important contributor to any outcome. sometimes we just get lucky. That recent crypto trade in which you made 25% in an hour. The time you met your significant other for the first time.
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