Entrepreneurs' Organization
JANUARY 27, 2020
Contributed by Bethany Seton. Our mental health clearly affects all aspects of our daily life—including the way we do business and conduct ourselves in the workplace. However, due to the nature of conditions such as anxiety, addiction, depression and the like, problems can go undetected for lengthy periods of time, even as they damage relationships with family and coworkers.
The Seraf Compass
JANUARY 29, 2020
One of the most controversial topics in the startup community relates to the issue of investing through convertible notes vs. investing through preferred stock. Much has been written about this topic for the past decade, and the debate continues to rage in the blogosphere even today. Even though this topic has been covered by others, we felt it was important to give our perspective.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 26, 2020
Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? in the New Yorker. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
JANUARY 29, 2020
By Elise Kemp. Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. The results of this woman’s hard work and innovation are cutting-edge technology solutions to the biggest problems in Ecuador. Tamara is a chemical engineer by profession, but her heart is also dedicated to children’s rights, and she, alongside four friends, started a business to combine these two passions.
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Venture Well
JANUARY 28, 2020
As more technology transfer offices work to close the gender engagement gap, we outline some best practices to help administrators enhance their efforts. The post how technology transfer offices can close the gender engagement gap appeared first on VentureWell.
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Forward Cities
JANUARY 30, 2020
This interview is part of the “Ecosystem Builders” series. More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Q: What is something that’s happening in Kansas City right now that you are excited about? . A: I am really excited with the growth and development that’s going on in the city right now. It’s great to be in KC during this really exciting time, and being able to capitalize on some of the momentum the city has gotten over the past 5-8 years.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
JANUARY 28, 2020
By Ana Gonzalez. Through the Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic , 2018 YLAI Fellow Valesca Saint Cyr is able to deliver quality and affordable dental care to underserved communities in Haiti. The clinic travels to different areas for two or three days at a time and treats over 100 people each day. To celebrate women’s entrepreneurship in the field of science, the YLAI Network shares Valesca’s inspiring efforts and successes in Haiti.
Venture Well
JANUARY 31, 2020
Doris Marie Candelaria of E-Team, INSU Health Design, has learned to be open to feedback and understand different perspectives on the team's innovation. The post reducing grid reliance: q&a with Doris Marie Candelaria from e-team, INSU Health Design appeared first on VentureWell.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JANUARY 31, 2020
Nicholas Dancer is the owner and operator of Dancer Concrete Design and he chats with Ramon Ray about concrete, entrepreneurship, leadership, and his new book, Day In, Day Out: The Secret Power in Showing Up and Doing the Work. The Beginning of a Business. Nick runs Dancer Concrete Design out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. They don’t actually pour concrete, but they refinish existing concrete by polishing concrete floors and applying epoxy floor coatings.
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Deskmag
JANUARY 30, 2020
São Paulo, Bali, Seattle, Erfurt or Vienna. those are the locations of the next large coworking gatherings. Mark the dates in your calendar!
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JANUARY 29, 2020
Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs comes when their enterprise grows from being a small shop of 10 people to a midsized company of 100 or more. Entrepreneurial decision-making must change to account for this growth, but it often doesn’t due to our desire to avoid losses. To illustrate why, let me tell you a story.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
JANUARY 26, 2020
By Scott Meacham. Mentoring is one of the most valuable venture services i2E provides to Oklahoma’s innovators and entrepreneurs. Our mentoring covers a wide range of topics and situations based on the leadership team’s experience, the stage of the startup, and the market the company is working to serve. We are focused when we mentor. We talk about the what, why, and how of execution—especially the why.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JANUARY 30, 2020
I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. It is great that the capital markets serving founders have become hyperefficient.
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Deskmag
JANUARY 30, 2020
São Paulo, Bali, Seattle, Erfurt, Basel, London or Vienna. those were the locations where the next large coworking gatherings would have taken place before the Corona virus changed almost everything. This article is contiously updated including postponed conferences, starting with the next event. Cancelled and past events can be found at the article's end.
500
JANUARY 28, 2020
Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by SEMrush. All views and opinions represented in this post are the views and opinions of SEMrush and do not represent those of 500 Startups or any of its staff or affiliates. When you’re researching a market for the first time, it’s essential to find out what companies operate in your niche. And it’s no less important to understand how these businesses made it to the list of top industry players and what marketing strategies they follow.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 29, 2020
OurCrowd, the global crowdfunding venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, will feature Dr. Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel prize winner in medicine, among the experts at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on Feb. 13. Murad will discuss how technology can help prevent the development of deadly diseases. The subject has been catapulted back into the headlines with the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus in China.
INBIA
JANUARY 30, 2020
The post InBIA Partners with Fluent and SourceLink® to Pilot The Fluency Score appeared first on InBIA.
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GCUC
JANUARY 28, 2020
My father is sick. Very sick. He has two progressive, fatal lung diseases and he can no longer do the things he used to. Watching him become very ill has taught me a lot of hard lessons, and also some smart lessons that are forcing me to change my life. The first is that my health is a priority. I finally got real about working out a minimum of twice a week.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JANUARY 29, 2020
Since launching AVC 3.0 on January 9th, we have had some site reliability issues. The most common issue is a “too many redirects” error that has been reported by many people and is intermittent and not easily reproducible. That said, a number of you have been able to create.HAR files and send them to me. Thank you for doing that. Siteground and Cloudflare are now debugging this issue and we hope to have it resolved soon.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 28, 2020
Hailo-8 was also selected as a CES 2020 Innovations Awards Honoree in the Embedded Technologies product category, and Hailo engineers presented at CES earlier in January. “CES was fantastic and a great opportunity,” Danon said, noting that Hailo was exposed to a crowd at CES estimated at 170,000. Read more here. The post [Hailo in FierceElectronics] How AI chips will explode 3x by 2025 with startups like Hailo, Syntiant and Groq appeared first on OurCrowd.
500
JANUARY 31, 2020
Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by Perry Light, the Market Connect Lead, North America of Oracle for Startups. All views and opinions represented in this post are the views and opinions of Oracle for Startups and do not represent those of 500 Startups or any of its staff or affiliates. If you would like to join Oracle for Startups, apply and use the code “500 Startups”.
Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker
The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l
Y Combinator
JANUARY 28, 2020
Join us for a fireside, hosted by Harvard in Tech, with YC partner Aaron Harris. Aaron was the founder of edtech company Tutorspree (a startup that was based in NY) and has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013. He’ll share what he’s learned from working with over 1,000 startups, and he’ll talk about some of the myths around starting a startup and getting into YC.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JANUARY 27, 2020
It was nice to see Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell run the table on the Grammy’s last night. It was yet another sign that the age of self made artists is upon us. As is our custom, my partner Andy and our friend Whitney posted some music to Twitter today. Andy and I went with Billie Eilish. it's fun to go back and listen to her early stuff on SoundCloud.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 29, 2020
The top reasons given by security pros were to reduce the number of different endpoint security tools and their belief that Microsoft’s solution is on par with third-party antivirus programs. Such a move could provide cost savings that can free up IT budgets to invest in additional endpoint protection, according to Morphisec. Read more here. The post [Morphisec in Tech Republic] Cyberattacks against endpoints rising, reaching $9 million per attack in 2019 appeared first on OurCrowd.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2020
Traditional jobs that require people to work in the same spot each day and maintain specific hours are becoming less and less. A solid WiFi connection + a reliable laptop allows for many jobs to be done anywhere and at anytime. This possibility of remote work has led to the existence of many companies, thought up by people who realized their skills could be utilized better by reaching people digitally.
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