Paul G. Silva
MARCH 26, 2020
As a mentor once told me… It doesn’t matter if you have the best opportunity in the world, if you can’t communicate it you’re dead. This is obvious. Yet… I’ve seen thousands of presentations and the vast majority of them were confusing as heck. Those presenters almost always failed to get whatever they wanted from the audience.
500
MARCH 26, 2020
No one would’ve envisioned me as a venture capitalist. I was raised in rural Wyoming, far from the high stakes and deep pockets of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But from a young age, going against the grain was in my DNA. It’s what led me to San Francisco, and, ultimately, what drew me to 500 Startups. When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. 500 immediately stood out to me, not only for their reputation as one of the top acc
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The Seraf Compass
MARCH 25, 2020
It’s amazing how the world economic situation changed seemingly overnight with Covid-19. One moment we were enjoying a healthy economy with a robust outlook on the future. Suddenly, a pandemic crisis sweeps over the globe creating uncertainty in all aspects of our lives. We’ve been through economic downturns before, yet this time it feels different.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 22, 2020
I remember looking at other people on the street the day after 9/11. Everyone was just so sad. It was a shared moment in time where nothing needed to be said, and all we could muster was a slight nod to acknowledge that what you were feeling, everyone else was feeling, too. It felt like things would never be the same. Yet, it wasn’t very long after before I was on a plane.
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INBIA
MARCH 26, 2020
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 27, 2020
As COVID-19 devastates nations and businesses, there’s a potential casualty you may not have fullly realized: your mental health. Uncertainty around the health of your family, company and employees can be overwhelming. We asked Dandapani —a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and highly rated speaker for Entrepreneurs’ Organization —how to manage stress and the mental health of your staff during this difficult period.
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 26, 2020
This is the 3rd post in the “Startup Pitching” series. In this post we’ll go over advanced-level (301) techniques. 1. The one (maybe two) number rule. Most people can’t hold multiple numbers in their head. You can put as many numbers on a slide as you like, but people won’t process them. In fact, if you show too many numbers they’ll almost certainly process the numbers incorrectly!
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MARCH 24, 2020
2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances. L3G’s & Associates, founded with Fatima’s sister, Yadira, provides accounting and bookkeeping services, assisting clients by providing them with a wide array of professional business knowledge to help them better manage their finances and overall business operations.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 24, 2020
I read an op-ed in Bloomberg last week written by a stock trader who was on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the 1989 crash. His manager brought him into his office. The trader feared his manager would fire him. Instead, his manager told him that these kinds of crises accelerate change and that he should embrace them. I’m struggling to find the link now, but if I do, I will update this blog post with it.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MARCH 24, 2020
Ad blockers are hugely popular. Close to 800mm people around the world use them to avoid intrusive ads and data collection. I do not use an ad-blocker but I completely understand why one would choose to do so. And yet much of the media business is supported by advertising. There are a growing number of subscription-based media services, but many people cannot or won’t pay for content and the vast majority of content consumed on the web is advertising supported.
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 26, 2020
This is the 2nd post in the “Startup Pitching” series. In this post we’ll go over intermediate-level (201) techniques. 1. Front load credibility. Investors are cynical. They have to be because about half of all angel/VC investments lose every penny invested. Any claim you make is therefore treated with suspicion. But… if you place some major credibility-enhancing facts into your second or third slide, the audience spends most of the presentation positively inclined to you
Source Link
MARCH 25, 2020
For the first time, our small businesses are leading the recession. An article by Joel Mathis in The Week puts the crisis for small businesses in stark terms. “Amazon seems to be doing well in the current crisis — it announced Monday it will hire 100,000 new workers for increased demand for delivery services. Mom-and-pop businesses, the kinds of establishments that make up the backbone of a community, stand to do much worse.
Forward Cities
MARCH 27, 2020
As the extent and impact of COVID-19 becomes more apparent, entrepreneurs and small businesses are on the front lines of its devastating impact–and with their demise comes potentially catastrophic economic losses for local communities. According to JP Morgan Institute , 50 percent of small businesses have less than 30 days of cash on hand. With 50 percent of Americans working for or owning a small business, the failure of our small business economy could have a widespread and long-standing impac
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MARCH 25, 2020
Over the course of the past two months, hundreds of people located in the counties of Bedford, Blair, Fulton, Cambria, Huntingdon, and Somerset in Pennsylvania visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our recent $50,000 contest. This week, our team had the difficult job of identifying just six finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs, innovators, and small manufacturers.
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 27, 2020
This is the checklist / boil down of the techniques listed in the pior 3 posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. After you complete a draft of your pitch, go over this list to make sure you’ve applied as many of the techniques as possible. Beginner (101). One rehearsed presenter – Pick one person to deliver your presentation, don’t tag team your pitches.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 25, 2020
How to sell online is what Jackson Cunningham of JJ Suspenders does best. He believes in not letting imperfection slow him down and in building something and getting it better and better. Often times, it's waiting for perfection and fear of critique that keep people back. Listen to the interview on the Smart Hustle podcast and read about it below. Sign up for the Smart Hustle Podccast on iTunes or Stitcher.
Revolution
MARCH 24, 2020
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been encouraging to see businesses and individuals around the world step up and support affected communities. Founders across our portfolio have moved quickly to pitch-in and provide everything from healthy meals to children out of school, mental health services to frontline workers, access to a platform connecting clinical researchers to patients for vaccine trials, and virtual playdates and activities to families hunkering down at home.
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Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 25, 2020
In 2015, we partnered with two young founders to build Dremio. Tomer Shiran and Jacques Nadeau had just left MapR, and they came to work from our offices in Menlo Park. We shared a vision for a new way of working with data. Today, the company is announcing a $70M Series C to help them along that journey. More data is being stored in data lakes like Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage.
Y Combinator
MARCH 25, 2020
In order to confront the COVID-19 crisis, we need to immediately mobilize global scientific and technical talent. We have refreshed our Request for Startups , which are concepts we believe are important in the coming decades, to reflect this newest addition: Responding to COVID-19. We want to invest in startups working on: Tests / diagnostics. Treatments and vaccines.
NZ Entrepreneur
MARCH 22, 2020
In this message for New Zealand business owners, Richard Liew, founder and editor at #nzentrepreneur magazine shares some words of advice and encouragement for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch now: UPDATE: 3.25pm 23 Mar 2020. Please note this message was recorded prior to the NZ Government raising the New Zealand COVID-19 alert level to Level 3.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MARCH 22, 2020
By Scott Meacham. Growing a successful startup company is all about growing sales. And growing sales is an expertise that Brian Bomar, CEO of Whiteboard Technology knows very well. Bomar took everything he learned from 15 years in the mortgage industry, and before that several years more working for a local technology startup to create a best-practices customer relationship (CRM) platform specifically for the mortgage industry that accelerates sales and revenue growth.
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
Impact Hub
MARCH 26, 2020
Impact Hub Oakland has always been a lighthouse for driving the inclusion and equality agenda of the Impact Hub Network in North America. After six years of successful operations, we are sad to see Impact Hub Oakland leave the network. The team decided to follow a more hyperlocal approach to deepen their roots and broaden their reach throughout the city continuing their commitment to the evolution of equity and inclusion in Oakland under the name of Evolve Oakland.
EntreWorks Consulting
MARCH 24, 2020
While we are in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, local economic and workforce developers are moving quickly to respond. Around the country, the Department of Labor has released funds for “lay-off aversion,” i.e. to help small firms keep their employees on the job. In Virginia, we are trying to get these funds out the door quickly to address immediate business challenges.
NZ Entrepreneur
MARCH 23, 2020
Accounting and payroll software company MYOB, says local businesses need to seriously consider security when moving to new operating models, including working from home. Local businesses, especially small and medium sized enterprises, will need to focus on security if they are to successfully and safely change their operating model in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MARCH 25, 2020
Por Jewelle Saunders. La administración monetaria varÃa de una persona a otra. Tus ingresos pueden fluctuar, tus gastos pueden ser distintos de un mes a otro y tus metas pueden cambiar rápidamente según una serie de factores. Ningún método presupuestario funciona para todo el mundo, pero es importante intentar encontrar uno que te sirva a ti. Prepárate entendiendo varios métodos y pon a prueba lo que funciona mejor para tu estilo de vida.
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