Both Sides of the Table
JULY 27, 2016
Density laser tracking above a doorway As I’ve written before I believe Computer Vision will become a major factor as a Human-Computer Interface (1) as sensors and cameras help us make sense of our physical world. There is so much in the media about “The Internet of Things” that it has lost meaning and for many for some strange reason it became a short-hand for wearables.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 28, 2016
This article was originally posted on Forbes.com. It has been reprinted here with permission from Ashoka. As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 23, 2016
Where is the budget to pay for your SaaS startup’s software coming from? There are three possible pockets. First, they are dollars the competitor you displaced used to collect. Second, the company enlarges the current budget to finance the purchase. Third, the company creates a new budget. Which budget is an important question. The answer informs product, marketing and sales strategy.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 28, 2016
I'm a founder. Sure, I'm an investor, too, but I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the firm I invest out of. That means that in addition to thinking about what kinds of investments I'm going to make, I need to think about where I'm going to work, payroll, business cards, all that stuff. As we've seen, the "business stack" of a variety of services entrepreneurs run on everyday has changed dramatically over the last few years.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2016
I was in France and the UK for business last week so I was a bit out of the tech news cycle and more focused on the world events that were happening nearby. But one tech news story stood out for me — the fact that LA-based Dollar Shave Club (DSC) was sold to Unilever for $1 billion. This continues to solidify Los Angeles’ place as a major player in the global tech ecosystem and while any one success doesn’t define a city — the number of high-profile startups and exits has definitely increased.
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Derek Sivers
JULY 26, 2016
All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected. No internet. No TV. No phone. No people. Long uninterrupted solitude. When I was twenty-two, I quit my job and spent five months alone in a house on a remote part of the Oregon coast. Practicing, writing, recording, exercising, and learning.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 25, 2016
Someone asked me recently if they should raise a fund, because they had access to investments that were being made by "top, brand name investors". Whether there even is such a thing relies heavily on your perspective. It is absolutely true that many of the firms you've heard of being called the "top" funds consistently perform in the top quartile, even decile, of all funds, over time--Sequoia, Accel, etc.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2016
Meetings. The bane of many of our existence. They suck up time and are often unproductive or don’t yield the results we expect. I want to talk about a specific type of meeting today — a Board Meeting — but this could easily apply more broadly. A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.
Unvalidated Learnings
JULY 25, 2016
Curious as to why you’re not mentioning mattermark/cbinsight + angellist/crowdfunding as significant new takes? To me, radical information transparency + open and automated investment process have the potential to be much bigger game changers for the industry than YC or A16Z, who may have added a platform / community layer but remain old school closed partnership at heart.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 26, 2016
McKinsey released a study of high growth software companies entitled Grow Fast or Die Slow. One salient conclusion: If a software company grows at 20% annually, it has a 92 percent chance of ceasing to exist within a few years. In other words, software companies must grow quickly to survive. Slow growing businesses suffer from the lack of oxygen that fuels growth.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 28, 2016
I do. And you should, too, no matter who you're voting for. Because that's the only choice. Cory Booker is right. Love your neighbor. That's step one. Calling them stupid, racist, or anything else isn't going to change their minds. It's only going to reenforce the very reasons why they're voting for Trump in the first place. They've been left out by nearly every politician they've ever come across.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2016
Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. There are very few ideas that are obviously a billion-dollar idea from the start. So what should you do? I advise founders to focus on what I call “basecamp,” which is the first level of success or validation at a startup.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 29, 2016
By Marissa Levin, an EO Baltimore member and founder of Successful Culture. Our mental and physical energy drives our health, happiness, and overall success. We have 5 daily opportunities to restore and protect our energy. Have you paid much attention to the daily rhythm of your life? We all function in accordance with a specific rhythm. Early-birds (like me) wake up with the sunrise, energized and ready to engage with the world.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 28, 2016
Through the end of July in 2016, $70B worth of SaaS companies sold. Their size follows a power law with LinkedIn at $26B and Netsuite at $9.3B. The more than $600B in cash on the balance sheets of large public tech companies combined with a recent pricing correction in SaaS companies presaged a flurry of acquisition activity. But it hasn’t unfolded as expected in three different ways.
Thomas Grota
JULY 26, 2016
Lately I encountered the historic discussion about the „dark side“ (venture capital) and the „darker.
Derek Sivers
JULY 24, 2016
“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. An employee says to the boss, “I’ve been working for the past two weeks on this new design. What do you think?”. The boss says, “Good job. Maybe just change the blue to gold, change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’, and get rid of the border. Other than that, it’s great!”. Now, because the boss said so, the employee will have to make those changes.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 26, 2016
This article was originally posted on EO’s Inc.com column. Entrepreneurs are launching something new each and every day, so it’s important for them to maximize the opportunity. Joe Fuld, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from Washington, D.C., is the president of The Campaign Workshop , a political and advocacy advertising agency that provides strategy, digital advertising, content and direct-mail services to non-profit and political clients.
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Berkonomics
JULY 28, 2016
One of the CEOs I coach starts his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. He tries to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asks. Is he a relic of bygone times, when employees worked in a single facility, managed directly by people who could see and speak to them in person?
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 25, 2016
Business blogs, editorials and “Top 10” lists with advice for millennials, specifically those entering the workforce, are not in short supply; rarer is authentic perspective given by millennials for a larger audience – which is why an article on our social media feed made us pause for reflection. Nicolas Cole , Inc.com contributor and author of “The 1 Thing I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Starting My First Job (Written By A Millennial),” offered some sound advice
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