Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2016
By Darrah Brustein, contributor to Entrepreneur.com, as well as founder of Equitable Payments, Network Under/Over 40 and Finance Whiz Kids. Today’s current 50 percent divorce rate is evidence enough that marriage is challenging. But, what if you impose an extra challenge on top of that? How does having one or both partners be entrepreneurs impact the likelihood for marital success?
Berkonomics
AUGUST 11, 2016
It happens all the time when you’re a CEO. Somebody important leaves or is let go, and you worry over the impact upon remaining employees and customers. You worry that the person leaving will begin to unload all the pent–up garbage from the past, perhaps damaging the company and causing customer defections and even employee unrest. Your worry is real.
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Unvalidated Learnings
AUGUST 12, 2016
Very true. Wouldn’t call it a problem per se but it is indeed what we spend a lot of our time trying to figure out. It’s obviously harder for businesses that create or expand existing markets, which is what the most significant companies typically do. That’s why bottom up analysis (how many potential users x potential aov) tend to work better than top down (current market size of x).
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 7, 2016
Average Series A valuations have hovered around $15M for the last 9 quarters. Series B rounds have settled into $50M, while Series C rounds have rebounded to $100M. Later stage rounds, however, have fallen by 50% from their high of $400M to just under $200M. However, in the early stages the frequency of down rounds (e.g., a Series D with a smaller valuation than a Series C) aren’t at historic or even six year highs.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 10, 2016
Pioneering up-and-coming technologies is no small feat, and it’s even more impactful when these discoveries are saving the lives of millions around the world. For 16 years, Anu Ancharya , an EO Hyderabad member and CEO of MapMyGenome , has been revolutionizing personalized healthcare through the production of specialized software and accessible genomics testing.
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Unvalidated Learnings
AUGUST 9, 2016
8 Tips To Onboard New Users And Keep Old Users Engaged Following a friend’s recommendation, I attended my first Toastmasters event last week. Having no idea what to expect, I left amazed by how well thought out and choreographed the event was. Here are 8 tips I took away from it on how to run effective meetups, onboard new users and keep old users engaged.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 9, 2016
They operated from a clandestine apartment in Harlem, a block from Columbia University at 401 West 118th Street. A cell comprising 18 of the most respected American mathematicians and statisticians spirited datasets up the stairs, analyzed them, and stole to Washington DC on military aircraft to present the results of their rumination to the admirals of the Navy and the Marines, the generals of the Army, Marines, and Air Force during the Second World War.
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