This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2016

That was a question posed to me by a new analyst at a venture capital fund. Admittedly, I finished this person's sentence after their long pause. but the word "jerks" was agreed to as the direction they were taking the question. While there are lots and lots of really kind, generous people working in venture capital--the recently retired Howard Morgan, Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, and Karin Klein for example--it's really tough to argue that there isn't widespread jerkery.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 3, 2016

By Dustin Puryear, Founder and CEO of Puryear. There is nothing more nerve-racking than firing somebody. Yet, here I was doing it. “Sorry, but you just don’t fit. You were great when you started in your role here, but now things have changed and sometimes that means hard choices have to be made.”. There may have been a little quiver in my hand as I started signing the pink slip.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? I know. We need financial data for comparison, and to a degree – for planning. But we should be thinking of finding ways to make data available to us much earlier, when it is more meaningful and actionable. Call it “pervasive access” or just–in–time reporting.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

And what you can learn from it Can you imagine Nike was a startup once? A lone guy in his parents’ garage hustling his way through importing cheap running shoes from Japan and selling them door to door (or rather race track to race track). Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2016

By Glenn Bartlett, Head of Strategy at Step Change. 28 January 1986 completely changed the way NASA operates. Here’s why: That day marked the space shuttle Challenger ’s tenth mission. But the day before, the engineers had warned the mission control centre that the cold weather forecast on launch day would pose risks: They had not tested the O-ring seals below 53 degrees Fahrenheit (a critical part of the rocket).

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