Venture Well
MAY 7, 2019
Julie Bliss Mullen of ASPIRE team Aclarity has learned that it takes a team to make an impact through innovation and entrepreneurship. The post Innovator Spotlight: Julie Bliss Mullen of Aclarity appeared first on VentureWell.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 10, 2019
Sleepless nights, assessing (and reassessing), pivoting, negotiating, anticipating, spending … Are these keywords describing entrepreneurship or parenting? For all the parents who are entrepreneurs out there, you probably know these endeavors run in parallel. If parenting is akin to entrepreneurship, what entrepreneurial lessons have you learned from your kids ?
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UBI Global
MAY 6, 2019
A Question of Innovation… Corporations may recognize that they could use a good dose of innovation, and some seek startups as a shortcut to creative thinking. They may become enamored by a startup’s product, service, or even social focus. However, they must understand that an investment in time and money needs a more solid justification. […].
NZ Entrepreneur
MAY 9, 2019
Brand strategist James Hurman explains why just having a better product is not enough to make your customers care about your business. 93% of drivers think they’re better than average. A researcher called Ola discovered that when he asked Americans to rank their driving skill in the 1980’s. Similarly, 90% of college professors think they’re above average teachers, 42% of engineers think they’re in the top 5% and only 1% of high school students think their social skills are below average.
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Haystack
MAY 4, 2019
Hello. It has been a while since I’ve posted here, nearly 3 months. My fingers are well-rested, but my writing prowess is likely rusty, so please forgive any rustiness in this post. I do plan to write a lot more this summer, so stay tuned. In March and April this year, I was on the road a lot — all fun and productive work trips, but also distracting; if the past two months were about being out there and extroverted, I feel a huge wave of introversion coming as the summer comes into f
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UBI Global
MAY 10, 2019
Activate Corporate Innovation Join us as we tell our journey through seven compelling areas of innovation featuring real-world case studies of corporations that relied on UBI Global research and partners to gain a better understanding of the global innovation landscape. We know that innovation is top of mind for businesses looking to stay competitive.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 10, 2019
A public market investors asked me if there are any patterns in the list of recent software IPOs with the best sales efficiencies. As I looked through the list, I noticed one. All of these businesses sell bottom up with small initial ACVs that grow dramatically. Atlassian, Zoom, Twilio, Slack, New Relic, Elastic. All of them target small groups of users within larger organization who introduce the vendor.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MAY 6, 2019
By Jim Stafford. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Five patients are waiting to see their doctor, each displaying different symptoms. One has a bright rash on her face. Another is suffering from arthritis. Still another has kidney failure, while the fourth patient suffers from heart problems and the fifth is fatigued all the time. Turns out, they all suffer from lupus, which afflicts as many as 1.5 million Americans and 5 million worldwide.
NZ Entrepreneur
MAY 7, 2019
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs. I also meet a lot of people who want to be entrepreneurs and ask me, “When do you think the best time is to start a business?” Like the tree in the proverb above, it is no different when it comes to entrepreneurship, and to the dismay of many people who ask, my answer is always the same… “Now.” There are two reasons fo
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Continuations
MAY 6, 2019
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from World After Capital on Mondays. But because I am doing a more substantial rewrite of Part Four, today’s post describes what I am planning to cover. I want Part Four to be more practical by pointing out ways we can take responsibility today for making the transition to the Knowledge Age. Here are areas I am planning to cover.
Dream It
MAY 7, 2019
While the healthcare industry’s long sales cycles are a frequent topic of conversation, discussion about the burdensome post-sale process rarely comes up. Yes, we’re referring to the actual integration of your product into a health system’s existing workflows and technologies. From EHR integrations and pilot tests to privacy audits and HITRUST certification, going from an initial contract to a system-wide rollout can take months and cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MAY 7, 2019
By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Oklahoma is a great place to live. Oklahoma is a great place to work. We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. Unemployment is down; the economy is moving along.
GCUC
MAY 6, 2019
In case you’ve been under a rock and didn’t know – It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. If you are not familiar with us here at GCUC, we strongly believe in advocating and supporting mental health. It’s time that we make a change and destigmatize the conversation around mental health. There is no shame in mental illness- or talking about it.
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Continuations
MAY 8, 2019
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday is about the risk of inflation. I spend much of my time thinking about company valuations, both as we make new investments and also as we try to mark valuations in existing companies. Of course valuations for private companies are influenced by available public comps and those have been trading at high multiples, including the current crop of IPOs.
OurCrowd
MAY 9, 2019
Sneaker giant Nike wants to solve the “massive pain” you might experience with poor-fitting shoes, so it’s introducing the Nike Fit feature, which allows you to scan your feet from your camera phone and within seconds recommends the right fit for you. Read more here. The post [Invertex in Forbes] Nike Unveils ‘A Game-Changing Innovation’: A Fit Feature To Fix Shoe Sizing Online And In-Store appeared first on OurCrowd.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 6, 2019
As I looked through the list of public SaaS companies this morning, I read their forward multiples. ZScaler: 23.1x; Okta: 21.8x; Veeva: 18.8x; Coupa: 18.6x; Shopify: 17.0x. Those multiples are calculated by dividing the projected future revenue of the company by its enterprise value today. But what do they mean? What do they imply? First, we need to set some context.
EntreWorks Consulting
MAY 6, 2019
Last week, I was in Denver for an important and interesting meeting of eleven coal-impacted communities from around the Mountain West. The community teams were meeting to develop work plans and to share ideas on how to create new economic opportunities while also responding to job losses in coal-related industries. On Friday, Route 50 published an excellent summary of the session, and our larger project , that is well worth reading.
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Berkonomics
MAY 9, 2019
Ever stand with someone you’ve never met when at a party, a trade show or just meet someone in the hallway? We all have. And then that person opens his or her mouth and spends a boring two minutes describing their business to you? Leaving you wondering how much of that you got and how much you might retain? We all have. So, here’s the antidote to prevent you from becoming “that” person.
Y Combinator
MAY 9, 2019
YC China is now accepting applications for their first batch, which will take place Fall 2019. The three-month program will be held in Beijing and tailored to the Chinese market. Founders can apply at apply.ycchina.com. If you have questions, send them to contact@ycchina.com or visit YC China’s public WeChat account: Read more about YC China.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 7, 2019
When I was growing up, I watched Seinfeld religiously—literally every single Thursday night from the premiere to the end without missing a single one. Not only did I really love the show, but I was that committed to it because of the reinforcement I experienced by being part of a community that also watched when I did. The next day, I couldn’t wait to see my classmates and repeat whatever the key line from the episode was.
OurCrowd
MAY 7, 2019
VAYAVISION, a developer of autonomous vehicle perception solutions based on raw data fusion and upsampling, announced today that it has appointed Carl Peter Forster, an automotive industry beacon, to its advisory board. Read more on PR Newswire here. The post [VayaVision in PR Newswire] VAYAVISION Appoints Automotive Industry Veteran Carl-Peter Forster to Advisory Board F appeared first on OurCrowd.
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
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MAY 10, 2019
ERIE, PA – At a networking event held in Ben Franklin’s office in Knowledge Park on May 9, 2019, the finalists in Ben Franklin’s StARTup Contest were announced. This year’s contest challenged tech-entrepreneurs located in Northwest PA, to develop new “game-changing” products, processes, or techniques in creative spaces. With up to $50,000 on the line, in the two months that the contest was running, more than 600 people visited the landing page for bigidea.benfranklin.org to check out the applic
Haystack
MAY 9, 2019
Believe it or not, this will now be the second blog post on this site about a billion-dollar exit for a shaving-related startup. It was just about three years ago when the startup world learned that Unilever had decided to plunk down a cool $1B to buy LA’s Dollar Shave Club. Fast-forward to today, and we have a smaller conglomerate, Edgewell, paying a mix of cash and stock for NYC’s Harry’s.
Y Combinator
MAY 8, 2019
Brian Halligan is the CEO and cofounder of HubSpot. HubSpot builds software for marketing, sales, and customer service. You can try it out at HubSpot.com. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. Brian is on Twitter @bhalligan and Kevin is @ilikevests. Topics. 00:00 – Brian’s an introvert that likes to work from home. He also runs a public company.
OurCrowd
MAY 7, 2019
Almost 80% of medical cannabis users consume the substance via smoking or vaping, methods that shorten its onset of action, but leave the question of dosage up in the air, according to Syqe Medical Ltd. founder and CEO Perry Davidson. Read more here. The post [Syqe in CTech] For Medical Cannabis Users, the Biggest Problem Is a Consistent Dose, Says Syqe Medical CEO appeared first on OurCrowd.
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