Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 19, 2017
Jessica Moseley is an EO member in Washington, D.C., and CEO of TCS Interpreting , providing world-class language access to the deaf community. The agency has developed a robust internship and mentorship program. Jessica shared best practices for developing such a program. Internships provide practical business experience as a student or other novice narrows the scope of their chosen profession.
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Berkonomics
JUNE 22, 2017
Close. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Yup. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before.
FundersClub
JUNE 20, 2017
Any engineer who has taken the first steps of learning to work with AI methods has confronted the foremost challenge of the space: sourcing enough high quality data to make a project viable. Sample sets of data can be had, of course, but working with these isn't much fun for the same reason that solving a machine problem for computer science class isn't much fun: quite simply, it's not real.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 19, 2017
One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and y
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Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 18, 2017
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is notable for many reasons. Of course, there’s the magnitude $13.7B. The second is the shockwaves reverberating through the grocery industry. Costco fell 10% and Kroger almost 25% on the news. Third, the acquisition underscores the importance of physical retail even to the largest American ecommerce giant.
Derek Sivers
JUNE 20, 2017
Deutsch English Español Esperanto Français Português Русский 中文 日本語 한국어 العربية حتى تتمكن من صقّل كتاباتك، قُم باستئجار مترجم. Um dein Schreiben zu verbessern, engagiere einen Übersetzer. To hone your writing, hire a translator. Por perfektigi vian skribon, dungu tradukiston. Para perfeccionar tu escritura, contrata a un traductor. Pour aiguiser votre plume, engagez un traducteur.
FundersClub
JUNE 22, 2017
FundersClub Portfolio News. Flexport plans to open a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Atlanta and is scouting for about 25,000 square feet of office space in Midtown, which will add more than 200 jobs in " Freight industry disruptor Flexport plans $100 million Atlanta hub. " Instacart will now handle orders for Wegmans grocery store, with deliveries initially available in suburbs near Washington, D.C., and a few dozen more cities within the coming months in " Instacart Will Delive
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 21, 2017
Elliott Holt is an EO Nashville member and CEO of MediCopy Services, Inc. , offering simple, secure solutions for healthcare information management. He was originally uncertain about the benefits of having student interns, but his initial experience changed his outlook completely, as he shares here. As an entrepreneur, the thought of student internships has long represented a double-edged sword.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 19, 2017
In software, we’ve moved from a world where a customer buys a piece of software to run on their own infrastructure, to a world where a customer pays a vendor to run software on the vendor’s infrastructure. With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this. Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 18, 2017
"In May 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 185,000 aeroplanes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18 million tons of merchant shipping in two years. Adolf Hitler was told by his advisors that this was American propaganda; in 1939, annual aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war US factories had produced 300,000 planes,[2][3] and by 1944 had produced two-thirds of the Allied military equipment used in the war." - Wik
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