Sat.Oct 19, 2019 - Fri.Oct 25, 2019

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How Extreme Adventure Racing Informs Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Chip Dodd joined EO Southeast Virginia in 2013. He is currently the president and CEO of Support Services of Virginia , a mid-sized company that provides Intellectual and Developmental Disability Waiver services, supports and housing in community-based integrated settings across Virginia, USA. He is also a keynote speaker and considers himself a “fun-loving outdoorsy person with too many hobbies to count.” In the past five years, one hobby, in particular, has hooked his attention and

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Avoiding bias and making informed decisions when hiring

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Amanda Hinojosa, Howard University. Hiring decisions are key decisions that can have a lasting impact on an organization. Choosing who to offer a job to is not a decision that should be taken lightly. Though most managers recognize the importance of this choice, many do not take the necessary steps to ensure they are making a well-informed choice during selection.

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Stop Hiring Interns When You Really Need Experts.

Smart Hustle Magazine

A few weeks ago I was helping a good friend and his wife and business partner produce and staff his first exhibit at a small trade show. It was me and another experienced and mature business professional, who were helping. Hiring interns was one option, it would have been very low cost, but instead he had two experienced professionals on hand. Interns are great.

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Gamify those otherwise dull work assignments

Berkonomics

Most of us are driven by the competitive spirit, the desire or need to win. It reinforces self-worth, provides closure at the end of a good effort, and energizes us during the effort to achieve. Being driven to achieve results. Many of us as managers – and our employees as workers – are driven by process, actions required to achieve a result.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

500

The following is an excerpt from 500’s CVC report. How has corporate venture capital changed? In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.

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Dandapani Discusses Focus, Harnessing Entrepreneurial Drive, Parenting and Purpose

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Photo courtesy of George Evans. “As soon as we control where awareness goes we control where energy flows. As soon as we control where energy is flowing we control what is manifesting in our life. And we need willpower and our powers of concentration to direct awareness.”. ?Dandapani. Dandapani , a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and former monk, is a highly rated speaker at multiple EO chapter learning events where he teaches entrepreneurs how to focus their minds to achieve greater success.

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Illustrating how to be an ethical leader, with Senior Director for Leadership Ethics, Ann Skeet

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

“More and more, leaders are being held responsible in their organization,” says Ann Skeet, Senior Director for Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Ann guides programs in leadership, business, and social sector ethics, and researches, writes, and speaks about the ethical dilemmas of leaders. She understands the impact that a leader’s value and character have on the livelihood of their organization and the employees within it.

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Intern #1 to YC Founder: An Interview with Jack Forbes of Faros (YC W19)

Y Combinator

I got a chance to interview Jack Forbes, CEO of Faros * (YC W19). He shares his experiences moonlighting as an intern at HigherMe (YC W15), playing soccer with YC founders & partners, and what drove him to start a YC company — even after being rejected. Join Work at a Startup to find your next software job (or internship) and subscribe to YC’s newsletter to receive future conversations.

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What I've learned about IPOs and Direct Listings

Tomasz Tunguz

Today is the anniversary of Spotify IPO, which was the first direct listing of a technology company. It was championed by Barry McCarthy, the former CFO of Netflix and the current CFO of Spotify. Since then, Slack has also listed directly. And the combination of these two events has created a groundswell for more of them. In the past few months and quarters, I’ve been learning as much as I can about this topic.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Founders’ Chat: Alex McCall – How to conduct user testing

NZ Entrepreneur

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. User testing, also known as usability testing, is a process of identifying users’ biggest problems and uncovering a product’s issues by testing it with real users. As a startup founder, your time and resources tend to be limited. User testing was developed to challenge the assumptions founders and designers have before they waste resources on developing a product with poor usability o

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Podcast: How to make money in Health Technology?

Health Tech Capital

Anne De Gheest, Founder of HealthTech Capital shares with us the inside scoop on generating an ROI of 10X with her investments in health technology start-ups. We explore the evolving role of various stakeholders in the h.

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Should You Start Holiday Marketing Now? Walmart is.

Smart Hustle Magazine

There's always a lot we can learn from big brands. Walmart, in a death fight with Amazon and other retailers is launching its Christmas and holiday marketing "now". It's not waiting until November. What about you? Should you start marketing to your customers NOW about their holiday shopping plans? The Wall Street Journal writes about it here. Here's a few tips to market for the holidays: Educate your customers and send them emails that they'll really want to open.

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Is todays office fit for purpose?

GCUC

Open concept office spaces are all the rage but you have likely seen the push back on them – they are noisy, they are distracting, they don’t work. But is that true? In our opinion, well designed coworking spaces aren’t noisy or distracting – they are quite the opposite. Light, acoustically sound, green, designed for maximum productivity and connection.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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[OurCrowd in CrowdFund Insider] OurCrowd to Support “New Wave of Tech Collaboration” in Partnership with Toyota Tsusho

OurCrowd

Global investment crowdfunding platform and Israel’s leading venture investor OurCrowd has partnered with the Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), a member of the Toyota Group, which comprises of 17 companies including Toyota Motor. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in CrowdFund Insider] OurCrowd to Support “New Wave of Tech Collaboration” in Partnership with Toyota Tsusho appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Why Are Unicorns Failing + What Should Founders Do?

Dream It

In this episode of #DreamitLive, Dreamit’s Steve Barsh speaks with Gil Beyda , Managing Director at Comcast Ventures and Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures. Steve and Gil dive into why pre-IPO unicorn startups are failing and post IPO valuations are dropping. In addition, based on new market realities, they explore important advice for earlier-stage startup founders on fundraising strategy, valuation, and the key metrics they should pay close attention to.

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The Fifth Estate

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Mark Zuckerberg, in his speech last week at Georgetown University, called social media “the Fifth Estate.” The first three “estates” of society, classically, are the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else. When the printing press arrived during the Renaissance/Enlightenment period and a mainstream press emerged, a fourth voice, The Fourth Estate, arrived on the scene and the mainstream press has had a long, strong, and lasting effect on society.

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Edition #14: Iris Kavanagh

GCUC

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a blog series we created to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. Each month, we’ll release new interviews that we hope inform and inspire you.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

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

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[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd and Toyota Tsusho Corporation Announce Partnership to Support a New Wave of Tech Collaboration

OurCrowd

Jerusalem / Tokyo – Oct. 23, 2019 – OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor and the Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), one of Japan’s general trading companies and a member of the Toyota Group, which comprises of 17 companies including Toyota Motor, Denso etc., have today announced a new business and technology scouting partnership.

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the what, why, and how of a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving

Venture Well

From student teams to scientific and academic institutions, many recognize that complex problems are best solved when a group leverages diverse perspectives, expanding the possible. The post the what, why, and how of a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving appeared first on VentureWell.

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I’ll Be Brief: Why Angels Should Insist on a One-Pager

The Seraf Compass

Entrepreneurs seeking to engage with investors usually offer up written materials. Usually they offer whatever they have on hand. Smart investors should insist on a crisp “one-pager” executive summary. They are kind of a hassle to create, and that is exactly the point, and what makes them so vitally important.

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GCUC is headed to Seattle in 2020

GCUC

If you weren’t at GCUC Canada, you missed the live announcement but that’s okay because we are here to tell you that we are headed to Seattle for GCUC USA 2020! We have not been back to the west coast since 2015 so we figured it was about time! With this new local brings new things, and we think it’s about time. After reading feedback from GCUC Denver, we knew we needed to shake it up.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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[OurCrowd in The Jewish Voice] Toyota Partners With Israeli OurCrowd in Search of Innovative Tech Startups

OurCrowd

Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd, said that he is proud to work with a global company such as Toyota Tsusho. “We are proud to be partnering with a general trading company such as Toyota Tsusho. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in The Jewish Voice] Toyota Partners With Israeli OurCrowd in Search of Innovative Tech Startups appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Being There

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

We get feedback from the leaders of our portfolio companies on an annual basis. It helps me get better at what I do and I love it. One area that I am constantly challenged to improve on is accessibility. The common refrain is “I know you are busy and I hate to bother you.” To which I reply “It is your job to bother me and my job to be responsive when you do.” But even so, getting portfolio company leaders to feel that they can reach out, even on small things, is a challen

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Evitar sesgos y tomar decisiones informadas al contratar empleados

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Amanda Hinojosa, Universidad de Howard. Las decisiones de contratación son decisiones clave que pueden tener un impacto duradero en una organización. Elegir a quién ofrecer un trabajo no es una decisión que deba tomarse a la ligera. Aunque la mayoría de los gerentes reconocen la importancia de esta elección, muchos no toman las medidas necesarias para asegurarse de que están tomando una decisión bien informada durante la selección.

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Why a windowless office might be right for your business

Turnkey Office Space

The phrase windowless office doesn’t exactly evoke images of green pastures and unfettered productivity, however with an open mind there are countless ways to customize an interior office to make it just as comfortable and appealing as a corner office with a great view – at the much cheaper rent!

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.