Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2015
I’ve heard many investors and some executives repeat the mantra, “Never offer exclusive deals,” and since this blanket statement is generally bad advice I thought I’d offer the less conventional but I believe more practical version of why exclusive deals can actually be a huge bonus for a startup and why I actively encourage them.
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JUNE 24, 2015
In the last two days, I've had three different conversations with people who were asking me what I do with the people who want to grab coffee when the mutual benefit isn't immediately mutual. Don't get me wrong--these are people who are all extremely generous with their time--and that's probably why more people reach out to them. You have a useful meeting with someone and then they tell someone else it was useful, and so on, and so on.
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The Entrepreneurs Library
JUNE 26, 2015
A summary of things you should know about Rejection Proof according to Jia Jiang. Introduction (00:37). I am an entrepreneur and what I do is deal with everything that comes with rejection. Help people overcome their fear of rejection, tell stories about rejection, and help businesses turn rejection into opportunities. The Book’s Unique Quality (03:27).
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 22, 2015
One smart SaaS entrepreneur told me last week he prefers bottoms up businesses to top-down companies because bottoms up sales and marketing efforts enable startups to pursue hundreds of paths into a company. Unlike top down sales processes which offer a startup one shot at closing an account (a meeting with a CEO or VP), for bottoms up products, each employee is a credit-card-carrying-decision-maker.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 25, 2015
Many people don’t know that I actually became Chairman of my first company and relinquishing the CEO role before the company was sold. It’s a topic I’m well versed in personally and I understand the difficult emotional decision of whether to hand the reigns to someone else of the baby you’ve struggled so hard to launch into the world.
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The Entrepreneurs Library
JUNE 23, 2015
A summary of things you should know about Simple Rules according to Kathleen Eisenhardt. Introduction (00:36). I’m on the faculty at Stanford in the School of Engineering and I’m also the Co-Director of Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. I’ve been deeply embedded in the Silicon Valley entrepreneur scene but also in entrepreneurship US-wide and even global.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 21, 2015
As Fred Wilson wrote over the weekend , Janet Yellen, the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed), indicated last week that the Fed would likely increase the federal funds rate , which has hovered around zero for the last seven years - since the collapse of Lehman. In the last 35 years, the federal funds rate has varied from as high as 16% in 1981 to as low as 0.09%. throughout those cycles, venture capital has flourished from a cottage industry into $100B per yea
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 24, 2015
I recently interviewed Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital. By now most of you know that Chris Sacca invested in what is now thought to be one of the best performing VC funds of all time having invested an $8.4 million fund in: Uber, Instagram, Docker and Twitter, amongst others. He then went on to build perhaps the largest single shareholding in Twitter.
WSJ - The Accelerators
JUNE 26, 2015
ED ZIMMERMAN : In 2003, I remember the general counsel of a prestigious venture fund shouting down the idea of “secondary” or “founder liquidity” (i.e. enabling a startup’s founders to sell shares and get cash as part of the round). “Our venture fund hasn’t ever and will never do that,” the general counsel told a room filled with several dozen lawyers who were the inside counsels or outside counsels to many of the venture funds in America.
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Berkonomics
JUNE 25, 2015
By David Steakley. This week’s insight comes from David Steakley, who has contributed several great posts to Berkonomics this year. David is an active angel investor in Texas and is a former management consultant, where he obviously plied his trade well. – Dave. Companies can strike it rich by finding an element of business operations which many companies need, but few have the capability or expertise to execute with excellence – and then aim to supply that element.
The Entrepreneurs Library
JUNE 25, 2015
A summary of things you should know about Leadership Lessons from the Race to The South Pole according to Fergus O’Connell. Introduction (0:42). In college I studied mathematics and physics and then I became a software person after that and sort of came up through the ranks. In 1992 I started my own company doing project management and consulting.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 23, 2015
Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. A seed fund this size (and with increasing numbers of venture funds being raised by LA-based VC’s) has overcome a decade-long resistance and belief that you could only build great tech companies in Silicon Valley.
WSJ - The Accelerators
JUNE 25, 2015
Noam Wasserman, the Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas , found an interesting trend in the tenure of startup founder-CEOs: in his analysis of more than 200 startups, fewer than 50% of CEOs remained after three years. This number dropped to 40% after four years and 25% through the IPO. It’s a notable but unsurprising statistic — nearly all founders reach an inflection point where their responsibilities broaden and new challenges emerge.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 23, 2015
When startups achieve hyper-growth, many of the key internal processes begin to fail under the strain of a newer, larger organization. So they must be reinvented. One of the most important internal processes, but least considered, is scheduling meetings. As Anne Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Most of us spend our days in meetings.
The Entrepreneurs Library
JUNE 24, 2015
A summary of things you should know about Strategic Business Leadership according to Allen E. Fishman. Introduction (0:35). I’m an entrepreneur and the company I have right now is not the first company I’ve formed. My previous company I was part owner of went public and then I retired for a few years and then I started TAB, which is a membership organization for business owners of closely held businesses that now operates from eleven countries.
WSJ - The Accelerators
JUNE 23, 2015
So you’ve spent years building the company of your dreams. Your startup is growing rapidly and your board wants to look at an exit. The three magical letters — IPO — make their way around the boardroom. You watched some IPOs like GoPro do great, while others like Box struggle. It can be difficult to distinguish which startups will perform well as public companies, and whether an IPO even makes sense in your situation.
WSJ - The Accelerators
JUNE 22, 2015
RYAN HOLMES: Last year, I read an article that listed the health problems that stem from sitting too much — from obesity to cancer — and advocated standing desks as a fix. A light bulb went off in my mind: I have a bad back, and sitting all day makes it worse. But when I started searching for standing desks, they all looked too big, complicated and expensive.
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The Entrepreneurs Library
JUNE 22, 2015
A summary of things you should know about Stand Out according to Dorie Clark. Introduction (0:33). I live in New York City and I spend my time doing a mixture of things these days. I write books, I teach in the school of business at Duke University, and I do a lot of speaking and marketing strategy consulting as well. The Book’s Unique Quality (02:46).
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