Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Trust, transparency and triumph—the gift of your family’s future. Written for EO by Susan Michel, founder and CEO of Glen Eagle. Whether we have aging parents, adult children or both, we all should consider having an honest conversation about the future. If there’s one lesson I have learned from working with families over the years, it’s that elderly parents often regret that they didn’t start a dialogue with their adult children sooner.
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Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
The way you communicate with people is part of your art. For people who have never heard your music, it’s the start of your art! If you make depressing music, send your fans a dark black announcement that’s depressing just to look at. If you are an “in-your-face country-metal-speedpunk” artist, have the guts to call a potential booking agent and scream, “Listen you crazy dirtbag!
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
Much of the conversation today about crypto is about Bitcoin and currency. But that’s myopic. Soon, we will be talking about how crypto will change the software world. In fact, many founders have already started that pursuit. More than 30% of the initial coin offerings (ICO) in 2017 target developers and businesspeople with their products. The numbers are still small.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
If a picture is worth a thousand words then you already know that Chamillionaire is having a great time with his new startup Convoz. He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. It was just announced today on TechCrunch. We’ve known each other for nearly a decade and he’s been a friend, a co-investor in startups and a mentor to many startups with whom I’ve worked.
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Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
One of the top music industry lawyers in Los Angeles was speaking at a conference. She’s an expert in copyright law, so someone asked her advice on a licensing problem. They had recorded their version of a famous song, but were unable to get the rights to sell it because they couldn’t get a response from the publisher. The lawyer shocked the audience when she said, “Sell it anyway.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
You’re two or three years into your startup. You have hired a great team and want to retain them. It’s time to consider refreshing their stock options to motivate them to stay longer. How many options should you grant to each employee? Startups should pay key people market rate to retain them. Otherwise, they may leave the business, lured by the promise of greater compensation elsewhere.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Let’s get right down to it. Your banking relationship can be like a great marriage or a bad trip to the DMV. In most cases it is strictly your choice. But the results of that choice will reverberate for what could be years. For a start…. How did you open your first bank account? Did you just walk into a branch, fill out the forms, take your first ten checks from your newly-opened account and leave?
Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Meet Debbie Goodman-Bhyat. . She’s the founder and CEO of Jack Hammer, an executive search firm based in South Africa. She is also an EO Cape Town. When Debbie found herself at the helm of a new tech company, Virtual Coaching Partners , s he learned all that she didn’t know about web development and tech startups. She looks back on those first months of “unconscious incompetence” in an article recently posted to Inc.’s EO channel: .
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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.
Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Psychology experiments have shown that the more people pay for something, the more they value it. People given a placebo pill were twice as likely to have their pain disappear when they were told that the pill was expensive. People who paid more for tickets were more likely to attend the performance. When people want the best, they look to the price to tell them what’s great.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
How should you think about designing your startup’s logo? The mark symbolizes your business. It’s destined to be ubiquitous. Business cards, ads, hoodies, mobile apps, water bottles, even custom sneakers may bear the logo. In the most recent episode of 99% Invisible, Tom Geismar relates the creation story of the Chase logo. The Chase logo was one of the first abstract corporate marks, one without text.
Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
You get a big long email from someone and think, “Ooof. I’ll come back to that later.” (Then you never do.). Someone tries to contact you using a technology you hate, like a surprising incoming video call. You have a dilemma and need a good conversation, so you reach out to someone who replies, “Can you make it quick?”. You’re overwhelmed with work on a tight deadline, and a friend calls trying to have a long conversation.
Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Before I got into the music industry, I had an idea of what it would look like: Some powerful manager or agent calling me into his office to discuss the business of my music. Then I moved to New York City and became friends with cool people who also did things in music. Sometimes these people were agents or managers, but that was secondary. Mostly we were just friends.
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Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
I was a struggling musician, with big ambitions but not much success, when I went to a music industry conference in Las Vegas to promote my music. I was nervous, but doing everything I could to make connections with the managers at all the big music companies. I attended every panel of experts, noting everyone’s name, and approaching the stage afterwards to introduce myself.
Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
I’ve been online since 1994, and seen so many companies come and go. In the year 2000, the place to be was mp3.com. Every musician would keep all of their music and fans there. A few years later, it was gone — shut down — all music and fan lists deleted. In 2005, it was MySpace. Again, musicians kept all of their music, photos, and fans there. A few years later, it was gone.
Derek Sivers
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
I hate to admit this, but it’s true. One of the best things you can do for your career is to move to a big city — one of the major media centers — the places that broadcast to the entire world. Nothing less than New York, Los Angeles, London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, or maybe San Francisco. (Nashville, Paris, Seoul, or Tokyo only count if you’re limiting yourself to those markets.).
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
20 years ago, a newly minted billionaire worked in his office. Fluorescent lights, a dingy purple carpet, and a CRT monitor resting on a door. Not a desk - those were too expensive - a door supported by 4x4s, brackets and wood screws. In his 60 Minutes profile , he drives around in a Honda Civic. His rationale? “It’s a perfectly good car.
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