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How I Invest

Both Sides of the Table

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. During the Q&A I was asked about how I make investment decisions in early-stage businesses. I was asked again in an LP meeting later in the week and then again at a founder breakfast gathering we hosted yesterday.

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MyEO: Food, Fun and Future Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Giving back to the next generation of entrepreneurs has never been more rewarding. Just ask EO Philippines, who from 31 March to 3 April, held their MyEO Next Gen Bootcamp 2.0—entitled “Bizwars”—in Makati. In all, 43 participants representing two chapters (EO Philippines and EO Perth) came together to teach teenagers the importance of personal leadership, collaboration, innovation and nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit.

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You tell me!

This is going to be BIG.

There's no possible way I can get up to speed on what a founder knows about their industry, plan, goals, or team, in just a few hours or even days. Hell, I could spend weeks on it and, hopefully, it wouldn't make a difference. You should know way more about this than I ever could. That's why the consistent theme among the very worst pitches I take are the ones where the entrepreneur asks me what I think--about everything.

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Micro–train; macro–manage

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: The week, we again welcome Kim Shepherd as our guest author, with her blunt, on-the-target style. As always, you should enjoy her insights for management… By Kim Shepherd. You have enough on your plate without having to hold your employees’ hands or peer over their shoulders. In fact, the ideal scenario is to follow Lee Iacocca’s strategy: “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.” Of course, in practice it’s not tha

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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A Letter to My Son on Becoming Independent

Both Sides of the Table

L’dor Vador Jacob. May 21st 2016. It is the day that you mark an important occasion, your Bar Mitzvah. And I want to stop on that thought — “mark an occasion.” My first-cousin Sam, who came from Dallas said it best. “I made sure to be here even though it’s easier to just skip travel because there are so few occasions in life where the whole family gets together and I wanted to be a part of that.

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The Decentralization of Venture Capital

Tomasz Tunguz

To thrive, venture capital firms must perform three things well: raise capital from limited partners, source companies to invest in, and pick the best opportunities. Historically, each of these three activities has been highly centralized in a small partnership often perched on Sand Hill Road. But new networks are changing this. The latest called DAO attempts to decentralize all three at once.

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How to Condition Your Employees for Top Performance

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This article was originally published on Inc.com. Kim Ades is an EO Accelerator participant from Toronto and the president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching , helping clients reach new levels of success in both their professional and personal lives. EO Accelerator, a program run by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , enables early stage entrepreneurs to catapult their companies and empowers them with tools for aggressive business growth.

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Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, oh, why Snapchat?

Both Sides of the Table

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people.

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GROWCO 2016: A Recap from the Field

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Taylor Collison, EO’s Marketing Manager. Author’s note: EO has a partnership with Inc. Magazine, and we were fortunate to have attended the GROWCO event in Las Vegas this year. The conference was designed to provide a variety of takeaways for entrepreneurs at all levels. All opinions in this article are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization; this article has not been edited by Inc.com.

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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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Are You Willing to Fail for Success?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Check out this inspiring video from Daily Dose : The post Are You Willing to Fail for Success? appeared first on THE BLOG.

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What I Learned from an Impressive Man

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What roles do your family, friends, colleagues, employees and even new acquaintances play in your everyday life? EO member, James Ashcroft, reflects upon three types of relationships in this post from his personal blog. Mike Lee Kanarek could kill me in three seconds using nothing but his bare hands. Or my own hands. He’s an Israeli Special Forces Combat Veteran, 6 th Degree Karate Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt… the list goes on and on.

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What Average Contract Value is Best for a SaaS Company

Tomasz Tunguz

One question founders often ask is which is the right customer size to target? What is the optimal ACV for a SaaS startup? One way of answering this question is to reflect upon the success of previous SaaS companies and analyze how they did it. The chart above plots the total revenue of publicly traded SaaS companies by ACV bucket. Enterprise companies average contract value is greater than $100,000.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tomasz Tunguz

In 1967, Harvard Business Review rejected a paper submitted by Mel Conway. A year later, Conway’s thesis would eventually be dubbed Conway’s Law. Conway graduated from Caltech with a Masters in physics and from Case Western Reserve with PhD in math. He worked on the Pascal compiler among other notable software projects. Over the course of his career, Conway observed a phenomenon.

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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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The 3 Types of Channel Strategies for SaaS Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

“There are three different types of channel relationships for SaaS companies,” a seasoned executive told me recently. Which is the right one for your SaaS startup? In a classic reseller relationship, the value-added reseller sells, builds, services and operates a solution to a customer. After signing the deal, the VAR crafts and customize the software to the needs of the customer, invoices the customer and supports the customer.

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