Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found. And that’s a true reflection of just how successful and prolific Greg has been in LA. In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in dev

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2016

By Graham Marsden, Marketing Director at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Author’s note: EO has a partnership with Inc. Magazine, and we were grateful to have been generously extended access to their Iconic series of events this year. I attended this week’s event in Seattle as a Marketing Director from a non-profit organization helping entrepreneurs become their best selves.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. Sometimes growth happens without a leader envisioning it, living it daily, evangelizing it to anyone who will listen.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2016

“All new ideas are combinations of old ideas, but not all idea combinations are created equal,” wrote Frans Johannsen. Mick Pearson designed the Eastgate office building in Harare, Zimbabwe based on techniques he observed termites employ to stabilize the internal temperature of their nests. Remarkably, the Eastgate maintains an ambient temperature between 73-78°F despite variances in external temperatures from 58° to 88°.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “Top deal maker in Los Angeles… Continue reading on Medium »

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Derek Sivers

APRIL 12, 2016

When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you turn on the oven. You need to bake it before you frost it and slice it. I meet a lot of people who want to start a business. Some don’t have an idea yet. I don’t understand this. It’s like wanting to wear a bandage when you don’t have a wound. Most have an idea but no customers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 10, 2016

There many ways of measuring a SaaS company’s efficiency: magic number, payback period on cost of customer acquisition, lifetime value to cost customer acquisition ratio, quick ratio. These metrics primarily focus on measuring efficiency in customer acquisition. But, a software company’s true efficiency also have to include the cost to service contracts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

Like many immigrant families and many Jewish families I grew up around a kitchen table, often outside my house and experiencing food… Continue reading on Medium »

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2016

Email personalization is a topic we never get bored with around here. There are countless ways to bring personalization to your email marketing strategy, and the savviest marketers out there are constantly honing their craft. Why? Because email personalization is expected. Thankfully, the batch and blast email days are long behind us. We have wonderful tools like marketing automation to help us reach our target audience through engaging content.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Unfortunately, one of the panelists, Skinny Girl vodka's Bethenny Frankel, told an African American founder in the audience that if she wanted to raise funding, that she should go out and hire a white guy to be the face of her business.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2016

Last week, Facebook launched the messenger chatbot platform, which like Slack, Telegram and others, presents a big market opportunity for startups to innovate. In addition, the companies and products that determine how to most efficiently distribute their product on these new platforms will benefit from user curiosity and less competition, both of which result in lower cost-of-customer acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

Like many immigrant families and many Jewish families I grew up around a kitchen table, often outside my house and experiencing food, culture, life and other people through meals. I remember fondly my dad (from Colombia) wanting to eat out of the house and experience the best multi-cultural foods one could actually find in middle-class, suburban Sacramento in the 70s & 80s.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2016

Daniel Lubetzky is the founder and CEO of KIND , which is among the fastest-growing U.S. snack companies and a leader in healthier snacking. Ashoka’s Michael Zakaras recently sat down with Daniel to hear more about the origins of the company and about why being kind is transformative. Your focus on kindness has deep, personal roots. Tell us a bit about your father and your experiences growing up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 13, 2016

By Shelley Rogers, EO Brisbane. When it comes to my entrepreneurial journey, I compare it to running my first triathlon. While I did train heavily for the race, I had no idea what to expect. It brought with it plenty of sweat, scratches, a few tears and, admittedly, a few swear words thrown in here and there. When I finally crossed that finished line, I felt a sense of accomplishment, pride and success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 11, 2016

Mindset is everything. In this video, Jason Forrest, EO Fort Worth member and Chief Sales Officer for Forrest Performance Group, talks about the benefits of choosing possibility thinking vs. limited thinking. Circumstances can be tough—such as a downward economy or a new competitor—but when we look for the possibilities, we grow. The post The Right Mindset: Possibility Thinking vs.

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