Berkonomics

MARCH 16, 2017

So, what do you think is more important? The quality of your management team, or the plan you execute toward success? Checking with professional investors from angels to VC’s, the answer appears to be near unanimous: the quality of the proposed or actual management team comes in a strong first, before the attractiveness of the business plan itself. The quest for a great management team is not a fluke, but rather a result of backward looks at the failure rate from past investments by those same

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 14, 2017

I once asked a VP of Marketing at a top SaaS company how she thought of content programming. What is the right type of content to create? I asked her. She replied with a brilliant little insight, “I look at way the best content marketers in the world do it. The TV networks.” News dominates the early morning. Then, daytime television takes over targeting those who stay at home.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 12, 2017

Imagine the Olympics, where you have the three winners of a race standing on the podium: the gold, the silver, and the bronze. Imagine what it’s like to be the silver medalist. If you’d been just one second faster, you could have won the gold! Damn! So close! Damn damn damn! Full of envy, you’d keep comparing yourself to the gold winner. Now imagine what it’s like to be the bronze medalist.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2017

By Tom Charman, GSEA 2016 UK Finalist and Cofounder of KOMPAS. With so many services, apps and online tools available, it can be difficult to work out which are the best. Plus, many tools are expensive, so start-ups are forced to hack together solutions. Here are my top picks (in no particular order) for the apps that help me and my team stay connected and productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall titled it “ WTF Happened to Winter ?” The conclusion of our report was that winter did come, but it was mild and short. This was driven by the influx of corporate VCs, foreign VC money, sovereign wealth funds and the new war chests of VCs who raised new funds in the past 18 months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

By Ron Lovett, EO Atlantic Canada member and Source Security founder. I founded Source Security in 2002. My goal was to manage the physical security needs for concerts, commercial businesses and festivals in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia. I recently sold Source to the largest security company in North America. After 15 years in business, Source had become one of the nation’s leading suppliers of corporate event and executive security services, employing a staff of 1,500 full-time and par

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 16, 2017

There are three kinds of software value propositions. Software that increases revenue, software that reduces cost, and software that promises improved productivity. To maximize the effectiveness of your customer success efforts, you need to understand which type of software company you are building. Software that increases revenue is the easiest to sell.

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