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By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. As I talk daily with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs, elected officials and investors, I have yet to find one single person who does not agree that economic diversification is critical to our state’s future. However, as easy as it may be to gain agreement that economic diversification is a goal, it is quite a different matter to achieve it as a priority. MORE
With its innovative model for empowering rural women and youth, IndiVillage introduces balance to India’s ecosystem—where cities tend to grow exponentially while rural villages have few economic opportunities. “We MORE
The $5 million expansion of the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars program will give more UC campuses critical access to resources, opportunities and mentorships for students and recent graduates across disciplines and experience levels. “As MORE
O’Neill said later, “…no one else had the opportunity to learn [from the accident]. Not sharing an opportunity to learn is a cardinal sin.” I have never worked for a company that was dogmatic about project postmortems but I have always wished I had. MORE
Dave’s note: Popular Bill Payne returns this week with a thoughtful take on valuations. By Bill Payne. MORE
Consequently, listening is one of the greatest opportunities to learn. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world. That line stopped me cold when I was reading In the Light of What We Know because it’s so true. To set aside the way we’ve thought about an idea in the past and consider it as if it were a totally new concept is what a Buddhist might call Beginner’s Mind. MORE
If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link]. Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. MORE
Consequently, here’s an opportunity for startups to lead, not just technologically, but more broadly. Given all the data, all the computational power, all the human capital the business had amassed, there were many different opportunities to generate revenue in unsavory ways. Defining corporate ethics around these novel technologies is an important part of establishing a startup’s role in the ecosystem and presents an opportunity for thought leadership in the space MORE
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is offering opportunities to tech entrepreneurs and startup companies to grow their business by connecting with government clients and developing solutions to make governmental processes more efficient. MORE
It did not take long for the partner to become impatient with the relatively small size of the opportunity. There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. MORE
Wanting to also focus on building opportunities in his own community, Gastón pursued social entrepreneurship and launched eaInversores. Motivated by a passion for understanding and encouraging good financial behavior, he saw a perfect opportunity to grow the market in his community. MORE
You need to answer an important question: are you losing these opportunities because of sales execution or product insufficiency? In each of these cases, you should measure the reason the opportunity became “closed/lost.” You have a good pipeline of prospective customers. You pitch them but things aren’t working out. You can see it in your low close rates. They are below 15-20% conversion from sales accepted lead to closed customer. MORE
We launched Center on Rural Innovation to address what has become the largest rural opportunity gap in our nation’s history. Embrace Unexpected Opportunities . The post Bridging the Rural Opportunity Gap appeared first on CO.STARTERS®. MORE
Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Co-founder and Director of Venture Centre , has an awesome Twitter bio: “Creating connections and exploring intersections between people and ideas by delivering meaningful opportunities to do good stuff together #entrepreneurship.”. MORE
The post [Tala in Forbes] The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
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I think there is an opportunity out there for a crypto brokerage to offer IRAs or an IRA custodian to offer crypto, or both. Seems like an opportunity to me. I have an old IRA that I don’t pay much attention to. I thought about cashing it out but the tax load to do that was too much for me to stomach. So then I thought about investing it in crypto. But that turns out to be pretty hard. MORE
Out of nearly 100 student entrepreneurial teams from schools across the U.S. and Ireland, Credit Starter , Cllctve , and Eat Makhana rose above the rest and won in the 2019 Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars Propel pitch competition. MORE
The key is to turn a social problem into an economic opportunity. “If Katica began with a hypothesis: from the macroeconomic perspective, gender equity is an economic opportunity. Katica Roy is on a mission to close the gender equity gap—in her lifetime. MORE
OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, will join the Millennium Alternative Investment Network® (MAIN®), which provides advisors and individual investors with a streamlined way to discover, research and invest in alternative investment opportunities. MORE
The post [OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
That’s why I’m pleased to see that Third Way , a newish DC-based think tank, is pitching a big idea that they are calling the Opportunity Bank. The Opportunity Bank is a proposed trillion dollar funding pool (over ten years) that would update and supercharge the US Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 7a loan program, which currently serves as one of the largest sources of debt capital for small business. The Opportunity Bank. MORE
Building a startup and then having it acquired by a larger corporation gives an entrepreneur a great (but limited) opportunity to learn more about business operations—but it isn’t dancing lessons for life. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. For high-growth startups and their early stage investors, there are two primary paths to longevity and returns—an initial public offering (IPO) or a merger/acquisition by another (typically larger) company. MORE
But when evaluating them, consider the significant opportunity cost of investing those dollars into the business, especially in the early stages of a company. In the public stock market, share repurchases/buybacks have reached more than $1 trillion in 2018 , a historic high. MORE
Salesforce Essentials Expands Opportunities. Customer communication channels are growing and you can't control that conversation. You can't control where it happens or how it happens if you want to give your customers the best experience. MORE
Third Way has recently released a plan to create a new $60 billion Opportunity Fund to encourage venture capital (VC) investments in locations outside of America’s VC hotspots. At $60 billion, the Opportunity Fund is a big idea, but not necessarily a new one. This deep knowledge base yields several important lessons for the Opportunity Fund. I don’t know if the Fund has a chance of being enacted, but I’m happy to see the Opportunity Fund concept out in the policy debate. MORE
The ESHIP Summit began in 2017 with a year of discovery, where we collectively became more aware of each other, the common opportunities and problems we faced, and the wealth of experience and emerging resources reflected across this budding network. MORE
Most important among these are hard-to-access venture capital opportunities, which until now were just aspirational for most individual investors. MORE
I’m on deadline for my next book until April 15th 2020, and I won’t have time to meet or review this opportunity. The post How to Say “No”: Five Templates to Turn Down Opportunities Gracefully appeared first on Jason Calacanis Kevin Rose and Tim Ferris did an episode of The Random Show [ [link] ] where Tim Ferris confessed that he had cancelled his next book and refunded the advance. MORE
The post [PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Joins Millennium Alternative Investment Network® to Increase Access to Venture Capital Opportunities in United States appeared first on OurCrowd. Jerusalem / Oct. MORE
Maybe the region will be caught in this perpetual cycle of intense local inflation and an abundance of resources, and the ones who will thrive in such waters are those who, amid all these never-seen-before changes, seize the opportunity that volatility provides. It’s an unusual time in the markets. MORE
Startups will of course forge innovative paths to market and unlock new opportunities. The typical mobile phone’s home screen is occupied by more than 30 applications. A digital tragedy of the commons, each additional mobile application a user downloads decreases the odds of an average application re-engaging a user. After all, the time spent on mobile isn’t increasing fast enough to cover the marginal application. MORE
One class of clear business opportunity, which wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, is created by the service that seemingly makes it as difficult as possible for potential paying customers to make it take their money. MORE
So, one would assume, then, if someone had the opportunity to a) put me in a position where I'd really owe them a favor. big time b) be able to pitch me or talk out what they're up to, next steps, opportunities, etc w/o it even necessarily counting as a pitch b/c it's so informal and c) do something fun and outdoorsy, they'd take it, right? Each day, hundreds of people stuff themselves into my inbox--pitches, career advice pleas, introduction requests. MORE
The post [CrediFi in Yahoo Finance] CrediFi Launches CRE Strategy Dashboards for Risk, Competition and Opportunities appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
That's what will attract the best entrepreneurs here--an opportunity to push limits and explore the future of innovation. How much longer will the opportunity to clone startups for other cultures and countries last when we become more and more connected everyday? MORE
So that means that more than half the list is new in any given year--a huge opportunity to rise up. When I was in high school, I got pretty intimidated right off the bat. I went to a scholarship school and I felt like I was the last guy they let in. As early as freshman year, everyone seemed to know what they were good at and had already found lots of interests. The best and brightest rose to the top quickly and I didn't believe I would ever break into that crowd. MORE
Because of the economic realities of angel investing, not greed. The hard and unforgiving facts are that the majority of all angel-backed ventures fail completely, losing all the money of all the investors. MORE
Opportunities to disrupt appear when a fundamental assumption about the world changes. That’s Looker’s opportunity. And they seized the opportunity. I met a physicist this week who told me all the Nobel laureates he had met in his studies have been the most modest of physicists. “They realize how small they are in the world, after discovering something incredibly special and new.” ” Separately, I referenced an executive this week. MORE
When the underlying assumptions underpinning product design no longer holds, new opportunities are created. These UX and technology dislocations create a broad new set of opportunity for startups, especially bottoms up SaaS startups whose user acquisition strategy usually relies on word of mouth growth. We all build products based on assumptions - assumptions about our users, who they are, how they think, what they expect. MORE
The Opportunity: This is where truly 1,000x outcomes happen. The Opportunity: Instead of pooling risk in a fund, an investor can raise money from others for a specific deal. The Opportunity: VC funds have gotten huge and most have formalized “scout programs” made famous by Sequoia. – The Opportunity: This is the dream! The Opportunity: The infrastructure is set. The Opportunity: Can feel more appealing to newer generations. MORE
Of course, startups pursuing opportunities in the Industrial Internet will accelerate this pace of change. IoT is a fundamental reinvention of the way the largest industries do business which makes it one of the best business opportunities of the next decade The real promise of the Internet of Things isn’t simply linking millions of devices together, just like the real innovation of the web wasn’t networking a bunch of computers. MORE
Don't know if you noticed, but LinkedIn has an editor now. Just think about that for a second. A professional social networking site has hired a content focused executive away from a traditional media company's digital arm. Isn't LinkedIn doing terrifically well with it's recruiting focused business? Isn't ad-supported content a tough place to be? Why would LinkedIn hire away Dan Roth from Fortune a few months ago. MORE
If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. MORE
opportunity Related Topics Co Starters
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
We launched Center on Rural Innovation to address what has become the largest rural opportunity gap in our nation’s history. Embrace Unexpected Opportunities . The post Bridging the Rural Opportunity Gap appeared first on CO.STARTERS®.
TechStars
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
The $5 million expansion of the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars program will give more UC campuses critical access to resources, opportunities and mentorships for students and recent graduates across disciplines and experience levels. “As
TechStars
JULY 9, 2019
Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Co-founder and Director of Venture Centre , has an awesome Twitter bio: “Creating connections and exploring intersections between people and ideas by delivering meaningful opportunities to do good stuff together #entrepreneurship.”.
TechStars
MAY 9, 2019
The key is to turn a social problem into an economic opportunity. “If Katica began with a hypothesis: from the macroeconomic perspective, gender equity is an economic opportunity. Katica Roy is on a mission to close the gender equity gap—in her lifetime.
Haystack
DECEMBER 26, 2018
Maybe the region will be caught in this perpetual cycle of intense local inflation and an abundance of resources, and the ones who will thrive in such waters are those who, amid all these never-seen-before changes, seize the opportunity that volatility provides. It’s an unusual time in the markets.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 7, 2012
That's what will attract the best entrepreneurs here--an opportunity to push limits and explore the future of innovation. How much longer will the opportunity to clone startups for other cultures and countries last when we become more and more connected everyday?
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MAY 27, 2019
By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. As I talk daily with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs, elected officials and investors, I have yet to find one single person who does not agree that economic diversification is critical to our state’s future. However, as easy as it may be to gain agreement that economic diversification is a goal, it is quite a different matter to achieve it as a priority.
Jason Calacanis
OCTOBER 20, 2019
I’m on deadline for my next book until April 15th 2020, and I won’t have time to meet or review this opportunity. The post How to Say “No”: Five Templates to Turn Down Opportunities Gracefully appeared first on Jason Calacanis Kevin Rose and Tim Ferris did an episode of The Random Show [ [link] ] where Tim Ferris confessed that he had cancelled his next book and refunded the advance.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2019
OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, will join the Millennium Alternative Investment Network® (MAIN®), which provides advisors and individual investors with a streamlined way to discover, research and invest in alternative investment opportunities.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 29, 2019
The post [PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Joins Millennium Alternative Investment Network® to Increase Access to Venture Capital Opportunities in United States appeared first on OurCrowd. Jerusalem / Oct.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is offering opportunities to tech entrepreneurs and startup companies to grow their business by connecting with government clients and developing solutions to make governmental processes more efficient.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 7, 2019
But when evaluating them, consider the significant opportunity cost of investing those dollars into the business, especially in the early stages of a company. In the public stock market, share repurchases/buybacks have reached more than $1 trillion in 2018 , a historic high.
OurCrowd
JUNE 12, 2019
The post [OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces appeared first on OurCrowd.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
So that means that more than half the list is new in any given year--a huge opportunity to rise up. When I was in high school, I got pretty intimidated right off the bat. I went to a scholarship school and I felt like I was the last guy they let in. As early as freshman year, everyone seemed to know what they were good at and had already found lots of interests. The best and brightest rose to the top quickly and I didn't believe I would ever break into that crowd.
Gust
AUGUST 8, 2012
One class of clear business opportunity, which wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, is created by the service that seemingly makes it as difficult as possible for potential paying customers to make it take their money.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Most important among these are hard-to-access venture capital opportunities, which until now were just aspirational for most individual investors.
Berkonomics
JUNE 5, 2014
Dave’s note: Popular Bill Payne returns this week with a thoughtful take on valuations. By Bill Payne.
EntreWorks Consulting
MARCH 28, 2019
That’s why I’m pleased to see that Third Way , a newish DC-based think tank, is pitching a big idea that they are calling the Opportunity Bank. The Opportunity Bank is a proposed trillion dollar funding pool (over ten years) that would update and supercharge the US Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 7a loan program, which currently serves as one of the largest sources of debt capital for small business. The Opportunity Bank.
Gust
JUNE 21, 2014
Because of the economic realities of angel investing, not greed. The hard and unforgiving facts are that the majority of all angel-backed ventures fail completely, losing all the money of all the investors.
Haystack
MAY 5, 2018
The Opportunity: This is where truly 1,000x outcomes happen. The Opportunity: Instead of pooling risk in a fund, an investor can raise money from others for a specific deal. The Opportunity: VC funds have gotten huge and most have formalized “scout programs” made famous by Sequoia. – The Opportunity: This is the dream! The Opportunity: The infrastructure is set. The Opportunity: Can feel more appealing to newer generations.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Don't know if you noticed, but LinkedIn has an editor now. Just think about that for a second. A professional social networking site has hired a content focused executive away from a traditional media company's digital arm. Isn't LinkedIn doing terrifically well with it's recruiting focused business? Isn't ad-supported content a tough place to be? Why would LinkedIn hire away Dan Roth from Fortune a few months ago.
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 10, 2014
Consequently, listening is one of the greatest opportunities to learn. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world. That line stopped me cold when I was reading In the Light of What We Know because it’s so true. To set aside the way we’ve thought about an idea in the past and consider it as if it were a totally new concept is what a Buddhist might call Beginner’s Mind.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 29, 2017
Consequently, here’s an opportunity for startups to lead, not just technologically, but more broadly. Given all the data, all the computational power, all the human capital the business had amassed, there were many different opportunities to generate revenue in unsavory ways. Defining corporate ethics around these novel technologies is an important part of establishing a startup’s role in the ecosystem and presents an opportunity for thought leadership in the space
TechStars
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Out of nearly 100 student entrepreneurial teams from schools across the U.S. and Ireland, Credit Starter , Cllctve , and Eat Makhana rose above the rest and won in the 2019 Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars Propel pitch competition.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Startups will of course forge innovative paths to market and unlock new opportunities. The typical mobile phone’s home screen is occupied by more than 30 applications. A digital tragedy of the commons, each additional mobile application a user downloads decreases the odds of an average application re-engaging a user. After all, the time spent on mobile isn’t increasing fast enough to cover the marginal application.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
O’Neill said later, “…no one else had the opportunity to learn [from the accident]. Not sharing an opportunity to learn is a cardinal sin.” I have never worked for a company that was dogmatic about project postmortems but I have always wished I had.
Smart Hustle Magazine
JULY 24, 2019
Salesforce Essentials Expands Opportunities. Customer communication channels are growing and you can't control that conversation. You can't control where it happens or how it happens if you want to give your customers the best experience.
Tomasz Tunguz
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Of course, startups pursuing opportunities in the Industrial Internet will accelerate this pace of change. IoT is a fundamental reinvention of the way the largest industries do business which makes it one of the best business opportunities of the next decade The real promise of the Internet of Things isn’t simply linking millions of devices together, just like the real innovation of the web wasn’t networking a bunch of computers.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link]. Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
AUGUST 21, 2019
Building a startup and then having it acquired by a larger corporation gives an entrepreneur a great (but limited) opportunity to learn more about business operations—but it isn’t dancing lessons for life. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. For high-growth startups and their early stage investors, there are two primary paths to longevity and returns—an initial public offering (IPO) or a merger/acquisition by another (typically larger) company.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 30, 2010
So, one would assume, then, if someone had the opportunity to a) put me in a position where I'd really owe them a favor. big time b) be able to pitch me or talk out what they're up to, next steps, opportunities, etc w/o it even necessarily counting as a pitch b/c it's so informal and c) do something fun and outdoorsy, they'd take it, right? Each day, hundreds of people stuff themselves into my inbox--pitches, career advice pleas, introduction requests.
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
The post [Tala in Forbes] The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor appeared first on OurCrowd.
Berkonomics
MARCH 30, 2010
It did not take long for the partner to become impatient with the relatively small size of the opportunity. There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies.
OurCrowd
JUNE 11, 2019
The post [CrediFi in Yahoo Finance] CrediFi Launches CRE Strategy Dashboards for Risk, Competition and Opportunities appeared first on OurCrowd.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
You need to answer an important question: are you losing these opportunities because of sales execution or product insufficiency? In each of these cases, you should measure the reason the opportunity became “closed/lost.” You have a good pipeline of prospective customers. You pitch them but things aren’t working out. You can see it in your low close rates. They are below 15-20% conversion from sales accepted lead to closed customer.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Opportunities to disrupt appear when a fundamental assumption about the world changes. That’s Looker’s opportunity. And they seized the opportunity. I met a physicist this week who told me all the Nobel laureates he had met in his studies have been the most modest of physicists. “They realize how small they are in the world, after discovering something incredibly special and new.” ” Separately, I referenced an executive this week.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 5, 2015
When the underlying assumptions underpinning product design no longer holds, new opportunities are created. These UX and technology dislocations create a broad new set of opportunity for startups, especially bottoms up SaaS startups whose user acquisition strategy usually relies on word of mouth growth. We all build products based on assumptions - assumptions about our users, who they are, how they think, what they expect.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2019
With its innovative model for empowering rural women and youth, IndiVillage introduces balance to India’s ecosystem—where cities tend to grow exponentially while rural villages have few economic opportunities. “We
Co Starters
JUNE 18, 2019
The ESHIP Summit began in 2017 with a year of discovery, where we collectively became more aware of each other, the common opportunities and problems we faced, and the wealth of experience and emerging resources reflected across this budding network.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Wanting to also focus on building opportunities in his own community, Gastón pursued social entrepreneurship and launched eaInversores. Motivated by a passion for understanding and encouraging good financial behavior, he saw a perfect opportunity to grow the market in his community.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 19, 2019
I think there is an opportunity out there for a crypto brokerage to offer IRAs or an IRA custodian to offer crypto, or both. Seems like an opportunity to me. I have an old IRA that I don’t pay much attention to. I thought about cashing it out but the tax load to do that was too much for me to stomach. So then I thought about investing it in crypto. But that turns out to be pretty hard.
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