A long cycle has recently closed for me and I think it’s a good time to share some lessons…
When we think about the social media landscape, the major networks and messaging apps come to…
I’m kicking off 2018 by confronting a secret I’ve been keeping for the past three years. It’s a topic I have been afraid to discuss with those closest to me and an issue I have gone to great lengths to mask in my public persona.
We published this post via CRV’s Medium as well — check it out here!
As investors in consumer marketplaces, we’re excited to see the rise of vertical marketplaces disrupting eBay. When eBay went public in 1998, the…
Khalil Rafati was living on Skid Row and addicted to herion. How did he tranform his life and build…
2015’in son ayları ve 2016 benim için Amerika ile geçti. O zamana kadar, çalıştığım…
At this point I’m sure you’ve heard of the $100B Softbank Vision Fund that’s been making headlines…
Today we’re announcing Spearhead, a program dedicated to founders backing founders by providing funding and mentorship…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has developed rapidly in recent years. From the triumphs of AlphaGo against the world’s best Go…
Deep in the forests of Central India, one former BBC journalist has built an expansive radio service dedicated to tribal people living in the region. Shubhranshu Choudhary’s CGNet Swara is a voice-based online portal that allows people in the…
In 2010, I made the leap from Procter & Gamble to help open up the Cincinnati office of Rockfish. In the process, I went from a company of well over 100,000 employees to one well under 100 employees. Little did I know that it…
The prestigious NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme will be extending its presence within Southeast Asia and breaking new ground in Toronto this year. With the two new additions, the programme will now be available in eleven entrepreneurial hotspots…
Yesterday I wrote an email to the Paga team reflecting on 2017 and sharing my views of what 2018 has in store for us. In the email I said:
We are entering into the fulfilment of our purpose as a business to offer payments and financial services to…
So, you’re probably thinking, what on earth is this guy going on about in the title of this paper that I am about to…
Alguns capítulos são essenciais para que histórias sejam compreendidas. Se quisermos contar a nossa, esse sem dúvidas…
You can kind of group all careers into two major buckets: 1 where you are the CEO and 1 where you are working for a CEO. Examples of the first category would be entrepreneurs, freelancers, artists etc, while examples of the second would be employees, those…
Unfortunately, I was sick most of the weekend, so on Sunday I forced myself to sit down and get some…
“The Pain of Discipline is far less than the pain of regret.”
“You don’t have to start at the top to be the best…But you do have to start somewhere”
No matter who I’m speaking to, there is always one thing I profess in every speech; the message that we must realize it’s never too late to do or be the…
A female millennial community for creatives, entrepreneurs, students & professionals
‘I want to go to more tech/entrepreneurship/networking events but I don’t know where to start’
„We’re good enough, why don’t we just put our minds together and…”
“Most people, especially the ones you want to be…
Process Before Speed
By James Orsini, Chief Operating Officer of VaynerMedia
I can’t help but feel we are experiencing a culture of impatience. We’ve grown accustomed to hating process and the desire to quickly advance to the result. It is challenging the very core of our society in so many ways: Do…
01/08/2018
2017 was a great year for me, a lot of things happened in the first time of my life.
In today’s competitive world, “Sales” is an important function for any organization. A Startup team is selling the vision of the company to customers, partners, vendors, government, and investors. This document explains 10 common mistakes Startups make in understanding the…
One of the best improvements that I’ve had in my daily life in this past year or two (and something that I’ve seen…
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
Yesterday when I was in my car on the way to the office, I was listening to a radio station that was talking about emotional intelligence. A young lady who worked at that radio station had attended a…
You’re in a meeting. An important meeting. There are five people — four others and you.
You’re talking about a tough subject. Some key business goal — or maybe how to renew a contract with a major client.
If that Zen feeling from yoga class seems to rinse away in the shower, don’t worry you can access it off the mat as well.
If you are looking from the outside decisions at VC firms are often opaque. This post…
Quem passa pela rua Dr. Virgílio de Carvalho Pinto, em Pinheiros, talvez se questione sobre o que são aquelas quatro…
They say that the path of an entrepreneur requires a lot of risks and sacrifices. In Deborah Zanforlin’s case, that meant dropping out of her PhD program. After years of scientific research, her knowledge and experiments gave rise to a brilliant idea for a new…
Anthony, good information. While this may be true I struggle with the presentation of the content.
I like to take a little softer approach. I love people. All people. Even the ones living in mediocrity.
My question is why? Why is the path to mediocrity so trodden?
“Visionaries, game changers and disruptors all share one thing in common —…
Took me a bit longer than expected to write up this post. I think it has to do with the many lessons learned in 2017 when it came to leadership, running a business and also raising capital for a business. Yet, 2018 plan is a robust one focused on more…
As mountain guides and venture capitalists, it is our job to form authentic relationships with our clients and…
El objetivo de este sistema de ejecutar decisiones es reducir el tiempo entre pensar / reflexionar y decidir / ejecutar. El espacio de distancia que queda…
ADYVA FOODS
My name is Anyagwa Adanma. I studied Mass Communication at Imo State University, graduated 2012. I started Adyva foods in July 2016 as an event…
This week at NEF, we’re gearing up to our annual flagship event — Demo Day 2018. This annual event is a…
Oportunidade, inovação e propósito. Certamente os dois irmãos que há alguns anos saíram em busca de…
A maior experiência da vida desse ex-capitão do BOPE? Ser pai.
Por trás de exuberantes doces, sorvetes e dos mais acolhedores sabores, o Santa Helena carrega dentro de si a essência da palavra…
É fácil criar barreiras mentais entre amigos e negócios. Mas se tratando de cerveja, essa história fica um…
If you think it’s already too late, it’s probably already too late.
If you think you’re not good enough, you’re probably not good enough.
If you think you’re too old, you’re probably too old.
A nossa relação com a moda claramente não é a mesma de 30 anos atrás. Compramos em dobro, diminuímos os prazos de validade e…
THE THINGS THAT “THE LUCK INNOVATORS” HAVE IN COMMON: How to create an innovation legend.
Elle, love this quote you shared, “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” –Warren Buffett
When I was younger I thought this would be the answer. Now I realize it’s only a small part.
Having the courage to question what lives in our heart and why is authentic freedom. Financial wealth provides the external freedom.
Samanah Duran is a British fashion designer and entrepreneur. Her fierce emphasis on inspiring each individual to embrace their identity and to take pride in their individuality is perfectly presented…
Design A House Before Designer Ckothes
Don’t buy expensive designer clothes if you have not built your house. First meet your needs before you meet you wants. A house is the most basic human need. One Gucci design can pay for part of the land. If you already have land, it can pay for blocks. And Even if you have a job, don’t…
No coração da São Paulo encontramos histórias de todos os tipos. Não é à toa que é considerada a cidade mais plural e…
Dizem que a curiosidade é o que move o mundo. De fato, ela foi o motor essencial que Victor precisou para que pudesse…
Danny, love the quote.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you…
Now that we are at the end of the start of the year, it is time for the annual retrospective analysis of what happened over the…
O sistema público de medicina no Brasil pode ser resumido a uma conta que nunca fechou.
Base de sustento de mais de 15 milhões de pessoas no Brasil, diariamente o café tem o poder de aproximar pessoas…
Estonian E-Residency program has attracted a lot of foreign businessmen in recent years…
I have always been a reluctant reader. Mainly because it hated the idea of conforming to the ideals my school wanted me to adhere to. At school reading was a chore and so I hated every minute of reading a book.
A long service year had just a week left to its end. It had blown me both hot and cold and dazed me with…
Yes! Every day we see posts, articles, and blogs from all successful people in the world. Do this, develop…
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are…
Following up on our previous post tracking investment activity in Greek startups…
Never give up with the end in sight.
The dichotomous relationship between hard work and luck in achieving “success” is often deliberated. Many quotes (as well as Medium articles) and often people credit one to the detriment or exclusion of the other. This is not a zero-sum game. If you admit that luck exists, that does not undermine your hard work. If you rightly recognize your own hard…
There’s no point in having a business if it isn’t profitable. While in the beginning…
I am an Entrepreneur in the business of selling results to highly ambitious business leaders who want to identify and leverage the hidden opportunities within their companies that will allow their teams to improve the quality of…
Originally published on blog.hockeystick.co.
Despite its unresolved intellectual quandaries, the financial industry has turned the IRR metric into the most popular capital budgeting metric in the USA and the second most…
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” - Ayn Rand
I’m not talking about whimsical wishes. I’m talking about unwavering, conscious…
When we screened the Cidade Queer film at K.o.clubmilano during the socially engaged ‘school’ at @viafarini in Milano — and after a week+ of watching her and trying to figure out the matron of the arts organization — I finally figured you out. When your friend and former…
It is becoming common practice to use the Business Model Canvas to layout a new business idea. But, how do you know when…
What is the real path to becoming an internet entrepreneur? Is that really even an attainable…
As I begin to wrap up my first read of 2018, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. I wanted to spend a short little while on a couple quotes that I personally enjoyed.
As we continue this week’s journey to put the systems in place that naturally lead to success, we need to face a hard truth: you can’t actually do it all. Everyone has the same number of hours in a week, 168. Every minute that you spend doing something is a…
Becoming a millionaire is for the most part a matter of mental attitude. If you’re determined to become one, you will. In this book, I prepare you for this shift by contrasting the attitudes of “millionaires” with “normal…
“Oh you do powerlifting? Isn’t it nerve-racking to get on stage and pose in front of everyone?” — The common misconception.
What happens when you spend your life dreaming about success? Dreaming about all of the amazing things you want to do or accomplish? When you spend your time following others accomplishments hoping that you pick up some tidbits that will help you strike gold in your dream life?
Prior to starting meditation/mindfulness/daily journals, I discredited it as a waste of time with no clear benefits. I was wrong.
Forget about all the other time that was wasted, watching TV, laying in bed…
Chaplains for Businesses in the Boise area but can pray remotely, of course. We focus on Small Businesses. The larger…
4 Key Lessons from Oprah’s speech at Golden Globes 2018
My surgical residency was a surreal experience.
I’m not even talking about the fact that I started out drilling holes through people’s skulls as a neurosurgical resident 15 years ago.
So.. This blog is about me, Eli Livshitz. I‘m going to share with the world my journey in the wild…
On the 1st of January, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) opened applications to the 4th cycle of it Entrepreneurship Programme through which it would support…
Dead on target, it is very important. Before you hire employees you need to evaluate not only if you have adequate and meaningful work for them, but whether you are geared up to shift from informal culture to more formal organised sustainable culture in every sense of the word ( including financial ).
A business executive with over 20 years of leadership experience, Raymond J. “RJ” Fitch serves as vice president of manufacturing and site head for WuXi AppTec in Philadelphia. Prior to launching his career in the biotech…
Zat, thanks for the great read and tying in history.
“One of the reasons that it’s hard to predict paradigm shifts in the future is because, by definition, if something has never been done before, it’s incompatible with the current reality”.
Look at your calendar. Do it. I’ll wait.
Does it look awesome? Ha, I doubt it. If your calendar is anything like mine used to be, it probably looks pretty shitty. It probably looks like a to-do list for OTHER PEOPLE.
Raul thanks for sharing these thoughts. I feel the same about writing too.
“For me I started to discover that writing is one of passions and there may be many more I come across. When I write I feel so free and it’s amazing to see my own mind produce the words and content that I create. When I write it allows me to be very present and in the moment, it’s a type of meditation for me”.
Multi-level Marketing or Network Marketing got it’s start almost 100 years ago. The intended purpose is to…
Kris, great read. I agree with you, no amount of books will do the work.
How many of us live like what you say, “We first find ourselves feeling “walked on” and then pick a fight over stupid shit to get even”.
It takes courage and honesty to recognize why we have the emotions we do. When you are…
As we approached 2018, the words that kept coming to me repeatedly were –
Simplify. Be more focused.
This is a good image — I have to give talks roughly once a week and it is helpful to have tools to keep rhetoric in tune with the audience.
One thing I’ve been able to confirm (and is shown by research somewhere…don’t remember the source at the moment) is that the average listener is able to engage with content for…
As your entrepreneurial business grows, you sometimes need to hire people to support…
I’m currently listening to ‘The Power of Moments’ by Dan and Chip Heath. I listen a little every time I go for a run.
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Starting a company is hard, but growing that company into a successful enterprise is even harder. The CEO of Ntiva weighs in on the most important factors for growing a successful business in 2018!
Jordan, great read.
“One of my biggest issues with the modern day education system is the arbitrary delineation it creates between ‘intelligent’ and ‘non-intelligent’ students. From an early age, we’re told that the students who perform the best are the ones who are ‘naturally gifted’ — that they are simply born more intelligent than the rest of us”.
Whether a business has products, services or both, the only way they can make a profit is by making sales. To do this, many companies use lead generation. New businesses, or those who are looking to improve their sales and learn more about the best ways of…
Being an entrepreneur is all about seeking opportunities. Figuring out how can you take a product, whether it’s a…
Nick Cantu // Owner & President
These points should not discourage you from endeavoring on your entrepreneurial journey, but rather use them as a guide to help you not stumble on your way to success.
And Cheap DSLR’s
For many years, like everyone else who wants to be called a filmmaker but isn’t legally old enough to vote, one of my most frequently googled questions was “film look” or how to get it.
Voici la stratégie que je propose à mes clients pour vendre grâce à Facebook. Elle donne de bons résultats…Dans cette émission je te dis pourquoi ?
Influencer Marketing has become an important strategy for both start-ups and more senior companies in the fight for costumers attention.
Brands that don’t adapt in this “transformation of power” will fast be left behind and…
Dear older generations,
Honestly I’m a grumpy millennial writing this in spite of being pure butt-hurt poopy pants about the stereotypes of millennials…
SUCCESS STUDIO 2.0
If as a man, you are not Adam, and as a woman you are not Eve, then you are sure not born into success.
That's a lie ! 'cos I was born into a rich family. Shut up ! Success is Personal.
Tom, great information!
When your goal is to really understand people’s experience, a survey will never give you the rich insights you’re hoping for.
You need to do something simpler, more human and ever so slightly scarier: have some conversations.
Dan Silvestre Your article was a great read. Your life will become more simple when you only focus on doing the tasks you love that are going to move you forward. Having a bunch of tasks to do each day tricks your mind into thinking you’re being more productive. But in reality you are wasting time on things that aren’t important. Getting rid of the clutter will allow you to work most efficiently.
So many of us work a job to make the money, and we feel like it’s the end of our opportunity to explore our…
Occasionally, I’ll run into an individual and we’ll discuss various aspects of our lives. Typically, the usual…
Day 5 of 365 —Finding YOUR Why
This is definitely a rift from the classic Start With Why by Simon Sinek. If you haven’t read the book, do it, yesterday. If…
Being humble can only serve you well. I have found the more I am able to recognize my shortcomings, the sooner I can start seeking answers from people who know more, have more or have experienced more than I have.
Philemon, love this quote,
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ” — T.S. Eliot.
What I learned in 2017
These lessons, while might seem obvious to others, were all realized organically by me this year in dealing with all sorts of challenging situations. Here are some of the important ones I wanted to share.
WHY EVERY ORGANIZATION NEEDS TO ACT LIKE A MEDIA COMPANY
The world of business has always been complex, but the changes and added complications that have…
Philomon, great read! Loved these thoughts of yours,
“The more we know of some things, the less we admire them. A minute inspection reveals deficiencies, but the reverse is true about writing so feels every genuine writer. For a writer, it is to write”.
Barry, great read. I can relate. I liked when you share these thoughts,
“I had an idea in mind when I started. The idea evolved and changed as I progressed. This left giant holes in the arc of the story, especially in the first third of the book. The thought of going back and plugging all these gaps feels daunting”.
