This week for me has been one of the toughest ever. Again I’m faced with a decision…
“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s…
For the third year in a row here are our annual team predictions (we’re also late to the…
Today, we are proud to announce AI@The House.
By make money, I mean money-over-over, they got back more than they put in. Seriously ask any…
About 18 months ago I had an unsettling epiphany: being a venture capitalist can be really boring. I…
Disclaimer 1: I am generally more of a cynic than corny but I started at Samaipata a month ago and…
We’re delighted to announce today that we’re opening a Berlin office and will be kicking off…
Section 17 from “Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology” which will be released the end of January. I will be posting a new section daily. Please share your feedback as this is a work in progress.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to say what you are about to read. In today’s world, there are so many mediums. Do I film a vlog? Do I record a podcast? Do I shoot an Instagram story? Do I keep this to myself? Each of those ideas ran through my head. Yet, when the dust settled, I…
In May, 2017 I decided to do two high risk things. First, I left my job at a high profile life sciences company to launch a new biotech startup. Second, I decided to retrofit my 1989 Boston Whaler Outrage, all 18 feet of…
We hear it quite frequently. “We’ve been told we’re not ready for VC yet.”
Today we are extremely excited to announce the fourteen startups joining IndieBio Class Six in downtown…
This year has been busy for me in more ways than one. It was filled to the brim with work and sustained efforts in my little…
It all started as an antidote to creative frustration. My day job is copywriting, and while…
Physical Therapy is a very hands-on profession. Patients seek out the help of Physical Therapists to guide and assist their recovery process. Most of the of the work done at a PT office can only be accomplished through human to human…
The best New Years Resolution I’ve heard is from one of our founders. Each time she picks up her phone to check social media / news / texts in 2018, she’ll read her Kindle instead. She asked for book recs — a request I get a ton — so I made…
How my comfort zone has the potential to slaughter my dreams
The circular relationship between nothing and something.
Could it be that the reason why we are collectively burning out is not the result of physical, mental and spiritual exhaustion, but the result of us living a linear life in an exponentially changing world? What if our…
”Entrepreneur is the new France”
As designers we all want to become better at our craft and as design leaders we want to help our people do the same.
Often we focus on all the things directly related to being a designer — tools…
In the previous post, The 4 Layers of Authentic Business, I shared a framework for how I build, and recommend my clients build, an authentic business — one that is deeply meaningful while being financially sustainable.
In 2013/2014 Inventures asked our Managing Partner Michael Schuster to write a…
Yvette Gavin is an international speaker, trainer, author, and coach. She’s the founder of Yvette Gavin Consulting, a global personal and professional development firm that helps established and aspiring executives, high…
Kris, great stuff.
“Great relationships aren’t about finding near-perfect partners — they’re about being near-perfect partners. Which means accepting another person, flaws and all, and investing in them wholly, without carving off some of your care for “nostalgia” — or cutting either of yourselves short.
One of the more frequent questions I get as owner of Stand Up NY is if I am there at night. The answer is mostly not — maybe one night a week I’ll hang there. The other nights I can be found on my couch watching Netflix. Every few…
How Five Minutes Can Increase Your Chance of Success
Do your best to make money because having money increases your ability to do good. You can have all the sympathy in the world for poor people, but if you have no money to assist them, you are as useless to them as a wicked man. And to make money, you may want to invest at…
Last Mile Learning is a new monthly blog series by Solar Sister’s Grants and Impact Manager, Abby Mackey. This blog series shares our experiences working with women-run businesses in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda to better disseminate data, share…
HIV/AIDS is continuously plaguing the lives of millions across the world. To be exact…
There’s a spate of blogs on the highs and lows of 2017. Instead of covering a whole spectrum of what we’ve learned, I’d like to share the biggest realisation I had in the PledgeMe office.
I’ve got some bad news.
It’s fun to watch the game, but effectiveness and marketing will always battle for dominance in any market.
As a business coach that’s been doing this for 3 decades, I’ve seen this more in there last decade than any time previous.
What’s really bad about the slick marketing is they are leveraging people’s insecurities to line their pockets. Not only have people lost their money, they lost whatever they could have been doing…
2018年冬学期のスケジュールから、一般公開されている講義やイベントのメモです。Stanfordの学内に絞っても、数多くのイベントが予定されているのですが、まとまっているサイトは無い模様…。今期はETLセミナーに加えて、ヨーロッパ各国の起業環境についての講座が公開されています。シリコンバレー出張などの機会に、タイミングが合えばおすすめです。特に申し込みなどは不要です。
In 2013/2014 Inventures asked our Managing Partner Michael Schuster to write a series on our experience as a seedstage fund, about stuff that makes us wonder, but not in a good way. This series originally titled “WTFs of a Business Angel” hasn’t lost its…
Bowerbirds are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour. Males build a…
In 2013/2014 Inventures asked our Managing Partner Michael Schuster to write a series on our…
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I learned the power of deadlines when I was beginning my career as a product manager. A core responsibility of a PM is to ship product. It seems obvious but it’s easier said than done.
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You’ve decided it’s time. Years of planning and hard work are coming together in a…
Simone Morris is CEO of Simone Morris Enterprises LLC, a certified minority women owned business providing consulting, training, coaching, and educational keynotes. The…
You are right. Product design should be consciously thought through process, not only for covering major customer pain points but prioritizing them. This is so, when you do not relish the luxury of optimizing it for all parameters at once. Having done that, this product strategy should also meditate on the initial marketing plan to set the ball rolling.
Each Monday we take our favorite day of the week as an opportunity to whip up a…
look around the room filled to the brim with trinkets and baby books and rows upon rows of shelving which hold even more clutter…
We just released our newest book on startups, investing and the world of venture capital.
In fact, here’s a review of “The Investing King” by Ross Blankenship:
Tana Session is an Award-Winning International Speaker and Coach, and a recognized expert purveyor of Reinvention and Transformation. Recently recognized as a Huffington Post “10 Black Female Experts to…
“My advice to anyone is to be…
Let us do the math…
This past year has been a major growing experience for BeLive.tv, and we are very excited about it! Many new…
Two days ago Laurence D. Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, one of the most influential investors in the world, sent a letter to the CEOs of the world’s largest companies, informing them that if their companies do not positively contribute to society, BlackRock will not provide…
When I started working on my own products at Interaction Lab I was very interested in everything related to startups, marketing…
Good morning, blessings! As 2017 wrapped up and we start 2018, I was inspired to write down 10 things that I have learned about entrepreneurship this past year which was full of teachings that have nurtured both my personal life and the professional…
Welcome to the second in my series challenging the conventional wisdom of financial advice (check out the first…
Once your trademark has been registered there really isn’t much left for you to do. Check that…There’s always something left to do. It’s just that you get to wait five years before…
I originally wrote this piece for M.A.D.E Magazine. I thought it would be nice to…
Excellent tip!
There are certain beliefs about success we tend to take for granted in American…
Rich history here. Love this.
This is part 2 of a 3 part series called How to Survive Launch Season. Part 1: Do You REALLY Need to Buy a Course is available right here, and Part 3: Deciphering the Selling Messages is right here.
I’ve put a complete list of the best books for early-stage founders based on the questions you’re facing here. It’s easy to digest and hopefully a great resource.
How to lap your competition in record time
I’m not your typical stay-at-home mom. As a divorcee, I am the sole breadwinner…
I couldn’t agree more!
Wooclap’s Team is happy to announce the addition of its newest feature, the “quick slide”.
You are passionate about something or you are not. Passion isn’t something which can be developed by mastery or hard work. You might develop skills and the work might become more bearable but you will always loathe doing it. If you start liking something once you become successful at it — that’s because you love and are excited about making the money…
A few weeks ago we saw the latest Thor movie. The heroics and courage involved in Thor saving his planet were both entertaining and enjoyable to watch. Surrounded by superheroes and comic thrillers, the latest movie trends have made the heroics…
When you’re just starting out, the first 5 people you hire will make a huge difference in whether your start-up is successful or not. What’s important is not so much that you find five perfect employees, but that you find the right combination of employees who have the right…
By Stephen Jackson
I just finished reading “To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others” by Dan Pink. For anyone in entrepreneurship, leadership, management, marketing — its a good and quick read that I’d recommend.
Love this!
When we started this business, the idea was simple. Create a solution that gives the user their equivalencies and the course information that they need to plan their college career, all in three simple steps! Simple enough right? We soon realized that as we add more institutions (community…
Hello Medium world! I feel like I should introduce myself somehow but that can be super complex because I am ‘all over the place’ it seems! Well, let’s start here…I have 3 grown children (shoutout to our fitness star at…
What’s the shortcut secret to doubling or tripling your online sales?
Using more the one sales medium!
You see, there are plenty of people that won’t join you on a webinar. Why? Because they don’t want to give up…
Lately, you feel that you are stressed, overwhelmed, tired and that you don’t have a clear purpose in your life…
Hi my name is Kinsey Rosene, owner and founder of Crose Nest a lifestyle boutique and Botanical Pharmacopoeia in Lowell, MA. We specialize in unique small-batch artisan goods handmade in the US in addition to our hand-on herbal station where customers…
It’s all about the questions!
We have the incredible privilege of working with a lot of entrepreneurs to make The Hum…
The two are not mutually exclusive.
What is Entrepreneurship? What is Leadership? Why do leaders need…
|Hardest question for an entrepreneur to answer?
Users have many request for features, so do your team members and there are always those pesky bugs…
Influencer marketing is the hot word currently in the market. We all have some influencers…
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Yesterday I talked about “unlearning the value of hard work.” The punchline was that we overload ourselves with “good” things to do, when we should be more picky and wait for the “great” ones. Hard work is good, when it gets you somewhere. Otherwise, it’s a distraction.
10 years ago, web designers were designers.
Marijuana in the limited state of Colorado surpassed 1 Billion in sales in 2017…
This was fantastic! Thank you.
I agree with you. Also you don’t have to be a child to follow your passion. I know people and we read about them who try something new which they always wanted to try later in life. I think the idea that passion would come later sounds false. No matter how much hard work I put in learning mathematics or how successful I become at it, I am never going…
Back in April 2016, we decided to try our shot at a startup challenge competition. It was only a couple months into our startup, and well, we really didn’t know a lot back then. So after Googling how to write an executive summary we applied, got in, whipped up a pitch deck…
Great stuff!
We have the incredible privilege of working with a lot of entrepreneurs to make The Hum happen…
I touched briefly on this topic last week in my previous article on being present, but thought I would come back to this since I kicked off this week with an update meeting with one of the early seed venture capital firms I’ve been chatting with for more than half a year now.
We exist in a time where there is no excuse for brands to not know who exactly their…
Having lunch alone in a restaurant with my favourite Spotify list ON. This is me now.
Photo credit: Richard Donelan www.RichardDonelan.com
I’m the oldest in my family and as such, whether they want to admit it or not, my 2 younger siblings look up to me. That’s how Nadeshot is for me in a way. Here’s a guy who’s 25 and I’m 21, but he’s so easy to relate to. I’ve never had that older sibling and Matt “Nadeshot” Haag gives off that vibe to me. But…
“Nothing great was ever…
Part I
By Sybil E. Satterfield
Owner at Sybil Brand Affairs
Ryan, thank you for the deep insights.
“Boyd knew he had a good a idea, but he questioned whether someone had already explored a similar line of inquiry. He didn’t want to waste his time. He worried the idea might be too simple. He needed to run the idea past more people first. He needed to look at the existing material. He…
