Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation. We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In fact, […]
Where We Are Investing Now: Next Gen Food and Drink
In a recent post, I talked about our focus on Digital Brands. Food, drink, and new ingredients certainly are part consumer goods and digital brands. But this area is unique enough to deserve its own explanation. That’s because food and drink are not only digital products, but also new expressions of the emerging science of health […]
Musk is Wrong, We’re Not Already Cyborgs
Neuralink proposes to transcend reality and make virtual experiences feel totally real. How will Elon Musk’s neuralink challenge subjectivity?
10 Ways That Open Business Sharing Propagates Success
Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, […]
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 10/21/19
The notable startup fundings for the week ending 10/19/19 featuring funding details for Havenly, Algolia, and much much more.
7 Strategies To Make You A Business Role Model
Every aspiring business leader and entrepreneur needs to understand their seven leadership initiatives, as summarized and paraphrased here.
Quantity Can Be The Gateway Quality: A New Way To Think About Content
The more content you put out for more audience demographics and segments, the more you can really understand what they respond to and refine what you’re putting out based on actual data – instead of only depending on the subjective opinions of decision-makers.
The Emotional Cost Of Being A Startup Founder
We don’t do a great job of talking about the most important cost of starting a company – our mental and emotional well-being. Every bit of startup life chips away at our lives as a constant grind. It’s a journey few of us truly appreciate until we are too far into it. It’s time to start having a more open conversation about what it really costs to be a startup Founder.
7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges
New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Recognizing this is as much […]
Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Health and Happiness
From time to time I share quotes from my wanderings that seem useful to entrepreneurs. This latest collection, though, is a bit different.