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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2023

Leading Blog

Between founding and running a global digital marketing agency, investing in over forty companies, creating a hit podcast, and launching a venture fund for minority businesses, Bartlett has learned valuable lessons about success and failure, discovering a set of principles that he uses to guide him on his journey from strength to strength.

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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

This male dominance is also prevalent in tech companies and venture capital firms, which creates an environment whereby the advice you receive is quite likely to be coming from a man. These products also had lower rates of venture funding and fewer users. Possible cause.

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If The Entrepreneurial Shoe Fits, That Doesn’t Mean You Should Wear It

Terry Starbucker

By her own admission, she’s always had this “Lucy Van Pelt&# (the character in the Peanuts comic strip) thing going on, putting up her own version of the “Doctor is In&# sign, telling it like it is to all who frequently ask her for advice. Are you willing to put in a LOT of hard work and practice? But it’s rarely so.

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What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart

Harvard Business Review

Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates.

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Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. This naturally generates a discussion during which clinicians can hear multiple perspectives and get advice to help them advance, focus, or redirect their idea, as needed. Insight Center.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

They need clients — that is, purchase orders — far more than advice or capital. Creating the Venture Client Model. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model.