Earlier this month, I crawled into Dr. Wendy Ju‘s autonomous car simulator to explore the future of human-machine interfaces. Dr. Ju recently moved to the Roosevelt Island campus from Stanford University. While in California, the roboticist was famous for making videos capturing people’s reactions to self-driving cars using students disguised as “ghost-drivers” in seat costumes. Professor […]
8 Guiding Principles For Pursuing A Winning Venture
Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level or are not truly innovative.
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 12/10/18
Notable startup fundings for the week ending 12/8/18 featuring funding details for Looker, Farmstead, NuORDER, Amplitude, and much much more .
3 Tips For Running A Successful Family Business
Gary Vaynerchuk offers a few tips for anyone interested in starting or joining a family business.
10 Business Constants Flourish In This Age Of Change
In this age of constant change, I usually find myself writing about what has changed. Yet I find that periodically it pays to reflect on what hasn’t changed in business, probably won’t change in the foreseeable future, and is still critical to our success in our professional career, as well as the success of our business.
5 Inertia Traps To Avoid In Your Business Leadership
Why owners and executives fall into traps of inertia and the critical pragmatic leadership skills needed to regain the required momentum.
VC ‘Gut Feeling’ : What Does That Actually Mean?
There was an interesting tweet thread started by Semil of HayStack about why he passes on some investments; personal, gut, intuitive feeling. I’m a big fan of him, his investments and his advice, so I wanted to expand on my thoughts around this. It is common for me to politely pass on an investment b/c […]
Interpersonal Skills Are Still Key to Team Engagement
Your challenge as an entrepreneur and business leader is to discover ways to improve the fulfillment of your team, without turning back the clock on technology.
Learning From Your Mistakes Doesn’t Have to Be as Painful as It Sounds
Failure is difficult for anyone. But it becomes a part of your story, often in positive ways.
How To Maximize The Level Of Your Business Contacts
In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high-level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. But people don’t realize that all relationships are not the same. There are people you only recognize on the street, business friends, and then close friends whom you can […]