I’m meeting with lots of investors and I can’t seem to get a straight answer on where they stand. I’m either getting my teeth kicked in or getting strung along! Why can’t investors just give me a simple yes/no without me feeling bruised or confused?
How to Handle Negative Comments
Whether you are a public figure or not, you’re always going to have to deal with people’s opinions of your work. Sometimes, it will be valid; other times, it won’t. Judge the judger, before you let their opinion get to you. Regardless of who is giving you the praise, or the criticism, you should never allow someone else’s opinion to make you sad.
6 Ways to Make Customers Remember You as Exceptional
Customers today expect highly personalized and exceptional experiences to stay loyal and become advocates, rather than just conventionally “satisfied.” Satisfied is far from memorable.
Where We Are Investing Now: Longevity and Aging Economy
Longevity and Aging Economy will be one of the core investment areas for Social Starts for the remainder of 2020. Longevity ties strongly into Health and Happiness: “Healthspan”—the number of years a person can expect to live with full health and no activity limitations—is an emerging concept in this area and should stand at the […]
The European Tech Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report 21/9/20
The notable European Tech startup fundings for the week ending 19/9/20 featuring funding details for Joint Academy, Factris, Keepit, and much more.
How to Create Career Paths at a Small Startup
How does someone “grow” in an organization that may never surpass a dozen people? My team wants is always comparing their growth path at my startup versus a big company — how do I become a better alternative?
Where We Are Investing Now: FemTech
Women supporting women in everything related to being women is a growing and inexorable worldwide trend. This is manifestly truly related to health and happiness, where the worldwide female 51% is demanding new and better approaches to every part of their lives. In that forceful expression of ascendency, we see a singular investment opportunity. This […]
The European Tech Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report 14/9/20
The notable European Tech startup fundings for the week ending 12/9/20 featuring funding details for Oncomfort, Snyk, Mollie, and much more.
Where We Are Investing Now: Health Tech
Because of the inextricable tie between health and happiness, there exists an equally strong connection between happiness and health. Now, powerful new science is opening whole new categories of products capable of contributing to happiness. Therefore, we see Health Tech as a central investment focus area.
7 Negative Reactions to New Ideas and How to Prevail
In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their dreams, aspirations, or intentions – they are remembered because they achieved results.