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Serial entrepreneurs, how did already being rich and successful affect your second or third venture?

SaaStr

Q: Serial entrepreneurs, how did already being rich and successful affect your second or third venture? Having some money in the bank does change things. But for the better? That’s more mixed. The first one (12.5 months after founding) : A $50m total exit the first time wasn’t enough to make anyone a billionaire, even coming after just 1 year and 1 round of funding.

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What We Will Eat in the Future

Andreessen Horowitz

Editor’s note: Quartz asked some of the boldest thinkers how they envision the future for their The World in 50 Years series, with various experts across fields answering questions about the future of work and the economy to what we. … The post What We Will Eat in the Future appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How hard is it to raise venture capital? If you have solid traction and a great team, are your chances significantly higher than 0.05% and will you find at least one investor if you keep hustling?

SaaStr

Q: How hard is it to raise venture capital? If you have solid traction and a great team, are your chances significantly higher than 0.05% and will you find at least one investor if you keep hustling? This is a case where statistics are misleading. The overall odds of raising venture capital may be 0.05%. And goodness, there are just so, so many start-ups today.

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How To Be An Awesome Product Manager

Sylvia Ng

Becoming a product leader is about focusing on what you want to do, not who you want to be. In this story-based talk from Women In Product 2019, I use my experiences to explain a mental model that you can use to develop your own unique leadership style. I also share tips on how to lead well, such as having the courage to be disliked and not asking for permission.

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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Why was WeWork such a huge flop?

SaaStr

Q: Why was WeWork such a huge flop? It’s easy to be a critic. But WeWork’s big “flop” really came from just 1 factor … it ran out of investors that bought into its dream. The bear case is/was easy : WeWork was burning more cash than it brought in in revenue: Crazy self-dealing with CEO, and lack of any seeming controls. Potentially way over-paying for some properties.

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16 Minutes on the News #18: Personal Genomics – Hype vs Reality

Andreessen Horowitz

For our first episode of 2020 — #18 of our show 16 Minutes , where we cover recent headlines, the a16z way, from our vantage point in tech, and especially what’s hype/ what’s real — we do one of our … The post 16 Minutes on the News #18: Personal Genomics – Hype vs Reality appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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10 Companies Show you their Positioning Strategy for Marketing

Upscope

When an engineer turned marketer helps position multiple companies to grow from, for example, $2 million to $70 million in 18 months, it's time to listen. Below we'll cover what positioning in marketing is, why you should RTFM of April Dunford's book and give you 10 positioning examples and a couple of links to templates. Related : 10 Companies Show you their Go-to-Market Strategies Also see : 3 Copywriting Secrets for Ranking on Google And : Using Jobs to be Done Method to Explain What Your Com

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

As I’ve been doing every year since 2014, I thought I’d take some time to write some predictions for 2020, but not without first doing a review of my predictions for 2019. Lest you take any of these too seriously, I suggest you look at my batting average and disclaimers. Kellblog 2019 Predictions Review. 1. Fred Wilson is right, Trump will not be president at the end of 2019.