A new online magazine, Rank & File has a nice article on the power of mentorship.
Read it at rankandfilemag.com.
Mentor Whiplash
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A new online magazine, Rank & File has a nice article on the power of mentorship.
Read it at rankandfilemag.com.
It’s way worse than you think and way way worse than you want it to be. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
“Lean Manufacturing” is the the origin of the phrase and philosophy “Lean Startup” and no matter how many times I see good summaries of the Toyota Manufacturing Process (the masters of Lean), I keep seeing analogies that are useful for startups. Lesson 1- Don’t make the same mistake twice. Lesson 2- Optimizing internal operations can be your secret sauce. Lesson 3...
Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation wrote a nice explanation of the need for and sweet spot of impact investing, Somebody’s Gotta Get Rich. Impact at problem-solving levels of scale doesn’t come from one-off businesses. “Levels of scale” as in making a noticeable difference in the world, rather than simply telling a good story imagining a world different from how it is today. Kevin...
Episode 4 of ZigZag included the backstory of the company behind the podcast. It was not an a-typical startup story, but one line caught my ear. I don’t want to think about the money. This too is not a-typical of founders. They have an idea. They want turn it into a product (or service). They like the concept of having customers and running a business. But when the time comes to ask a...
One of the challenges of being an “impact investor” is explaining to others what you mean by “impact” as the definition varies from person to person. The best explanation I’ve ever heard came from Ted Levinson of Beneficial Returns on a panel at a recent SOCAP 365 event in San Francisco (which I heard on the “Unusual Investments” episode of the new Money...
