Tom Ogaranko BEYOND LOCAL: How failure can produce success in the tech industryguelphtoday.com This article, written by Grant Alexander Wilson, University of Saskatchewan, originally appeared on The Conversation and is republished here with …
Tom Ogaranko How to recognize and create rare opportunitiesLadders - Benjamin P. Hardy “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. …
Tom OgarankoEnterprise If Your Enterprise Customers Want An SLA — Just Give It To Them. You Owe Them That Much.saastr.com - Jason Lemkin Many start-ups and even larger SaaS customers are reluctant to provide a Service Level Agreement — an SLA — that says they will, well, stay up. It’s …
Tom OgarankoStartups Whether You're Raising $50,000, $500,000, or $5 Million for Your Startup, Make Sure You Understand This 1 ThingInc Magazine - Sean WiseIf fail to ask for the right amount at the right time, you risk driving the probability of funding to zero. As we approach 2020, the funding landscape for startups continues to evolve. From my recent there
Tom OgarankoCustomer Experience Does Your Startup Need a Competitive Advantage? Here Are 4 Things That Every Consumer CravesEntrepreneur - Jennifer SpencerFulfilling customers' needs and desires should always be job No. 1 for your business. Are you struggling to find your competitive advantage and win your market? Well, you're hardly alone. Many startup
Tom OgarankoStartups Eric Yuan Explains the 6 Simple Tactics He Used to Build Zoom Into a $20 Billion BusinessEntrepreneur - Steven LiThe founder and CEO discusses how risk taking and passion fueled Zoom's multi-billion-dollar growth. Anyone familiar with video communications giant Zoom’s growth story knows that its successful IPO was
Tom Ogaranko Beautiful.AI founder Mitch Grasso's tips for the perfect pitch-deckBusiness Insider - Troy WolvertonMitch Grasso has made a career out of visualizing ideas and helping others do the same. Grasso started his career as a software designer. He then became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, using presentations
Tom Ogaranko The other micro VC allocation modelTechCrunch - Shaun AbrahamsonPortfolio co-founder: Our other investors want to participate but our lead wants to take most of the round. Portfolio co-founder: So that means pro-rata is going to be tough. Portfolio co-founder: The
Tom Ogaranko Venture Capital's Access Mythgreenspringassociates.com - Sample HubSpot User A myth at its core is a story to explain something complex. Over time, the story is broadly disseminated such that popular consciousness can, at …
Tom Ogaranko Suzy Welch: If you want to be successful, don't network—do this insteadCNBC - Courtney Connley "I know, 'Get out there and network,' is one of the most common pieces of advice given to job-seekers and career-builders," she says. "The idea is, …
Tom Ogaranko Digital dreams: Building an AI industry in Albertataprootedmonton.ca “I would be hard-pressed to give you an example of proven commercial success in AI in Edmonton,” said Ashif Mawji, head of the Edmonton branch of …
Tom Ogaranko The Early Pitch Decks Of 15 Startups Before They Became Billion-Dollar Companiescbinsights.com - Siddharth Agrawal Notching a billion-dollar valuation as a private tech company is hard, exiting at one is even harder. For nearly all the most valuable …
Tom OgarankoEntrepreneurship How This Entrepreneur Went From Zero To $100 Million A Year In Sales Within 24 Months Of LaunchingForbes - Alejandro CremadesThere aren’t many entrepreneurs who at least wouldn’t secretly like to have a virally successful product or raise millions of dollars for their startup business. The media makes it sound pretty common
Tom Ogaranko The much-needed entrepreneur to leader transformationmsn.com Becoming a leader is one thing; becoming an “outstanding” leader, however, is a completely different story. As an entrepreneur, at some point your …
Tom Ogaranko Waterloo incubator starts fund to let investors bet on future startup starsfinancialpost.com - James McLeod The University of Waterloo is shaking up the way it supports startups by replacing a grant model with one that allows angel investors to make direct …
Tom OgarankoEnergy From Blockchain to Microgrids: Technologies That Will Revolutionise EnergyForbes - Mike HughesSocietal pressure and emissions policies are speeding up innovation in the world of energy. At the same time, increasing competition is pushing companies to become more efficient. A range of businesses
Tom OgarankoVenture Capital Venture capital funding frenzy in B2B startups may continue in 2019livemint.com - M. Sriram Fewer rounds and bigger values also point to large deal sizes, as investors focus on a few winners from each segment Mumbai: Venture capital …
Tom Ogaranko a16z Podcast: What’s Next for Marketplace Startups (Hint: Services)a16z.com - Li Jin The past and future of marketplace startups — where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers and sellers of, well, …
Tom OgarankoStartups Strategies top SaaS apps use to capture new market segmentsTNW - John StevensA particular study by CB Insights listed the following among the top reason why startups fail: 42 percent of startups fail due to lack of market need for what they offer (this is by far the #1 reason startups
Tom Ogaranko How to Create a Business Plan in a Single Daybusiness2community.com - Angela Ruth Most of us have experienced a flash of insight that gets us excited about the possibility of a business. Some of us have taken the time to brainstorm …
Tom Ogaranko What Does "Company Culture" Actually Mean?Refinery29 - Judith OhikuareJob seekers and job givers are generally looking for the same things during the hiring process: alignment on important points, including job requirements, the position's title, and the salary and benefits.
Tom Ogaranko How Funding Rounds Work For StartupsForbes - Alejandro CremadesThe promise of big, easy and fast money to build business ideas has inspired countless entrepreneurs to throw their hats in the ring to try and get their share, and make their visions a reality. For some
Tom Ogaranko How This Entrepreneur Sold His Startup For $1.1 Billion By Following This One Simple RuleForbes - Alejandro CremadesWhat are the keys to incredible scale and launching a venture that has real potential today? Kevin O’Connor is one of those entrepreneurs and investors who is really in the top 0.5% of business experts
Tom Ogaranko After 50 Years in the Tech World, I've Found These Are the Most Important Leadership Lessons for Tomorrow's EntrepreneursEntrepreneur - Shaun McConnonHere are three tips for entrepreneurs as they build and lead their business for long-term success. I've spent the last 50 years of my life immersed in the high-tech world, building four successful businesses
Tom OgarankoFinance Successful Founders Fixate on These 5 NumbersEntrepreneur - Alice LoyInstead of focusing on financial statements, startups need to focus on the day to day and week by week numbers that, over time add up to a growth trajectory -- or not. I've worked with hundreds of startups
Tom Ogaranko If you don’t use it, you’ll lose itLadders - Benjamin P. Hardy Russell Ballard tells the story of a seven-year-old girl who started a tomato plant for a second grade project.She was taught that one tiny seed had …
Tom Ogaranko Your idea is worthless. This is what mattersLadders - Fahim Saleh You may have a great idea, but that doesn’t make you a successful entrepreneur.With the idea, you’re about 1% of the way there — because a successful …
Tom Ogaranko The Right Way of Running an Online StartupEntrepreneur - Nikhil Kale and Satyam ShastriOnce you start a business, consistency is all you need for it runs for a long time, be consistent with your marketing, constantly provide the items you intend to sell You're reading Entrepreneur India,
Tom Ogaranko What a Self-Deprecating Sense of Humor Says About Your EQInc Magazine - Anne GheriniAccording to new research, laughing at yourself might be tied to great leadership and can also reduce anxiety. Emotional intelligence (EQ) has been deemed a more powerful predictor of a person's success
