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Finding the Right Cofounder for your Startup

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 by
The past decade of research into entrepreneurship and startups has proven rather conclusively that success is all but determined by the team in place, and that there are certain personalities, skills, and experiences that contribute to success, or assure failure. This has my head spinning as it should of founders, that when the market validates that
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Why Accelerators Fail Startup Founders

Thursday, 11 April 2024 by
Let’s take the two most distributed Startup Development Organizations in the world, and tease  out what’s happening In a point of fact: overwhelming most Accelerators *fail* founders; but why? With such a bold assertion, let me properly set the stage by pointing out that when 90% or more of all startups fail rather quickly, it’s
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Invention, Creativity, and Innovation are Merely the Gears that Turn a Startup

Wednesday, 06 March 2024 by
We’re witnessing throughout the world that our focus on “tech” for the sake of technology skills, and STEM education to support that, is actually failing people. Don’t be misled… yes, an education in technology will result in a decent job; more so than most University studies which result in poorer job prospects. I’m referring to
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Startups: What Exactly is Execution?

Sunday, 03 December 2023 by
I want to put your head on a specific focus as we explore this question. In the last few weeks, I’ve tackled the question of an ideal team for a startup, sharing new research about personalities, been critical of expectations, and proposed that understanding and avoiding how startups fail is more important than attention directed
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Success as a Startup Founder? Need for variety and novelty, reduced modesty, an openness to adventure, and heightened energy levels

Thursday, 19 October 2023 by
A recent study conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the University of Melbourne examined data from over 21,000 startup founders, formally identifying six key startup founder personality types associated with success. Notably, the research indicates that the collective personalities of a startup’s entire founding team significantly influence the venture’s
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Modern Day Heroes

Tuesday, 26 September 2023 by
My world is almost entirely online; from my written works to the majority of MediaTech Ventures‘ focus, the internet changed everything about our world but in doing that, created confusion about what it means to be an entrepreneur, how we define a startup, and wherein we find the heroes of the modern era. In my
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Founders, VCs Might Not Like My Sharing This, But They Should

Thursday, 21 September 2023 by
One of the more challenging skills to help develop in a founder, is being able to discern b.s. from experienced and valid advice. As you might imagine (and I hope you can relate from the all too prolific frequency with which this happens), it’s particularly difficult to know how to put questions back on a
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