Posted by Charles LaCalle on June 6th, 2017
Urbanization is a defining process of modern life.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and the number of urban citizens around the world is projected to rise to 66% by 2050.
In the US, over 80% of the population lives in urban areas with 1 in 7 Americans living in New York, Los Angeles and
Posted by Martin Zwilling on September 14th, 2014
Some entrepreneurs forget that they can’t use people the same way they use technology to build a startup. Inventors, for example, are skilled in manipulating technology, but may have little interest or experience engaging people to make an effective team. Unfortunately, startups are not one-man shows, so entrepreneurs need to study leadership as much as they study technology.
In fact,
Posted by Martin Zwilling on September 16th, 2012
Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.
For example, if your investor has
