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🟠🟣 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗬 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳! At WECONOMY, founders win what money can't buy: The competition brings founders together with experts and managers right up to the executive boards of the German economy. Are you a tech start-up and want to take your business to the next level?  This is your chance! ✔️ 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆? Start-ups in the early stage / pre-seed phase as well as start-ups that have not yet been founded with proof of concept or pilots. ✔️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀? We are looking for startups with a focus on STEM and technology. MedTech, FinTech, AgriTech ... the possibilities are endless! ✔️ 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺? Not a must, but all the better. After all, it has long been known: More diverse teams are more successful. Any questions? Message me or comment below! ⏰ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟰! WECONOMY is an initiative of @Wissensfabrik - Unternehmen für Deutschland e.V. in cooperation with @UnternehmerTUM and @Handelsblatt. Pamela Renz Timo Dohmen Lisa Weisenborn Leonie Gorlt Hans-Jürgen Jakobs

How to be a #Remarkable #Founder ??? I had an opportunity to attend the one and only legendary Guy Kawasaki's virtual keynote on “How to be a Remarkable Founder”at the fn7's - Helix global startup summit 24. 🚀 Here are some insightful takeaways form Guy's Keynote: 1. Alleviate Pain - Ideas are good, fixing problem brings the business 2. Go be and Go see - You need to ‘be’ on the ground to ‘see’ problems to be alleviated 3. Work Backwards - Customer to product, not the other way around  4. Make yourself Indispensable - picking boring things that nobody wants to do is a good example 5. Get beyond Eureka - Show value thru Prototype/Demo, its worth 1000 words 6. Learn to give great demo - Show how it works rather than what it does - great demos win customers instantly 7. Hire Different - Hire diverse founding team but not your replica 8. Plant Many seeds - you never know the USP of your product/service, market will decide 9. Sweat the small stuff - Remove friction for customers to embrace 10.Make your decisions right - Do the right thing, else, do things right before it’s too late. 🏁 Bonus:  1. From his experience working with #SteveJobs & Steve Wozniak at Apple - One should make and other should sell; nobody can do both 2. Make something great - great things will be sold easier, disregard of changing market dynamics including AI 3. Don’t discount luck - Being at the right place, right time matters. fn7 is an MVP development company dedicated to empowering founders with cutting-edge AI powered platforms, incubated at T-Hub. Feel free to buzz Bhawna Behal for more on Fn7. ✅ Hit "Lets catch up" on my profile if you want more of my research on Cybersec and Finance industries.

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Traditional competitive advantages are vanishing. I hear about it daily in my work with stuck startups: “We raised too much money under a business model that no longer works because we’re getting undercut by new competitors.” As AI and cheap infrastructure level the playing field, there’s very little “moat” for companies to hold onto in the long run. Or is there? I am seeing a new frontier emerging—one that will redefine success in the coming decades. A massive opportunity that is mostly hidden in plain sight. I’m dedicating my newsletter to this seismic shift that’s about to happen, and how you can build sustainable competitive advantage while the competition battles for pennies. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gzipBkqJ #FutureOfWork #AI #Leadership #Innovation #CompetitiveAdvantage #Startups #Entrepreneurship

It was fantastic having dinner with Bryan Kim and a group of French founders in SF 🇫🇷 Bryan spearheads AI x Consumer investments at Andreessen Horowitz. Here are 5 takeaways: Our discussions revolved around the French Tech ecosystem, a16z's thesis, AI, and job opportunities. 1️⃣ French tech is on the rise 🇫🇷🪄 It starts to become significant to some in the US and Mistral’s success is its most unique example. French startups can only truly succeed if companies adopt a global approach. No one cares about the European market here. 2️⃣ The three pillars of French Tech include: Polytechnique = top-notch engineers 🧠 BPI = state support and funding 💸 Xavier Niel = infrastructure, connections, and inspiration 🪄 The current government is more actively involved in the tech ecosystem than I realized. They actively reach out to funds and tech founders to attract them to France. 3️⃣ AI is an IQ test for founders 🤖 a16z has an (almost) 100% AI Thesis because they view building in AI as a test of a founder's ambition. Deciding against leveraging AI, when it’s a unique opportunities in the current tech revolution 4️⃣ Although funds are interested in French founders, making the move to SF still brings an edge. It signals a strong commitment to your company's success. It's also easier and quicker for investors to vet founders based in the Bay Area. 🌉 5️⃣ Joining a company early can be > founding your own When you deeply believe in the mission it can be as impactful and rewarding as founding a startup. Bryan's persistence landed him a role at Snapchat as an early employee, although he came from a banking background. He ended up leading the IPO 🚀 Bryan hosted us at his home and it was an exceptional evening ! Investors like him are probably unique to SF 🙌

I find it immensely strange that, even though we have all the data to prove that startups are disproportionately responsible for economic growth and job creation, we’ve made the process of creating a startup equivalent to driving full speed towards a cliff, with nearly no external support or funding resources available. This type of system can ONLY result in extreme pathologies of founders; yet we demonize those who succeed as somehow being the reason for existing inequities. If you want to change the paradigm, you have to invest in founders. If you don’t care about them when they are putting everything on the line to solve problems that the rest of society ignores, the few that succeed will likely return the favor.

Hey Eric 👋! I'd agree that, at a high level, the systems and incentives of startup culture create an environment that mostly treats founders as an exploitable resource to play the venture lottery. This happens sadly in spite of the many well-intentioned individuals that want this to *not* be the case and DO want to impact the lives of founders more holistically. It's simply systemic and to change it would require a shift of power and economic incentives - which we might see as interest rates stay high, venture capital becomes less abundant, and founders feel more confident creating "lifestyle" businesses. To that end, I'd push back that we "have all the data to prove startups are disproportionately responsible for economic growth and job creation". In my research, it depends on how you define "startup". Most of the economic development surveys and papers I've read don't distinguish between high-tech startups and traditional small businesses like restaurants and barber shops. And because of things like the brain drain effect and the fact that a coffee shop is twice as likely to be in business after 7 years than a tech company, I'd say it's likely that these traditional small businesses have a greater long-term positive impact on local communities than startups. And yet, it feels like cities and states spend much more to support and encourage founders of B2B SaaS rather than main street businesses. That all being said, I think these outcomes work hand in hand. If we did more as a community to encourage founders to build sustainable, slow growth tech businesses, I think that would likely also help founders feel more supported and less like we're setting them up to push them off a cliff and build the plane on the way down. Thanks for sharing this with me Luke Rabin and Debbie Irwin. This is my quick 2¢, but I'd love to talk more about this! Send me a DM!

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These are challenging times, but not impossible. And, historically, we have seen really amazing companies emerge from tough times just like the ones we have been experiencing for the past 18-24+ months. That does not happen by accident however. Where some see roadblocks and challenges, others see opportunities to break away from the herd. How this happens is more art then science. But there are a commonly believed principles that can help guide the way, as outlined in the article below featured in MedCity News. -> A dollar saved is a dollar raised. Being capital efficient, and spending strategically is vital. Now may not be the ideal time to shed the company's snakeskin, and move into those fancy new digs. But perhaps hiring that Chief AI Officer does make sense if it will optimize the product development process, or streamline operations. Spend each dollar wisely. -> Stay wickedly close to the needs of your customer. This starts with gaining clarity of who your true customer really is. This may sound elementary. But many of Med Tech start-ups have set sail without a map to their final destination, and therefore never pull into port. -> Founders build products. CEO's build companies. Each role is vital at different points in a companies lifecycle. Know where your company is on that continuum, which role is needed at present, and who the appropriate person is to fill it. They very likely may not be the same person. https://lnkd.in/gZD5jmtA