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Metarand Unplugged: Ryan Junee, CEO of Y Combinator Graduate, Omnisio
In this session of Metarand Unplugged we explore the Y Combinator experience with Ryan Junee, CEO of recent graduate, Omnisio. Based in Palo Alto and set up by Ryan and co-founders, Julian Frumar and...
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Paul Graham on Y Combinator
Following on from our Metarand Unplugged session with recent Y Combinator graduate, Omnisio, here is an interview of YC’s founder, Paul Graham. The comment I love the most: in asking for a median 6%...
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Y Combinator-Backed Omnisio Is YouTube’s First Post-Google Acquisition
Omnisio has been acquired by Google as YouTube’s first acquisition since they were themselves acquired a few years back. You can listen to the recent Metarand Unplugged audio interview with the video...
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Paul Graham: Venture Capital – A Primitive, Multi-Celled Sea Creature
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has written an excellent Fundraising Survival Guide that I encourage all entrepreneurs, venture guys and anyone who has any form of interest in the art of the start...
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Over a decade ago, back in the day of the initial tech bubble, I ran an early precursor to Y Combinator. In a similar vein we took on board nascent start ups in batches, with little more than an idea,...
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Growth.Reinvented: How Leading Companies Create a Concerted Front For...
As evidenced by numerous surveys, growth is the major enduring focus for business leaders. However, growth is tackled ad hoc across many organizations. Leading companies drive rapid, sustained growth...
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A World Leading Entrepreneur Growth Program for Leaders
EXOscalr is proud to launch its world leading Entrepreneur Growth Program, which is designed to provide early to mid stage companies invaluable insights into achieving high growth. The Program runs...
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Are Entrepreneurs Suicidal?
The topic of depression in startup founders is becoming more prominent. It is an important discussion that was highlighted when outspoken serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis was asked his views by a...
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Venture Capital: The 5 Essential Fundraising Rules
Entrepreneurs are faced daily with so many unknowns, so much chaos and survival pressure. Adding fundraising into the mix can often feel overwhelming. How do they keep their heads above this murky...
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Fear and Hope
Fear is the ultimate tool of oppression. Dictatorial regimes and bully bosses are past masters at using it as a tool for controlling their citizens and staff, respectively. People can be manipulated to...
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Fear Revisited
Fear. It’s always there. It can either liberate or bury you. It all depends on how you deal with it. Compare fear with the wind. When it is a gentle breeze against your cheek, you hardly notice it....
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How to Create Meaningful Behavior Change
No matter when or how strongly motivated you are, behaviour change is hard. The best of intentions can still lead to a low probability of turning a decision to adopt a new habit or break an old one...
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3 Ways to Boost Your Energy and Immune System
Health Tonics Last week I shared with you a method for creating meaningful behavior change. This week I want to share some further practical advice, this time around boosting your energy and your...
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Breaking Through Control And Ego: Shifting From Fear To Empowerment
Breaking Out of Your Trance! After my sudden cardiac death I remember feeling sad as I lay on a hospital bed in intensive care. I was sad at the thought of never being able to glide through the water...
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How to Increase Engagement With Compassion, Purpose and Positivity
We live in an increasingly narcissistic world in which more and more people are suffering from depression and killing themselves. Suicide rates have increased 24% in the last 15 years. That is a huge...
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Three Ways To Become a Better Leader By Waking Up To Your True Self
Design your own wake up call and become a better leader. I want you to join me in an exercise in expanding your mind and opening your heart. The objective of this exercise is to help you become a...
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How To Change Our Relationship To Negative Feelings
I want to share with you some thoughts around how we can change our relationship to negative feelings through meditation. Our aim in meditation is to form a different relationship to things we are...
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How To Successfully Reinvent Ourselves
Do a google search on the phrase reinvent yourself and you quickly realise that this is a pervasive and perennial question: google tells us that related searches include how to reinvent yourself at 30;...
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Transcendent Near-Death Experiences : Key Learnings for Leadership and...
Imagine for a moment what it would be like working in an organisation that is under huge pressures to grow, to transform itself and to beat the competition; an organisation that is mandated to do more...
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Surfing: An Altered State Inducer
I’ve been surfing for over 40 years and still love it. To me it is a fantastic way to build up brain waves conducive to entering an altered state of consciousness and especially acts as a trigger for...
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