Between 2016 and 2018 I attended Stanford University for a series of continuing educational courses on entrepreneurship and design thinking. My goal was to sharpen the tools in my tool belt, meet some incredibly gifted and motivated classmates, and hopefully walk away with a clearer understanding of how to tackle today’s most pressing entrepreneurial challenges …
Sterilize. Sanitize. Disinfect. Decontaminate. Wipe Down. Rinse Off. Repeat. Welcome to the Contam Culture – a new “normal” modus operandi if you will, we’ve been forced to accept in a pandemic induced world. As the weeks become months under the quarantined, sheltered, physically-distanced era, businesses and consumers have had to adapt to this radical shift …
Startups are not only a biggest test of our abilities to execute on a market hunch, but more deeply, the limitations of our own mind. They fully test everything we think we know about ourselves — from our deepest fears to our highest hopes — and most startups fail in the mind first, and the market second. …
Ad: One of my favorite past times is reading books on business, marketing and behavioral economics. I’ve recently come across a book over the holiday break that hit the nail on the head in today’s over saturated product world. Alchemy, by Rory Sutherland, https://amzn.to/2tnIU7Q, is not just a fun read (it literally had me …
Startups — The Ultimate Video Game It’s the end of the year — end of a decade to be exact — and that’s the time when many Founders find themselves asking the hardest question that they’ll ever face — should I just give up on my startup? After running four startups, managing teams, and seeing …
What’s the power of a thought? Everywhere we turn we hear the advice, recommendations, opinions and suggestions of others — imploring us to focus harder, try with more gusto, defy the odds stacked against us, build the resolve to never give up — good advice we can usually all agree is needed to accomplish any …
WHAT? YOU DON’T LOVE MY IDEA? To Survive a Startup, First, Kill Your Ego If you’re the type of person, like I was in my 20s, who was seeking encouragement from others to continually reinforce your ideas, beliefs and path, get ready to get shook up when you start a company. Encouragement comes and goes, …
What truly sets an Entrepreneur apart? Her ability to imagine what could be, and more importantly, her unwavering drive to bring forth a new reality to ameliorate the world. This quote by George Bernard Shaw inspired me to become an #entrepreneur when I was 19 years old. Sometimes all it takes in life is one phrase, one …
Can’t find your passion? Don’t worry. My Father used to tell me, “Do what you love in life, and the money will follow.” There’s some truth in that. For me however, I discovered a passion for the entrepreneurial journey, not just the product I was selling, the industry I was serving, or the …
Failure is not a final destination (unless you choose it to be) — failure is an endless journey that moves us continually, and uncomfortably forward, not backwards. Every entrepreneur with a failure under his/her belt has at least a half dozen excuses for why the dream just never materialized. Shoulda, coulda, woulda…dissolved. Failure is a …
Had a fantastic time advising a fast-growing #startup in the #agtech space last night.
AGTools is amazing - they’re revolutionizing the #farmingindustry with a leading platform that leverages #ai #ml and #DataScience to drive key managerial decisions for #farmers, #distributors, commodity #investors and #retailers.
As Founder & CEO, Martha Montoya explained to me, “It’s like Bloomberg for the Agriculture Industry.”
There - in just two seconds, I got the pitch and vision.
She absolutely nailed it by jumping right into the platform, the myriad of challenges farmers face on a seasonal and down to a minute-by-minute basis in timing everything from water cycles, to harvest schedules, to shipping logistics - all that drive bottom line economic growth.
The platform eliminates supply chain waste, delivers millions of data points that empower growers and retailers to make smarter decisions with easy to understand dashboards, tools and machine learning algorithmic recommendations.
After raising over $1 Million in a seed round from leading #angelinvestors, signing on a number of large clients from around the globe, and joining Parallel18’s accelerator program, Martha and AgTools is growing from seed to sequoia at record speed.
To learn more, check out: www.agtechtools.com/
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that will improve your buys. Know your market options each day in terms of product availability, surplus,shortfalls and basis for shifts in pricing.Imagine if you never had to recharge your electric car...two Stanford University grads are building Nature Electronics - a company aiming to do just that by wirelessly charging objects (cars, robots, warehouse machinery, etc) while in motion.
Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive
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Stanford engineers have taken a big step toward making it practical for electric cars to recharge as they speed along futuristic highways built to "refuel" vehicles wirelessly.
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