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Ventures that are pioneering

Here are five early-stage companies that are innovative and empowering:

• Vantage Ventures partners with fearless and relentless problem-solvers to build high impact, scalable companies.

• Flype offers retailers and e-commerce sites a same day delivery service at a cost lower than that of standard delivery.

• Squark is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables AI prediction in an easy, online app to help business users uncover customer insights.

• Qatch is a tapback-driven SMS shopping platform for women that scours the internet to share fashion suggestions via text.

• Wabbi’s Continuous Security platform integrates with existing development workflows to ensure both security and agility.
  

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Constituencies great founders faithfully serve

Read my take on why founders of ventures must earn the trust and keep the confidence of four audiences: customers, team, investors, allies.

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Insights for entrepreneurial success

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

– Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Twitter

“Hire character. Train skill.”

– Peter Schultz, founder and director of GNF

“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says ‘Go!’ A leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.”

– E. M. Kelly, U.S Army

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Lists to add to your reading list​

"The 37 Best Business Articles Every Entrepreneur Should Read" by Georgia McIntyre

"12 Time Management Mistakes that Set You Up for Failure" by John Rampton

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Story of a startup

“When a couple of Chicago software developers working on lookup searches for Apartments.com got sick of calling restaurants in search of takeout food for dinner, the light bulb went off: Why isn’t there a one-stop shop for food delivery? That’s when Matt Maloney and Mike Evans decided to start GrubHub, which went public last April [of 2014] and is now valued at more than $3 billion.”

– Story by Steve Tobak in Entrepreneur ​

Stay safe, stay happy, stay in touch!

Adam

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