This is the second in our Mucker Academy video series, where we invite leaders from the tech community to speak with MuckerLab companies. You can find the first video here. Kevin Diamond is CTO at The Black Tux, a Mucker portfolio company that’s reinventing the tuxedo industry. Kevin spoke about his early days as co-founder […]
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Key lessons for young managers who lead a team We’ve all seen our share of “How to Manage Millennials” posts, with older, “wiser” executives complaining about how hard it is to motivate this generation blah, blah, blah. I see far fewer posts directed at talented millennials who are already managers themselves. So that we don’t
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Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment
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As part of this summer’s reading, I recently finished The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, by Brian Christian. It was a wonderful read. Written way way back in the dark ages of 2011, it predates the current AI and bot boom that we are beginning to see, which in
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of Mucker Academy, a new initiative meant to help entrepreneurs understand and master the brass tacks of building a great company. To kick it off, we’ll be sharing videos from our “Leadership Stories” series, where leading experts from the Mucker network sit down and talk with current MuckerLab companies.
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Guest post by Dave Liebowitz Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Here, the “encyclopedia of everything” site Everipedia uncovers the top five trending pages of its site from the past week, revealing the unique value of it’s real-time knowledge
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Unique Business News, a satellite cable news show based out of Taiwan, stopped by Mucker’s offices recently as part of a segment on Silicon Beach. The piece offers up a fresh, “across the other pond” perspective of the tech scene in Los Angeles and greater SoCal, which continues to gain wider recognition from around the
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The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how we get help when we need it. We are living through the “re-imagination — of nearly everything,” and we are seeing this re-imagination very clearly
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If you want to build a multibillion-dollar consumer IoT company, copy the iPod – the original IoT thingy. Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. 20 years ago, a majority
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(Guest post by Mahbod Moghadam) Several months ago, I wrote an essay for Mucker Blog about the nexus between venture capitalists and rappers. I opined that the strong relation between the two “professions” is that they are not actually real jobs, they are both just what you tell your friends you’re doing when you don’t
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