Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

This week, I’m going to pass the mic over to my colleague and go to guy for all things CX and design thinking Mr Shay Namdarian, who you might remember from episode #75 which was all about customer experience. Shay spent a decade consulting with the likes of EY and CapGemini before founding two successful fashion startups and joined Collective Campus a year ago to combine and leverage his talents working across big corporate and startups. In this episode, Shay’s going to share his thoughts on employee performance reviews, why they’re broken and what you can do to fix them.

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Brad Feld has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding venture capital firm Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars, the global startup accelerator program that has incubated over 1,000 startups since inception that have collectively raised US$3.3B.

In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations. He currently is chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the boards of Path Forward, the Kauffman Fellows, and Defy Ventures.

Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. He's written a number of books as part of the Startup Revolution series and writes the blogs Feld Thoughts and Venture Deals.

Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from MIT. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed 24 marathons as part of his mission to finish a marathon in each of the 50 states.

Brad provided a wealth of knowledge in the 50 or so minutes of time he was gracious enough to invest, but there were so many more questions I wanted to ask him on a number of topics so I’ll try and tee up a follow up interview in a few months time.

In the interim, please enjoy what I hope will be part 1 of my interview with Brad Feld, recorded between 1 and 2am Melbourne time, so if I didn’t sound like I was 100% on top of my game, despite cranking out 100 pushups and downing an espresso before this interview, you now know why.

Nonetheless, Brad brought the value bombs so please enjoy, the one and only, Brad Feld!

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Topics Covered:

• Techstars Adelaide
• The Australian startup ecosystem
• What makes for a successful corporate accelerator
• The trend of large organisations paying massive premiums for startups to offset their corporate innovation woes
• Why being “the next Silicon Valley” does a disservice to Silicon Valley and the city making such bold proclamations
• Brad’s book, Venture Deals
• The #GiveFirst philosophy
• Depression in the startup ecosystem
• The digital Sabbath

Show Notes:

1. Feld Thoughts: Feld.com
2. Foundrygroup.com
3. Techstars.com
4. Twitter: @bfeld

Brad’s books on Amazon:

• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist - https://amzn.to/2pdEESF

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  Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors - https://amzn.to/2xkAoV9

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  Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City - https://amzn.to/2Mw1NJu

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  Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup - https://amzn.to/2p8HqZw

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  Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job - https://amzn.to/2xlBhwZ

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  Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur - https://amzn.to/2p9yEdF

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  Brad Feld's Burning Entrepreneur - How to Launch, Fund, and Set Your Start-Up On Fire! - https://amzn.to/2OoiTup

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In an era where every large company is under pressure to innovate, or at least show that they’re being innovative, it can be all too tempting to take an old meeting room, turn it into an ‘innovation lab’ by throwing some bean-bags around the place and setting up a fussball table and running a hackathon. Oftentimes though, these hackathons amount to little more than team-bonding activities, with little focus on identifying and validating problems and solutions that are worthy of subsequent exploration.

In order to get the most out of a corporate hackathon and generate some quick wins that organisers and innovation champions will be able to use to build a case for subsequent initiatives and further development of ideas, taking the time to consider and prepare the following 13 things can make a world of difference. 

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Jeb Blount is a Sales Acceleration Specialist who helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. His last book, Fanatical Prospecting, has been the number one ranked Sales and Marketing textbook on Amazon since its release two years ago.

Through his companies Sales Gravy, Channel EQ, Level 4 Training, and Innovate HCG—Jeb advises many of the world’s leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on sales, leadership, customer experience, channel development, and strategic account management.

Jeb spends more than 250 days on the road each year delivering keynote speeches and training programs to high-performing sales teams and leaders across the globe.

As a business leader, Jeb has more than 25 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, SMBs, and start-ups. He has been named one of the top 50 most influential sales and marketing leaders (Top Sales Magazine), a Top 30 social selling influencer (Forbes), a top 10 sales experts to follow on Twitter (Evan Carmichael), a top 100 most innovative sales blogger (iSEEit), a top 20 must-read author—People Buy You—for entrepreneurs (YFS Magazine and Huffington Post), and the most downloaded sales podcaster in iTunes history; among many other accolades.

He is the author of seven books.

Topics Covered:

• Jeb’s books
• Why emotional intelligence matters in sales
• Why the sales profession finds itself in the middle of a perfect storm
• What ultra-high performers - the top 1% of salespeople - are doing differently
• How to align your selling process with the buying process
• The 5 most important questions in sales
• How to decrease corporate sales cycles
• Aligning stakeholder expectations
• The power of micro-commitments and reciprocity
• How to measure and increase your sales EQ

Show Notes:

Sales Gravy website: www.salesgravy.com

Jeb on Twitter: @salesgravy

Jeb on Instagram: @salesgravy

Jeb on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jebblount

Sales Gravy podcast: www.salesgravy.com/jeb-blount-sales-podcast

Jeb’s website: www.jebblunt.com

Get Jeb's books on Amazon:

• Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling - https://amzn.to/2pcdTOJ

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  Objections: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering The Art and Science of Getting Past No - https://amzn.to/2xoho8a

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  Sales EQ: How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal - https://amzn.to/2OoeGHa

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  People Buy You: The Real Secret to what Matters Most in Business - https://amzn.to/2OxdRf6

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  People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership - https://amzn.to/2OoeKqo

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  People Love You: The Real Secret to Delivering Legendary Customer Experiences - https://amzn.to/2OolB33

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  Sales Guy's 7 Rules for Outselling the Recession (Quick & Dirty Tips) - https://amzn.to/2xlp5MG

 

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Technology is not just an enabler of new business models. It’s an enabler of young talent and the earlier we encourage kids to start exploring the possibilities, the likelier they are to succeed and have their own A-team moment. In this episode, I tell the tale of Tommy, my best friend in the third grade, how small decisions lead to devastatingly different outcomes and how tech might help us to avoid this. 

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Emilie Wapnick is a writer, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on one path herself, Emilie studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University.

Emilie’s TED talk has been viewed over 3.6 million times, and has been translated into 36 languages. She’s been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Financial Times, The Huffington Post, BBC, and Lifehacker. Her book How to Be Everything: a Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, comes out with HarperCollins in May 2017.

Topics Covered:

• Emilie’s book
• Emilie’s TED talk
• How Emilie’s foray into music, web design, filmmaking, writing, studying law, coaching and developing a TV pilot prompted her to coin the term multi-potentialite
• Why we do our best and most rapid learning when we first dive into something new
• Why multi-potentialism is a strength in a fast changing economic and technological landscape, not an attention deficit disorder
• Why people might find it hard to chase their potential and instead choose the path frequently traveled and how to break out of this
• The world has forced us to choose ONE thing, but we can be MANY
• T-shaped individuals
• How to handle multiple projects at once

Show Notes:

• Emilie’s book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2NJPTjQ
• The book’s website: www.howtobeeverything.com
• Emilie on Twitter: twitter.com/emiliewapnick
• Emilie’s company: www.puttylike.com
• Emilie’s TED talk: www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling

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It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation - think moving fast and experimentation. Failing that, take innovation outside of the building by spinning out a company with its own processes, systems and values. But the kicker here is to not treat the spin off as an independent startup, otherwise you might be better off simply setting up a corporate venture capital arm to invest in startups. A better approach is to leverage your relative strengths to mutual benefit. A large corporate will bring domain expertise, networks, distribution channels, customers and resources to the table. Listen to hear how to identify synergies to accelerate growth. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to [email protected] or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of five books including his most recent, Do Over: Make today the first day of your new career.For 19 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he’s spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA and several other key outlets.In addition, Jon is also a big proponent of social media with blogs that have been read by 4 million people and more than 280,000 twitter followers. In 2010 he used his influence with his tribe to build two kindergartens in Vietnam. Jon lives with his wife Jenny and two daughters in Nashville, TN.

Topics discussed:

• Jon’s personal do over
• Why it’s important to have a do over ‘advocate'
• The 4 things that you will eventually encounter in your career 
• 70% of people feel dissatisfied with their jobs and careers so what should they base career moves on do overs on?
• Advice for corporate professionals considering becoming corporate refugees
• The importance of a support network
• Resources the book provides to help people embark upon their own do over
• 5 rules Jon and his wife Jenny gave their 13 year old daughter when she joined Instagram
• The Phoenix Suns and the Boston Celtics (just for fun!)

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Show Notes:

Jon’s website: Acuff.me

Book website: Doover.me

Twitter: @JonAcuff

Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorjonacuff/

Jon’s books: 

• Do Over: Make Today the First Day of Your New Career - https://amzn.to/2p9Fjon
• Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done - https://amzn.to/2xmLoBA
• Quitter - https://amzn.to/2xlg6uK
• Stuff Christians Like - https://amzn.to/2NgXAOT

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Recorded in a hurry in transit at Kuala Lumpur airport, this Fast Fix Friday delves into 10 ways to get buy-in from executives for corporate innovation initiatives and projects. Try them at home! 

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In today’s episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Evangelos Simoudis, a recognized expert on big data strategies and corporate innovation who first joined usin episode #20 of Future Squared when we discussed corporate VCs, incubators and startup acquisitions .

He has been working in Silicon Valley for 25 years as a venture investor, entrepreneur, and corporate executive. Evangelos is the co-founder and Managing Director of Synapse Partners, a venture firm that invests in early-stage startups developing big data applications, and an advisor to global corporations on big data strategies and Startup-Driven Innovation.

Since last chatting with Evangelos he has penned and released a new book entitled The Big Data Opportunity in our Driverless Future which explores the magnitude, extent and timing of the disruption that autonomous vehicles will bring, the role that data will play in the enabling the next generation of mobility and how both startups and corporates can position themselves to take advantage of the emerging opportunities.

Topics Covered:

• Drivers of automotive disruption
• The impact of urbanisation on vehicle ownership and use
• Pollution and climate change
• The rate at which we can expect autonomous vehicle adoption to play out
• Development of the ecosystem required to support autonomous vehicles
• The different levels of automation; from 0 to 4
• The applications of big data in autonomous vehicles- Implications for auto insurers
• Ethical questions
• Companies at the core of the autonomous vehicle and mobility movement (Uber, Zipcar, Google, Tesla)
• Traits companies successfully exploring mobility share
• Corporate startup partnerships
• Five recommendations for disrupting with big data
• Why companies should leverage their scale when partnering with startups
• Innovation outposts, incubators and accelerators

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Show Notes:

1. The book: https://amzn.to/2p9rA0M
2. Synapse Partners: synapsepartners.co/team/evangelos-simoudis/
3. Evangelos on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/evangelossimoudis
4. Evangelos’ blog: corporateinnovation.co/ 
5. Episode 20 with Evangelos - futuresquared.xyz/podcast/episode-…tup-acquisitions

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