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Company CultureManagementTeam

What a School of Fish Can Teach Us About Startup Culture and How to Scale It

There's no such thing as culture—only cultural practices. If you try to manage culture from the top-down, it just doesn’t work. If you offer individual policies that direct action, it can shape the behavior of an entire group. Take it from a school of fish.

Daniel EpsteinMay 26, 2015

Fundraising

Four Ways Funders Can Treat Entrepreneurs With The Respect They Deserve

I have a simple question: do funders treat entrepreneurs as well as they ought to?…

Teju RavilochanMarch 31, 2015

Impact InvestingInvestmentMetrics & Evaluation

The Best-Known Secret in Impact: Why Confidentiality Will Unlock the Impact Economy

As an impact accountant I have a unique vantage point into the inner workings and health…

Sara OlsenMarch 12, 2015

Relationships

Peace Without Boundaries

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems. The way to do that is by inviting real diversity into our lives; seeing and then removing the boundaries between us.

Cheryl HellerDecember 16, 2014

DebunkingEducationPress

Mediology: A People’s Guide to Media Savvy

In a world shaped by efforts to influence us, using methods that are ever-evolving in scope and sophistication, freedom is inconceivable (or meaningless) without some kind of mental judo.

Manoj FenelonDecember 15, 2014

Relationships

Reflections: Pheromones and Friendship

There are systems that reach beyond the local, and we need to have the friendships that let us do work on those systems that span the globe.

Joy AndersonDecember 12, 2014

InstituteScalingWhat Funders Look For

What Unreasonable Looks for in Startups

Want to solve the world's biggest f*cking problems? Here are four qualities we've found in successful startups.

Unreasonable InstituteDecember 11, 2014

CareerEducation

My Journey to Impact

Google X co-founder and Unreasonable mentor relates his path to social impact.

Tom ChiDecember 10, 2014

2013 Voyage@SeaEducationGuest PostTechnology

Why I’m Giving Away the Source Code I Spent My Life Building

A serial entrepreneur has enabled users to convert their dumb phone to a smart phone—and now he explains why he is providing the source code to this technology, for free.

Deepak RavindranDecember 9, 2014

CareerEducation

In Defense of College: What Peter Thiel Gets Wrong, Once Again.

Billionaire Peter Thiel claims that college education is a bubble and doesn’t provide more value than an insurance policy, but in reality, today’s knowledge-based economy requires mastery of a wide assortment of technical skills, ability to work in groups, and continual learning.

Vivek WadhwaDecember 8, 2014

BalanceCareerProductivity

Do One Thing At a Time

Forget that humans are horrible multitaskers—when you're doing two things you're doing neither of them well—and realize that it's draining.

Seth LevineDecember 4, 2014

Unreasonable Labs

Mentor Others

Go out and mentor someone. Even if you think you're too young or inexperienced, or that you don't have anything to give quite yet, trust me—there is always someone a step (or more) behind you who will learn an incredible amount from you.

Pascal FinetteNovember 28, 2014

Unreasonable Labs

Don’t Use the Crowd as a Point of Reference

So many people in startup land go with the crowd and, thus, create the umm-teenth version of something that already exists. The supposedly smarter ones go against the crowd, which is not much better, as their theory of change is simply based on negating what everybody else is doing.

Pascal FinetteNovember 22, 2014

FailureScaling

The Same Ol’ Mistakes

Somehow, each wave of entrepreneur continues to make the same mistakes, and most follow the same pattern from idea to failure, rather than idea to sustainable company.

Michael Luni LibesNovember 7, 2014

CareerLegal

The Heart of Law: My Journey to Impact

Corporate attorney turned entrepreneur and impact investor relates his journey into work that not only impacts the lives of clients, but also the lives of the people that they seek to serve.

Bruce CampbellNovember 5, 2014

DevelopmentMetrics & EvaluationMobilePovertyTechnology

How “Designing With the End User” Undermines International Development Best Practices

People who read, study and follow the “design with the end user” mantra might feel more than ever that they’re doing the right thing, but they’ll simply be reinforcing the outside-in, top down approach without realizing it.

Ken BanksNovember 3, 2014

LeadershipManagementProductivityTeam

F*CK Political Correctness—Irreverence And Laughter Drive Results

We are too up tight, living in a time of professional and political correctness that is dulling our ability to enjoy our lives while at work—where many of us spend nearly one third of our adult lives and entrepreneurs even more.

David HowittOctober 23, 2014

Technology

Move Over, Humans, the Robocars are Coming

Tech entrepreneur and author explains why in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways.

Vivek WadhwaOctober 16, 2014