Startup Reading List | June 03, 2016 |
Four reads to get you through the weekend. Enjoy! | Applications Open for Techstars IoT Accelerator in NYC  The Techstars IoT Accelerator is for startups who are focused on the infrastructure of the future with specific emphasis on software and artificial intelligence, connected enterprise, smart cities and energy, advanced manufacturing, health and wearables, logistics and automotive, VR, AR, drones and robotics, agriculture, and the connected home. Applications close July 10 and the program takes place in NYC. Learn more. | | Steven Chan "Acquisitions can take a long time, so be prepared to spend the next 6 to 12 months on it. It's pretty distracting when you're running a business. But you have to maintain growth." | | Fred Wilson "All of these things are great experiments that will produce great benefit to society if they succeed. But by their nature experiments often fail. They need to fail. Or they would not be experiments." | | Todd Jackson "This definition of what a PM needs to be and have is probably 70% right for most companies. But if you're a SaaS company with a huge sales team, you might have a different archetype in mind than if you're a 40-person social app company." | | Chris McCann "Insurance today is typically sold through agents, which creates a steep customer acquisition cost for carriers — ~90% of premiums were sold through independent agents or affiliated agents of the insurer." | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. | | |
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