Category: Innovation

Why VCs and PE Firms Need Trusted Advisors in Their Corner An overlooked force multiplier for founders & portfolio company success

LinkedIn.com, August 2025 – Trusted advisors offer a variety of benefits to startup founders and leaders, enabling them to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurship and increase their chances of success. Here’s how. …

Celebrities as Brands and Entrepreneurs (several have become billionaires outside their core focus)

Celebrities as Brands and Entrepreneurs (several have become billionaires outside their core focus)

LinkedIn.com, Sept. 2024 – The rise of celebrities becoming billionaires as entrepreneurs is a trend that has grown significantly in recent years – and shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what’s happening.

Read the entire article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebrities-brands-entrepreneurs-several-have-become-outside-kelli-2bwoc

LinkedIn.com, Sept. 2024 – The rise of celebrities becoming billionaires as entrepreneurs is a trend that has grown significantly in recent years – and shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what’s happening.

Read the entire article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebrities-brands-entrepreneurs-several-have-become-outside-kelli-2bwoc

Being Unreasonable Might Just Be the Most Reasonable Strategy for Innovation

Being Unreasonable Might Just Be the Most Reasonable Strategy for Innovation

LinkedIn.com, April 2024 – I’ve just returned from a gathering with Unreasonable – a hand-selected global community of entrepreneurs, successful mentors and investors who solve pressing challenges across a range of social impact categories. Here’s how it went.

Read the entire article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-unreasonable-might-just-most-reasonable-kelli-richards-qmlic

The New Venture Capital

On this show, I join Mona DeFrawi to talk about the new wealth creation and startup funding paradigm that is disrupting the venture capital industry. With $80T of US retail investor assets and years of dedicated SEC efforts and regulations to support capital formation and retail private market access – the Future Has Arrived!

Cool Technology Only Goes So Far: Laying the Course to Mass Adoption

LinkedIn.com, November, 2017 – You can have cutting-edge technology, the coolest company culture ever, and a great work ethic. But if you don’t have product-market fit, forget it.

So you have a shiny new product. The technology is amazing and groundbreaking. Obviously, it’s going to be the next big thing — or maybe not.

There are thousands of stories of tech founders who thought they had come up with amazing technology — and they had — but never found the success they expected. Why?

Read the entire article here- Cool Technology Only Goes So Far: Laying the Course to Mass Adoption

The Art of Taking Vacation for Entrepreneurs

Inc.-logo-e1446589523237August 14, 2015,
Inc.

Although circumstances will understandably make it challenging to get away sometimes, the point is not just to get away physically, but to also distance yourself mentally.

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