Happy Thursday friend,
First and foremost, hope you're having a great day. Second, tonight we have a huge event with great headliners. Please, register for Entrepalooza. It's our most important student startup event of the year!
TOP 5
💯 I can't remember the last time I listened to a podcast that when it approached the end I hoped I could make it last twice as long. That's exactly what happened with the latest at Invest Like the Best. Rory Sutherland talked “Moonshots and Marketing”. He broke down what marketing truly means and how companies of all sizes have used it to conquer their space. It's a Masterclass in Business compressed to 40 minutes, and will leave you wishing for much more.
🏈 In “Nike: The Dark Horse of Digital Fitness”, Rob shares the role Nike is posed to play in the connected fitness wars. Trainers, workouts, apps, and products. Nike will participate in this trend with their assets. Rob shows us how.
📈 To continue the hype, “The Fitness Company Everyone Laughed At, But Now Wants A Piece Of”, is Joe Pompliano's analysis of Peloton following their last earnings report. Joe, shows numbers, but most importantly what they did for their customers.
🦄 Tech whisperer, Ben Thompson, addresses one of the core strategy thesis of our time. Ben touches on Bundling vs. Unbundling, and how defining bundles are as business models, churn managers, money-makers and more. Give it a read in “2020 Bundles”.
✍️ No preamble needed here, “Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More”.
EVENTS
Entrepalooza - Go register now, really!
THE SCOOP
Protopia - Student Council
The student/alumni engagement platform is recruiting an active Student Council to lead student conversations on the value that mentorship and professional engagement provides to them. If you are a student committed to making the most out of university resources - shoot me a note and I'll send you a brief on the opportunity.
Upstream
New role at Upstream. The team is looking to hire an awesome community person in the next few months. One of the first new roles they are going to hire for at Upstream is going to be a killer community person. Right now they are an unknown entity but when all is said and done their name will be synonym
ous with the word community. They are likely fresh out of school (don’t care where) with a lot of raw potential. They are a self starter and problem solver. They anticipate issues before they come up and squash them in their tracks. They are personable and warm. You would vote them most reliable and likely to get something done in your yearbook.
This is a tall order but the opportunity is to join a talented team and accelerate your career by 5-10 years.
More on the company from the WSJ. The founder previously built sold SocialRank.
Mann + Hummel
We are looking for an undergraduate or graduate student to intern with our Corporate Venture group for the fall semester. Tasks will range from helping streamline how we source and evaluate investments candidates, assisting internal digital venture teams on various tasks, and conducting research on different market and technology areas. Engineering or science backgrounds preferred, particularly if you like automating systems and have diverse areas of technology interests.