No team is too small to track its health. With technology today, there are even more ways to do this and to get a more robust picture of a team. What used to be anonymous comment boxes or a simple rated net promoter score (NPS) can now factor multiple data points to assess health. In…
Read MoreEarly in my career, I was an Army officer. Having also been an Army brat growing up, one thing I remember with fondness was when we PCSed (had a permanent change of station…in other words, MOVED). In the Army, every couple of years like clockwork, you end up rotating to a new post and a…
Read MoreExperiencing something together is vital to any team’s culture. You not only have a shared experience, but you begin to have a shared language; a shared framework/outlook; and deeper understanding of a place/people/content. These experiences build the exposure necessary for a team to deepen a shared identity and culture. My background as a military officer…
Read MoreI started writing this post a couple of weeks ago as a way to open-source our process for defining our core values and then quite literally I was thumbing through Twitter last night and scrolled past this post from Fast Company entitled - “No One Cares About Your Logo” - that was in fact, a…
Read MoreHave you ever been in that situation where you said the right thing in the wrong way? Or in the wrong context? I have found myself, on many occasions, completely missing the mark while intending nothing but the best. So many issues in life and business boil down to mixed communications. Therefore, it’s not surprising…
Read MoreThe Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss & Perpetuate Sick Organizations was written in 1988 and perfectly describes many of the situations some of us find ourselves in at work. It’s a little-known business psychology book, but it’s concept is quite profound and part of the reason…
Read MoreWhen Access Ventures launched Render Capital in February of 2020 with an initial strategy of building momentum for entrepreneurs through aggressive capital deployment, a key part of this solution was a multi-year regional competition to find, attract, and invest in early-stage companies that will move to, and grow the region. We knew these efforts would…
Read MoreOn this episode of More Than Profit, Bryce talks with David Taliaferro, founder and CEO of Lenderfit, a client-facing application and project management tool that makes small business lending easy. David was actually one of the first employees of Access Ventures and Lenderfit was conceptualized during his time there. With an entrepreneurial spirit since childhood, David…
Read MoreAs we come to the end of another year, a year unlike any other in many ways, we are reflecting on our work and the work of our partners and entrepreneurs. Last week, we talked to three of our fund managers about their year, what they learned, how they were challenged and what they are…
Read MoreWe all want to have a place to call home. A place we feel safe and comfortable. Stable housing is foundational to human dignity and agency within the economy, but many people for a variety of reasons see owning a home as an unattainable goal. Despite the fact that they are hard-working, make a good…
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