Kevin P. Taylor

@ktaylor

Helping entrepreneurs | lecturer & doctoral candidate studying founders, growth, decision-making | Speaker | 2x CEO

Chicago area
founderscholar.com
Joined October 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 6

    My latest blog post shows how founders and others can acquire advanced reading skills “How to Read Like a Doctoral Student”

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  2. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    Some interesting evidence for the value of diversity in startup investing. VC partners all from the same school have 11% lower performance, ethnic homogeneity costs you about 30%, and not having women costs around 20%. Yet funds are very homogenous.

    Text Shot: The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges who majored in economics and attended business school. Harvard Business School alone accounted for some 25 percent of VCs.
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  3. 19 hours ago

    The worst rebranding since New Coke is over.

    Tronc—the owner of the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News—is changing its name back to Tribune Publishing Co., ending a much-maligned corporate rebranding
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  4. Oct 6

    That moment when you click to follow someone on Twitter only to realize you already do.

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  5. Oct 6

    For instance, do I really need to know the difference between waying and weighing...

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  6. Oct 6

    I have to learn to accept I will never know All The Things. It is too difficult to function with that expectation waying me down.

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  7. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    A lot of VCs, engineers and founders are inherently anti-social at home, on wkds, at parties etc. For many incl me, its easier to be social around a topic - e.g. venture, tech, politics, etc. Its hard when there isn't an established context to break ice.

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  8. Oct 5

    VC money is not a silver bullet. Bootstrapping makes sense for many firms: “Growing Our SaaS Company To $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money. Key Lessons Learned” by Mike Kulakov

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  9. Oct 5

    This looks fantastic and love that it is Chromebook compatible.

    Excited to see the Chromebook Data Science program launch with so much unique content. A tremendous amount of work done by and colleagues. Plus a brand new MOOC platform from !
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    Oct 4

    Amanda Cox has a Wikipedia page! It took about eight months to make it happen, and the help of so many people I can't even remember them all. But now when she wins her Nobel we can link to it.

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  11. Oct 5

    Wikipedia "editors" are pretty arbitrary.

    Hope someone writes and records this fact (with citation) into her Wikipedia page:
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  12. Oct 4

    1% of Salesforce's Revenue Makes a Unicorn via

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  13. Oct 4

    These tips were helpful to me as I prepared to teach this term. Recommend taking a look if you are a new professor or teaching assistant.

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  14. Oct 3

    The Key to Career Growth: Surround Yourself with People Who Will Push You

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    Oct 3

    Data Pipeline

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  16. Oct 2

    Yes, #1 job of a founder is to sell their vision to early cheerleaders and teammembers. Anyone who cannot do so sends strong signals they are not (yet) investable.

    1/Learn to code. 2/Learn to recruit coders to work for equity and/or deferred comp. If you can’t do either or both of these things then most investors assume you are not qualified or worthy of investment. That’s reality, you won’t change it.
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  17. Oct 2

    DePaul students...

    Did you know that as a student, you have a membership at the premier (and only!) music, film, and creative tech incubator in Chicago? Go to and scroll down to 2112 to activate your membership - and then attend the MANY workshops and events at 2112.
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  18. Oct 2

    Yes, you can (and so can I).

    My organic professor made me write this note after freaking out in her office about an impending exam. 3 years later and I still look at this regularly, especially before exams. Shout out to all the mentors and professors whose advice and encouragement does not go unappreciated.
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  19. Oct 1

    I love book recommendations

    In honor of the new academic year, offers these for guidance and inspiration. View and contribute additional recommendations by joining our bookshelf network on Plantae:
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    Oct 1

    Really cool postdoc positions with an awesome mentor () at the Network Science Institute. I'm excited about the justice in machine learning project!

    Three postdoc positions in machine learning and network science. Details at . Please share.
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  21. Oct 1

    Yes, do this.

    ICYMI: How Spending $20,000 on a Meeting was the Best Investment I've Ever Made - via |
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