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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Use questions to test analytical and problem solving ability. Focus on finding the right partner to double your strength rather than dilute it. You might be surprised at how fast you get to be an “expert” on a given technology, and how easy it is to eliminate candidates who don’t have a clue. Sometimes brain teasers are a good start.

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Use questions to test analytical and problem solving ability. Focus on finding the right partner to double your strength rather than dilute it. You might be surprised at how fast you get to be an “expert” on a given technology, and how easy it is to eliminate candidates who don’t have a clue. Sometimes brain teasers are a good start.

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Web-Based Worthworm Helps Determine PMV For Startup Investment Purposes

YoungUpstarts

Lobock believes that Worthworm is one of the strongest tools in an investor’s arsenal, providing them with a consistent framework with which to standardize the screening process or later due diligence. “If you are an angel investor and a venture is seeking capital from you, insist on getting its Worthworm report.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

Their most common reaction to negative data, if it makes it through, is to try to discredit it by asking analytically-nonsensical questions: What are the p-values of your multi-channel attribution model applied to performance of my strategy? To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence).

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They See Businesses Making in 2022

Hearpreneur

Many businesses are discovering that the key to successful marketing is interacting two-way with customers, not simply shouting marketing messages at increasingly dilute audiences. . The challenge for most businesses isn’t a lack of data and analytics but a failure to understand and take advantage of the insights.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

SVB also has an analytics group to use for industry stats, company statistics on a global basis, and so forth, so we collect a lot of data that we try to leverage internally. NVV: Is there any dilution? Maybe there are many players in the market where some have already been acquired and prices looked good.

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How To Stay Ahead Of 99% Of The Competition In The Security Industry

The Startup Magazine

Make it so that they don’t need to combine services – something that could dilute your brand and offering. Data analytics and artificial intelligence have progressed beyond many people’s wildest imaginations. The more information you can use to inform your decisions, the better they will be.

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