Thu.Jun 08, 2023

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How to raise an angel round in 10 simple steps

Gust

Number one, understand your business. It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention.

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Fewer words, greater effect.

Berkonomics

I have a good business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose creativity and intelligence are admired by many. But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations. It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation.

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Signs your Chief Privacy Officer isn’t Scaling

OnlyOnce

This is the third post in the series. The first one When to hire your first CPO is here and What does Great Look Like in a CPO is here ). Chief Privacy Officers who aren’t scaling well past the startup stage are the ones who typically have the following characteristics and you should look for some of these telltale signs. First, if your Chief Privacy Officer looks at you sideways when you ask for a strategy or even a mitigation plan for a breach, then you might have a bigger problem than the fac

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Successful Remote Work Through Asynchronous Management

Duct Tape Marketing

Successful Remote Work Through Asynchronous Management written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liam Martin In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liam Martin. He is the co-founder of Time Doctor and has been working remotely for over 20 years; working with thousands of companies looking to adopt a remote working model.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The Role of IAM in Preventing Insider Threats

The Startup Magazine

Organizations are often looking for ways to mitigate external cybersecurity risks. However, the one thing they fail to discover is the threat of an inside infiltration. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a system that allows you to keep tabs on all the employees working under the aegis of an organization. There are always contingencies when there are many users working on the same project.

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