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Evolving Customer Needs – Not Technology – Drives Disruption And Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Conventional wisdom says that technology is propelling the disruption that is roiling the markets. This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. But this belief is dead wrong.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. This is a good place to start.

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Understanding Virtual Data Rooms And Their Significance Today

YoungUpstarts

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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Future-Proofing Your Startup’s Compliance

The Startup Magazine

million or 4% of the total global turnover of the affected company. The financial cost aside, having your business go through a data breach due to non-compliance could hurt its reputation among security-conscious clients. It also pays to assess the effectiveness of the training sessions through employee feedback.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. We gladly handed it over to him as part of the due diligence process.

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. He enjoys playing indoor/beach volleyball, writing Yelp reviews, and shamelessly spreading the gospel of comic books as a serious art form. We’re actively recruiting interns for the fall. Franklin Bi.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.