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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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Solar power–a case study in exponential growth

The Equity Kicker

Humanity’s energy requirements could be satisfied by just 1/10,000 of the sunlight falling on the Earth’s surface harvested by solar panels on an area equal to a few percent of the world’s unused deserts. I could also have picked internet penetration, social media usage or tablet sales as examples. There are of course some caveats.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. The choices we make today will reverberate for a long time and if we sow the seeds, we will reap a harvest of plenty and broadly shared prosperity in the new normal to come.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. They are harvesting data on Americans to build profiles of our beliefs, behavior, and biological makeup for tailored attempts to manipulate or coerce individuals.