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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. In 2020, data breaches are among the greatest cybersecurity concerns, with health records, corporate intellectual property, smart cars, and connected devices being the most vulnerable targets.

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Small Business and Startups: Making Customer Service Available (On Your Own Terms)

crowdSPRING Blog

This is not to mention the 469 intellectual property violations they investigated, the 601 prospects they followed up on, or the hundreds of instances of possible fraudulent activity they scrutinized. For instance, in the quarter that just ended, our team of 4.5

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. Or watch the video here.). Medical Devices.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. In a world where ideas and technologies and business models and even intellectual property (sad but true) can be copied and undercut worldwide at the speed of a mouse click, what can any company really hold onto?

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Milestones and Metrics. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here. Milestones and Metrics.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .