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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

Steve Blank

Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. It wasn’t a big jump.

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Unlocking Efficiency by Harnessing Governance Technology for Your Community Bank Board

Board Effect

As a community bank board member facing a digital landscape that continues to rapidly evolve and impact the financial services industry, we are guessing you probably would like to position yourself as a tech-enabled decision-maker. Less time for board members to review materials. The end result? Slow workflows impact cash flow.

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Unlocking Success: Empowering Community Banks with Governance Management Software

Board Effect

While “data governance” may not be a term we hear that often, it has immense influence on how community banks and credit unions collect and utilize data to drive their operations. Community bank boards and senior executives use data to control, influence and regulate people, actions and events.

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Towards Exceptional Community Healthcare: Best Practices for Board Governance 

Board Effect

Community healthcare volunteer board members play a crucial role in shaping the organization’s future and ensuring it delivers high-quality health services to their community. Technology and Governance The word “governance” stems from the Latin word gubernare , which means to steer or rule.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S.