Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

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.

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Board Effect

JUNE 26, 2023

Behind every community bank or credit union is a hardworking board. Community banking organizations can only get an accurate view of board performance through annual board evaluations that incorporate best practices for board assessments , with attention to individual performances and the board as a whole.

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Board Effect

MAY 23, 2023

As a board member of a community healthcare nonprofit, working within the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, you probably face a multitude of challenges that require problem solving and innovative solutions. Introducing governance technology can help improve your boards’ efficiency, communication, and clarity.

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Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

The rapid advancement in technology. Recognize all of these challenges facing your community bank? Addressing these requires community banks to be nimble, innovative, and focused on building strong relationships with their customers. Board Effectiveness Checklist for Community Banks 1. Competition from larger banks.

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Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

The rapid advancement in technology. Recognize all of these challenges facing your community bank? Addressing these requires community banks to be nimble, innovative, and focused on building strong relationships with their customers. Board Effectiveness Checklist for Community Banks 1. Competition from larger banks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Leaders are assessed for their ability to fit into the brand community, embody the values required, maintain the right strategic priorities, and deal with the current organization stage. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Imagine a world where charities, nonprofits, community banks and other mission-driven organizations operate with unprecedented efficiency, thanks to the power of artificial intelligence. The insightful discussion delved into the transformative impact of AI, sharing practical applications and strategies tailored for the community sector.

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Board Effect

JUNE 14, 2023

Good governance for nonprofits is hard. This article outlines 5 key trends impacting governance for nonprofits and shares key questions that boards need to be asking, along with suggestions for strategies to start tackling them. Review your risk management policy to make sure it’s adequate for current circumstances.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, mission-driven organizations, including nonprofits and those focused on social and environmental causes, face several unique challenges when it comes to AI ethics and governance. What Is AI Governance and Why Does It Matter for Mission-Driven Organizations? AI technology is bound to advance.

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Board Effect

JULY 6, 2023

A nonprofit governance committee performs many of the same duties and has many of the same responsibilities as those for a for-profit corporation. Like for-profit entities, nonprofit organizations often formally combine the function of the nominating committee with that of the governance committee.

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2023

As a CEO or board director of a community bank, you have a personal stake in improving the effectiveness of your board. Enhancing decision-making, strategic planning, and governance practices within your board can directly contribute to the success of your bank in serving customers and making a positive impact on the community you serve.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

“We need to be like Silicon Valley,” we hear many a startup community organizer around the world intone. After all, Silicon Valley been held up as a shining example as a hotbed for startups and many clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as a similar scene for innovation and technological entrepreneurship.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It can seem overwhelming to tackle all of this, but fortunately, there is technology available to support board chairs and members in an age of transformation. Risk management plans should be developed and reviewed frequently and include input from the organization’s legal counsel.

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Board Effect

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofits rely heavily on mobile and digital technologies to manage and fulfill their missions. Collecting and managing data has always been an essential part of delivering nonprofit services and activities, but the last decade has seen an increased reliance on technology to facilitate.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Leaders are assessed for their ability to fit into the brand community, embody the values required, maintain the right strategic priorities, and deal with the current organization stage. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups. You also can’t just take private sector ideas and overlay them on local government.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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Board Effect

JULY 7, 2021

Government grants for small business startups are plentiful if you know where to look for them. Federal, state, and local governments offer many grants for various types of businesses to help boost the economy. Despite what you may have heard, government grants are competitive, but they’re not necessarily out of reach.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 29, 2022

Healthcare boards are challenged by many governance issues, and the health of seniors is one of them. Many lived with debilitating conditions for many years due to the lack of access to healthcare. The following six governance challenges should be on every healthcare board’s agenda. Financial Challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

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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Board Effect

MARCH 29, 2019

Boards also learned that fraud and corruption can happen to any company where boards fail to practice good governance. Good corporate governance has many dimensions. Board directors need to pay strict attention to every area of governance. Perhaps, technology has advanced in just the right time to keep corporations honest.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Working through a day of family responsibility, employment demands, community needs and personal tasks only to then turn to the needs of a mission-driven organization? To preserve what makes a board member great — their time, energy and other resources — nonprofit leaders can turn to technology. Reap the Payoff of Granular Permissions.

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Board Effect

JUNE 20, 2023

Addressing these challenges requires proactive strategic planning, effective governance, strong leadership, and continuous adaptation, to ensure the sustainability and success of nonprofit healthcare organizations in delivering quality care and meeting the needs of their communities. From their partnership will come thought leadership.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 25, 2024

Diligent and BoardEffect have written extensively about artificial intelligence (AI) over the years, from how nonprofit organizations can benefit to expert tips for AI implementation to guidance on AI governance. Nonie Dalton, VP of product management for BoardEffect and Diligent Community, carries the conversation into the new year.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Talk to your Diligent customer success representative to find out more. Contact your Diligent customer success representative for more information. It’ll help save them time and enable them to do their board business on any device, any time, anywhere. Additional board and committee workrooms can be added to BoardEffect.

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Board Effect

JULY 31, 2023

Technology innovation has transformed the way many modern nonprofits can deliver their services — and has also made entirely new services possible. These options not only make a difference externally, but they underpin good governance practices when adopted internally. So how are the most successful nonprofits using technology?

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Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 20, 2023

Nonprofit Organizations and Fundraisers Have Many Assets to Protect Nonprofit organizations exist to create awareness of a cause and to help raise funds to make improvements for people and communities. Governments also sometimes fund charitable causes.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 31, 2020

The concept of governance is difficult to define in a sentence or two because it’s an intangible thing. A governance model serves as a representation of the many possible ways that a governance system could work if you were to change one or more of its parts. Governance models can be built in various ways.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Board Diversity: The public has become more aware of the importance of their institutions to reflect the community they serve. Community Engagement: Even as the pandemic brought new forms of isolation, organizations and their boards have been focused on engaging with their communities in meaningful ways. On the community?

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Community healthcare board members play a pivotal role in steering their organization toward a healthier future. The solution to these challenges lies in board management software solutions, which are reshaping how community healthcare boards access and handle vital information.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

A few months ago, VC Cafe launched a series on startup engagement and outreach programs of large tech companies. Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2014

Every aspect of our lives – the information we consume, the governments we vote for, the way we work, the way we learn, and the way we enjoy – is influenced by the Web. On a slightly darker note, the chapters on Big Armies and Big Government warned global powers how fragile peace and stability can be.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. And that is what we’ll do.”

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