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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. With now over one thousand active U.S. This all costs money. So what to do? Do Like Warren Does.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. Distributed teams are more common, and companies know what to expect when managing remote offices. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Traditional financial products and services being fundamentally disrupted by these new digital technologies include consumer and commercial banking, fund transfers and payments, investment and wealth management, insurance, and investment banking. Mr. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ).

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Warby manages this killer combination of moderate prices and solid margins through supply chain efficiencies on the back end and on the front end picture perfect web branding and “white glove” customer service. Very impressively, for a mid-priced player in the eyeglasses space, Warby’s gross margins are estimated at a healthy 60%+.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Marketing – Marketing Automation, Revenue Performance Management, Social Marketing, Email Marketing, Enterprise Marketing Management, Database Marketing. Customer Experience Management. Enterprise Feedback Management. Innovation Management. Vendor Relationship Management. Partner Relationship Management.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year.

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