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Widespread UK Business Sector Welcomes Government’s New “Industrial Strategy” White Paper

YoungUpstarts

Business groups in the UK gave a widely positive reception to the Government’s new industrial strategy white paper. The white paper provides a simple five-part structure setting out how the government will henceforth seek to coordinate policies in pursuit of higher investment and productivity. And it needs to last.”

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Technology is The Key to ESG Transparency for Nonprofits

Board Effect

Here are some examples: Are you partnering with a group that, while it feeds children, also generates an unsustainable amount of environmental waste? Surveys and questionnaires : Information from partners, donors, and employees form crucial data points for ESG. It also requires you to track your dealings with external groups.

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Methods To Improve Your Website Content

YoungUpstarts

Expand on their content, make it more authoritative, or turn a short white paper into a list for easy digestibility. Quantity no longer matters as much; so don’t waste too much time finding low-value sites as backlink partners. Of course you most certainly shouldn’t plagiarize; curation doesn’t entail this at all.

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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. If you have a white paper or customer testimonial, feature it. Call out strategic relationships with business partners, research institutions, or industry groups. by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 The firm wrote a white paper, “Transformation Underway… But Nobody Cares” which essentially said that GE stock was undervalued because investors didn’t believe that Immelt and GE management would do the things needed to deliver a higher stock price and dividends.

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[Interview] Donato Sferra Of Toronto’s Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Today, Sferra leads Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank and venture capital firm focused on early stage and mid-market growth companies, which he co-founded with fellow managing partner, Mark Attanasio. Hillcrest Merchant Partners is already involved with some of the top companies in the cannabis space.

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Profound Beliefs

Steve Blank

However, you will be informed by those experiments outside the building, and data from potential customers, partners, regulators, et al will modify your vision over time. The reality of a startup is that that on day one most of your beliefs/hypotheses are likely wrong.