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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

In recent times, it seems the trend is that entrepreneurs will email me their slides before the call. If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms.

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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Do It Yourself

Strategy Driven

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Ideally, you want to reach out to a professional or develop your web building skills accordingly. It also highlights potential trends, letting you connect Analytics data with other tools. The same principle applies to your digital strategy.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. Yet many small businesses don’t consciously develop strategies that use their advantages. I feel like a number.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. Yet many small businesses don’t consciously develop strategies that use their advantages. I feel like a number.

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Four Major Changes in Global Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The trend from Latin America adds to a wider observation that a new economic order is emerging. And so what do we observe from this vantage point? Europe’s Loss is Asia’s Gain.

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Cool and the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. But it needed to find a clue about the ideas, aesthetics, music, sensibilities, and trends that made up American culture. Malcolm Gladwell talked about "cool hunters," people went looking for the latest cultural development so the corporation could exploit it.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Government is like a sledge hammer. Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings. Just like wars, if a government can get people freaked out enough (i.e.