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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. From BlueSky AI.

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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. Most small businesses rely on Google AdWords to create manageable online marketing campaigns. 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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Green Police

Chris Brady

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial!  Government is like a sledge hammer.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

Babson really believes in historical trends. He’s just a trend analyst. Fisher doesn’t think trends are important at all; instead he believes in causation. What effect does it have if we change the way we manage firms? Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty' What effect does it have if we innovate?

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

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