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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. False Starts.

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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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Embracing the Power of Large Language Models: Transforming Finance and Empowering Professionals

The Horizons Tracker

Private equity firms and insurers were among the early adopters, utilizing these innovations for investment pre-screening and claims automation. To prepare for the impact of large language models, finance professionals (as well as professionals in other industries) should focus on developing organizational AI literacy.

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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

The research examines the Product Hunt platform, where entrepreneurs can test out their concept among early adopters, who offer feedback on whether the product is good or not. As a result, they and their ideas may be discounted by the platform because they’re not the intended target market. Gender gap.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

Only by fundamentally changing the way the organization works—through flattening hierarchies, speeding up decision making, helping employees develop needed skills, and successfully understanding both opportunities and threats in the environment—can an organization truly adapt to a digital world. Digital Maturity.

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Birthing a Baby Unicorn: The Anatomy of a Successful Startup Launch

Great Leadership By Dan

Most of them revolve around the role of marketing. Those who doubt the value or efficacy of marketing cite the success of such startups as Slack, Atlassian and WhatsApp, which launched with limited investment in marketing. But, it’s better to get feedback from early customers, not board members. Website UX trumps brand.

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.