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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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How to improve Klout Score

CEO Blog

Klout is a scoring system that weighs influence in social media. There is a great book Return on Influence - The revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing by Mark Schaeffer that inspired this post. My Klout score is 43 and in reading what I have influence in I surprised myself.

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Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get

Harvard Business Review

There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% of all venture funding , despite owning 38% of the businesses in the country. In fact, for every additional prevention question asked of an entrepreneur, the startup raised a staggering $3.8

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Don’t Start a Company with Your Business School Pals

Harvard Business Review

Seeing the world through the same lens means you can’t anticipate critical questions, factors and influences that should be considered as you think about the market, the product or service you’ll offer, and how to pivot intelligently as your company faces new or unexpected pressures.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 The intelligent use of data will have a transformative influence on all points of care. All recognize the enormous size of the opportunity to make a profit while improving care, lowering costs, and improving health.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. Instead of creating a campaign, Laura created a movement.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up.

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