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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

This means that there is a huge amount of uncertainty involved when venture capitalists decide whether to invest in tech start-ups,” the researchers explain. They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017.

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0815 | Why Innovation Needs Liberal Arts with Scott Hartley

LDRLB

SCOTT HARTLEY is a venture capitalist and startup advisor. He has served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and a venture partner at Metamorphic Ventures. The Importance of Blending the Liberal Arts and Technology worlds.

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VCs See Gold Rush in the HR Tech Scene

HR Digest

But recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the global human resource (HR) technology market, particularly in North America. HR tech firms are flourishing as venture capitalists’ love affair with standard-setters in HR SaaS offering continue to grow. Core HR software is projected to peak at a CAGR of 9.4%

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Straight Talk for Startups

Leading Blog

I loved this line: “Venture capitalists have one of the greatest jobs in the world. It’s not uncommon for your competition to sell below cost in order to buy customers with their capital. And employees tend to act more like mercenaries than comrades in arms. Try to act normal. There is nothing normal about being an entrepreneur.”

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT. We’ve heard it all before. So how do billion dollar companies get built?

Finance 373
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Assessing Ballmer’s Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

Check out technology critic David Pogue’s “ How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech ” which appeared on the New York Times’ website on August 24. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

An organization that is nimble has the modernized and matured their practices related to people, processes, technologies, ecosystems, and strategy such that they can seize opportunities as they present themselves and stave off issues that present themselves more readily, as each will be presented more quickly than in the past.

Company 101