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Skip the Slides: Drive Faster & Better Decisions with a Memo

Reforge

Or maybe for my elder millennial peers out there, it’s Melanie Griffith typing away on a real-life 80’s typewriter in Working Girl ? as a secret weapon to help me: Clarify my idea or argument, Engage my audience (peers, leaders, or execs), and Lead the group to a clear outcome (usually an approval). They’re alive and well.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us!

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. If you’re like us, you probably thought, “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” The truth is that it’s tricky to give honest feedback to the people who give out grants. Yet we all know that honest feedback is essential to improve our work. Here’s what we heard and how we plan to do better.

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The Quirky M&A Environment for SaaS Companies in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

The second largest, Jasper, is an internet of things software company founded in 2004, which Cisco acquired for $1.2B. More important, public companies may be more attractive buys than their private peers. This new behavior is a shift in strategy for private equity firms. Jasper ranks eleventh.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.