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3 ways to measure employee happiness (and 1 step you shouldn’t skip)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Verne Harnish, founder of EO and founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 coaching partners on six continents. The frequency you choose depends on what’s going on at your company and the pace of change within your culture. Want more Verne?

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Pareto thinks it shouldn’t be so hard to collect lead-generation data

TechCrunch

While taking a gap year in college, she worked at Microsoft on designing a build-your-own virtual workforce focused on stay-at-home mothers, and it got her thinking about skill gaps, outsourcing and culture around working with companies from abroad. The company raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding in 2020, and today announced $4.5

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

TechCrunch

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” ” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. Detailed, five-quarter view.

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Veteran digital health pros found virtual eating disorder care startup

TechCrunch

The one thing the founders wish they saw more of in other companies was “seeing people as humans first and supporting them in whatever it is in life that they prioritize,” they said in an interview with TechCrunch. The company is slated to launch their pilot program later this summer — though, the pilot will serve up to only 30 patients.

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

TechCrunch

Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang. Image Credits: Laiye. Laiye has aggressive goals for global expansion.

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Slow Down to Speed Up Your Product Analytics

Reforge

Understand that slowing down upfront to develop a healthy data infrastructure is the key to speeding up impactful analysis and solutioning long-term. Take a step back to identify the core questions you're looking to answer to build out an intentional data collection strategy.

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. In my initial effort I collected all of the resource information that I could find. Defining Categories of Information.