Mon.Jun 24, 2019

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Ecosystems are Relationships; Our Work Must Center Around People

Forward Cities

Guest Blog Post by Forward Cities Local Director – Pittsburgh, Wasiullah Mohamed. From left to right: Forward Cities CEO – Christopher Gergen, Mayor of Pittsburgh – Bill Peduto, Forward Cities Local Director – Pittsburgh Wasiullah Mohamed. It was beautiful seeing hundreds of ecosystem builders from around the country converge in my city, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Why Your Family Needs to Develop Core Values

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The benefit of core values goes far beyond the workplace, explains Marc Gutman. Marc is an EO Colorado member, the founder of WILDSTORY , and father to Ruby, Charlie and Nathan. Many of us have core values at our organizations. These values provide a common nomenclature and a North Star that guide our choices, our language and our priorities—at work.

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“Eso suena bastante bien”: Sesgos personales y las noticias

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

¿Qué es un sesgo? Según el Diccionario Cambridge, un sesgo es una opinión personal no objetiva que influye en la capacidad de formar juicio. A menudo, los sesgos se consideran negativos, pero todos los tenemos y afectan el modo en que vemos el mundo todos los días. Nos llegan de varios orígenes: desde la forma de pensar de nuestros padres hasta lo que piensan nuestros pares, pasando por experiencias negativas o positivas con personas o en sitios que nos dejan impresiones que ni siquiera sabemos

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Understanding Gender Bias In Venture Funding

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

USV portfolio company goTenna ‘s founder and CEO Daniela Perdomo and USV analyst Dani Grant did some number crunching on VC funding and published the info last week. After 4 rounds of VC, I ran my own data analysis to see if my experience is unique. Women founders in female-focused sectors raise equitable VC, but women in non-female sectors raise 54% less than their fair share.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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‘That Sounds About Right’: Personal Biases and the News

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

What is a bias? The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgement.” Biases are often cast in a negative light, but everyone has them, and they affect the way we see the world every day. We get them from many places — from how our parents think about things, to what our peers think, to negative or positive experiences with people or places that leave impressions that we don’t even realize we have.

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100k+ ACV SaaS Companies: Do Their Metrics Differ from Other SaaS Companies?

Tomasz Tunguz

When we published the results of the freemium survey earlier this year , we noticed respondents targeting the enterprise observed higher net dollar retention and lower churn than those startups targeting other segments. I wondered if we could observe any other patterns about enterprise businesses, so I produced this analysis of public companies with ACVs (annual contract values) of $100k or greater.

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Resist Trump's Return to Cruelty

Continuations

Humanity has a long and sad history of cruelty to other sentient beings including fellow humans. This is one of the darkest and saddest aspects of our selves and one we have struggled to overcome. Much progress has been made since the Middle Ages when public torture was common. And yet our progress comes from a relatively thin veneer of culture, barely restraining what remains a deep capacity for cruelty.

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