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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences.

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#NewYearGoals2018: Harness the Power of Accountability

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The Four As of Accountability. Octane’s #NewYearGoals2018 series is focused on tackling small, attainable goals to realizing big results. Today, we consider the value of accountability in achieving your objectives. Want to increase the likelihood of achieving your goals? In a recent article written for Inc. , EO Accelerator Program Director Lauren King suggests following four steps in order to boost your sense of accountability.

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Pricing philosophy

Derek Sivers

For years I made a living playing at universities. One time a college far away in Ohio — about a 12-hour drive — asked what I would charge to do a two-hour show. I said, “$1500”. She said, “Oh, that’s a bit too much. What would you charge to do just a one-hour show ?”. I said, “$2000”. She said, “No, wait, you’ll be performing less, not more!”. I said, “Yeah!

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Accounting: What kind of bean counter do you need?

Berkonomics

Close. Accountants are trained, certified and usually quite experienced in financial analysis, both creating and reviewing data. Bookkeepers are often trained on the job although sometimes more formally and handle the physical work of accounting for the transactions. To expect a bookkeeper to provide analytical planning is to ask for something they often cannot provide, except in a cursory way.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Identify a SaaS Market that Machine Learning Will Disrupt

Tomasz Tunguz

In SaaS, machine learning has become an essential component to many different products. Whether it’s automating responses to inbound sales queries, identifying expense reports for audit, or surfacing anomalies in data, machine learning improves workflow software. To date, most software imbued with machine learning reduces costs rather than increase revenues.

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Art doesn’t end at the edge of the canvas.

Derek Sivers

Imagine you see a caged feather on a museum wall. The sign underneath says the artist is a political activist in jail. Imagine that same caged feather again. But instead the sign says the artist is a high school kid in Florida. Or imagine that the only way to see it is to crawl deep into a shrinking tunnel that opens into a room of mirrors, where the caged feather is suspended by a thread.

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Celebrating the Resilience of the Florida Keys Post Hurricane Irma

Entrepreneurs' Organization

South Florida Forum members enjoying a sunset during their retreat to the Keys. By Oscar DiVeroli, EO South Florida. Just two days before Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, the Directors’ Forum cancelled our 19th annual retreat to the greater Boston region. Most of our Forum evacuated the South Florida area in advance of widespread power outages, localized flooding and scattered storm debris.