Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2017

By Neen James, motivational speaker and attention expert. As a keynote speaker and executive mentor, I am frequently asked for ways to deal with rules and bureaucracy in the workplace. Especially when dealing with some large corporations with employee manuals the size of War and Peace. Rules, regulations and bureaucracy are part of corporate culture, but, done right, they don’t have to squelch morale and productivity.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. Flexport will build warehouses in Hong Kong and Los Angeles for consolidation and rerouting purposes, due to the increased frequency of cargo moving between China and the U.S. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2017

We’ve entered an era when computers can understand speech, computers can synthesize speech, computers can develop music, author encryption algorithms, create novel art, respond to customer support questions, and even generate new summaries and reports from data. Increasingly, humans will struggle to distinguish between computer-generated and human generated.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2017

Hold it! These are confusing terms. When does a budget become obsolete? Do we rely upon constant changes and call it a forecast? So, let’s spend a few moments defining this sometimes-confusing set of terms. A budget should be created each year after a series of negotiations between departmental managers and their superiors all he way yup to the CEO, all in support of the next year’s tactics previously agreed upon (which in turn support the longer-term strategies leading to the next goal beyond)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

By Glenn Cohen, founder and CEO of Beach House Center for Recovery. Nobody is immune to addiction—not even entrepreneurs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 21.5 percent of Americans aged 12 and older battled some type of substance abuse issue in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available). In addition, 70 percent of all Americans who use illicit drugs are in the workforce, according to data cited by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 31, 2017

What could be more natural than a marketer selling a product to other marketers? Or an engineer pushing a new devops tool to other developers? Or a customer success person pitching CS tools? After all, they both speak the same language, come from the same domain, will develop trust quickly. Consequently, they will sell faster and more efficiently. This might seem like a very logical argument for differentiating on sales processes, but it’s a fallacy.

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