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What if you see juicy competitor information?

Berkonomics

Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways. And of course, most are willing to trade information to get information. The source of this information was typically the purchasing decision-maker for a friendly customer or candidate customer.

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5 Strategies To Thrive Despite Information Overload

Startup Professionals Musings

Dawson is a world-leading futurist, entrepreneur, and public speaker, who offers five key principles, which I can amplify, for turning information into value: Purpose: thriving requires an understanding of why. Your first challenge is to decide what information and why it is relevant to your business.

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What if you come across juicy competitor information?

Berkonomics

Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways. And of course, most are willing to trade information to get information. The source of this information was typically the purchasing decision-maker for a friendly customer or candidate customer.

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How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

Both Sides of the Table

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. There’s another issue I can add to your list of things to be aware of – information rights.

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

I'll only describe one here, because that one was enough to convince me: It would become more difficult to reason about when a default method is invoked. For further reading about these issues, see this explanation written by Brian Goetz: response to "Checked exceptions within Block. For instance: Does encounter order matter to me?

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Mercedes-Benz app glitch exposed car owners’ information to other users

TechCrunch LA

Mercedes-Benz car owners have said that the app they used to remotely locate, unlock and start their cars was displaying other people’s account and vehicle information. One Seattle-based car owner told TechCrunch that their app pulled in information from several other accounts.

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