Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. For example, IBM was always under scrutiny for potentially impacting small competitors, equitable contracts, and meeting the reporting and disclosure standards for public companies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. Both are required to stay competitive. In the US, 55 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2016, up 6% from 2014. Freelancers now make up 35% of U.S.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

The total proceeds raised in Q2 2016 from IPOs diminished by three-quarters compared to Q2 2015. In addition, officers may face liability for misrepresentations or speaking out in public and SEC reports. On the other hand, “competitive” salaries will likely go up, and health and retirement benefits will jump to a new level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. And in thinking about where we wanted to place our 2016 internal resource investment dollars into we began to think about which services would have the highest impact on the three edges of this triangle and we recognized it was marketing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The 2016 election is (thankfully) almost here, and as one biotech analyst noted this week, a possible Democratic victory is to blame for a big October sell-off in biotech stocks. The drug system went off the market in 2015, leaving Mylan’s EpiPen without competition and setting the stage for the furor over Mylan’s price hikes.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of joining a boardroom panel discussion at the MetricStream GRC Summit 2016 in Washington, DC, on the subject of “Leading with Governance, Risk, and Compliance.” Once risk professionals have a seat at the table, the onus is on them to report risk data to the board as effectively as possible.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By 2016, app downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and app-to-person messaging is seen to overtake text messaging. It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers. What’s in an app? We need an APP! Branding with an app.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Critics say Mylan has been emboldened by the recall of EpiPen’s only competition last fall. A Phase 2 trial of the drug, AMX0035, should start in late 2016 or early 2017. Alex Lash contributed to this report. Its latest hike has brought the two-pack of injectors to more than $600, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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