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Crowdsourcing, collaboration, support groups. Oh my.

Berkonomics

Help from your peers. First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers. Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group. You can do the same. How to test the system.

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Create and nurture your collective intelligence.

Berkonomics

First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers. Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. at this scale it’s easier for us to help fund a seed extension. dot-com bonanza. So in a way it’s self selecting.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. Mercato raises $26M Series A to help smaller grocers compete online. How to respond to a data breach.

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Top 5 Benefits of a Virtualized IT Department

Tech Zulu Event

The age of technology has helped itself out. Now, cloud computing makes it possible to virtualize IT departments. Benefit #1 Cloud Space. Cloud computing is a huge benefit for every company that deals with passing documents and orders between departments. Benefit #2 Organization.

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IT Department and Web Teams | Who Does What Now?

Tech Zulu Event

Program and account managers are helpful especially if more than one project is open. Security experts and other individuals might be helpful in creating and fixing network performance monitoring software. Then, there are the creative peoples that help make the Web Team’s work stand out among others. Challenges.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Diversity Officer.

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