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What VC funds wish your startup knew about their selection process

Mar03
by on March 3, 2019 at 7:30 pm
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Venture Capital is a competitive game, so understanding the VC process is integral to your success. There’s no doubt that some qualities are non-negotiable for VC funds. VCs want to see a large and growing market, a highly capable team, a deep understanding of the strategy around the startup’s product or solution, and a high level of capital efficiency and scalability. If you’re a startup looking to get funded, the necessity of these conditions should not come as news to you. So, if you think you’ve got these down, and you’re trying to figure out what else investors are looking…

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How enterprise social media like Slack can improve well-being in the workplace

Mar03
by on March 3, 2019 at 1:30 pm
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We live in a world where technology is increasingly ubiquitous and showing no signs of slowing down. Whether in our professional or personal lives, the always-on, always-connected nature of life in 2019 seems to be unavoidable. And aside from the internet itself, of all the technologies, software, and hardware available to us, the spread of social media is arguably difficult to beat in terms of its cultural impact. Despite well-publicised issues with user privacy and questionable business practices by some of the biggest platforms, social media remains in robust health, with over 2.27 billion monthly active Facebook users, and 326…

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Scientists say flies don’t like zebra stripes

Mar03
by on March 3, 2019 at 9:00 am
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Zebras are famous for their contrasting black and white stripes – but until very recently no one really knew why they sport their unusual striped pattern. It’s a question that’s been discussed as far back as 150 years ago by great Victorian biologists like Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Since then many ideas have been put on the table but only in the last few years have there been serious attempts to test them. These ideas fall into four main categories: Zebras are striped to evade capture by predators, zebras are striped for social reasons, zebras are striped to…

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