Getting Funded: How to calculate your total addressable market and make a great TAM slide for investors

By: Jared Sleeper

Source: For ENTREPRENEURS

I’ve seen hundreds of startup pitch decks in my time at Matrix, and have found total addressable market (TAM) slides to be among the most frequently mis-executed. I get the sense they are often included as a formality in an attempt to get VCs to check a mental box and continue on hearing about other important things: the product, the team, the progress,

Virtually all cyber exposure programs today are directed at addressing the cyber exposures an organization faces from its own resources and activities and from outside sources. This is necessary but not sufficient.

Why? Because most organizations also face secondary cyber exposures that they are neither aware of nor prepared to address. For example, many organizations do not manage, or own their own properties but inhabit facility space managed by someone else. That someone, generally a building

Now that vacation time is over in the Northern Hemisphere. Did you relax? Unwind? Clear your mind?

Well I sure hope so because the cyber predators have been setting new clickable traps, and sending devious emails to greet you on your return. Also, in your absence cyber predators continued to launch millions of attacks daily across the globe. And many involve ransomware.

The emergence of ransomware is simple to explain. It can be obtained free or easily made. It has a high success rate and generate

Dear Friends,

You may be aware that the Government of India demonetised the highest two denomination bills of INR1000/- and INR500/- on 8th November 2016. Whilst, the usage of demonetisation as a tool to fight corruption and money laundering is debatable, the Indian case study, as per a Reserve Bank of India memo released on 11th August 2017 mentions that an estimated INR2.8 to INR 4.3 Trillion flowed incrementally (money kept outside the banking system) into the banking system. Circa INR64=1-USD

Expert Chuck Brooks Offers A Cybersecurity “Cheat Sheet” For The C-Suite

Chuck Brooks: VP of Government Relations and Marketing, Sutherland Global Solutions

The Internet was invented in a government laboratory and later commercialized in the private sector. The hardware, software, and networks were originally designed for open communication. Cybersecurity initially was not a major consideration. That mindset has surely changed

Who Are the Champions in Horizon 2020?

Author: Nikolaos Floratos

This publication is a synopsis on which countries and organizations are the most successful ones in Horizon 2020 programme. We have analyzed 4190 H2020 projects and 7804 organizations that have been awarded an Horizon 2020 grant based on the data provided by the European Commission under Cordis on 24 June 2015.

Presentations and articles from EC officials and experts have been highlighting the low success rates in Horizon 2020 program

Artificial Intelligence: ‘Frankenstein’ or Capitalist Money Machine

By Professor James Petras

Global Research, February 24, 2017

The Financial Times’ Special Report (2/16/2017) published a four-page spread on the ‘use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)’. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington ’s megaphones on the editorial pages and political columns, the Special Report is a thoughtful essay that raises many important issues, even as it is fundamentally flawed.

Martin Luther King's Pearl Of Wisdom!

Published on Jan 13, 2017

Source: Slide Share

Assassinated on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered for exemplary civil work and of course his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. King was a Baptist minister and an activist leader in the Civil Right Movements. He got into college at age 15, held a PhD, received a Nobel Peace Prize and there is a holiday kept in his honor. He was arrested 29 times and was the target of several assassination attempts. He f

The Real Purpose of Business: Four Presentations

By:

Enrique Suarez

"The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about. We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent."

Portland State University professor Tom Johnson

“The way society is organized is due to the

As the FRTB implementation race begins, it is crucial that banks now get a thorough understanding of the structure of trading desks, refine operating models and the front office and transform the market risk infrastructure effectively in order to meet the so called ‘FRTB standard’. With less that 18 months to go, banks are under pressure to develop high quality and consistent projects that will minimise the risk of capital charges and ensure integrity across the front office, risk and finance de

Donald Trump, the Power of Big Data and Psychographics

“Mind Manipulations” to Influence Election Results

Source: Peter Koening,

Global Research, January 06, 2017

According to Peter Koenig, the truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘surprise’ election may lay somewhere else. It’s called Psychometrics, a method based on massive behavioral data collection of people to be targeted by propaganda, or more accurately expressed by mind manipulation. This PR technology has been marketed and applied by a small London-

Confronting the Tyranny of Management by Numbers: How Business Can Deliver the Results We Care About Most

Enrique R. Suarez

Business Strategy and Management Consultant

suarezenrique@yahoo.com

According to professor Thomas Johnson, it’s easy to talk about the changes wrought by today’s global economy. But most such discussions fail to address the real impact of business practices in the twenty-first century.

The growth of industrial societies during the past 150 years – and particularly the aggressive

God Does Not Exist - Stephen Hawking and my Response

As you will see in the below video, Mr. Hawking asserts that when people ask whether God created the universe, this question does not make sense for him because time did not exist before the Big Bang so according to Mr. Hawking "there is not time for God, therefore there is not time to make the universe in". Mr. Hawking also asserted that we are each free to believe what we want, but his simple explanation is that "there is not God and that no

A Comparison Among the Three Most Important Strategic Frameworks: Porter, the Resource-Based View of the Firm, and the Delta Model

Enrique Suarez

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

suarezenrique@yahoo.com

According to former MIT professor Arnoldo Hax, creator of the Delta Model, in spite of the enormous proliferation of competing schemes in the business strategy literature, there are two fundamental paradigms that have emerged as the most influential in the last two decades. First, Competitive

Operational risk management is currently on the end of a major shakeup. Ever since the announcement of Basel III banks have been working within a paradigm that pushes towards either TSA or AMA approaches (standardised and advanced approaches respectively). At the end of 2015, however, the Basel Committee shocked firms by announcing that they were doing away with this, and replacing it with the SMA – a new standardized approach that would be the norm for all banks. This is having huge ramificatio

Three Key Ideas Shaping the Future of Innovation

Source:

Innovation@ Work Blog, MIT

Your company’s key innovators are, most likely, your consumers

The wave of technological innovation we are currently riding has brought us wearable computing and 3D printing, with products like Google Glass and Nike Fuelband becoming the stars of recent tech conferences, including May's All Things D. Continually fueled by the question “what’s next?,” product innovators leave no stone unturned in their quest to produc

4 lessons from Bhutan on the pursuit of happiness above GDP

Mahatma Gandhi was asked,

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor—i.e. constraint—and systematically improving it.  It was developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, introduced in 1984 book, The Goal.

TOC differs from traditional management views, in that traditional methods seek to make improvements throughout the organization.  They divide the organization into smaller, more manageable pieces.  The objective, thus, is to maximize the performance of each part, resulting