More than just a venture fund or business catalyst, Sprocket allows startups and early stage companies to leverage the power of the crowd.
Sprocket is the "missing link" in the support of startup and early stage companies. When investors invest, they want to know what kind of safeguards the venture has in place to mitigate risk of loss. When you have what's called "social proof", you help mitigate that risk. Sprocket is the platform to gain social support, and proof for your idea, startup or e
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A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter: about The Universal Force which is LOVE
Reposted from: https://suedreamwalker.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/a-letter-from-albert-einstein-to-his-daughter-about-the-universal-force-which-is-love/
In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein.More can be f
What are the 10 Biggest Global Challenges?
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Thursday 21 January 2016
Source: World Economic Forum
Whether it’s turning promises on climate change into action, rebuilding trust in the financial system, or connecting the world to the internet, the World Economic Forum has singled out 10 key global challenges that, if they are to be addressed, require cooperation from the public and private sectors.
The link below is a guide to the 10 challenges, and why they matter to the world.
World’s Richest Increased their Wealth by $237 Billion in 2016
Sources:
Nick Beams
World Socialist Web Site 29 December 2016
Global Research, December 29, 2016
The world’s wealthiest 200 billionaires increased their net worth by $237 billion in 2016, taking their total wealth to $4.4 trillion as of the close of trading on Tuesday, an overall increase for the year of 5.7 percent, according to calculations by Bloomberg.
The major factor in the wealth increase is the surge in the US stock market since th
In their book In Search of Excellence, McKinsey consultants Tom Peters and Robert Waterman found 8 common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of 14 identified companies of “excellence.” The framework is known as the 8 Attributes of Management Excellence. The research and theorizing of this framework was based on the McKinsey 7-S Model, also authored by Peters and Waterman.
The 8 attributes are:
- A Bias for Action
- Close to the Customer
- Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
- Productivity th
For too long, there has been an unspoken assumption in traditional risk management and regulation that organisations are quasi-mechanical and that decision making is essentially rational. The implication is that you if can devise the right rules, risks will disappear because people will respond to them logically.
In truth, all organisations consist of real people who exhibit the range of normal human feelings, emotions and behaviours and have individual characters. These, and well-understood me
A little while back I blogged about using pull strategies over push strategies when looking to influence and ultimately persuade decision makers in your business (Stop Pushing and Start Pulling – It’s more satisfying). The easiest of the three pull strategies (Desirability, Likeability and Reciprocity) is RECIPROCITY. The act of giving a gift which creates a feeling of need to reciprocate with a gift of similar “value”.
With all the gift giving that is going on for Christmas, it got me thinking a
We are about to reach the point where more antibiotics will be consumed by farm animals worldwide than by humans. When antibiotics stop working for animals, we're all at risk.
http://backoffbacteria.com/now-its-inevitable-total-global-antibiotics-failure/
I'm Ovidiu Slimac and I am from Timișoara in the western part of Romania, a beautiful town which was just declared the European Cultural Capital for 2021.
I have worked in procurement for 15 years now. And yes, I'm human. I'm a human being. And if we believe what the researchers and scientists say, all of my purchasing activities and buying decisions are made with an emotional input – even the ones I made for my company.
The question is : does being human disqualify me as a good procurement profes
Five Ways to Nail your Pitch and Win Over Investors
Source: Josh Hannah, for Entrepreneurs
There are many opinions on creating a pitch deck and presenting to potential investors, but there is still a big gap between what entrepreneurs perceive to be important and what investors really value during a pitch presentation.
This post is the first in a series, where we will provide real examples–the good, the OK, and the bad–of early stage pitch decks we’ve seen over the years here at Matrix Partners. We
Peace is not absence of war.
If you want to be rich, be generous.
If you want to be smart, be simple.
If you want to be strong, be kind.
Whatever you are looking for is inside of you.
You are missing nothing. You have everything. The only problem is, you don’t know that.
All the things that we think are important will one day turn around and become unimportant.
Don’t let another day go by without being touched by the magic inside you.
What are the questions that will lead to clarity about what
Register here:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6074046758031583490?source=GRC
The webinar will discuss what quality level do we need for ‘Information Security in projects and what is the common or standardized ISO 27001/ISO 21500 level? In addition, the current situation will be presented with the steps to undertake for minimalizing the project and business risks.
This webinar will be presented by John Roos is project –en program manager on consultancy bases. He has an extended experience
Economists say that financial stability comes with low inflation rates. Where is the evidence? The lowest inflation rate nations are among the most unstable.
The Macro-economic Design and Management group is the only group looking at other causes. They are setting up a course in macro-economic design and management to show where the problems are coming from.
As one of the peer reviews says, "“When people realize what you have done all hell will break loose.” The innovations will be disruptive to e
This white paper is intended for readers who are familiar with Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) and the processes to develop and manage related policies, standards and procedures. The purpose is to provide guidance to the effective implementation and maintenance of resilience and disaster recovery capability of IT systems, and is applicable, by scaling, to all sizes of business organisation. A full copy of the paper is at http://www.austinriskconsultants.com/downl
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
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
The German authorities in cooperation with the United States and Europol dismantled the Avalanche botnet.
Five people arrested, 37 searches, 39 seized servers and 221 servers taken offline, more than 800,000 domains blocked with the help of numerous cyber security experts. It is the biggest International operation in the history.
After four years of investigation, the final phase occurred on Wednesday 30 November 2016, under the leadership of the German authorities, in cooperation with their Ameri
It is crazy to think that insurers are now the ones that need to manage their risk in the face of disruption. They must reinvent their business processes and strategies from the inside out to keep up with the rate of change. So, what are insurers doing to take action?
Insurance Nexus conducted exclusive interviews with the largest life insurer – Manulife and a mid-tier insurer IAT and created an exclusive white paper on analytics, business transformation and customer-centricity.
IMPACT 2016 has come and gone, and risk practitioners from across the United States and Europe were thrilled with the results. IMPACT 2016 was differentiated by the passion behind real customer stories, all shared with actionable takeaways. Topics included third-party risk management, performance integration, cybersecurity, and reporting to the board.
LogicManager’s annual ERM community conference was a breeding ground for new ideas and best practices, drawn from a broad range of industries. We’r
In my last blog I spoke of your organisation as a market place where you and your team compete for resources. Those resources include money, people and the most valuable resource, people’s time. What you need is another team competing on your behalf. A team of advocates located in the key business units you want to engage with to ensure the valuable resources you need, you get.
In Seth Godin’s book Tribe he describes how he did just that in 1984 at the age of 24 after he joined software company S
Several hours ago, infosec expert Derek Knight found a brand new Locky virus variant spreading out email messages that simulate an Internet service provider (ISP) alert declaring that SPAM has been identified originating from the PC.
After the initial examination of this Locky build, other researches from the Malware Hunter Team spotted that Locky had additionally altered the file extension for locked data to .aesir. This latest extension remains to be connected with the Norse mythology, with ear
