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Circular Patterns in Venture Capital

 1. During the past decade, the size of seed rounds has remained stagnant and number of deals have decreased. To the untrained eye, it seems that there is more competition for seed dollars. Below the surface, however, startups are recycling founders experience. The reason why the number of deals has decreased is that teams are better prepared, are more financially savvy, have access to better-priced support, waste less time and resources, are using other forms of funding PRIOR to seed rounds, and are pivoting or deciding to get out earlier -at the pre-seed stage. (Founders will jump into exploring new opportunities). Founding teams are recycled 2. More firms seeking seed rounds already have sales, expression of interests, and some form of market validation as a result of the circular economy of entrepreneuri al mind and action. Firms that seek seed rounds are more advanced than 10 years ago. Founders are using other ways to get funded (as they should! Because seed funding is ve...

Inspiring The Millennial Generation

 Sourcing the right candidate for the role is probably one of the most difficult things to do, particularly now as a third of the global workforce are millennials - a generation that receives a lot of negative press and by all accounts is not a group of employees you would want in the workplace. Words that are synonymous with the group are entitled, unfocused , narcissistic, lazy, selfish - among a whole host of other words with negative connotations. But what has cultivated such an entitled (enter other negative words here) generation? Or what has caused such a backlash against them? In a popular viral video, motivational speaker and marketing consultant Simon Sinek gives four reasons as to why this has happened and ties it in to why it is now causing problems in the workplace. He attributes it to PARENTING. Sinek claims that millennials have been subject to failed parenting strategies, derived from being mollycoddled in such scenarios where children have received participation ...

Website Maintenance For Smooth Site Operation

 The maintenance of a website in the broadest terms involves its revision, changing web page features, general editing and keeping the web pages fresh and up-to-date. This may even involve deleting old website pages and adding new ones as part of the whole maintenance procedure. When people visit websites, they are always looking for something different that will make that website stand out from the norm and if they should decide to revisit your site after a period of time, they will be looking for something new to see from their last visit, which may even include an article. Visitors to websites need to know they will have a prompt response to any questions, suggestions, comments or queries they may have. They may, for example, have an important question about products or services that your company provides, so the maintenance of the customer care section of the website is key to the smooth running of the business. To keep any website running smoothly, payment has to be made for...