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In The Loop-Chapter 16: The DataOps System

DataOps is a meta system. The purpose of the DataOps system is to place the right data into the right hands (or systems) at...
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In The Loop—Chapter 5: Vision and Strategic Choice

Vision is the leader’s foresight: the end in mind as to what the enterprise will become. Its reach is limited only by the leader’s...
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In The Loop—Chapter 4: The Generative and Adaptive Imperatives

Systems can always be improved. But a system intervention must be well planned, or the cure may prove worse than the disease. In improving...
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In the Loop —Chapter 2: In the Loop Leadership

If you are the CEO or senior executive of a company with big aspirations — whether startup or Fortune 500 — it’s on you. Only you can turn...
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In The Loop — Chapter 1: The Rise of The Loop…

Digital technology has hit an inflection point, and there’s no turning back. Products and services are digitizing. More and more human activity is becoming...
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Funding & Exits –  Chapter 16: The IPO Exit

While the value of public companies has grown from 105% of GDP in 1996 to 136% today, the number of these firms has been...
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Funding & Exits – Chapter 15: The Private Equity…

If your company has achieved at least $10M in recurring revenue with predictable future growth, low churn and proximity to cash flow positive, then...
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Funding & Exits  –  Chapter 14: The Strategic Acquisition…

Over the past seven years, more than eighty percent of all exits have been via strategic acquisition. When your company exits, it’s most likely...
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Funding & Exits – Chapter 13: The Non-IPO Exit…

  At multiple points along the way in the building of your company, either opportunity or necessity will lead you to contemplate an exit....
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Funding & Exits – Chapter 12: Venture Debt

Some use “venture debt” to describe any loan provided to a venture backed startup — whether it be the seed stage convertible note, the commercial bank...
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Funding & Exits –  Chapter 10: Venture Capital

Once you have passed Minimum Viable Product and are closing in on Minimum Viable Repeatability, you enter the realm of early-stage VC investing. As...
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