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Sales, owned for decades by people who are good with people, a job that requires intense networking and face-to-face meetings, is now happening 100% remotely in most countries. From leadership to managing prospects and customers, what are the key learnings of 2020 and best practices to apply in 2021?
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Caroline Franczia
09.04.2021
Like many sectors, concerted efforts have helped improve venture capital’s diversity and that of the startups we invest in. Diversity VC’s ‘Diversity in Venture Capital 2019’ study reported that women now make up 30% of the VC workforce, up from 27% in 2017.
08.04.2021
Taking place online from April 12-14, Quantum.Tech 2021 is set to be the first conference and exhibition covering the emerging commercial applications of quantum technologies.
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Maddyness UK
08.04.2021
Maximise the minimum and the viable in your product. The tricky thing about launching a new product to market is that it’s barely even a milestone worth celebrating. What comes next is a series of chicken-and-egg problems and snap decisions on the way to product-market fit.
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Joe Procopio
06.04.2021
As we mark the one year anniversary of COVID-19’s dramatic trespass into our existence, many voices are calling for an accounting of the lessons learned. One of the most pivotal lessons we have learned was the disproportionate impact the deadly virus had on Black and ethnic minority communities.
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Patricia Hamzahee
05.04.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
02.04.2021
‘Objective key results’, perhaps most famously adopted by Google, have a long history – harking back to Intel in 1968. Nowadays the startup world is divided. Should you, or should you not, implement them?
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Caroline Franczia
02.04.2021
After almost a year of working from home, many of us have become attached to the flexibility that remote work offers. With the vaccine promising us new hope and a road map outlining when life will return to some sort of normal, many companies have stepped up their plan for return to the office.
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Matt Ephgrave
02.04.2021
As AI systems are increasingly being used by HR to identify candidates for a wide range of job vacancies, can businesses use these AI tools effectively without bias or discrimination?
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David Howell
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01.04.2021
Diversity is finally at the forefront of corporate decision-making, with discussions spanning from genuine inspirations to create a more inclusive society, to politically correct opportunism. Diversity is a defining value of Elaia: we don’t approach it as just a palette of skin colours or accents or religious beliefs, but first and foremost as a richness of opinions and thought processes necessary to challenge the status quo. As such, we try to build our team - within of course the respect of our mission and values -, with diversity as a core tenet.
30.03.2021
Windfalls are awesome, but they’re not a growth strategy. If a startup spends all its time chasing jackpots, it’ll just bleed its runway to death.
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Joe Procopio
30.03.2021
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Jackie Fast, Managing Partner, Sandbox Studios.
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Jackie Fast
29.03.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we look at the latest takes on working from home – in line with Rishi’s suggestion staff might quit if they can’t go back to the office.
29.03.2021
For the third year running, VivaTech and 50inTech have joined forces on this initiative which aims to promote and propel promising startups founded by women. Founders have until the 18th of April to apply.
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Heloise Pons
29.03.2021
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