When blank cells are present in your data, it can make it difficult to conduct accurate analysis or identify trends effectively. For example, if you’re using a PivotTable to analyze your data, blank cells may disrupt the flow of the data, impacting your ability to make accurate conclusions...
Carpenters use the aphorism “Measure twice, cut once.” The same applies to layoffs. In every downturn I’ve lived through, there were CEOs who handled layoffs as “a death by a thousand cuts.” For example, in a company with 1000 employees, they’d layoff a 100 people the first mont...
The signs of a new bubble have been appearing over the last year – seed and late stage valuations are rapidly inflating, hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest since the last bubble and investors are starting to openly wonder how this one will end. Breathtaking Scale The bubble is ...
A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company, but none had actually started a company. Out of the dot-com rubble at the turn of the 21st cen...
‘build it and they will come” is a prayer rather than a business strategy. In reality, a startup is atemporaryorganization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. This means the brilliant idea you started withwill changeas youiterate andpivotyour business model until...