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The Challenge of Retaining Startup Talent After an Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

Census Bureau data from 1990 to 2011 that encompasses 230,000 acquired startup workers, the author researched these questions and discovered significantly higher turnover rates among acquired workers compared to regular hires. Why do so many startup employees leave, and how do startup acquisitions impact their careers?

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Optimism Bias

Idea to Value

One of the most cited-assessments of the bias from 2011 gives the following examples: When it comes to predicting what will happen to us tomorrow, next week, or fifty years from now, we overestimate the likelihood of positive events, and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. This is a cognitive bias known as the optimism bias.

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Big Data, Automation and Cows Who Decide When they want to be Milked

Rmukesh Gupta

To accommodate the foot traffic, in 2011 Einar and his wife, Sesselja, decided to take the plunge together and open a restaurant. Big data and analytics can be extremely useful and insightful if used well and in context to where the data is generated. – Kaffi Ku. . Entrepreneurs recognise opportunities all around us.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. Without data to back up your success stories, you will not be able to convince anyone of your program’s value. Inability to keep track of data to promote your program can seriously hamper its success.

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How to Leverage Process Behavior Charts: Webinar Recap

Kainexus

Mark’s book focuses on managing variation, understanding data, and leading improvement. Mark has been a part of KaiNexus in various capacities since 2011. We had the honor of hosting a webinar with our Senior Adviser, Mark Graban, author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve Mor e as the presenting guest.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

But only using the defined scope, the research and insights, the same data and the list of assumptions from the blue team. Cybersecurity experts use red teams and blue teams to determine how easy it is to steal data from a computer system, in order to better anticipate future attacks and improve defense.

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Google Analytics 4: What It Is and Its Impact for Your Businesses

Brunner

Google wanted to provide a more comprehensive and accurate view of data across multiple devices and platforms, such as websites on laptop or desktop computers and apps on mobile devices, including cell phones and tablets. First, Google needed to ensure that the data collected about individual users preserved their privacy.

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