Cash is King Part II (So now what? )

By now you have settled into the new normal–working from home, balancing home activities and work activities from the same house/apartment/room/dining room table.  Being on too many zoom calls, team scrums, virtual company meetings/happy hours.   Hopefully, you have also gotten a good handle on your actual cash flow? (see cash is king part I). You […]

Effective Leadership in Crisis

In early March, seemingly an eternity ago, I visited a client’s office to catch up.  One of the firm’s senior leaders greeted me in the hallway with a smile and elbow bump. I wondered in the moment if I should do the same. Yet as I walked down the hall, out of habit, I shook […]

Making Connections that Count at Venture Connect Online

Networking. Meeting people. Seeing companies. Making connections.  This is what we heard from you, our attendees, partners, sponsors, and presenting companies, about what makes Venture Connect such a valuable experience.  So when it became clear that we could not safely hold our Summit as planned, the CED team immediately began working to reimagine a virtual […]

Cash is King – Part I

When we ran an entrepreneurs bootcamp called FastracÂŽ Tech Venture™, we had one module on finances.  It was often one of the liveliest conversations and pragmatically useful sessions. We would share a cash-based method of managing the startup finances.  This is not to be confused with accounting (also important but a different view of measuring […]

Venture Connect Presenting Company Spotlight

We are only about two weeks away from Venture Connect 2020 and 3-days of non-stop content, connections and over 100 presenting companies live on-stage during an amazing event where tech and life science collide. Have you purchased your ticket yet?  On Tuesday, March 17th, you’ll find dozens of companies pitching during the Life Digitized track. […]

Make the Buying Process Better

Sometimes it’s not so easy to see when you’re in it, every day, running your business.. “Don’t make it difficult for people to buy from you.”  It’s a simple saying, but it’s profound and businesses do it all the time. “We would never do that”, you say, but let me ask you: Is your sign […]