Ken FavorsTechnology The inevitability of tokenized dataTechCrunch - Chris McCoyWe’re reaching the endgame of an inevitable showdown between big tech and regulators with a ley battleground around consumer data. In many ways, the fact that things have gotten here reflects that the
Ken Favors Timing and why we’re all VCsTechCrunch - Danny CrichtonTiming is the single most valuable skill of the modern economy, but I would argue it’s the least understood and also the least practiced. Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition
Ken FavorsMarketing The Financial Power of Brand PreferenceForbes - Thought LeadersBrand preference creates firm value by measurably improving profits, cash flow, and share. If more financial executives understood the economics of customer behavior and the financial power of brand preference
Ken Favors The Big Problem With Machine Learning AlgorithmsBloomberg - Jon Asmundsson Machine learning is enabling investors to tap huge data sets such as social media postings in ways that no mere human could. Yet, despite the …
Ken FavorsB2B Insight Selling Is The New Solution SellingForbes - Falon FatemiIn 2012, Harvard Business Review published a bold article entitled “The End of Solution Sales”. It declared that solution selling had become obsolete. The verdict was, in large part, founded on the argument
Ken Favors Subscription hellTechCrunch - Danny CrichtonAnother week, another paywall. This time, it’s Bloomberg, which announced that it would be adding a comprehensive paywall to its news service and television channel (except TicToc, its media partnership
Ken Favors Anatomy of an IT strategic plan in the era of digital disruptioncio.com - Stephanie Overby IT’s role in the development and execution of business strategy has grown significantly in the era of digital transformation. But as the rate of …
Ken Favors Digital KPIs: Your keys to measuring digital transformation successcio.com - Clint Boulton Ask a CIO how he or she quantifies the impact of their digital transformations and you may get a funny look, like you told tasteless joke. The …
Ken Favors The advertising industry has been living a lie - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Mike Shields• Advertisers have fallen in love with the fantasy of buying ads aimed at exactly the right people on the web's "long tail."• But that's not really how people consume media. Most people don't spend time
Ken FavorsBig Data Analysis Of Dark Data Provides Market AdvantagesForbes - Tom CoughlinAccess to information has always been a key element in making intelligent investments. Some information is readily available, other information less so and some information (buried in unstructured data)
Ken Favors ‘Chinafrica’ is a macro megatrend set to impact everything from Silicon Valley to Wall StreetTechCrunch - Josh WolfeVCs and startup founders rarely pay attention to slow-moving but powerful macro global events, especially with so many fast-moving things to focus on at the micro level, like technology, teams and trends.
Ken Favors Why SAFE notes are not safe for entrepreneursTechCrunch - Pascal LevensohnThe shortcomings of SAFE notes (simple agreement for future equity) are coming home to roost; ironically, entrepreneurs are paying the price. Y Combinator invented the notes with a noble goal: “we intend
Ken Favors Expert Says Retail's Problems Are More Than Just E-CommerceForbes - BisnowE-commerce is often blamed for retail's downward spiral, but socioeconomic factors also are impacting consumer spending and retailers’ bottom lines. Income inequality, marital status and millennials are
Ken Favors The future of ad agencies has never been more in doubt - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Mike ShieldsA few years ago, Booking.com, a hotel e-commerce site owned by Priceline, worked closely with a media-buying agency to figure out where to allocate its ad budgets. "We’d have meetings where we’d sit down
Ken Favors The Real Problem With Productivity Is Measuring ItBloomberg Opinion - Zachary KarabellWhen it comes to productivity, only two things are undebatable: that the official rate of U.S. productivity growth has stalled since at least 2007, having started to slow before then, and that there is
Ken Favors UK 'wastes billions every year' on failed agile projectsitpro.co.uk - Clare Hopping More than half of CIOs thnk the methodology has been discredited and is just an IT fad British businesses waste an estimated £37 billion a year on …
Ken FavorseCommerce The Inconvenient Truth About E-Commerce: It's Largely UnprofitableForbes - Steve DennisThe disruptive nature of e-commerce is undeniable. Entirely new business models are revolutionizing the way we buy. The transformative transparency created by all things digital has revolutionized product
Ken FavorsInvesting Investment Crowdfunding: What Works And What Needs FixingForbes - Devin ThorpeOn May 16, 2016, Regulation Crowdfunding became effective. Arguably representing the biggest change to securities laws in 80 years, Title III of the JOBS Act passed in 2012 made investment crowdfunding
Ken Favors The $74 Trillion Global Economy in One Chartvisualcapitalist.com - Jeff Desjardins Two decades ago, total government debt was estimated to sit at $20 trillion. Since then, according to the latest figures by the IMF, the number has …
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Ken Favors The Global War on Cashvisualcapitalist.com - Jeff Desjardins The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to …
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Ken Favors The True Cost of Unused Software in Business [Infographic]business2community.com - Matt Rawlings A new report has revealed that businesses in both the UK and US are spending millions every year on redundant and unused software. The study …
Ken Favors Big Data and Expected ReturnsBloomberg Opinion - Matt LevineHere's a keynote speech that Commissioner Kara Stein of the Securities and Exchange Commission gave to the "Big Data in Finance Conference" last week, titled "A Vision for Data at the SEC." It's about
Ken Favors The Future of Content Marketing ROI in Three TrendsInc Magazine - Drew HendricksEvery company has a blog, right? Surprisingly, according to a 2014 Dartmouth study, less than half of Inc. 500 companies actively maintain a blog. In fact, 2014 marked the first time that the number of
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