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If the worldwide business ecosystem was an ocean, then startups could be oysters. Oysters, that are trying to attract with their shell, while protecting the soft and vulnerable inside. If that was the case, then investors – venture capitalists, private equity companies, angels and such – would be pearl divers. Searching for the treasures of the ocean, natural pearls

PwC and CB Insights’ Q4 2019 MoneyTree report highlights the latest trends in venture capital funding globally. Read more>>

Simply defined, a deal flow is the total amount of investment opportunities a company has, as per the consensus in definition from Wikipedia, Investopedia, and NASDAQ. Some pages don’t even define the term, even though they recognize its usage. Google Search’s own smart definition follows the same line as can be seen from the pic below.

It’s been 21 years since the invention of the term IoT, and we are yet to fulfill this vision. The dry definition of “Sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects that are linked through wired and wireless networks” doesn’t quite capture the potential of IoT.

As a business strategy and leadership coach, I spend a lot of time with teams on setting and developing priorities and goals. Most of my time is spent in meetings: facilitating conversations, getting to root causes, and working through different opinions on where a business should focus and what it should prioritize.

Chances are you have several colleagues and friends who work at medium to large-sized companies. If you were to poll them, asking what problems they encounter on a daily basis, you might be shocked by how similar the answers are.

Zied Tayeb (CEO & founder of MyelinS) is a researcher on brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and neuroprosthetics at the Technical University of Munich. The co-founders worked with Zied Tayeb in different projects before starting MyelinS. (speaking from Earth!)

Every entrepreneur’s trajectory will be different but once your business idea appears promising, there are some building blocks worth having in place. Even knowing that the shape or the position of those building blocks will shift and adjust as you progress further down your path, it’s useful to start with some fundamentals.

2020 feels like the start of something new. Not only is it a new decade; it could also be the year that you finally act on your entrepreneurial ideas. If you are thinking about starting a startup, a side hustle, or a small business to kick off the new decade, here are seven questions to explore before you do.

According to research by the Small Business Administration, only half of the new businesses have survived during the first five years and only a third of new businesses can survive for 10 years.