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The Theranos fiasco shows how much startup advisory boards matter

TechCrunch

For pharmaceutical companies, especially medical affairs, the important lesson from this sad and sordid affair is as simple as it is powerful: Your advisory board matters — a lot. Holmes herself was a college dropout at 19, and Theranos COO Sunny Balwani was an IT professional by training and experience. The good, the bad, the ugly.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

CIO

Rau hired a former Apple colleague who approached him and was incentivized by the offer to run the software engineering team at the Indianapolis-based Lilly after hearing about the types of projects he could work on. “I Engineers throughout millennia want to do something that’s bigger than themselves and can last.”

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We were also interested in the practice of AI: how developers work, what techniques and tools they use, what their concerns are, and what development practices are in place. In the past, company culture has been the most significant barrier to AI adoption. While it’s still an issue, culture has dropped to fourth place.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

One of the conclusions everyone agreed upon was that regardless of how different the culture and operations were at the visited companies one thing was clear: When attempts were made to implement new practices, no benefits were observed unless they were accompanied by a supporting new mindset.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. That is, the team responsible for doing the analysis often is motivated either implicitly or explicitly to find evidence of success. The results are humbling.

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Ethics and security training. They’re not trained to think about ethical issues and how they affect design choices. Security is usually taught as an elective, isolated from other classes about software development. Security as an afterthought doesn’t work in product development; why do we expect it to work in education?

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