PinnedWhy Slack and Microsoft Teams haven’t solved employee disengagementIt’s no secret that employees are disconnected from their work in vast numbers. Aon Hewitt made it abundantly clear with its 2017 global analysis of more than five million employees, which found only 24% are highly engaged at work — and that was more than five years ago. Gallup’s most…Work6 min readWork6 min read
Published inVentuRank·Feb 25, 2020VC research study: Success and ROI of cold deal flow companies versus warm deal flow companiesNearing the end of last year, we interviewed and surveyed as many US-based VCs as we possibly could about deal flow. Specifically that between cold solicitations, outreach and the differences to their counterparts: warm introductions. One of our more recent compiled findings has finally taken shape: In the United States…Venture Capital7 min readVenture Capital7 min read
Published inVentuRank·Feb 11, 2020What I’m Hearing: 2020 VC Trends Overheard From Our VC Beta TestersSince building VentuRank, doing our closed BETA and going through product-market fit, we’ve been having some amazing conversations with Venture Capitalists on how and why VentuRank needs to operate. Things like: What features should be in place from day one, what it should cost, how this tool can (and cannot)…9 min read9 min read
Published inVentuRank·Mar 5, 2019What I Learned About Warm Introductions After Cold Emailing 187 VCs About Warm IntroductionsNow, this may age me a little bit, but I remember when venture capital was a much crazier, more impulsive world. …Venture Capital13 min readVenture Capital13 min read
Published inNeuroscience + Internet·Jul 16, 2014How to Give Your 200,000 Year Old Brain a Much Needed Software Update… and why we follow people online. — By most scientific accounts, the current structure of the our human brain is Middle Paleolithic, or more simply 200,000 years old. For perspective of the world during that time, our ancestors were wandering around in what is now modern day Ethiopia and there may have been as few as 10,000…Neuroscience7 min readNeuroscience7 min read
Published inNeuroscience + Internet·Jun 20, 2014How to Make Edits to the Search Engine of Your MindUsing science to break away from ordinary and step outside of your comfort zone. — Familiar story time. Go: Your eyes grudgingly blink open. You sigh at the thought of your precious sleep being interrupted. You stir, roll over and glance over at the clock. “$#*& !!!” It’s 8:30. Your brain starts having an inner dialogue with the Caps Lock on because your alarm didn't…Self Improvement10 min readSelf Improvement10 min read
Published inNeuroscience + Internet·May 22, 2014How Technology Has Created a Disguise of Socialization… and why our minds and bodies could use a real friend. — The Progression of Seclusion In 1963, while the television was becoming mainstream into the homes of all Americans, poet T.S. Eliot warned: “[television] permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” Fast forward to today and the statement still rings true for online socialization…6 min read6 min read
Published inNeuroscience + Internet·May 6, 2014How the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential.(and what you can do about it) — Do the Math: How much of your time is spent online consuming things made by other people versus time spent making something of your own? Using Wikipedia’s “Wikipedians” as a general compass, only .01 — .02 % of their audience creates (contributes) to their community. Everyone else, statistically including yourself…Neuroscience9 min readNeuroscience9 min read
