We were excited to be asked to chat with Drew Koven of LDR Ventures on his firm’s podcast, The Biz Fix. He and his wife Maxi are a power couple that not only manage an awesome fund focused on investing in women and minority founded companies, but produce a great…

Building an employer brand is no longer optional for organizations that aspire to be high-performing. When looking at employee acquisition and retention costs, company’s that accommodate the needs of a contemporary workforce improve the unit economics of an employee overall. In a 2016 study by LinkedIn, the case was made…

In Scout Lab’s short but mighty life, there have been a dozen clients, countless late nights and enough coffee to fuel a small army. Our clients range from venture-funded startups trying to make a name for themselves, to household brands like adidas that aim to innovate for a contemporary consumer…

Cryptocurrency is a decentralized (ie. not managed by a bank) digital currency that uses cryptography to validate the authenticity of transactions made with the currency. It is an alternative to fiat currency, which is money managed by banks and adopted by governments. Cryptocurrency is managed on a blockchain, a decentralized…

If you’ve ever worked in a leadership role at a start-up, you know the joys that come with prioritizing workload, trying to hire awesome people and vetting agencies that promise you the moon (meanwhile you’re flying a twin engine, just trying to make it across the Atlantic). It’s a lot…

Learning about parallelograms in school, I remember my Geometry teacher telling me, “A square is not a rectangle, but a rectangle is a square”. I find this a great framework to compartmentalize things that are intersectional, but not inherently the same. Over the years, as I’ve worked with clients to…