Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

Burn The Boats teases apart the excuses we make to ourselves that hinder total commitment and illuminates the internal and external forces that impede risk taking. Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“And because we are also an accelerator, we have created and validated an approach that helps us identify investable businesses… we also have created structures that help angel investors invest in these businesses alongside VCs too,” she said. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. Build internal trust first: A soccer lesson I wasn’t an amazing soccer player, but I did enjoy playing on soccer teams throughout my childhood.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

Tesla says that one day after Pascale signed Rivian’s offer letter, she “took at least ten confidential and proprietary documents from Tesla’s network,” including candidate lists, information about where the automaker finds potential hires, and a “detailed internal write-up of an executive level candidate.”.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Internal benefits. Improving internal communication. . Internally, you likely engage with the following team members regularly: .

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A lms for public sector organizations offers a structured, scalable, and cost-effective way to train employees, ensuring they remain prepared to meet the evolving demands of public service. Phase 2: Deployment (Months 3-4) Gradual Rollout Across Departments Introduce the LMS in phases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

They spent money managing corporate structures for holding companies in Delaware, Canada, and Europe but maintained paper-based subsidiaries across Africa. The next phase of growth, according to Coleby, will be onboarding Series A and growth-stage companies onto the platform. Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Traditional business structures were built for different times and different challenges. We guide our clients through that uncertainty by spending time during our discovery phase to clarify business, customer, market, and technological needs, helping internal and client teams align and move forward with a shared vision.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Neil Helm is Chief Executive Officer at OzForex , a global provider of online international payment services. In our case, the inbound calls and indicative offers we began to receive from potential buyers led us to put a formal structure in place that came to be known as “the process.”. In October 2013, OzForex listed.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product. If your organization contains more than one internal structure (i.e. Analytics are an essential tool for digital marketers and there’s a big shift underway as Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is being implemented.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At Forum One, we have created a cross-disciplinary internal working group on accessibility. This takes our approach out of a project-by-project mindset, and also challenges us to look internally. Well-written, well-structured content is one of the best things an organization can do to improve accessibility. Focus on content.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

While Canon has had to contend with complaints of the R5 overheating from the moment it was announced, Sony says the A7S III will record 4K footage at 60 frames per second continuously for up to an hour without overheating, thanks to its new internal heat-dissipating structure. Image: Sony. Image: Sony.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

A robust discovery phase is recommended to understand both user and organizational requirements prior to selecting a particular approach, solution, vendor, or model. This includes setting up feedback loops from user interactions and vetting and testing models with internal stakeholders before wider release or adoption by the public.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Her background includes two master’s degrees — in international business and marketing — and she spent 5+ years working in large international corporations. How is your team structured? Monika was a perfect co-founder with complementary experience and skill set. What’s your typical timeline?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In addition to a thorough understanding of the funding requirements, true grant compliance includes internal controls through oversight and documentation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, and staff training on these compliance obligations: Ethics and Code of Conduct: Ensure ethical behavior and prevention of waste, fraud, and abuse.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

million raised to date, will be used to scale sales, internal team and operations needed to meet the rising demand of companies looking to support family caregivers in their workforce. healthcare system, society, culture, and workplace without proper support structures, the company said. . There would be a tremendous impact on the U.S.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Posted by Minji Yoon, Research Intern, and Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Graph Mining Team Industrial applications of machine learning are commonly composed of various items that have differing data modalities or feature distributions. Orange : Transfer knowledge directly via graph structure using label propagation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We start with a discovery phase by asking what the most significant areas of concern are, such as tuition collections, low donations, etc., Consider both flexibility and structure. We want students to do things in a structured way, which is how we teach them. Structure is not a bad thing.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Timely submissions and consistent, personalized stewardship signal to internal and external constituents that your nonprofit is ready to effectively participate in the fundraising arena.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. Her team has also streamlined software for more efficient internal operations—making sure employees have the technology they need without overdoing it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

This way, everyone in your organization will be on the same page about what needs to be done during the fundraising phase of your development plan. Plan a timeline for internal activities. Even if you think this phase could waste potential time in the future, proper communication often pays off tenfold.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 8, 2024

If you are in the exploration phase, I would recommend Colab as well, as it would help you concentrate on the more important things. The directory structure looks like the below image. At this point, our directory structure looks like the below image. Have a look at this article to gain better understanding of this article.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time. They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. it’s the IRS), and renewing solicitation permits.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Tip: Before looking at the different components you’ll share with the rest of the staff for this case statement, assemble your fundraising team to discuss internal project expectations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Currently, Weavit can link your notes to your contacts, meetings, topics and other weblinks, allowing you to jot down your ideas and other inspiration without having to try to first organize those thoughts in some more structured way. The startup’s founders believe this parallels how your brain already works.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The next five months can be your learning phase. Beyond that timeframe, the data is less connected to your internal functions, like site structure and content, and to external realities, like changes in the ways people demand, access, and use communications tools. What happens to my existing data? How do I get started?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“One of the things that we learned on Surface Mini that was actually really valuable for us is when you’re designing these super thin structures you want to come up with a mechanical architecture,” says Pavan Davuluri, a distinguished Microsoft Surface engineer. Microsoft experimented with a few different internal architectures.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

s development finance institution, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) Group, formally changed its name to British International Investment. Investing in startups through these firms made sense for BII, considering it isn’t traditionally structured to take on early-stage risk by partaking directly. On April 4, the U.K.’s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With the potential to be a new competitive frontier in future industries, the government plans to promote innovation in key technologies by strengthening policies and mobilizing resources, given that China’s humanoid robot industry is in its budding phase. The ministry’s guidelines outline ambitious goals.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The introduction of data streaming doesn’t inherently demand a complete overhaul of the data platform’s structure. Viewing Data Lakes as a strategy rather than a product emphasizes their role as a staging area for structured and unstructured data, potentially interacting with Data Warehouses.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This article is part of a project that’s split into two main phases. The first phase focuses on building a data pipeline. In the second phase, we’ll develop an application that uses a language model to interact with this database. This involves getting data from an API and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. trigger(once=True).start()

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Burn The Boats teases apart the excuses we make to ourselves that hinder total commitment and illuminates the internal and external forces that impede risk taking. Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations.

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Mentoring Consultant Question Ideas 92

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Fast forward to today….

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Prior to founding Saiga, Hermann was a consultant at McKinsey and briefly interned at Morgan Stanley on the mergers and acquisitions side of the business. He then went on to cofound Dark Blue Labs, an AI company developing algorithms to learn from structured and unstructured data. .” A background in AI.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. You will also want to determine if your idea is viable at all.

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