New California law would force firms to report diversity metrics
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The bill requires venture capital firms operating in California to report the diversity breakdown of the founders they fund to the state.
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.orgSource
MAY 23, 2023
But a poor web design won’t get anyone on the bad side of the law whereas ignoring those important statements might. Board members are personally responsible for the organization’s compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. This includes the laws relating to financial reporting and fundraising. Is that even possible?
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Use DORA metrics to support the next generation of remote-work models
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
More than three-quarters of engineers want the option to work from home, and some countries are considering introducing remote work into law. Start with DORA metrics. DORA metrics measure software delivery velocity and throughput by plugging into Git (commits and pull requests) and deployment data.
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Email Marketing for Nonprofits: The Ultimate How-To Guide
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Monitor email metrics such as open and clickthrough rates to determine how frequently supporters open your emails. Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency. Track email metrics to optimize your strategy. At the same time, too few emails can cause your organization to fall off supporters radars.
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Explaining Tokens — the Language and Currency of AI
NVIDIA AI Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
Based on the size of the training data, the number of tokens can number in the billions or trillions and, per the pretraining scaling law , the more tokens used for training, the better the quality of the AI model. There are tradeoffs involved for each metric, and the right balance is dictated by use case.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey
TechCrunch
MARCH 31, 2023
TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch My employer put me in this year’s H-1B lottery for the third time, but I wasn’t selected again! What do I do? Lottery Loser Ask Sophie: What to do if selected/not selected in H-1B lottery?
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Should there be some law against raising three times in one year?
TechCrunch
MARCH 13, 2021
Because unlike nearly everyone in her profession, Thacker was super upfront with data and metrics. All that’s neat and interesting, but as we cover zero new-fund announcements on The Exchange and almost never mini-profile VCs, why break out of the pattern? And then she shared more material on different investments and the like.
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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 3, 2022
Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. If the organization does not have pro-bono legal support, you can approach law firms in your state for help.
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Microsoft’s operations will be zero waste by 2030
The Verge
AUGUST 4, 2020
million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019. Last year, Microsoft’s largest office complexes sent 3,189 metric tons of waste to landfills. million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019 , according to a report released in July. People tossed out a record 53.6 People tossed out a record 53.6
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TechCrunch+ roundup: TAM tough love, ‘building in public,’ 6 key SaaS metrics
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn. ” 6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn. TechCrunch+ roundup: TAM tough love, ‘building in public,’ 6 key SaaS metrics by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch. ” Investor’s advice during a downturn: Don’t panic.
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ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought
Futurism
MARCH 3, 2025
When looking at metrics for 160 news and blogging publishers, TollBit found that AI companies' botsscraped those sites an average of two million times during the fourth quarter of 2024.
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Saildrone takes the wraps off its Voyager autonomous research vessel
TechCrunch
MARCH 28, 2023
You can imagine how useful it would be to send one of these things around every month to provide up-to-date metrics on your harbor or channel. And more traditional law enforcement operations like combating smuggling would also benefit from a bit of all-hours surveillance. It doesn’t just have to be a floating cop, though.
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Innovative Approaches for Grantmakers to Address Grantee Well-Being
sgEngage
MARCH 18, 2025
Making this shift includes moving beyond traditional metrics of success that prioritize short-term results over long-term sustainability and embracing approaches that are relational, equitable, and human-centered. And many funders are stepping up to address the well-being of those doing mission-driven work.
Can You Measure Love?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
I think about this quote: ” Anything can be measured in a way that is superior to not measuring it at all “ - Gilbs Law. When attempting to quantify intangibles like engagement or learning, it is important to obtain consensus among decision-makers about what constitutes a meaningful measurement metric.
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AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end
The Verge
JUNE 24, 2020
At a time when the legitimacy of the carceral state, and policing in particular, is being challenged on fundamental grounds in the United States, there is high demand in law enforcement for research of this nature,” write the group.
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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly
TechCrunch
AUGUST 19, 2021
Second, the FTC must establish that Facebook controls over 60% of the market — the correct metric to establish this is revenue. The right metric for this market share analysis is unequivocally revenue — daily active users (DAU) x average revenue per user (ARPU). The metric: Revenue shows Facebook’s monopoly. AbbVie (2020).
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Noya pivots to embrace modular direct air capture, lands $11M Series A
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act , which was passed into law in August 2022, boosted the incentive from $50 per metric ton to $180 per metric ton for companies that could capture 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year and store it underground.
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Data Literacy for Responsible AI: Algorithmic Bias
DataRobot
AUGUST 16, 2021
Because the algorithm was being used to inform prison sentencing, algorithmic bias in the system came at an incredible cost : false positives led to more severe sentencing and fewer parole opportunities, and false negatives led to lenience for those who were actually more likely to break the law again.
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Bessemer’s Mary D’Onofrio demystifies early ARR growth at TechCrunch Early Stage
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
If you’re a founder building a startup in the cloud and pinning your revenue on subscription-based services, annual recurring revenue (ARR) is an essential metric you need to understand. She is a co-author of Bessemer’s Scaling to $100 Million report , many annual State of the Cloud Reports and the 10 Laws of Cloud.
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FTC says Facebook has been a monopoly ‘since at least 2011’ in amended antitrust complaint
The Verge
AUGUST 19, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an amended antitrust complaint against Facebook , alleging that the company violated federal antitrust laws with its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. Individually and collectively, these metrics provide significant evidence of Facebook’s durable monopoly power in social networking services.”.
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5 tips to boost volunteer recognition at your association
Nimble AMS
MAY 4, 2023
After, Community Brands selected several IMPACT Program entries as the Most Impactful Volunteers of 2023. One award winner, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (The Foundation), leveraged Nimble AMS and Nimble Communities to better engage members. Download now
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LawVu, a cloud-based platform for in-house legal teams, raises $17M NZD from Insight Partners
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2021
LawVu was founded in 2015 by Boyne, who spent over a decade working in IT and operations at law firms, and Sam Kidd, a SaaS project management expert. The startup serves in-house legal teams, instead of law firms, because “in-house lawyers have very different incentives and objectives to their private practice peers.
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President’s Update - Spring 2012
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 13, 2012
Because technology is our signature tool for creating impact, we can easily build in the metrics. Because we’re typically unique in our work, we are usually creating new metrics, which we develop in conjunction with the community we’re serving as well as with our funders. Respecting the law. Avoiding conflicts of interest.
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California advances bill targeting Amazon labor algorithms
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
California is close to enacting a first-of-its-kind law that would block Amazon and other companies from punishing warehouse workers who fail to meet certain performance metrics for taking rest or meal breaks. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.
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Kanarys raises $3 million for its data-driven platform to assess diversity and inclusion efforts
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
The Harvard Law School graduate didn’t have to start her company, which helps businesses measure the efficacy of their diversity and inclusion efforts using hard data, but she needed to start the company. For Price, the drive to launch Kanarys came from her own experiences working in law.
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Don’t back down from Facebook fight, lawmakers tell FTC
The Verge
JULY 2, 2021
“It is essential that the Commission take action to deter anticompetitive conduct by digital monopolists by ensuring that they are held liable for antitrust violations to the full extent of the law,” the lawmakers wrote. “It However, each of those suggestions are caveated with how examples of how difficult these metrics can be to prove.
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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action
sgEngage
MARCH 18, 2024
Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change. These biases are built into the very fabric of the laws and institutions in which we work and live.
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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day
Classy
APRIL 16, 2021
million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 Southern Environmental Law Center. Organization Mission: The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) believes in everyone’s basic right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. percent gets recycled. Youtube: @natlforests.
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Allocations sees a world where myriad, smaller private equity funds are the norm
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
The startup also shared a host of performance metrics, including that it reached a $4.6 With metrics like that, our curiosity was piqued. This is the law of large numbers in reverse; it’s easier to 10x a $10 million fund than a $10 billion vehicle. What is Allocations building that is attracting so much early demand?
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Today’s startups should terrify you
TechCrunch
MARCH 8, 2023
But if money is the metric to go by, it’s worth looking at how the Amazons, Ubers, Facebooks and Googles got here. America stands alone as one of the few superpowers without a data protection or privacy law. Creating a federal privacy law that spans the entire country and getting it to actually work isn’t easy.
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EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
To become law, the revised Radio Equipment Directive proposal will need to pass a vote in the European Parliament. million metric tons. The proposals only covers devices using wired, not wireless, chargers, EU commissioner Thierry Breton said in a press conference, adding that “there is plenty of room for innovation on wireless.”.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Churn rate basics, BNPL fraud, fundraising IP checklist
TechCrunch
APRIL 22, 2022
Churn “is complex and confusing,” says Sid Jain, a senior analyst at ChartMogul, but for early-stage companies, it’s one of a few real-time metrics that can help founders run experiments and gather feedback quickly. Submit your questions for a TechCrunch+ Twitter Space with immigration law attorney Sophie Alcorn.
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4 Best Ideas for Planning Your Next Hybrid Event
AccelEvents
JULY 28, 2021
Data collection- Any online event allows event marketers and event producers to go above and beyond simple attendance metrics. These metrics can work as lead generation tools or increase sales and marketing efforts post-event. . 4 Ideas for Hybrid Events. 4) Lean Into Gamification Like GPJ Experience Marketing Suggests.
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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2014
Personal Health Data goes beyond collecting sleep metrics. I am huge fan of fitness devices and I personally have gotten a lot of benefit from being able to track my personal health metrics. That’s also the scary part because there are no clear policies protecting people’s privacy of their individual data.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why you should go APE, H-1B lottery tips, how to check references
TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2022
Cloud companies generally rely on efficiency metrics like CAC payback and LTV-to-CAC, but “they feel more like financial metrics than operational ones, and it is difficult for employees to execute against these concepts,” according to Neeraj Agrawal, Brandon Gleklen and Jack Mattei of Battery Ventures. yourprotagonist.
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Crossing Minds brings in new capital to provide recommendations that don’t require identifiable information
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Add in other barriers, like third-party cookie depreciation , stricter privacy laws and difficulty linking present and past web sessions in real time, and there is almost no way to know who it is that is visiting the site, he added. Robicquet says up to 60% of consumers are often new users of a site, so that “cold start” can be a problem.
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Denim, a fintech platform for freight brokers, raises $126M in equity and debt
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Vo was in the credit risk department at Barclays and a full-stack developer at Fintria, a fintech company, while Krishnamoorthy was an associate at several law firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Krishnamoorthy and Denim’s other co-founder, Shawn Vo, had been friends for 16 years before they launched the company.
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Daily Crunch: Tim Cook weighs in on standardized messaging features: ‘Buy your mom an iPhone’
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. No cap : Annie writes about Uber and its quest to have a Kenyan court nullify the country’s new law that caps rail-hailing service fees at 18%. Cloudy storage days ahead : Lucidity raised $5.3 Big Tech Inc.
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Free Report on Nonprofits and Copyright
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. A company like PICT has a little bit less freedom: it needs to use strong metrics and make an educated ask. An organization like Misnomer has the leeway, within reason, to try an experiment and see what kind of impact it will have.
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“Donor retention by the numbers”: Q&A with Caity Craver and Gary Carr
3rd Sector Labs
JUNE 17, 2014
QUESTION: Caity talked about calculating the ‘growth score’, then used an example of the benefit of moving that metric just 2%. There is a law of diminishing returns, where additional contacts are going to cause you to lose money on that donor’s giving. Does data quality really impact the accuracy of growth scores?
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Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
To capitalize on the promise of video advertising in mobile and CTV, and measure ad efficacy with confidence, business leaders must ensure that they’re reaching customers — not bots — and achieving their business goals while remaining compliant with the latest regulations and laws. Looking at reach through a quality lens.
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Facebook can save itself by becoming a B Corporation
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
Neither law nor history requires this to be true. Data.world is one of the thousands of certified B Corporations that have seen good returns on financial metrics. A shift to for-benefit incorporation and appropriate certification brings with it different performance metrics and accountability systems with public scores.
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Kintent nabs $4M seed to automate compliance questionnaire process
TechCrunch
APRIL 1, 2021
The company is also working on a DEI component for the Trust Cloud, which it will be offering for free, which enables companies to provide a set of diversity metrics to measure against and then report on how well you are doing, and how you can improve your numbers. Startup Law A to Z: Regulatory Compliance.
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