Tom Mohr, Founder and CEO of CEO Quest, shares his research-backed insights and best practice advice for choosing channel partnerships that maximize company acceleration and profit growth. Choosing the right channels to reach your customers can utterly transform your trajectory. Guest Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner of Wildcat Ventures, shares his deep experience as a world  Continue Reading »

A Skills Problem The global economy has been rapidly transitioning from a 20th century industrial economy, to a 21st century “digital economy” – an economy driven by digital technology and data that enables companies to quickly conceive of new products and services and bring them to market faster and more cost-effectively than at any other  Continue Reading »

Bothell, WA. – April 25, 2017 – Vertafore, the leader in modern insurance technology, today announced the acquisition of RiskMatch, a business intelligence and analytics company that provides industry-leading portfolio management and placement solutions to insurance brokers and carriers. RiskMatch will operate as a separate business unit within Vertafore and Founder and CEO Kabir Syed  Continue Reading »

The founders of BendPoly debuted GreenFig University, an expanded version of the two-year-old digital marketing school, today at the Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco. GreenFig University will offer micro degrees in digital marketing related topics and more, including customer success, product, sales and finance. From the news release: GreenFig University is the outcome of  Continue Reading »

Preparing the Fourth Industrial Revolution Workforce The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and our current workforce isn’t ready for it. At Wildcat Venture Partners, we are painfully aware of this. But beyond the pain we also see great opportunity. That’s why we’re helping to launch a new education category, one that is focused on  Continue Reading »

Katherine Barr to speak at Stanford Entrepreneurial Finance & Management Class on April 20, 2017.

Through parts 1, 2, and 3, we’ve covered a lot of information around the displacement that’s going to occur as a result of AI, but we’ve also talked about the fact that people are going to be in the loop for decades to come, and that AI is going to empower new job classes while radically changing the  Continue Reading »

We are all stakeholders in the economic systems within which we live and work, and the better we can understand their dynamics, the more likely we are to navigate them successfully. For the most developed economies of today, this means understanding the transition from an industrial to a digital economy, and specifically, how economic power  Continue Reading »