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Medtech May Be Emerging Markets’ Next New Thing

BCG

Focus Thursday, March 02, 2017. Medical technology is poised to become one of the next industries to break out of emerging markets and play on the global stage. Compared with other industries, medtech has been a late bloomer in emerging markets. Compared with other industries, medtech has been a late bloomer in emerging markets.

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Blockchain Startup 101: A blue print for launching a successful blockchain-based startup

Tom Spencer

VC funding for blockchain start-ups has consistently grown, with venture investment reaching around $1 billion in 2017 (and likely to be more than double that amount in 2018). Before scaling, you should make sure that all of your intellectual property is protected. Q1: Is it a problem worth solving?

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What’s On My Mind?

Chad Barr

Launch and market the product. It will be done by… April 1, 2017. Expanding intellectual property and content creation. Your three major initiatives are… Finalize and create the video scripts for my new online digital empire creation product. Create the actual online product and its web presence.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, one of Well Fargo’s chief competitors, Bank of America, has been relatively scandal free, with impressive revenue and profit results for the first half of 2017. In one test we examined the stock market reaction to firms that had lawyer CEOs versus non-lawyer CEOs around the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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Workers Shouldn’t Have to Sign Away Their Rights to Class Action Lawsuits

Harvard Business

In the labor market , exit and voice takes the form of either quitting a job or using channels — unions, internal dispute resolution, rights granted by government — to seek changes in conditions at work. By 2017, that percentage had declined almost to half, standing at 10.7%. Although membership in unions in the U.S.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Traditional regulations, after all, were designed in response to earlier technologies and the market failures they generated. Alberto Manuel Urosa Toledano/Getty Images. tech companies and hope for the best.).