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    What Venture LPs Can Actually Learn from Public Markets (and What They Can’t)

    May 14, 2025 - By Lauren Balik

    Venture capital is not the public markets. But that hasn’t stopped LPs from trying to apply public equity frameworks to private market investments -with mixed results. The instinct is understandable. LPs are under pressure to quantify risk, compare strategies, and justify allocation decisions to committees that think in benchmarks and…

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    Why “Product-Led Growth” Broke Data Teams -and What Comes Next

    May 9, 2025 - By Lauren Balik

    For years, “Product-Led Growth” (PLG) was the answer to everything.Don’t build a sales team. Just track user actions, optimize onboarding, and let the product convert. Theoretically, it was efficient. Scalable. Data-driven. In practice? It broke your analytics team. The PLG Promise vs. Reality PLG sold itself as self-service growth fueled…

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  • Data & Analytics

    The Myth of Real-Time Data: Why Faster Isn’t Always Better

    February 27, 2025 - By Lauren Balik

    Real-time data has become a corporate buzzword. Every organization wants it, every BI vendor is selling it, and every executive assumes it is necessary. However, the reality is that most companies chasing real-time analytics have not clearly defined what problem they are solving. Real-time data can be transformative in the…

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  • Data & Analytics - Financial & Investment

    Bridging the Gap Between Finance and Data Teams: Collaborative Strategies for Success

    February 19, 2025 - By Lauren Balik

    Finance and data teams are often two sides of the same coin-both essential for driving strategic decisions yet frequently speaking different languages. Finance lives in structured reports, regulatory requirements, and risk mitigation, while data teams are focused on engineering pipelines, analytics models, and scalable architecture. The result? A disconnect that…

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