As for “X”, all we can say is “Y”: Here’s How to Master the Art of Rebranding
Rebranding is risky business, especially if your reputation is already tanking. Take Twitter's change over to "X" last Monday. In embracing its aspirations as “an everything app”, the company’s roll-out of its new logo was a complete flop. The bird was still flying everywhere online except for on Twitter’s homepage.
Are Investors Betting on CEOs with Big Smiles?
Your headshot is crucial for establishing authority and communicating power, confidence, authenticity, and creativity on your website. Adding a smile increases your likeability and exhibits friendly, competent, and trustworthy qualities that can attract investors. A study by Priceonomics using a content creation app called Snappr evaluated the headshots of leading CEOs from each of the 2020 Fortune 500 companies.
The Resurgence of Public Offerings
As we enter the second half of 2023, the IPO market is beginning to show signs of recovery with renewed activity. After a notable slowdown last year, there have been several promising public offerings in the first half of this year. Notably, Johnson & Johnson's spinoff, Kenvue, which achieved a remarkable valuation of $50 billion following its successful IPO on the NYSE.
GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness Among Investors
Clarify Capital recently tested the effectiveness of GPT-4 created pitch decks vs. human-crafted pitch decks, and the results are remarkable. (The experiment asked 250 investors and 250 business owners to review and rate pitch decks created by GPT-4 against those made by humans—and, those surveyed, did not know AI was involved at all.)
Shoring Up Investor Relations with the ‘Rule of Seven’
Mid-year is the perfect moment to review the results of your investor relations (IR) activities and plan for the next two quarters to ensure a successful second half of the year. Reflection combined with recalibration enables you to improve marketing efforts, as well as tweak how you present and share your company’s story.
Driving (Targeting) Success
Golf is a game of precision, where players primarily focus on carrying distance and rarely on how much the shot is going to roll out. To guide the golf ball across a sprawling expanse of grassy terrain into a small hole with as few strokes as possible, golfers employ a variety of 14 clubs, a set of specialized tools to achieve their objective.