The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail (cbInsights)

There is certainly no survivorship bias here. But many very relevant lessons for anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

It’s worth noting that this type of data-driven analysis would not be possible without a number of founders being courageous enough to share stories of their startup’s demise with the world. So a big thank you to them.

The genomics revolution timeline (EMERGING TECH BREW)

The genomics revolution timeline

National Human Genome Research Institute

The Human Genome Project started in 1990 as an international effort to develop a full genetic blueprint of human DNA. The genomics field has made exponential strides since researchers first sequenced the billions of chemical letters that make up our DNA in 2003. Since then, sequencing prices have dropped 100,000x to around $1,000 per genome.

YOUTH BEHAVIOR TRENDS (MORNING BREW)

10 principles of workforce transformation How to raise the skills of your employees to meet your digital challenges.(PwC)

For further insights: strategy-business.com/transformwork
Infographic: Opto Design/James Yang. ©2019 PwC. All rights reserved.

Women Still Underrepresented in Tech

While the tech industry tends to take pride in changing the world of work, and often, with a bit of hubris the world per se, the technology sector is actually further away from achieving gender equality than the U.S. economy as a whole. While the percentage of women in the United States labor force has gradually climbed to 46.8 percent over the past decades, it is still significantly lower in the tech sector. Read more.

The talent challenge: Harnessing the power of human skills in the machine age ((PWC)

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/2017/deep-dives/ceo-survey-global-talent.pdf

China accounted for 28 percent of global manufacturing output in 2018.

According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for 28 percent of global manufacturing output in 2018. That puts the country more than 10 percentage points ahead of the United States, which used to have the world’s largest manufacturing sector until China overtook it in 2010. With total value added by the Chinese manufacturing sector amounting to almost $4 trillion in 2018, manufacturing accounted for nearly 30 percent of the country’s total economic output. Read more.