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ImpactSoul - Impact Consulting

Impact consulting - ESG, B Corp, regenerative projects, and grant management for NGOs and mission-driven organizations.

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How We Work - Engagement Model

RampRate's engagement model: exclusive mandates, one-party fees, and fully transparent deal structure. 25 years, $10B+ in decisions structured, 250+ enterprise clients.

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We build an ecosystem of impact-preneurs and trailblazers powered by opportunities, resources, innovation and human spirit.

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Stratum - Web3 & Blockchain

Web3 and blockchain advisory - token design, DAO governance, and decentralized infrastructure.

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Private Advisory - Because Some Challenges Require More Than an Advisor

We source, vet, and coordinate the legal and financial specialists high-stakes disputes require - equity disputes, stalled claims, discovery windfalls, asset protection, and portfolio remediation.

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Supplier Intake - Become a Supplier

Quick first-touch application (no uploads, ~2-3 minutes) for peptide supply and manufacturing partners who want to become a RampRate supplier. Suppliers we want to pursue get a longer due-diligence follow-up.

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UNI Token Price Surge: A Reflection of the Market's Hunger for Effective Governance?
BlogDAO's

UNI Token Price Surge: A Reflection of the Market's Hunger for Effective Governance?

UNI token at the core of governance and incentivization – it surges more than 77% reacting to the “biggest week in Uniswap governance ever.” An example of the insatiable market appetite for incentivized governance. By: Josh Bykowski | 3/1/2024 In the evolving landscape of blockchain technology, governance and incentivization mechanisms stand as critical pillars that… Read More »UNI Token Price Surge: A Reflection of the Market’s Hunger for Effective Governance?

March 5, 2024

RAMPRATE WORKS WITH DEVXDAO AND XPRIZE TO ANNOUNCE A GRANT IN EXCESS OF €4 MILLION

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Hiding Fees in the Transparent Age Is Just Bad Business
ThinkingSourcing

Hiding Fees in the Transparent Age Is Just Bad Business

Speaking As a Tool For Getting Things Done

September 15, 2021

Marc Andreessen Rebuttal 2020
ThinkingMenagerie
BlogDAO's

RAMPRATE WORKS WITH DEVXDAO AND XPRIZE TO ANNOUNCE A GRANT IN EXCESS OF €4 MILLION

DEVXDAO MEDIA CONTACT: ANNIE HEMMESCH Phone: +1 708-646-7364 E-Mail: annie@ramprate.com CASPER LABS MEDIA CONTACT: LAUNCHSQUAD E-Mail: casper@launchsquad.com XPRIZE MEDIA CONTACT: JENNIFER HASLIP Phone: +1 202-321-7310 E-Mail: Jennifer.Haslip@xprize.org A NEW COLLABORATION IN ADVANCED COMMUNITIES DEVXDAO AND XPRIZE ANNOUNCE A GRANT IN EXCESS OF €3 MILLION January 19, 2023 – Davos, Switzerland – DEVxDAO, the decentralized innovation community sponsored by… Read More »RAMPRATE WORKS WITH DEVXDAO AND XPRIZE TO ANNOUNCE A GRANT IN EXCESS OF €4 MILLION

January 23, 2023

RampRate is B Certified Corp! The accolade is a clear sign our business is on the right track
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RampRate is B Certified Corp! The accolade is a clear sign our business is on the right track

RampRate is a B Certified Corporation. B Corp Certification is a recognition of the arduous work we’ve been doing to create a better world as one of the top consulting, sourcing, and advising firms in the world. It took us three years to cross the finish line, yet here we are. Over 100,000 companies have… Read More »RampRate is B Certified Corp! The accolade is a clear sign our business is on the right track

December 22, 2022

Davos 2022 – World Economic Forum. Here we come!
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Davos 2022 – World Economic Forum. Here we come!

Menagerie provides a fun, easy-to-use, intuitive design for community building in Web3. For clubs, corporations, DAOs, nonprofits, and more. Heavyweight decentralized governance engine and guidance.

May 19, 2022

New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”
BlogThe Internet

New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”

by Tatiana Koffman Syntropy, a company building the “new Internet,” announced that Shawn Hakl, former SVP at Verizon VZ +0.3%and 5G strategist for Microsoft, and Roman Pacewicz, former Chief Product Officer at AT&T T +0.4%, will be joining the company’s advisory board, alongside internet pioneer Bill Norton, who became Syntropy team as co-founder in 2019. Norton is recognized internationally for his… Read More »New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”

March 24, 2021

SPY v1
BlogSPY INDEX

SPY v1

A New Year, A New Era Thank you for being a part of the RampRate community. Those of you that have been here for a while know that we won’t flood your inbox too frequently. But, for the first time in our 20 year history, we see a tectonic shift in the way that our… Read More »SPY v1

November 14, 2019

The Right Numbers: Supplier Fit, Gross National Happiness, and Blockchain
BlogBlockChain

The Right Numbers: Supplier Fit, Gross National Happiness, and Blockchain

The world is in the midst of a statistical revolution. Everything from professional sports to advertising to education to technology performance to climate can be measured and quantified with more precision than ever before. Statisticians and big data analysts are in demand and finally being..

December 5, 2018

From Supply Chain to the Blockchain: Heal the Body, Mind, & Earth
BlogBlockChain

From Supply Chain to the Blockchain: Heal the Body, Mind, & Earth

18 years ago, I got into IT sourcing not to make a buck, but to fix the wrongs that I saw in building the backbone of the internet in the 90s. The world of large technology deals was (and, let’s face it, decades later still is) full of FUD, price discrimination, poor decisions, and outright corruption.

June 1, 2018

The right tools to make the right decisions Part 1
BlogCloud Optimization & Migration

The right tools to make the right decisions Part 1

Cloud computing isn’t emerging, futuristic, or innovative. It’s just a building block in the CIO’s infrastructure arsenal. One piece of evidence: it’s missing from Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. That doesn’t mean that all cloud technologies are commoditized …

December 28, 2016

Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile
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Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile

An ITBM Primer Infrastructure Optimization According to ITBM leader Apptio: “Modern IT leaders use facts to collaborate on the tradeoffs needed to maximize business value. Cost-only conversations become a thing of the past.” Modern IT leaders: Manage CapEx/OpEx, Fixed/Variable, CtB/RtB, Direct/Indirect Manage cost and variance for Plan/Build and Run activities Manage IT internally with these… Read More »Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile

August 3, 2015

Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness Checklist
BlogCloud Optimization & Migration

Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness Checklist

Cloud Migrations - There is often a great deal of friction in the process of enterprise cloud adoption. For example, business decision-makers often suffer from confusion over key questions about the true cost, risk, and the total economic impact of moving their core applications to the cloud. Assessing and selecting the right cloud migrations path, transition… Read More »Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness Checklist

November 25, 2014

Is It Happening? Security-Driven IT, CIOs and CFOs Must Align
BlogSecurity

Is It Happening? Security-Driven IT, CIOs and CFOs Must Align

IT Security: Will IT departments ever have a chance to spend the money they want on initiatives they consider top priority? The struggle to spend versus save has often been a two-sided war (and it makes sense in a process of checks and balances). However, CFOs have traditionally understood allocating budgetary resources for IT to… Read More »Is It Happening? Security-Driven IT, CIOs and CFOs Must Align

November 7, 2014

Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative
BlogITBM

Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative

To our friends at the TBM conference: This question may sound nuts. When it comes to using software to manage costs, is IT the enterprise’s least equipped department? While I’m paraphrasing, this is indeed the point of view of a white paper by the leading technology business management (TBM) solutions provider, Apptio. In… Read More »Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative

October 28, 2014

Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!
BlogIT Infrastructure

Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!

IT services Re-posted from the Year 2000 “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it… Read More »Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!

October 25, 2014

Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
BlogData Center Power Efficiency

Landlords Double as Energy Brokers

Landlords Double as Energy Brokers RampRate Article from the New York Times Posted MAY 13, 2013 – Read the full article Here The trophy high-rises on Madison, Park and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan have long commanded the top prices in the country for commercial real estate. With yearly leases approaching $150 a square foot. So it… Read More »Landlords Double as Energy Brokers

May 12, 2013

CSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index
BlogSPY INDEX

CSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index

CSRHub Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Supplier Choice SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing advisor for IT infrastructure and cloud computing, has integrated CSRHub’s corporate-social-responsibility scores into its proprietary SPY Index decision hub, enriching it so that IT decision makers… Read More »CSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index

May 15, 2012

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again
BlogThe Internet

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu – Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and successful that tech industry giants may stumble over each other to acquire it. Does Hulu or its buyer get the short stick? Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Dish Network, and DirecTV appear… Read More »Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

September 20, 2011

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu
BlogThe Internet

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that Amazon should be the winner. Well, that is for a consumer win. There’s been a lot of courting to acquire Hulu from News Corp., Walt Disney, and NBC Universal’s Comcast.… Read More »Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

September 20, 2011

Google Wrecks the CDN Market
BlogThe Internet

Google Wrecks the CDN Market

Google Wrecks the CDN Market Last week Google formally launched its Page Speed Service, the latest in a long line of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services from dozens of suppliers from big and small to hit the market over the last 15 years. In the case of Google though, I see a few novel changes… Read More »Google Wrecks the CDN Market

August 10, 2011

A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011
BlogIT Infrastructure

A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011 (Prove me wrong or shut the heck up.) As pondered by Tony Greenberg and Alex Veytsel 1. Everything that’s old will be new again. Last year brought us the return of 3D from the 1950s, cloud (a.k.a. the new and improved mainframe), thin client (the dumb terminals… Read More »A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

January 5, 2011

SPY INDEX
BlogSPY INDEX

New DATE from RampRate- IT services transparency

IT services transparency SANTA MONICA, Calif.─Nov. 16, 2010─ Because Fortune 1000 and Internet firms often spend millions of dollars on top-rated premium technology and telecommunications services only to find them failing and derailing success, RampRate announced today its Deal Acceleration and Transparency Engine (DATE), which cuts cost, time, and risk from the buying process. “This new… Read More »New DATE from RampRate- IT services transparency

November 16, 2010

Are You Going Green or Going for the Green?
BlogData Center Power Efficiency

Are You Going Green or Going for the Green?

Return on Investment Paper vs. Plates just one question in the bigger picture Part 2 in a series on conflicts between environmental and economic impulses in all of us, and how we resolve them. “How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It’s really very simple and requires no expert… Read More »Are You Going Green or Going for the Green?

November 7, 2010

Microsoft Starts to Share
BlogThe Internet

Microsoft Starts to Share

Microsoft Starts to Share I always have thought of Microsoft as Open Source in many ways. I know it may sound odd on several fronts, especially for a guy like me who has been using UNIX flavored operating systems since the early 1980s. But I’ve also been using PC-Windows and Apple Macintoshes since the early… Read More »Microsoft Starts to Share

May 14, 2010

Marc Andreessen Rebuttal 2020

Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld The original article here: Thrilled to see the other Marc Weinstein assessment here By Tony Greenberg & Alex Veytsel of RampRate Marc Andreessen has made a call to action around building big in response to our current crisis. First, some areas of agreement: it’s not like we haven’t… Read More »Marc Andreessen Rebuttal 2020

May 4, 2020

Enterprise Blockchain: Can Big Business Co-opt an Existential Threat?
ThinkingBlockChain

Enterprise Blockchain: Can Big Business Co-opt an Existential Threat?

The core difference was in whether the blockchain is an awesome technology with an ideological movement building around it, or a rethinking of how people interact and collaborate with each other supported, but by no means defined by, an as-yet immature technology.

July 26, 2018

What Solutions are Best Built with Blockchain or NOT
ThinkingBlockChain

What Solutions are Best Built with Blockchain or NOT

Obviously, not all solutions are a fit. No one is going to be building the next spreadsheet with blockchain. Rather, you need to focus on areas where one of the core strengths of the technology amplifies the value of the solution – or better yet, creates it in a place where centralized approaches are failing.

March 29, 2018

Would You Hire Someone Who Led a Rebellion?
ThinkingMenagerie

Would You Hire Someone Who Led a Rebellion?

Leadership: Top X lists are generally clickbait tripe. But we need people, I need to interview them, so “Top 5 Interview Questions” sounds worth clicking. And then I read this: When I asked “tell me about something you’ve led,” one of the candidates paused and then answered, “I once led a revolt against management in… Read More »Would You Hire Someone Who Led a Rebellion?

July 6, 2016

The Buyers & Sellers Honesty Dance 2
ThinkingStrategic Sourcing

The Buyers & Sellers Honesty Dance 2

Buyers & Sellers: In the first part of our series, we examined the implications of IT buyers negotiating positions rather than interests. Neglecting to examine seller motivations and organizational structures that may give them an edge. In this installment, we take a look at sales missteps that stem from an ignorance of the organizational pressures… Read More »The Buyers & Sellers Honesty Dance 2

December 13, 2015

Strategic Sourcing
ThinkingStrategic Sourcing

The Buyers & Sellers Honesty Dance 1

The Buyers & Sellers Win-Wins Are Hard Without Knowing the Other Side’s Motivation The Buyers & Sellers: One of the first stories you learn in training to be a negotiator is the parable of the two chefs and the last orange they both need for their respective signature dishes. After almost coming to blows, the… Read More »The Buyers & Sellers Honesty Dance 1

December 13, 2015