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Weekly #3: Your Business is Nothing Without True Fans

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. If you haven’t checked it out yet, we launched the newest arm of the handbook brand last week?—?the Crypto Handbook ?—?and revealed our new Entrepreneur’s Handbook Community. We even launched an NFT. Brand building is exciting, right?!

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What Is Problem-Solution Fit? How To Achieve It?

Feedough

So you have a great idea for a new business. Read more. The post What Is Problem-Solution Fit? How To Achieve It? appeared first on Feedough.

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Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?

This is going to be BIG.

For most founders, fundraising is a struggle. Only a small minority of people are born into the kinds of connections and life paths to provide them instant access to capital. The rest have to work super hard to create access for themselves, build trust and win investors over. That may come with the headwinds of bias working against you—conscious or otherwise.

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The Future of the Workplace is Flexible

Revolution

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues. When we backed the company, we were betting on a reimagined future of work.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Getting Together In Person

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last week we held USV’s annual Portfolio Summit here in NYC. Every year we invite the leaders of our portfolio companies to come to NYC and spend a couple of days with us and each other. However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. In the three years that have passed since our last summit, we roughly doubled the size of our portfolio, adding 65 new investments.

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Your 9-5 Pays the Bills. Your 6-12 Builds You F*ck You Money.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You work for roughly 40 years. Then relax in retirement for 14 years before you die. Am I the only one who sees the problem? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Revolution Growth Invests in Team Liquid Parent Company, aXiomatic

Revolution

The esports and gaming startup partners with industry leaders to create best-in-class shared digital experiences for fans and players alike. Meet aXiomatic ?—?the leading esports and gaming enabler and latest addition to Revolution Growth’s portfolio. Who They Are: aXiomatic was founded by a group of iconic entrepreneurs with a mission to build a dynamic esports and gaming portfolio.

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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tomasz Tunguz

A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success.

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Aurora unveils fleet management platform to optimize autonomous operations

TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation has unveiled a fleet management system that can be used to help optimize operations for the startup’s trucking and ride-hailing products. Aurora announced the platform, named Aurora Beacon , alongside its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, during which the company presented investors with a series of milestones on its path to commercializing its trucking product, Aurora Horizon, and launching its ride-hail product, Aurora Connect,

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Investing in Graphite

Andreessen Horowitz

We are now in the era of collaborative building, enjoying the benefits of many popular open source projects which power every company’s software stack. This new behavioral trait also permeates through every organization’s internal development processes. Developers benefit from not … The post Investing in Graphite appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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She Went From Sports Marketing to Launching Postal Petals

Smart Hustle Magazine

Talia Boone, founder of Postal Petals , is on a mission to help people relax and enjoy life, all through the use of “do it yourself” flower arrangements. In this podcast learn about her journey from sports marketing to entrepreneurship. Learn about the power of testing and figuring things out. We also find out how just because a market is tough to break into doesn’t mean it’s not impossible.

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My Previous Client Raised $320K to Make a Play-To-Earn Game That Is Actually Playable

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It’s called play-to-earn for a reason. One plays, to earn. While this sounds very logical, it’s very sad to the gaming community. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

TechCrunch

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Mixing personal and business finances common but not always optimal

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur mixing personal and business finances to support your business, you’re not alone. However, you could be complicating money matters and creating additional barriers within the current lending environment. A recent survey of Kiwi small businesses, commissioned by small business lending specialist Prospa , found that when businesses need money, almost two in five (38%) business owners will dip into their personal savings for financial sup

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Cash Flow Shockwaves

Tomasz Tunguz

The public markets are deep crimson. The last time VC sentiment was so publicly negative, Twitter turned two. Term sheet re-trading rumors have surfaced. Public markets do impact startup fortunes, but only inasmuch as the prices at which venture rounds clear. IT spend is the more important canary in the coal mine. If customers cut their software spend, startups should expect a harsher climate.

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BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS & THE ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ECF) CREATE $300,000 LOCAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

ERIE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners is pleased to announce a partnership with the Erie Community Foundation creating the Hartman Innovation Fund for startup technology and existing small manufacturers in Erie County, PA. The $300,000 fund combines capital from both organizations and will invest in and promote business growth and economic development, exclusively in Erie County.

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Canada’s Neo Financial closes on $145M Series C, surpasses 1 million customers

TechCrunch

Canadian digital bank Neo Financial has raised $145.2 million (CAN$185 million) after surpassing the 1 million customer mark, the company announced today. Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8 million. In Canadian dollars, this means that Neo has achieved unicorn status, or a valuation of over $1 billion.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Interview: VC and Disruption of the Investment Management Industry

David Teten VC

Angelo Robles, Founder of the Family Office Association , just posted a video interview with me. We cover Versatile VC’s strategy and many other topics relevant to family offices. The Family Office Association also just published our full white paper on “Who Is Disrupting Investment Management, And How?” For the slide deck and video presentation version of the paper, click here.

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Investing in Lumos

Andreessen Horowitz

It’s not an overstatement to say that identity has always been at the core of the Internet. Indeed, the first transmission to ever be sent across the Internet in 1969 was an attempt to log into a system. The authentication … The post Investing in Lumos appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea has progressed a lot as a country ravaged by war in the 1950s to becoming an economic powerhouse in Asia. The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally.

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Okra Solar is bringing renewable energy to underserved markets

TechCrunch

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too). Clearly we’re not the only ones who saw promise in the company’s mission.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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A final column and a thank you for reading

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Thank you for reading this column for nearly a decade. By Scott Meacham. This is my final column for The Oklahoman. As CEO of i2E , I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. That stacks up to more than 460 columns on all aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation in Oklahoma.

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5 Key Data Points about the Early Venture Market in Q1 2022

Tomasz Tunguz

AngelList published their quarterly state of venture report. I wrote down five data points that struck me: Q1 2022 was the most active quarter ever in Angellist history, and likely venture history. The term sheets signed in November and December closed in Q1, which may buoy these figures. In addition, late-stage investors moving into the seed stage market also buttress these stats. 83% of rounds in Q1 were up-rounds, which is statistically identical to Q4. late-stage market prices have declined

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Why I Regret Trading a Seven-Figure Career for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Entrepreneurs make our world a better place, but this lifestyle isn’t for everyone Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Point closes on $115M to give homeowners a way to cash out on equity in their homes

TechCrunch

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes. One such startup, Palo Alto-based Point , announced today that it has raised $115 million in Series C funding after a year of rapid growth.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.