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When Startups Fail, It’s Usually Because Founders Overlook These 3 Obvious Things

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Are you the type of entrepreneur who get distracted by minutia that doesn’t really matter? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How To Leave Your Day Job – Side Hustle To Full Hustle

Smart Hustle Magazine

You’ve been doing double duty for a long while. Working your reliable day job has been paying the bills, and your evenings and weekends have been reserved for your true passion: running your own business. In some ways, you have been getting the best of both worlds: stability and security, coupled with some time to stretch your wings and star in your own show.

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Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E

Venture Well

Learn how the Screw Ideas manifesto’s radical approach to I&E education can help you redesign your curriculum. The post Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E appeared first on VentureWell.

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3 strategies to combat digital distractions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Roger Patterson an EO Vancouver member, is the founder and CEO of visual marketing platform Later and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. Roger recently shared his thoughts on how to un-polarize your workplace by creating middle ground. In this post, he explains how he actively works against digital distraction with three smart strategies: Twice a day—three times if I’m lucky—I reach a blissful state of focus.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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5 ways to start greening your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

5 ways to start greening your business. By Shannon Courtney. The climate crisis is increasingly more urgent and requires a whole-of-society approach to create a clean-energy economy that benefits all. This means all companies, including young businesses and businesses run by young leaders, must also do their part to decrease their environmental impact and maximize their operations in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner.

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OhYeah!’s Salcedo is Helping Sustainable and Ethical Brands to Align With the Right Influencers

Jason Malki

Daniel is an immigrant New Yorker who defines himself as a rare mix of a producer and a serial entrepreneur with a variety of experience and success within the startup scene, including music, tech and video content. In the last 10 years, Daniel has produced video content for 500 fortune companies, as well as platforms like HBO, Discovery and Netflix.

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Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 that Will Upend Web2 Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

As I’ve explored web3 I’ve been forming a mental model of the major innovations powering this enormous wave of innovation. At the moment, I see four clusters: A permanent ownership record that exists beyond and outside a company. The photos I take, the movies I buy, the music I rent, the emails I write and receive, the messages I send - all of these are captive.

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Addressing hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras?

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Addressing hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Community members farm in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. (USAID). U.S.-funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Up to 4 million people need food assistance across those three countries, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub.

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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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3 Lessons From My Meanest Customer Ever?—?Customers Aren’t Always Right

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Her aggressive approach to business proves why the rat race mentality injects unnecessary poison into the startup ecosystem. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Investing in Season Health

Andreessen Horowitz

‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ – Hippocrates. In a world where medication non-adherence is one of the biggest contributors to poor health outcomes , we’ve talked and written about how “food is medicine that … The post Investing in Season Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Introducing Campaign Monitor SMS: a New Way to Connect and Convert

Campaign Monitor

Today, audiences expect a lot from the brands they interact with. They want personalized, relevant communications delivered in a format that’s convenient, at a time that suits them. Email has been an essential medium for this kind of communication for a long time, and at Campaign Monitor, we’ve helped thousands of brands across the world use email to deliver personal, impactful messages to their customers.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

TechCrunch

You may not have heard of Amadeus, but if you’ve taken a trip, you’ve probably interacted with its tech stack. Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. “In short, it covers just about every aspect of travel IT imaginable,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller.

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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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Top 5 Stoic Qualities of the Perfect Startup Hire

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Ray Dalio’s advice: Stop obsessing over skills and focus on your candidate’s character and abilities. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PDAX introduces new prime service for crypto investors in the Philippines

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register PDAX , one of the Philippines’ leading regulated and licensed digital asset exchanges , has launched PAX Prime, a new exclusive service dedicated to sophisticated Filipino crypto investors and their growing needs in the dawn of digital assets.

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Paycom a constant innovator that empowers employees at client companies

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Paycom a constant innovator with technology that empowers employees. By Scott Meacham. Oklahoma’s Paycom Software has just been named to Fast Company’s 2022 World’s Most Innovative Companies list. Paycom is the only human resources and payroll technology company to make Fast Company’s prestigious global ranking. Additionally, Paycom achieved Fast Company’s Top 10 most innovative enterprise companies.

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Playhouse is TikTok meets Zillow for the next generation of homeowners

TechCrunch

We’re all guilty of it: sometimes, even when we’re not looking to move, it’s fun to look at home listings on Zillow just to see what’s out there. If that sounds weird to you… I don’t blame you, but I also recommend watching more HGTV. However, if this sounds like a fun way to procrastinate after you’re done playing the Wordle, Quordle, Globle and Heardle for the day, you’re not alone.

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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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#23. How To Build The Perfect Early Team For Your Startup w/ Sandhya Hegde

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from the Unusual Ventures General Partner leading enterprise SaaS [link] Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Sandhya Hegde, a General Partner at Unusual Ventures who leads investment in enterprise SaaS companies. She’s built deep expertise in this area through working for multiple venture capital firms (including Khosla Ventures and Sequoia) as well as founding her own companies and being an early hire at other startups.

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Crypto staking startup RockX scores $6m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Crypto staking provider RockX announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round anchored by Amber Group, a global digital asset platform. The funding round, which raised RockX’s valuation to $30 million, was also participated by other prominent crypto industry leaders including Matrixport, Primitive Ventures, FBG Capital, Draper Dragon, IMO Ventures, Alpha CW an

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[VIDEO] How to Grow Using a Roll-up Strategy

Red Rocket

I was recently interviewed by Chelsea Wood , a Managing Director at Acquisition Lab , an M&A advisory service for early-stage entrepreneurs that prefer to grow through mergers and acquisitions, instead of building a startup from scratch. This video presents strategies for how to think about planning and executing a roll-up, rolling many businesses up into one company to achieve better economies of scale (which we better detailed back in Lesson #258 ).

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year. Now Nord Security , the startup behind one of the bigger paid VPN providers, NordVPN , is announcing significant funding at a “unicorn” valuation to buil

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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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Introducing Campaign Monitor SMS: a New Way to Connect and Convert

Campaign Monitor

Today, audiences expect a lot from the brands they interact with. They want personalized, relevant communications delivered in a format that’s convenient, at a time that suits them. Email has been an essential medium for this kind of communication for a long time, and at Campaign Monitor, we’ve helped thousands of brands across the world use email to deliver personal, impactful messages to their customers.

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Sometimes your gut is the best you’ve got.

Berkonomics

How I didn’t follow my own advice. Years ago, I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. But something had bothered me from the very start – unsalable inventory. An entrepreneur makes a claim that stretches comfort. You see, women’s clothing is subject to fashion changes so frequently that inventory becomes obsolete quickly.

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Beware of Toxic Business Advice From Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There’s one major difference between being a content creator and a CEO Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

TechCrunch

Matias Serebrinsky. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matias Serebrinsky is a partner at PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund expanding access to psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. He co-hosts Business Trip, a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Greg Kubin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip.

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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.