StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2020

At the time of writing this, the world is in the midst of a global recession. Many who have toyed with the idea of starting their own business pre-pandemic have put their plans on hold as a result. I, though, enthused by my vision, took the biggest risk someone can take: I sold my car, purchased a van and formed my new business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. However, in recent years, there has been a sea change in perspectives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How did your early life shape how you run your businesses and how you lead? All strong leaders have certain qualities such as perseverance and grit, but my rough start gave me an extra edge—a drive and determination to always advance and be better today than we were yesterday. What’s your secret? .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator. Keep in mind that funding will solve your money problems, but it won’t solve everything else,” he writes. Here’s how to manage your staff from afar. ” Nik Milanovi?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I cover how I met founder Johnny Boufarhat, how the company started in 2019, what the early days were like, what it was like when the pandemic hit, what hyperscaling feels like, and more: What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $2 Billion Valuation in 1 Year What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $7.75 better than most.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you're a business owner, then you know first-hand how rapid the changes in cash flow have been. Most businesses didn't. The below tips should help set you in the right direction if you're still having a hard time managing your money right now. If you look at the way business cycles happen, that’s doing it backwards.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The indoor growing industry is starting to scale. Farms that utilize hydroponics (grow produce without soil, usually in large warehouses) and traditional greenhouses have started to become integral parts of our food supply chain, mainly for leafy greens like lettuce, spinach and arugula. . Also get into large retailers like IKEA.”.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Startup leaders, what is one way you keep your team motivated when the company is struggling? To help you find the best ways to keep your team motivated when your startup is struggling, we asked startup founders and business owners this question for their best insights. Ask the Team for Help.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Okay, with that, let’s get started with the TC Top 3. However, as their business expands, merchants have to lean on more and more tools. PDT, subscribe here. Whoops — we updated the headline. Christine and Haje.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

You’ve got a great idea, a great team and are ready to launch your business. Keeping costs down is a facet every business works toward, but for a startup, it’s especially important. The lack of a physical space doesn’t lessen the importance of protecting your sensitive data. It’s go time! Do you give up?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

After all, creating your own company is an ambition many of us harbor. But what I do know from both my own experience and speaking to scores of business owners I work with is that being a founder is an inherently lonely job. For some owning a small business that makes them a decent income with a good work-life balance is the goal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Will your company be in compliance? “American firms doing business in China or with companies inside China will need to immediately start assessing how this new law will impact their activities,” he advises. If you don’t have a good story to share, it doesn’t matter how big your marketing budget is.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Business networking is a fun time — mingling, eating, chatting about business. Many business owners attend networking events but don’t utilize the time or crowd as well as they can. So with all of that in her wheelhouse, it’s not hard to believe that she’s a pretty social person and knows how to create business connections.

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Forward Cities

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Q:What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . A: Starting out in both the tech sector and restaurants, we made a lot of costly mistakes that made life very hard. Q: What is a challenge you’ve faced in your life that has led you to this work? .

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Big experiments require strong business cases and coordination across multiple stakeholders. In this blog post we’re going to make the case for why and how you’ll be able to move your business forward with big experiments. We’ll make our case using an example of a big, risky bet: turning off your highest performing channel.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

What we found through our research are three essential areas to foster the professional and personal development of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders: Justifying and valuing their work: Building the business case for inclusive ecosystem building through fieldwide metrics . The Business Case for inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem building.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 21, 2022

“We need to start doing more with less. ” This sentence echoes in conference rooms across many software buyers today, irrespective of whether the business is healthy. Boards push prudence during a time of recession, which cascades through the organization. Though that may be true, the recession brings change.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

Two, if you are lucky, you are still being paid to do a job—a job that, for founders, marketers and sales teams, means connecting with customers during a terrible health crisis and a recession. Does it look tone deaf to be out marketing your business right now? But how do you do that if you weren’t setup for that to start with?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

No business or organization can properly manage its finances without carefully completed long-term financial forecasting. Many business owners are burdened by high operational expenses, unplanned resource drains, and unexpected market-related surprises. Every business faces these challenges at some point or another.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 7, 2023

From using the slowdown to innovate to seizing the opportunity to recruit talent cheaper, here are 10 answers to the question, “What are some effective ways a startup can benefit from a recession?” Overall, the success of startups during a recession can, in general, be significantly influenced by innovation.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 18, 2022

Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable. But you need to remain great and investable while also managing your costs, extending your runway, tightening your operating plan, and so on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Its top three fintech targets, as identified by CB Insights, were capital markets, payments and payroll and benefits — with each category representing 16% of its investments. Now, Stripe is expanding that business by a factor of googol.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Bob Moore: Yeah, I’ll start there and then I can talk a bit about the “why now?” So ecosystem-led growth at its core is just the practice of leveraging the data and relationships in your partner ecosystem to better attract and convert and grow customers. That is the answer to your other question, which is the big “why now?”

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Founder Bounty

MAY 24, 2022

Founderbounty has put together a bunch of upcoming and new sustainable startups that have great potential in 2022 to solve real climate problems and are recession proof. How to preserve this biodiversity without giving up the pleasure of your favorite drink? do this he started to find an alternative to the plastic straw.  With

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform The Angel Capital Association, in concert with Jeffrey Lang of the Desert Angels and ACA’s proud partner Dealum , has published this informative interview on one of 2023’s most important topics in the angel investment space: angel group collaboration. Jeffrey, how are you doing today?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

while you have been out enjoying your bucolic summer ride with Sir Powell and Kuroda-dono, the Euro has dropped substantially in value and is now equal to the Dollar. Sergio, Your Humble, Well-Paid Servant, ECB Lady Lagarde looked up from the note. Oh, the horror! What are we to do, Lady Lagarde? The Great Bear shall not succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Your advice made a difference.&#. I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. Sure, you can use your size to get a deal that is one-sided, but why? People need to earn your good will and don’t spend it easily.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has had a major impact on the world economy with small and medium Main Street businesses taking the heaviest blow. But for those that managed to survive, it’s time to start preparing so you can turn the next economic downturn into an opportunity to get ahead of the competition. Let’s get started!

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

It basically talks about how, instead of betting everything on one big idea and risking it all, you need to start by firing small “bullets”—testing out various ideas on a smaller scale. This approach involves identifying key assumptions underlying our business model, product development, market entry, and other critical areas.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

Feast your eyes upon my esteemed guests. How noble of you and your subjects to suffer so that the world may be rid of this nasty Bear. Pardon my ignorance, Sir Powell, but pray tell– how did your boycott fare?” And how will you support your allies, Sir Powell?” Your eyes do not deceive you. Haruhiko Kuroda?—?The

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When I work with entrepreneurs about building stronger, more successful businesses, one of the first concepts we work to improve is their branding. The same is true for your business. That’s why it’s so important to be intentional about branding yourself and your business. Your brand is your business’s reputation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

If it were a human, it would be addicted to technology (which it is) and starting to get an attitude (again, yes). Remember to book your tickets to the show today before prices go up $1,100. . Hear about the lessons he learned along the way and what he would do differently if he could start over today. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

You can never overpower your opponent. In fact, the more power you use, the more time you give to your opponent. The opportunity to dramatically grow the energy-adjusted value of your financial assets is greatest at the transition point between money being tight and plentiful. and most important?—?decision

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Now we’re onto the next phase where more people will be getting vaccinated, more of us will likely start to return to the office towards the end of the year, and there’s now a slew of new tech solutions to the issues 2020 presented. What’s the biggest category in your mind for digital health this next year? Why is that?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Crypto businesses are awaiting regulations to establish guardrails for so-called stablecoins and settle jurisdictional issues. Consider how a recession might play out. Laid off from your tech job? Day One wants to give you $100,000 to start a company. Hey, folks.

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