A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 10, 2020

This is the fourth funding friday blog post in which I’ve suggested good causes to contribute to during this pandemic. That way they will be able to track the supporters who came via this blog post. March 20th – restaurant workers. March 27th – health care protective gear. April 3rd – feeding people in need.

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StartupNation

JULY 20, 2021

merchants in 2020, up 44% year over year, according to Digital Commerce 360. For example, showcase your expertise and credibility through a blog or podcast. The post To Succeed in Doing Business Online, You Must Master These 3 Areas appeared first on StartupNation. Consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2020

As Sandy Kemper, founder and CEO of our portfolio company C2FO puts it in this blog post : The greatest financial relief we can give small and mid-sized businesses in this economic crisis is faster payment of their outstanding invoices — liquidity. It makes a lot of sense.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

This is due to two elements: the Bootcamp nature of the program and the large sum of grant money involved; and 2020 marks its 10 anniversary. In 2020 the tour will be repeated, so keep an eye out on further information. There are currently no changes to the CEMEX-TEC Award and it is continuing as planned (at the posting of this blog).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2020

For a chance at a place on the list, you must first apply—and the application deadline is Friday, 22 May 2020. To qualify for the 2020 Inc. 3 Signs You’re Ready to Apply. ” So, do you think you have what it takes to earn a place on the 2020 Inc. The post 2020 Inc. The post 2020 Inc. 4 Reasons to Apply.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 8, 2021

3,901 on 2020 Inc. 1,124 on 2020 Inc. 4,827 on 2020 Inc. 3,467 on 2020 Inc. 4,761 on the 2020 Inc. 2,036 on the 2020 Inc. We’ve been doing this since he was 3 years old and he is now 8. 2,463 on the 2020 Inc. 4,906 on the 2020 Inc. 1,610 on 2020 Inc. 622 on the 2020 Inc.

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

3 reasons why startups fuel any innovation ecosystem A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020’s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Widespread layoffs during the pandemic contributed to an initial rise in female entrepreneurship in 2020, along with the need for flexibility. As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022. and more articles from the EO blog.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 4, 2020

We have spent much of the last week at USV talking about that and we talked about it publicly on our blog and Twitter yesterday. USV TEAM POSTS: Union Square Ventures — Jun 3, 2020 An Appraisal Nick Grossman — Jun 3, 2020 Listening Albert Wenger — Jun 2, 2020 American Carnage.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

Prashanth wrote a “State of the Company” post yesterday on the Stack blog and I would like to highlight a few sections from it. 3/ Expand the Advertising and Talent offerings to offer developers easy access to new tools and new career opportunities. There are many more out there but you get the idea.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2022

Only 3 percent of women break US$1 million in annual revenues, and even fewer women founders hit that milestone before the age of 35. . Here’s what Justine shared: “My co-founder (AKA my husband) and I started the business in 2020, and hit seven figures in revenue in under a year. The whole experience has been a whirlwind! .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2020

On 30 June 2020 at 9 am (EST), Kruger will join panelists Nadim Habib and John Sanei and moderator Winnie Hart in a candid discussion about the future of leadership. For more recommendations on leading virtually, check out the original version of this article on my blog. Agreement 3: The Yoda. Fix the Meeting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The startup is also worth watching because it is part of a growing cohort of companies building atop GPT-3, what its progenitor the OpenAI project describes as an “autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters.” ” More generally, it’s a piece of AI that can generate words. Not only has Copy.ai Simplify.so

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 11, 2021

I’ve examined insights gleaned from several recent in-depth surveys of employees on post-pandemic remote work ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Consider a survey comparing productivity of in-person vs. remote workers during the first six months of stay-at-home orders, March through August 2020, to the same six-month period in 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 30, 2020

Meanwhile in Scotland, the Coylumbridge hotel near Aviemore, part of the Britannia Hotel Group, issued a surprising letter to employees which said: “Taking the latest government advice, this letter is to confirm that with effect from 19 March 2020, your employment has been terminated and your services are no longer required.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

3 Key Steps to Preventing Disasters in Implementing Decisions. Step 3: Imagine that the decision, project, or process succeeded spectacularly, brainstorm ways of achieving this outcome, and integrate your ideas into the plan. We tackled failure, so now let’s imagine that your plan succeeded superbly!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Every business owner wants it, especially after the economic roller coaster and reset of 2020. The post Measure these 5 areas of your business for long-term success appeared first on THE BLOG. Contributed by Jeff Meade, the founder and CEO of MEADE , a management consulting firm. Now, it’s time to look forward again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. The post 6 traits that make an entrepreneur appeared first on THE BLOG. Build your professional network with resources such as these: Four Cs of Networking . Getting the Most Out of Networking Events. Successful Networking with Less Legwork.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. Since 2020, we have been trying to find an amicable solution. Zagury listed some of The Family’s portfolio companies in her blog post.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. The post How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Contributed by Rizwan Virk , author of S tartup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can determine this with a bit of research using keywords similar to your content, like “best travel destinations 2020.”. The post Not All SEO Problems Are Easy to Solve appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Your Content Isn’t Structured to Google’s Liking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

He’s an EO speaker , a recent EO 360° podcast guest and author of Never Go With Your Gut (2019) , The Blindspots Between Us (2020) and The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017). The post 8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 19, 2021

In March 2020 as the global pandemic began—long before work-from-home and Zoom fatigue were issues—we asked Hart about her experience leading her business through crisis. The post One Year Later: 10 Steps to Effective Coronavirus Crisis Leadership appeared first on THE BLOG. Stay positive. The optimist expects it to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” It’s just math.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2020, I discovered that we could not always predict where our money was going to come from, but we could predict what we will spend. Many people have noted how weird or difficult 2020 has been, and we agree. This gave me 3 strategies for 2021 that I could use to feel confident in navigating an uncertain environment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

GPT-3 and BERT infuse software massively reducing repetitive work and unlocking huge productivity gains. GTP-3 and BERT are massive machine learning systems called neural nets. The result of all a supremely rational artificial cerebrum: type in a few key sentences into a GPT-3 powered app, click a button, and a blog post pops out.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

But according to the Vietnams Securities Depository , about 500,000 trading accounts were opened during the first five months of 2021, a 20% increase from all of 2020. Like other investment apps with many newer investors, Infina also creates its own educational content, like blog posts, daily newsletters and videos. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable. This is classic Fred. VC investing is hard work.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

on February 3. Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO. The company’s stock perked up on the news.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Another startup building a “ChatGPT for X” is Baselit , which is using one of OpenAI’s text-understanding models, specifically GPT-3 , to allow businesses to embed chatbot-style analytics for their customers. In 2020, backers poured $296.4 ” without having to rely on their data team.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Some of her projects include: (With Norris Krueger) 2020: AOM 2020 PDW “Entrepreneur-Led Economic Development: Entrepreneurial Communities through New Eyes… the Right Eyes!” My needs-to-be-updated blog is at www.bit.ly/NKblog2a My needs-to-be-updated blog is at www.bit.ly/NKblog2a Learn more at [link].

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has further driven the growth of the global e-learning industry: since surpassing $200 billion in 2019, the online learning industry is now expected to grow at 8 percent CAGR between 2020 and 2026. Step 3: Conduct competitive research. Step 6: Start blogging about your niche topic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

of loan applications in June , down sharply from early 2020, before the pandemic, when they approved nearly half of all loan requests. and more articles from the EO blog. The post How Real-Time Payments Alleviate The Credit Crunch for Small Business Owners first appeared on The EO Blog. Banks granted about 18.8%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This feels even more important now after the absolute disaster that was 2020. When we teamed up with Semrush to explore keyword search data in 2020 related to marketing goals , brand awareness and authority showed steady upward trends. Are there industry blogs you can write a guest post for? Marketers seem to know this.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of small business leaders felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic, according to an October 2020 U.S. Valerie (Val) Blatt joined SAP Concur in January 2020 as the Business Head and General Manager of the global Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) division. Foster trust with your talent.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 15, 2020

Every wisdom tradition I’ve ever encountered—from Fred’s blog to the words of sages—ultimately demands the same thing: we must go inward. The frenzied, frenetic, do-it-now, answer-the-email-now-or-the-company-will-die-even-though-it’s-3 a.m. That’s often the biggest obstacle to becoming your self.

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