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Empowering Innovators: Trailblazing Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Journey

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Find a group of other women – an online community, a local community, or advisor or coach that can provide constructive feedback, support, and be a resource when you need help kicking down doors. Having a support system like my mom and having another female role-model to look up to has helped me over the years.

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How to Use Video Marketing to Boost Your Rewards-Based Crowdfunding Campaign

StartupNation

Others forget that backers might hesitate to put their money behind campaigns that appear to be unpopular (think those that sit at 10% support for weeks). As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Construct a clear call to action.

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‘Knowledge hacking’ app Uptime raises $16M

TechCrunch

The idea is to let you quickly “grasp ideas and insights from trusted authors, instructors, and creative minds,” without spending too much of your precious time. Or so the pitch goes. In other words, chalk this up as part content aggregator and discovery, and part lead generation for the actual content creators.

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New York’s David Energy has raised $4.1 million to ‘build the Standard Oil of renewable energy’

TechCrunch

There are a number of tailwinds supporting the growth of a business like David Energy right now. “ Business model creativity and finding ways to change user behavior with new models is just as important if not more important than the technology innovation itself.” Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

TechCrunch

We want to kick us off with a quick congratulations to FabuLinga for winning the pitch-off at the TechCrunch City Spotlight (Austin edition). The company is building a community and services to support people trying to increase our global population, one tiny human at a time. PT, subscribe here. Take a breath; you’ve got this.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. ” Offering new users frictionless onboarding, customer support and free credits is a proven method for making them more active — and loyal. Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

I was WAY off between my book research about what the engineering & construction market would want (my first company) and what they actually wanted. And you need to watch them pitch. Repeat this process 50 times and trust me you’ll see patterns. I only found out through customer meetings.

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