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Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners

TechCrunch

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. And while Nagpal agrees that there’s no “north star” company that has shown how to tackle finance literacy at scale, he’s hoping that Ocho’s 10-person team may just have a not-so-boring wedge that changes that.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Expert Networks.

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Financing with grants, not equity or debt

Berkonomics

First, an example of grant-based financing . And we should not forget that non-profits of all types depend upon grants for a significant amount of their funding, often employing professional grant writers on staff or as consultants. The post Financing with grants, not equity or debt first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Education startup MindX raises $3.3M to prepare Vietnamese students for tech careers

TechCrunch

Coding education platform co-founders Tung Nguyen and Ha Nguyen. Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. Some of the companies also serve as educational partners.

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Lesson #353: Staffing Your Finance Department as You Scale

Red Rocket

I was recently introduced to Tim DeBone a finance and accounting expert with The Bagchi Group , a business consultancy group in Morrisville, NC. He had some interesting suggestions about how best to staff your finance and accounting function within your company, and how that changes over time as the the company scales.

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14 EO Members Share The Best Thing About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Education changed my life. That is why I support university education of young women. I believe in the transformative power of education. With education, a woman changes, she changes generations, and then the world changes. With education, a woman changes, she changes generations, and then the world changes.

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Businesses Beware: The Danger of Generative AI for Online Fraud

Entrepreneurs' Organization

There is a pressing need to educate and train not just the consumers but also employees, especially those in customer-facing roles. Protect Your Company Against AI-Driven Fraud To counter AI-driven fraud, education and awareness are key. He serves as the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts.