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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Syed Balkhi , Founder, WPBeginner Showcase Real-World Impact and Metrics When pitching to investors, especially in the early stages, it’s easy to focus solely on financials — but in today’s landscape, especially in beauty and wellness, impact is a currency of its own. Tips for other founders: 1.

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How Startups Can Adapt to Evolving Cybersecurity Threats

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Ram Thakur , Founder, Solution Suggest Top Cyber security Threats Facing Businesses Isolate Customer Cloud Instances The biggest shift in cybersecurity for us wasn’t a single attack—it was the realization that internal access, misconfiguration, and supply chain dependencies pose just as much risk as external hackers.

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Why Computer Vision Tracking the Flow of People Will be a Huge Market

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I have to believe that I’ve met a team of extremely bright, highly competitive and deeply passionate founders who have an idea for a product that has the potential to transform a market. I brought a group of them immediately down to LA to meet the rest of my partners.

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Prices increase tonight for our space-focused event, TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

Tune in to hear from leading space industry founders, investors and technologists from across the public, private and defense industries. On the investment front we have VCs like Chris Boshuizen (Data Collective DCVC), Mike Collett (Promus Ventures) and Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners). today, November 20 at 11:59 p.m.

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Got the right stuff? Exhibit and pitch at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

We’re talking founders, engineers, investors, tech journalists, potential customers and collaborators from the public sector and private sectors — not to mention people who hold the purse strings at NASA and the military. Here’s a sample from the event agenda — and we’ll add a few surprises in the coming weeks.

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Creative adtech is on the cusp of a revolution, and VCs should take note

TechCrunch

An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. But the digital ad ecosystem can’t get by only using broader data-crunching techniques to replace “retargeting.” Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ads need to do more work today.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

TechCrunch

” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.