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Elevate Your Startup’s Future with 4 Financial Forecasting Game-Changers

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments. Alex has extensive experience working in finance operations, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and private equity-backed companies. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. Brianna Ellison. It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. How do we bridge this gap?

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Digital marketing survival strategies for tough economic times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

No matter how hard you work, you can’t control economic trends and market fluctuations, but you can tweak your strategies to accommodate difficult financial times and proactively prepare your business for your customers’ mindsets during these periods. Trust is incredibly important to any customer, particularly when finances may be tight.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

TechCrunch

We are seeing a lot of companies looking to raise money and have continued to spend time building relationships with impressive entrepreneurs. This move toward extension rounds illustrates a level-setting of expectations from founders around fundraising in the current economic environment.

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9 Steps to Start Making Money in Crypto

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here are eleven top people to follow on crypto Twitter (listed alphabetically): Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano ( @Apompliano ): provides great content on bitcoin and interviews with innovative entrepreneurs (including ones outside of crypto!) internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

When I suggested that the downturn in the public markets might give startups a chance to focus on finding product-market fit instead of chasing growth, he gave me a personal market correction: Recessions or downturns are always the hardest times to build businesses, always, for the entrepreneurs, for VCs, for everyone involved. Gupta said.

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Zennström calls the end of high-valuations era, says founders and VCs must remove stigma of downrounds

TechCrunch

In a keynote address Zennström gave a blunt assessment of the economic environment, while unpacking how he failed several times in his own career during tough economic conditions. The alternative after 6 months could mean “a rescue financing littered with aggressive liquidation preferences and exit clauses.

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