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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Investor relations: For startups seeking venture capital, solid financial forecasting provides a realistic picture of critical metrics, such as annual recurring revenue, customer acquisition costs, and customer annual recurring revenue. . For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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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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Taking on Bilt, Stake aims to expand its cash-back rewards program for renters

TechCrunch

Aiming to compete with Bilt in the nascent property renter rewards market, Stake , a startup that provides cash back and banking services to renters, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RET Ventures’ new RET Ventures ESG Fund. Proptech still has fundamental problems for entrepreneurs to solve.

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

TechCrunch

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Higher litigation risks.

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9 Steps to Start Making Money in Crypto

Entrepreneur's Handbook

the blockchain [is] simply changing one word: any entity exchanging value with any other entities in a frictionless way”— Ken Seiff , Managing Partner at Blockchange Ventures on The Pomp Podcast 2. internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment. Gandhi led India’s campaign for independence.