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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For instance, if the forecast indicates a rapid growth trajectory, a startup can confidently invest in hiring or research and development, knowing that the resources will be available. For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments.

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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

Jason sat down with Steve Barsh , Managing Partner of Dreamit, to give founders relevant downturn strategies. In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis. Jason invested in companies like Uber and Calm during the financial crisis. As he says in the episode, “survival is key in a challenging time.”

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

This requires the collection and visualization of an incredible breadth of local insight and data, the development of hundreds of local strategies based on that data, and a sophisticated tool and process to deliver on such strategies across tens of thousands of digital pages,” Khoury said.

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

TechCrunch

Emerge Education’s Jan Lynn-Matern, meanwhile, was quick to point out that edtech investment in Europe is growing despite the slowdown in the United States — the sector has secured $1.4 How has this affected your edtech portfolio’s ability to grow, and how are you changing strategy? But the sector is now facing a downturn.

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Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions 

TechCrunch

In a statement, Vulpes Ventures managing partner Field Pickering said, “What Avarni has achieved over the last year has been phenomenal and they are on a strong trajectory despite a challenging economic environment. Carbon cap and trade for developing world could spur massive investments — if it works.

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The end of a second straight month of layoffs in tech

TechCrunch

Strategy ranges; some companies are laying off specific teams, others are distributing cuts across all departments, and many aren’t responding to comments when asked for further information. Backstage Capital cuts majority of staff after pausing net new investments. Either way, the data is grim.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Late-stage investing has definitely dried up quite a bit… It’s just a matter of time before it sort of trickles down, but there’s a lot of cash in the system right now. Seed-stage actually persists even during economic downturns because people still seem willing to make small bets. You asked me for some categories?

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