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Four steps for dealing with well meaning but negative family and friends

NZ Entrepreneur

So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start a business. Well done you! Having mentally prepared yourself for what lies ahead by researching, reading about and talking with others about what it takes to start a business, you know that ‘success lies on the far side of failure’ and are prepared for the risks and sacrifices it takes to achieve the success you want.

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There are only a few spots left in Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Early-stage founders, a shipload of opportunity is about to set sail and you don’t want to miss the boat. We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). Buy a Startup Alley Pass and take advantage of all the exposure, perks and potential to help your startup cruise to the next level. Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Huntington Bank Announces Major Financing Initiative to Detroit Region (Episode 242)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses Huntington Bank’s $1 billion commitment to minority-owned businesses in Detroit and Wayne County. Huntington just completed the acquisition of TCF Bank, making Huntington the 25th largest bank in the country with more than $170 billion in assets. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about what Huntington Bank is pledging to do to support local small businesses in Detroit: “So, funding allocations targeting minority owned bu

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

TechCrunch

Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack. Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine. Too much risk, and almost no return.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Monetize Your Knowledge To Start Your First Business – Shane Sams with Flipped Lifestyle

Smart Hustle Magazine

Do you have deep expertise in something, or able to provide knowledge or a system that someone else needs? If so, Shane Sams is all about encouraging you to get 100 people to pay you $50 a month and earn a total of $60,000 a year. Flipped Lifestyle is all about teaching you the concepts to make a living by teaching others what you know. Shane shares the story of him and his wife in how they started monetizing their knowledge and how you can too.

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5 Types of Terrible Bosses That Never Seem To Go Away

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Designing the ultimate bad boss from the most common offenders. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush returns to entrepreneurship with new startup

TechCrunch

Jonathan Bush, the CEO and co-founder of Athenahealth, is a controversial figure in the controversial field of healthcare. More than two decades after he started the now-public healthcare company, Bush lost Athenahealth to Elliott Management, an activist investor that bought the company alongside Veritas Capital. During this tense period of time, domestic violence allegations surfaced from his ex-wife, Sarah Seldon.

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Three qualities of a great leader

Berkonomics

There are lots of ways to measure a great leader. Here are three that should resonate with you as leader and with those who follow you. These qualities are applicable whether you are leading your company, a board, or a group of people – and certainly are aspiration targets for you if you are measuring yourself against the best. The first quality in a great leader is to have laser focus. .

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Industrial cybersecurity startup Claroty raises $140M in pre-IPO funding round

TechCrunch

Claroty, an industrial cybersecurity company that helps customers protect and manage their Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) assets, has raised $140 million in its latest, and potentially last round of funding. . With the new round of Series D funding, co-led by Bessemer Venture and 40 North , the company has now amassed a total of $235 million.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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I Worked At A Company That Sold For $1.7 Billion

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s the lessons everyone should learn from it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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eqtble, a platform that uses data analytics to create healthier workplaces, raises $2.7M seed

TechCrunch

eqtble founders (from l to r): Ethan Veres, Gabe Horwitz and Joseph Ifiegbu. “People are the backbone of any organization. People are more important than the product. Without people, you don’t have a product,” says Joseph Ifiegbu, who is Snap’s former head of human resources technology and also previous lead of WeWork’s People Analytics team. Ifiegbu’s startup, called eqtble , wants to give HR teams the same kind of detailed analytics that product, sales and marketing departments have had for a

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

For as long as I can remember, Pier 76 on the west side of Manhattan has been home to the west side tow pound. Some of my worst moments as a NYC resident have been there retrieving a car or a scooter, something I’ve done more than I want to remember. It was pure misery to have to go there and I think that was intentional. So over the last four months on my morning bike rides up the west side bike path, I have been watching the city tear down the west side tow pound and replace it with an u

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Unit raises $51M in Accel-led Series B to grow its banking-as-a-service platform

TechCrunch

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Every company is a fintech.” . But these days, that’s becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies that are not even in the financial services space seek to add a fintech component to their offering. A group of startups poised to benefit from this shift are those offering banking as a service. One such startup, Unit , has raised $51 million in a Series B round to further its goal of making it possible for companies and fintechs alike to build bank

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Bits or Atoms: An Uphill Battle

The Seraf Compass

As he sits looking out the window of his brick and beam office in an old converted mill building outside of Boston, it’s hard for serial entrepreneur-turned-intrapreneur Martin Flusberg not to shake his head. His company Powerhouse Dynamics has taken him on a wild ride. The company was recently acquired by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate called Middleby.

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Karin Tsai, director of engineering at Duolingo, will be speaking at TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh on June 29

TechCrunch

TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh is getting closer, with impressive featured speakers including Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian and Mayor Bill Peduto. However, we’ve saved the best for last: Our last speaker is Karin Tsai, director of engineering at Duolingo, a $2.4 billion business that is all about making language learning fun and accessible.

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How to Attract Clients as a Newly Launched Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lessons from launching an enterprise SaaS startup, consumer platform startup, and event business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong will join us on Extra Crunch Live

TechCrunch

For all that’s said about fundraising and working alongside investors, rarely do we get to see founders and their investors in candid conversation with one another. Extra Crunch Live is changing that. On the weekly live show, we sit down with founders and the VCs who funded them to talk about how they came together on the deal, what stood out about the other party that led to their commitment and how they operate today.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Determine if Remote Work Is a Good Option for Your Team

Smart Hustle Magazine

Remote work is a method of working that allows employees to function outside a regular office setting. It is founded on the idea that work does not have to be completed in a certain location to be successful. . The COVID-19 pandemic upset the world’s economy causing major unprecedented changes. With that, employers and businesses had to adapt lest they find their establishments going under quickly. .

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KeepTruckin raises $190 million to invest in AI products, double R&D team to 700

TechCrunch

KeepTruckin , a hardware and software developer that helps trucking fleets manage vehicle, cargo and driver safety, has just raised $190 million in a Series E funding round, which puts the company’s valuation at over $2 billion, according to CEO Shoaib Makani. . G2 Venture Partners , which just raised a $500 million fund to help modernize existing industries, participated in the round, alongside existing backers like Greenoaks Capital, Index Ventures, IVP and Scale Venture Partners and fun

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Dell’s Total Tech Solutions: All You Need to Get it All Done

StartupNation

PCs are just the start: end-to-end tech solutions and expert advice from Dell Technologies Advisors. Partner with a Dell Technologies Advisor today to save on must-have accessories and select solutions like our business workhorse laptop, the Latitude 5520. (Dell Latitude 5520). Visit www.Dell.com/StartupNation to access these savings or call 855-900-5548 to chat with an advisor today.

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Wise announces plans to go public via direct listing

TechCrunch

Wise , the fintech company formerly known as TransferWise, has announced that it wants to become a public company on the London Stock Exchange. Instead of following the traditional IPO route, Wise plans to go public via a direct listing. This is going to be the biggest direct listing on the London Stock Exchange. If you’re not familiar with Wise, the company specializes in cross-border money transfers.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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[BlueNalu in The Fish Site] Alt-seafood: an entrepreneur’s perspective

OurCrowd

The buzz around cell-cultured seafood has been growing steadily, and as Lou Cooperhouse, CEO and co-founder of cell-based seafood company BlueNalu explains, it’s only a matter of time before these companies reach commercialisation and disrupt the conventional seafood industry. Read more here. The post [BlueNalu in The Fish Site] Alt-seafood: an entrepreneur’s perspective appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events

TechCrunch

Twine , a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 million in seed funding. To date, twine’s events customers have included names like Microsoft, Amazon, Forrester, and others, and the service is on track to do $1 million in bookings in 2021, the company says.

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Technology Org] Paris to Berlin in an hour by train? Here’s how it could happen

OurCrowd

The hyperloop is what you get when you take a magnetic levitation train and put it into an airless tube. The lack of resistance allows the train, in theory, to achieve unseen speeds, a concept that is edging closer and closer to reality – and could provide a greener alternative to short-haul air travel. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Technology Org] Paris to Berlin in an hour by train?

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Hydrosat raises $5M seed round to deliver ground temperature data to customers

TechCrunch

A lot of information can be gleaned about a surface area just by taking the ground temperature data. If a crop field is under stress, for example, the ground temperature will be elevated long before there’s any actual indication of the stress on the plant itself, Hydrosat CEO and co-founder Pieter Fossel explained to TechCrunch. Now, with a new $5 million injection in seed funding, he hopes to launch Hydrosat’s first surface temperature analytics product for customers.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.