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Don’t raise money. Don’t hire. Don’t build. Sell.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How I spent €200.000 on a failed startup by raising money, hiring people, and building a product no one wanted. Courtesy of Trev Murphy We received the call we’d been waiting for. An angel investor was ready to make us an offer. After some back and forth, despite it being a “biggish” amount of money, we said no. The main reason for this is because we were still figuring out what we do and knew that it would be way too easy to completely waste the money.

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Was Quibi the good kind of startup failure?

TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. But heroic narrative gets complicated when the startup failure involves the biggest names in entertainment, dubious product decisions, and well over $1 billion in losses in an a

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What We Learned Converting an Office into an Event and Pop-up Space

Entrepreneur's Handbook

An eight-month adventure involving big brands, angry plumbers, and a global pandemic. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene

TechCrunch

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Names like Bikayi (e-commerce tools), Decentro (consumer banking APIs), Farmako Healthcare (digital health records) and MedPiper Technologies (helping hire health professionals) joined our list of favorite

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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How to Create a Top 10 Apple Rated Podcast

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you want a top 10 rated Apple Podcast, save a small fortune with these 4 lessons. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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3 Signs a Founder Has What it Takes to Scale a Startup During Crisis

StartupNation

As the COVID-19 pandemic horizon stretches onward and a return to normalcy appears ever more distant, adaptation is the only option. Founders must prepare for a lengthy economic downturn, a slower sales pipeline, extended fundraising timelines and a deeply disrupted workplace — circumstances no one was planning for at the start of 2020. Simply staying afloat will be difficult from now into the foreseeable future, and scaling your startup will be even more challenging due to the knock-on effects

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[Varo Money in Black Chronicle] 3 Tips for Saving Money at Age 40

OurCrowd

For the perfect alternative to earn a excessive return, take a look at the Varo Savings Account. The all-mobile financial institution gives a uniquely tiered APY program that encourages clients to save lots of extra, and it has two financial savings applications that robotically switch cash out of your Varo checking account to your financial savings account.

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