A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

Last week I spent three hours with my six partners in a conference room talking through what we are investing in and why. It was a terrific session and I had more “ahas” in those three hours than I have had in many many months. There really is no substitute for sitting together with your colleagues working things out face to face. This week our team met with a founder in Singapore via Zoom. It was midnight in Singapore and noon in NYC.

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Venture Well

MAY 11, 2021

Faculty grantee, Pedro Arce, designed courses that tasked chemical engineering students with developing innovative, nature-inspired solutions to societal challenges.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2021

Build from your bedroom. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». work startup productivity self-improvement entrepreneurship

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As schools move more widely into reopening their doors for in-person learning, many educational institutions have also learned a critical lesson in the last year.

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Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst that accelerated innovation and change in almost every industry. What used to take some businesses five years to accomplish remarkably took them only five months during the pandemic.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2021

Going it broke and alone might seem like a bizarre strategy, but it can yield some surprising payoffs. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». business startup startup-lessons entrepreneurship venture-capital

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

On April 16, Uganda-based two-wheel ride-hailing platform SafeBoda announced that it had completed 1 million rides in Ibadan, a southwestern city in Nigeria.

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares a recent Axois survey indicating that young engineers and recent college graduates are looking to Miami, Houston and Philadelphia as hot spots to start a career, rather than San Fransisco, New York or Seattle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. Now, TechCrunch has exclusive details on the size of that round and the nature of the relationship.

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Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2021

Ownership is what creates wealth Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». entrepreneurship money work finance

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Boston-based Apptopia , a company providing competitive intelligence in the mobile app ecosystem, has closed on $20 million in Series C funding aimed at fueling its expansion beyond the world of mobile apps.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2021

Dave Snowden’s tips for future leaders and entrepreneurs. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». learn-through-failure generalists entrepreneurship startup leadership

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Long before COVID-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged by technology.

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This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E (you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

The following is excerpted from from “Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive” by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes and John S. Wass, pp. 141-145 (McGraw Hill, May 2021). You are what you sell.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

CircleCI , the continuous delivery pioneer, announced a $100 million Series F today on a $1.7 billion valuation. At the same time, the company announced it has acquired Vamp , a release orchestration startup that should fit nicely in the CircleCI platform.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Customers write your paychecks. Assuming your products are priced profitably, the more customers you have, the more revenue and profit you earn. Here are three ways to grow your customer base: Reactivate inactive customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Panaseer , which takes a data science approach to cybersecurity, has raised $26.5 million in a Series B funding led by AllegisCyber Capital.

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Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Running a successful small business is a tough job. And most often, it is more challenging than doing a full-time job. As a business owner, you have to spread the word for your business, scale it up, outsmart your competitors, and whatnot.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A startup that has built a neobank specifically to address the needs of freelancers and sole traders has picked up a growth round to continue expanding its business after seeing its usage grow by 1,500% in a year.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2021

Israeli startup Nimble, a company that developed a machine that offers an automatic manicure for nails based on 3D image processing technologies, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firms Entrée Capital and LionBird, the company announced this week. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Munich-based parcelLab , which offers a final-mile fulfillment service for online retailers, has closed a $112 million (GB£80 million) Series C funding round led by the U.S. VC/PE firm Insight Partners.

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Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”

OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — People.ai, the revenue operations and intelligence platform, has acquired Hero Research, Inc., a Salesforce user productivity app. The acquisition redefines the Salesforce user experience for sales reps using People.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their businesses.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2021

IT Admins continue to choose JumpCloud’s directory platform as their go-to for managing users’ identities, access, and devices across all IT resources. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Israeli security startup Cycode , which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners.

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MAGNiTT and 500 Startups jointly launch first 'State of MENA Startups 2019" report. Survey findings reveal insights on trends in fundraising exercise, exit opportunities, hiring, and growth optimization.

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