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Selling your company? 4 issues at the intersection of parenting and entrepreneuring

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Scott Bushkie, EO Wisconsin, who is founder and CEO of Cornerstone Business Services. With more than 20 years in the M&A industry, Scott is a recognized leader in the field, providing exit strategies, sell- and buy-side transitions, along with valuation services in the lower middle market. . As an entrepreneur who has built a successful business from the ground up, you’ve likely poured years of your life into growing and scaling it—at great personal sacrifice.

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3 Things You’ll Need to Launch a Creative Business

StartupNation

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? Here’s how to get started. After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been sick yourself or dealt with the illness of a loved one, we’ve all felt the stress of social isolation. There’s nothing like a crisis that lifts a veil over what isn’t working in your life whether that was a commute you hated or a job not in alignment with your values.

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FarmSense uses sensors and machine learning to bug-proof crops

TechCrunch

Gnawing, burrowing, infecting: The damages caused to agriculture by insect pests like the Japanese beetle (pictured above) exceed $100 billion every year, according to the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA. And along with plant diseases, which the exoskeleton buggers can also transmit, arthropods account for the annual 40% loss of agricultural production worldwide.

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10 Marketing Tips to Help You Thrive as a Solopreneur

StartupNation

If you’re feeling alone trying to create a one-person work environment, rest assured there are others like you out there. Out of the 30 million American small business owners, 81% are solopreneurs ! This term includes individuals like yourself, determined to thrive on your own, workwise. Being a solopreneur comes with the privilege of working on your own terms and raking in all the profits.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Avataar raises $45 million to improve consumer shopping experience with life-sized 3D product evaluation

TechCrunch

The vast majority of e-commerce customers prefer to preview a product before making a purchase. That’s the reason why the likes of Amazon have historically struggled to move fashion and home decor items online. A San Francisco and Bengaluru-based startup is attempting to solve this problem and has just raised a new funding round to scale its operations.

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Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership

TechCrunch

Miguel Fernandez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase. He is passionate about changing working capital dynamics to make it the main source of cash for tech companies. Launching a business is hard enough, but scaling it to a successful and lucrative exit is even more difficult. Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best cour

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The 7 Seasons of Entrepreneurial Discipline Nobody Wants to Admit

Entrepreneur's Handbook

An honest exposé from a Type triple-A+ serial entrepreneur who doesn’t always act like one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Pendulum raises $5.9M to help organizations track harmful narratives

TechCrunch

Pendulum helps companies, governments and other organizations track harmful narratives on social media platforms and elsewhere on the web. The company today announced that it has raised a $5.9 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Cercano Management and others. The service was incubated inside Madrona Venture Labs. “Pendulum’s platform applies AI and NLP technologies to uncover threats and opportunities contained in narratives in the earliest days of thei

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Ray Dalio’s Business Advice Is Invaluable?—?Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Advice #4: “Do the opposite of what the crowd says” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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How today’s startup market isn’t like 1999, and what you need to raise a hot Series A

TechCrunch

As 2021 wound down, The Exchange wanted to dig into what might happen if the startup music stopped playing. So we got veteran venture capitalist Matt Murphy on the phone to talk it over. Murphy started his career at Sun Microsystems back in the mid-90s, joining venture shop Kleiner Perkins in 1999, where he stayed until 2015. From there, the investor changed teams to Menlo Ventures , where he’s worked since.

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Announcing Our New Partnership with Uber for Business

StartupNation

Airport runs. Daily commutes. A ride for clients. When your business needs to move, a ride can be requested in more than 10,000 cities worldwide. Ordering meals on Uber Eats? Keep your teams motivated and your clients well fed with options from over 780,000 restaurant partners. Invite clients or employees to join a shared cart with group ordering, so everyone can get what they want charged to one account.

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Nigerian ethical credit-recovery fintech Bfree secures $1.7M, expands to Asia, Europe, South America and across Africa

TechCrunch

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. Funds that participated in the latest round included 4Di Capital, Octerra Capital, VestedWorld, Voltron Capital, Logos Ventures and several other angel investors, bringing the total capital raised by the Lagos-based startup to $2.5 million, having realized $800

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Resolving Workplace Conflicts: An Actionable Guide

Feedough

If you have worked in a company, been in a. Read more.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B in new capital for venture, growth, bio funds

TechCrunch

This morning private-market powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has closed $9 billion in new capital for its venture capital, growth-stage and biotech-focused vehicles. The firm, better known by the moniker a16z, also raised a $2.2 billion crypto-focused fund last year. These fundraises by the firm highlight the rising size of private-market investing vehicles that we tend to group under the venture capital banner, and the burgeoning capital base of a16z itself.

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[Innoviz in Today UK News] CES: LiDAR of the pack – Q&A with Innoviz – Just Auto

OurCrowd

Innoviz Technologies develops and manufactures solid-state LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors and perception software that enable the mass-production of autonomous vehicles. What is the headline message that Innoviz is putting out at this year’s CES? Read more here. The post [Innoviz in Today UK News] CES: LiDAR of the pack – Q&A with Innoviz – Just Auto appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Startups at CES showed that age-tech can help everyone

TechCrunch

Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. After all, the usefulness of things like mobility aids, health monitoring platforms and long-term financial planning aren’t limited to the elderly. Yesterday, I covered the startups at AARP Innovation Labs’ virtual presentation , which ran the gamut from a financial literacy platform to a D2C startup creating pr

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The 100 Year Old Company. How Liza Borches Leads for the Future.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Liza Borches is president of Carter Myers Auto Group , based in Virginia. As the leader of a successful automotive company that was established 97 years ago, Borches knows moving into the future requires careful planning, learning and vision. Entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHsutle.com, recently interviewed Borches to tap into her extensive advice and expertise as a leader in her industry.

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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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Here’s how startups can prevent tech debt from piling up

TechCrunch

Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan is the VP of Engineering at Talentica Software and an NIT Surat alumnus. He has helped over 50 early and growth-stage startups fulfill their engineering needs and stay ahead of the curve in the last 17 years. In 1992, Ward Cunningham coined the metaphor “technical debt” to highlight how businesses weigh their short-term gains against the long-term viability of a software product.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Blog as a Side Hustle

StartupNation

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. Have you heard of Pat Flynn, Chiara Ferrangi, Abby Lawson, and Darren Rowse?

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Can you build centralized islands in a decentralized ocean?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We’re getting back up to full speed this week, so Mary Ann and Alex along with Grace behind the scenes took on our Friday show. Next week Natasha and Chris are back, and we’ll do our regular three-show lineup.

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Newsletter: Blood pressure via video + Life-changing drones

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Workspot’s secure cloud desktop Binah.ai: World’s first blood pressure via video InsideTracker guides users to longer, healthier lives Israel hits new VC record of $25.6 billion Wall St Journal: Flytrex ‘will change your life’ Expert advice on OurCrowd’s 4,300 job vacancies HarvestMaster hails SCiO as ‘single biggest advancement’ Remilk raises $120M, valuation rises tenfold within a year Beyond Meat gets finger-lickin’ with KFC Zippin to expand c

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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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Tech stocks manage modest rally after lackluster US jobs report

TechCrunch

Update: Tech stocks have given up all gains since this post went up, with both the Nasdaq and the basket of software stocks we track in the red. From a slightly later perspective, concern about near full-employment and resulting rising interest rates appears to have won the in-market sentiment battle. The relationship between economic news and the value of technology stocks has been a fun puzzle in recent months.

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FanDuel founder and Sequoia bet on Spanish-language fantasy sports app Draftea

TechCrunch

Founder Alán Jaime Misrahi grew up devoted to soccer, eventually playing in Mexico’s third division. While he didn’t necessarily make it to the “big leagues” playing the sport, his new company Draftea aims to win over the 350 million sports fans in Latin America, Jaime Misrahi told TechCrunch in an interview. Draftea, which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America, emerged from stealth mode today on the heels of a $13.2 million fundraise led by

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC advice for CEOs, 2022 e-commerce trends, OpenSea’s valuation

TechCrunch

Data privacy is top of mind for online sellers, and for good reason: Regulators in China, Europe and North America are taking an interest, and iOS 14.5 allowed many consumers to disable data tracking, with negative consequences for companies that relied on Facebook’s granular ad targeting. Bearing those factors and others in mind, Ben Parr, president and co-founder of e-commerce marketing platform Octane.ai, shared his e-commerce predictions for 2022 : Personalization and zero-party data b

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