Mon.Dec 14, 2020

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Innovation In Capital Markets

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. I recall someone in the audience suggesting that the NYSE and Nasdaq could rebuild their markets on top of these technologies. I replied that I thought it was more likely that new markets built on blockchains and existing for crypto assets would emerge to compete with them.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint.

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Build a Community and the Sales Will Follow: Insights on Product Development

Smart Hustle Magazine

Have you ever turned to YouTube.com to learn a new skill or how to level-up your appearance? You're not alone. Many people turn to this major video publisher to learn better techniques for everyday use. Joseph Andrew, co-founder of BluMaan.com , knew that there were men looking for better hair care products for their needs. Once he started building a community, he also learned they had a specific need he could fill.

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Cledara, the SaaS purchase and management platform, raises $3.4M funding

TechCrunch

Cledara , the SaaS purchase and management platform that helps bring greater viability and control over a company’s sprawling software subscriptions, has raised $3.4 million in additional funding. The round is led by Nauta Capital, with participation from existing investor Anthemis. It comes off the back of the startup growing revenues by 20x in 2020 — including 7x since August, although Cledara isn’t breaking out specific numbers.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Why You Must Be Self-Reliant to Succeed as an Entrepreneur 

StartupNation

Over the years as an entrepreneur, I have fallen flat on my face many times. Looking back, I realize I lacked the understanding of just how critical it is to be truly self-reliant. Self-reliance is the ability to rely on your own efforts, abilities, powers and resources, rather than that of those around you. In 2007, I was enrolled at Montclair State University, taking a slew of classes that did not interest me.

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Connect Your Startup Community through Content Creation

Ecosystem Builder Hub

A core tenet of ecosystem building is making connections—connecting entrepreneurs to people, information, and resources that can help them move their business forward. “An ecosystem that allows for the fast flow of talent, information, and resources helps entrepreneurs quickly find what they need at each stage of growth.” ~ Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook 3.0.

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Zenoti becomes a unicorn with $160 million funding round

TechCrunch

Zenoti, a 10-year-old startup that develops services for the spa and salon industry , is the latest entrant to the coveted unicorn list. The Bellevue, Washington-headquartered SaaS startup has raised $160 million in its Series D financing round that valued it at “well past $1 billion,” said Sudheer Koneru, founder and chief executive of Zenoti, in an interview with TechCrunch earlier this week.

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Why You Must Be Self-Reliant to Succeed as an Entrepreneur 

StartupNation

Over the years as an entrepreneur, I have fallen flat on my face many times. Looking back, I realize I lacked the understanding of just how critical it is to be truly self-reliant. Self-reliance is the ability to rely on your own efforts, abilities, powers and resources, rather than that of those around you. In 2007, I was enrolled at Montclair State University, taking a slew of classes that did not interest me.

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German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor

TechCrunch

Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: Instead of building machines that replace humans altogether, build hardware that humans can wear to supercharge their abilities. Today, German Bionic , one of the startups designing exoskeletons specifically aimed at industrial and physical applications — it describes its Cray X robot as “the world’s first connected exoskeleton for industrial use,” that is, to help people lifting

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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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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important. But what is often even more important, especially for businesses built on ongoing innovation, is having a strong IP programme. Resting on your laurels with IP strategy and not having an IP programme may result in missed opportunities and increased business risk. Let’s take New Zealand’s national rugby team, the All Blacks®, as an example.

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Singapore is poised to become Asia’s Silicon Valley

TechCrunch

Long established as a global financial center, Singapore also looks set to become the “Silicon Valley of Asia.” Tencent, ByteDance and Alibaba are reportedly planning regional hubs in the city-state, with ByteDance in particular expected to add hundreds of jobs over the next three years. They will join an international coterie of tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Stripe, Salesforce and Grab, that already have headquarters or significant operations, including engineering and

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Elon Musk’s Early Years Tells a Convincing Story of How Adversity Can Breed Greatness

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Channel the hardships you face into overwhelming strength Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Klima publicly launches its consumer-focused carbon offset app

TechCrunch

Andreas Pursian, Markus Gilles and Jonas Brandau, the three co-founders of Klima , an app focused on helping consumers understand and offset their carbon emissions, first found entrepreneurial success at Hyper. The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was only the most recent success in a string of collaborations dating back nearly a decade. “We had a fascination for technology and all the great things you could do to improve society,” sai

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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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Science Shows Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Fear Lack of Opportunities

Entrepreneur's Handbook

As with Samsung, the Corridor Principle will keep your opportunity reservoir full Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

Big data is a sham. For years now, we have been told that every company should save every last morsel of digital exhaust in some sort of database, lest management lose some competitive intelligence against … a competitor, or something. There is just one problem with big data though: it’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming.

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The Full Guide to Creating Your Own Online Course

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My journey from an idea to publishing a course on Udemy Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Troy Carter and Suzy Ryoo’s music tech startup Q&A launches software group, Venice Innovation Labs

TechCrunch

Q&A , a startup developing tech for the music industry co-founded by industry insiders Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s first manager) and Suzy Ryoo (Carter’s longtime collaborator), has launched a new suite of software products through a division called Venice Innovation Labs. The new tools are designed to help record labels beta test songs, manage artists and distribute music easily and efficiently, the company said in a statement.

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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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What Is Beta Testing? – A Detailed Guide

Feedough

No one wants to launch a faulty product in the market. But often, there are bugs, flaws, and errors that are not visible to the developers. In such cases, the developers release the offering to the real users (usually a limited number) but with a disclaimer that the offering is a beta test and might be unstable. These users give feedback to the developers, which is then used to perfect the final product.

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5 questions every IT team should be able to answer

TechCrunch

Christy Wyatt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Christy Wyatt is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors at Absolute , a leader in endpoint resilience solutions and the industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a half-billion devices. Now more than ever, IT teams play a vital role in keeping their businesses running smoothly and securely.

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What You Need to Know About Operating a Franchise During the COVID-19 Crisis

StartupNation

As a franchisee, operating during the COVID-19 crisis presents unique challenges. Not only must you contend with the economic impacts of the situation, but you must also continue to meet your contractual obligations to your franchisor. While some franchisors are offering temporary financial relief to their franchisees during the COVID-19 crisis, others are not.

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Get a taste of TC Sessions: Space 2020 with an Expo Ticket

TechCrunch

If your event budget is more like dental floss than a shoestring, this is your lucky day. Our $25 Expo Only ticket offers affordable access to an impressive array of presentations — and opportunity — at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. Full disclosure: The Expo Only ticket does not include networking with CrunchMatch, the free Extra Crunch membership or access to the main stage programming.

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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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What You Need to Know About Operating a Franchise During the COVID-19 Crisis

StartupNation

As a franchisee, operating during the COVID-19 crisis presents unique challenges. Not only must you contend with the economic impacts of the situation, but you must also continue to meet your contractual obligations to your franchisor. While some franchisors are offering temporary financial relief to their franchisees during the COVID-19 crisis, others are not.

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Tencent invests in DJI-backed agritech startup FJ Dynamics

TechCrunch

Back in 2018, Tencent pledged to put more focus on enterprises as traditional industries in China increasingly tapped technology to boost productivity. The firm’s industrial projects range from using AI to screen medical images to building customer management tools for retailers on its WeChat messenger. Most recently, Tencent invested in FJ Dynamics, a Chinese startup selling agricultural automation solutions such as smart tractors and rice transplanters as well as unmanned vehicles for po

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[Innoviz in CNBC] LiDar startup Innoviz goes public via $1.4 billion SPAC merger

OurCrowd

LiDar startup Innoviz went public via $1.4 billion SPAC merger this morning. There have been four electric vehicle related SPACs in the last 36 hours, adding hype to the SPAC market in 2020. Omer Keilaf, Innoviz Co-founder and CEO, joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss what its business can provide. Read more here. The post [Innoviz in CNBC] LiDar startup Innoviz goes public via $1.4 billion SPAC merger appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Arya raises $21M to provide farmers in India finance and post-harvest services

TechCrunch

Only about a third of the yields Indian farmers produce reaches the big markets. Those whose produce makes it there today are able to leverage post-harvest services. Everyone else is missing out. A Noida-based startup is working with all the stakeholders — farmers, food processors, traders and financial institutions — to bridge this post-harvest services gap — and it just secured new funds to continue its journey.

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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.