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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

Your startup idea is your golden child – and it should be. But keep blind enthusiasm in check and move forward strategically and realistically to avoid the mistakes that can derail your project. You know that feeling when an idea is so good it wakes you up? You fumble around in the dark for your phone to jot memorable notes. Fast-forward to the afternoon when you pull up your overnight notes and have no idea why you thought renaming your company Chumbawamba was mission-critical.

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Niio announces $15M Series A following strategic partnership with Samsung Displays

TechCrunch

Niio , a Tel Aviv-based digital art platform featuring work ranging from contemporary artists and galleries through to NFTs, announced today it has closed $15 million Series A funding in the wake of a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays, announced last week. The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners.

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NOCD Raises $33M in Series B

HPA

HPA is excited to announce that NOCD , a telehealth app focused on providing care to people with OCD, announced it raised a $33M Series B Round. The round was led by F-Prime Capital, an investor in digital health, and included participation from other investors such as Eight Roads and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020.

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Docs startup Almanac raises $34 million from Tiger as remote work shift hardens

TechCrunch

As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “Companies are finding the shift to remote work is not a one-time aberration due to Covid,” Almanac CEO Adam Nathan tells TechCrunch. “Over the past several months we’ve seen pretty explosive revenue growth.” Almanac, which builds a doc editor

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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NOCD Raises $33M in Series B

HPA

HPA is excited to announce that NOCD , a telehealth app focused on providing care to people with OCD, announced it raised a $33M Series B Round. The round was led by F-Prime Capital, an investor in digital health, and included participation from other investors such as Eight Roads and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020.

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Life of Purpose: Carolyn Cassin Finds Her Life’s Mission is Through Meaningful Work

StartupNation

So me people are born into the world and are fortunate to happen upon a calling that ultimately shapes and defines their story. Others come into this world with a force that drives them from Day 1 to make sure the life they lead will be defined by the mark they’ve made. Such is the case with Carolyn Cassin. Cassin, through her work as president and CEO of Michigan Women Forward , a nonprofit organization, aims to achieve equality and empowerment for women and girls.

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Post-pandemic shifts means Patch will take co-working to UK small towns and suburbs

TechCrunch

It would be fair to say the pandemic has had enormous effects on the world of work, but it has come at a time when other factors were already ongoing. The decline of main-street shopping due to e-commerce has only been hastened. The shift to remote working has skyrocketed. And people no longer want to commute 8am-6pm anymore. But we’ve also found that working from home isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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Provi Raises $100M in New Funding

HPA

HPA is excited to share that Provi , a technology platform connecting restaurants, distributors and suppliers in the alcohol industry, today announced $100M in new funding on $750M valuation. The recent $75M Series C round was led by D1 Capital, a NY-based hedge fund with $34B AUM, and the $25M Series B round was led by CPMG earlier this year. In total, the company has raised $125M to date, becoming the industry’s largest B2B beverage marketplace.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company brought in a $2 million extension to its $41 million Series B announced in March. Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White and Shawn Mendes are the new backers, who came in through a strategic round of funding alongside PLUS Capital to bring the Seattle-based company’s total funding to $60 million since the company’s inception in 2016.

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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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The Cash Flow Management Guide for The Rise of the Pandemic Entrepreneurs

Smart Hustle Magazine

By David Axler, VP, Books, Banking and Tax, Wave. It is true that business owners are facing countless challenges due to the current pandemic. But, still, many people are ditching their 9 to 5 jobs to start their own businesses, In fact, 4.35 million people in the U.S. submitted a new business application in 2020 alone – up 24% from 2019 – and over 500,000 new businesses have already launched this year.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

There is a physical activity deficit in our world. Three fourths of adults say staying in shape is very important for health benefits. Yet, one in four adults and 81% of adolescents are insufficiently physically active, according to the World Health Organization. Even before COVID-19, less than 24% of children 6 to 17 years of age did 60 minutes of physical activity daily, as per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Seven Harsh Truths About Money That You Probably Don’t Want to Hear but Must

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You’ll rethink energy levels, millionaire status, calmness, your endgame, retirement, and happiness when you do. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Indonesian halal-focused social commerce startup Evermos lands $30M Series B

TechCrunch

Evermos’ founding team (l to r): Arip Tirta, Ghufron Mustaqim, Iqbal Muslimin and Ilham Taufiq. Image Credits: Evermos. Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. The company, which focuses on halal products and other items for Muslim customers, announced today it has raised a $30 million Series B, led by UOB Venture Management’s Asia Impact

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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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How We Found Our CTO?—?Except He Did Not Know How To Code

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Finding and vetting a CTO can make or break an early-stage startup. Here is how we f *d up and how to avoid the same fate. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Nigerian fintech Hervest wants to bring financial inclusion to more African women

TechCrunch

After years of working in marketing for a number of financial services companies, Solape Akinpelu came to a conclusion: T here was an “alarmingly low adoption” by women for financial services in her home country of Nigeria and all of Africa as a whole. “I could see women living the reality around me,” Akinpelu recalls. “These women could not make sound financial decisions.

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How to Avoid Getting Burned by a Pre-Money Valuation Cap

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Don’t Make the Same Investment Mistake as Me! Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Alpha Medical closes $24M Series B round to expand women’s telehealth — without the video calls

TechCrunch

Alpha Medical, a telemedicine company focused on women’s healthcare, closed a $24 million Series B round on Tuesday. It’s another company situated squarely in the crosshairs of a pandemic-fueled boom in telemedicine investment , though Alpha Medical’s approach has one notable difference: you won’t be logging on to any Zoom calls. . Alpha Medical was founded in 2017.

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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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2021 Reader Survey?—?Entrepreneur’s Handbook

Entrepreneur's Handbook

2021 Reader Survey?—?Entrepreneur’s Handbook I was an utter “wantrapreneur” when I first started Entrepreneur’s Handbook in 2014. Medium had just launched. I was fascinated by the platform. It was an amazing place to write. So, as a student of entrepreneurship, I published everything I was learning from my own journey and from other founders in a collection called Entrepreneur’s Handbook.

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Adventr uses patented voice-control tech to allow anyone to create interactive videos

TechCrunch

We’ve all been there — you’re watching a horror movie, and you know that the main character definitely shouldn’t go into that creepy house, but no matter how much you yell at your TV, you can’t change his fate. But what if you told the guy on screen to steer clear of the house, and he actually listened? This could become possible with the latest venture from entertainment entrepreneur Devo Harris, a Grammy winner and longtime business collaborator of artists like Ka

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How Victoria Paris Turned TikTok Into A Career In Under 6 Months

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What content creators can learn from this 22-Year-Old Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Marketplace platform Mirakl raises $555 million at $3.5 billion valuation

TechCrunch

French startup Mirakl has closed a new Series E funding round of $555 million. Following this round, the company is now valued at $3.5 billion. Mirakl helps you launch a marketplace on your online store for your end customers or for your B2B clients. It’s a software-as-a-service marketplace, meaning that Mirakl manages the marketplace for you. Silver Lake is leading the investment with existing investors 83North, Elaia Partners, Felix Capital and Permira also participating.

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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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Creating a Customer Avatar in 3 Steps

Smart Hustle Magazine

Welcome back to the Lifecycle Marketing series. Last week we introduced the concept of Collecting Leads as the first part in the Lifecycle Marketing model. As you may remember, this process has three phases of its own— Targeting, Attracting , and Capturing leads. Today we’re going to dig into the phase of Targeting , which begins with the foundations of identifying your market, the creation of a Customer Avatar.

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Extra Crunch roundup: DTC strategy, IPO analysis, Zoom’s future product plans

TechCrunch

Yesterday, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted to a reporter that this didn’t feel like the right moment to take his buy now, pay later company public. “I think it would be nice to IPO when it’s a little bit more sound,” he told CNBC’s Karen Tso. “And right now, it doesn’t feel really sound out there.”. This caught Alex Wilhelm by surprise.

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Fast Company] The best mobility design of 2021

OurCrowd

See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards in the Mobility category. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Fast Company] The best mobility design of 2021 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Mexico’s Kavak drives away with $700M in new funding, doubling its valuation to $8.7B

TechCrunch

Kavak , a Mexico City-based startup that operates a pre-owned car marketplace in Latin America, announced today that it has raised a massive $700 million in a Series E round that more than doubles the company’s valuation to $8.7 billion. This news is notable for a few reasons. For one, it’s a staggering sum for any startup, much less one based in Latin America.

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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.