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5 Steps for Launching an Online Business in 2021

StartupNation

The pandemic has made life difficult in innumerable ways, but it has also presented business opportunities to savvy entrepreneurs. Company closures left spaces for startups to fill, and the unprecedented environment prompted the creation and development of specific markets. For example, IBM’s U.S. Retail Index estimates that the coronavirus and resulting social distancing measures have accelerated the transition from in-person retail to e-commerce by about five years.

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COVID-19 testing: four breakthrough solutions in the RADx initiative

Venture Well

In celebration of National Inventors’ Day, we are highlighting four teams developing COVID-19 testing innovations through the National Health Institute's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. The post COVID-19 testing: four breakthrough solutions in the RADx initiative appeared first on VentureWell.

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4 Questions to Find Your Price

Paul G. Silva

This long, detailed, and excellent article is chock full of valuable advice on pricing. One part that particularly stood out for sharing are the four questions to ask a potential customer to help you determine where to price your product. At what point is this way too expensive that you would never consider purchasing it? At what point is this starting to get expensive, but you’d still consider purchasing it?

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

TechCrunch

Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases. Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. Despite advances in software to help model these compounds and molecules, there are still challenges in fully understanding their shapes through a two-dimensional comp

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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These 8 Startups are Among the Top in the Midwest (and the U.S.)

StartupNation

Why were there only two Midwest startups on LinkedIn’s list of the top 50 startups on the rise? Cameo, based in Chicago (as well as remotely ), and Seamless.AI, based in Columbus , are really awesome startups, and we were so happy to see them on the list. We just think LinkedIn missed a couple more major Midwest players. There’s this myth that only the top startups come out of Silicon Valley or New York City.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Business Impact of University R&D (Episode 173)

StartupNation

Where do the big ideas come from around which startup businesses originate? Well, certainly from the entrepreneurial community at large, and of course within businesses themselves large and small. Another significant source? University research labs. The University of Michigan is the public university reporting the largest R&D expenditures in all fields.

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Target Global leads $150M round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded

TechCrunch

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently. Today, one of the latest of these, Branded Group , is coming out of stealth with a significant round of funding.

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Who are the Best Thinkers to Lead Your Business?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It depends on whether you need to create demand or maximize efficiency Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle. Who knew leaving the house was going to seem like such a mission?

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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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[Beyond Meat in PR Newswire] Eat Beyond Portfolio Company Nabati Announces its Mozzarella Style Cheeze Shreds Included in New COBS Bread Offering with Beyond Meat®

OurCrowd

Eat Beyond Global Holdings Inc. (CSE: EATS) (OTCPK: EATBF) (FSE: 988) (“Eat Beyond” or the “Company”), an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that its portfolio company Nabati Foods Inc. (“Nabati”) now has its Nabati Mozzarella Style Cheeze Shreds included in COBS new plant-based Beyond Sausage® Arrabbiata Mini Pizza.

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SplashLearn raises $18 million for its game-based edtech platform

TechCrunch

SplashLearn, a 10-year-old U.S.-headquartered edtech startup that teaches children through a game-based curriculum, has raised $18 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more markets. San Francisco-based Owl Ventures led the Series C funding round in SplashLearn, and Accel, which had earlier invested $7 million in the startup’s Series B, also participated in the new round.

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[Clinch in PR NewsWire] Clinch Partners with Foursquare to Bring Enhanced Attribution Measurement to Omnichannel Dynamic Creative Optimization

OurCrowd

Clinch, the Personalization Everywhere company that provides cross-channel dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technology to the world’s leading advertisers, announced today a partnership with Foursquare, the most trusted independent location technology platform, to bring enhanced, real-time attribution measurement to omnichannel DCO. Read more here.

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SentinelOne to acquire high-speed logging startup Scalyr for $155M

TechCrunch

SentinelOne , a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr , the high-speed logging startup for $155 million in stock and cash. SentinelOne sorts through oodles of data to help customers understand their security posture, and having a tool that enables engineers to iterate rapidly in the data, and get to the root of the problem is going to be extremely valuable for them, CEO and co-founde

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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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9 Ways to Prepare for Member Re-Entry

GCUC

A snap GCUC poll conducted during the webinar suggested that most operators in the U.S. don’t expect an influx of people until around fall. The post 9 Ways to Prepare for Member Re-Entry appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Finch Capital launches third fund to invest in European fintech at Series A and B

TechCrunch

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, has raised a third fund. Targeting a final close of €150 million, the fund has already secured €85 million from LPs ready to deploy. Out of Finch Capital “Europe III,” the VC will invest in fintech startups at the Series A and B stages, deemphasising its previous inclusion of seed.

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Most Read Blog Posts On AVC

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last month, I wrote about the value of having a list of the most read posts on a blog. I said I wanted to create that for AVC. Well, I am pleased to let you all know that we built it and it is now live on the AVC archives page. It looks like this: I am very happy to see Fake Grimlock’s “ Minimum Viable Personality ” guest post on the list.

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Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A

TechCrunch

Jüsto , an online supermarket based in Mexico City, announced Tuesday it has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. The amount is sizable for a Series A in general, but supersized for a LatAm startup. In fact, according to PitchBook data cited by General Atlantic, the round represents the largest Series A raised in Latin America in the past decade.

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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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Adopt Startup Mindset to Grow Your Business (and How eBay VP of Global Payments Got It Right)

Smart Hustle Magazine

Small business owners don’t always sail smoothly. Off and on, they find themselves in troubled waters. Recently, COVID-19 affected most small businesses, making it hard for them to stay afloat. If you want to survive and grow your small business, you need to adopt a startup mindset. A startup mindset can help your business become more customer-centric, test a prototype before implementing it at a large scale, leverage existing resources, and more.

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New York’s David Energy has raised $4.1 million to ‘build the Standard Oil of renewable energy’

TechCrunch

“We intend to build the Standard Oil of renewable energy,” said James McGinniss, the co-founder and chief executive of David Energy , in a statement announcing the company’s new $19 million seed round of debt and equity funding. . McGinniss’ company is aiming to boost renewable energy adoption and slash energy usage in the built environment by creating a service that operates on both sides of the energy marketplace.

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A Greedy Man’s Lawsuit Was Dissolved By Actual Mountain Dew

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How an alleged infestation backfired on PepsiCo. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A startup using a new tech to make hydrogen extracts cash from Bill Gates’ climate tech fund

TechCrunch

Four years ago when Zach Jones went to do due diligence on C-Zero , a startup out of Santa Barbara, California commercializing a new approach to producing hydrogen, for the small family office he was working for, he had no idea he’d wind up as the company’s chief executive officer. Or that the company would wind up raising money from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the billionaire-backed investment vehicle focused on financing companies developing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas

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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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The Way to Make Money on Substack Is Completely Misunderstood

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I got it wrong too. It’s only after speaking with people in and around Substack that it clicked. I want it to click for you too. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Symend nabs $43M for a platform to help customers avoid defaulting on bills

TechCrunch

The pandemic-fueled economic uncertainty of the last year has led many to project that the rate of credit defaults among consumers will continue to wobble into 2021. Today a startup that has built a platform to help consumers mitigate that situation is announcing some funding on the back of more demand for its services. Symend , which builds behavioral analytics that integrate with customer engagement products to help identify customers having trouble paying bills and suggests payment alternativ

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What Is Alpha Testing? – A Detailed Guide

Feedough

Every company wants its target market to accept the product it has to offer gladly. While many companies predict demand in the first instance, several others validate their assumptions using acceptance testing. The company performs some of these tests internally, while some are performed by releasing the product to the actual audience. Alpha testing, a part of the user acceptance testing, is the firms’ preliminary internal testing before offering the product to the external testers or early user

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Biden’s commitment to diversity sets the tone for business leaders

TechCrunch

Elias Torres. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Elias Torres is the founder and CTO of Drift , a conversational marketing and sales platform. I have a confession to make: my company fell short of its DEI goal in 2020. Heading into the year, our goal was to build a workforce that’s 44% women and 14% Underrepresented People (URP). We made some strides, but currently those figures are 43% and 13%, respectively.

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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.