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14 EO Members Share The Best Thing About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

“Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. However, it allows you the freedom to explore all the spaces and crevices of your mind and abilities and work on your own terms,” said Natasha Miller, EO Los Angeles and EO US West Bridge member, and founder of Entire Productions. “I couldn’t imagine another way of life for myself. But understand it’s not for everyone.”.

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Plaid names former Meta exec as its new payments head

TechCrunch

Plaid today announced that it has named Meta veteran John Anderson to serve as its new head of payments. The fintech startup has slowly been evolving its offerings beyond its core product of account linking. Earlier this year, it moved into identity and income verification. Payments feels like a natural evolution of its business. In an interview with TechCrunch, Anderson explained that while Plaid will be personally facilitating payments through its Transfer offering, it will also continue worki

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3 Stories of Entrepreneurial Action in a Year of Great Challenge

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Marc Stöckli, Global Chair, Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The strength of entrepreneurs has always been their ingenuity in resilience – their ability to triumph through adversity, devise new ways to push the world forward in dire times and inspire their communities to come back stronger. In recent years we’ve seen several situations where this quality has been desperately needed – turmoil, conflict and crises have become a constant undertone.

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Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names

TechCrunch

We’ve all been faced with a name that’s difficult to pronounce. But not everyone considers the consequences of their mispronunciations. In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. Studies have indeed found that when peers and teachers incorrectly pronounce or change the names of students of color, those students participate less in class and

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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 Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Skip the rush and focus on building a product that delivers benefits Photo/ Unsplash “Black Friday,” “Cyber Monday,” “mid-season sales.” More and more discount battles are added to the original seasonal sales. Black Friday might be an excellent time for some businesses to decrease inventory and make a quick buck. But if you’re a startup, you should skip the rush and focus on building a product that delivers benefits and create a strong brand instead.

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IFC launches new platform to bolster digital economy in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register IFC has launched a $225-million platform to help build the digital economy in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan. This will be used to strengthen venture capital ecosystems and invest in early-stage companies in order to address development challenges through technological innovations in climate, health care, education, agriculture, e-commerce, and other sectors. “

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With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system

TechCrunch

Squeezed by the recessionary COVID-19-era economy and the rising prices of everyday goods, some consumers are increasingly turning to lines of credit to make ends meet. According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S. adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. A more recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates that total household debt in Q3 2022 reached $16.51 trillion, $2.36 trillion higher than at the

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A New Chapter

Tomasz Tunguz

After more than 14 years at Redpoint, I’m starting a new chapter. I’m filled with optimism for the future. The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. The Decade of Data is just a few years in & already it has transformed the way we do business.

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With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream

TechCrunch

Narwhal , the company behind the popular monorepo -focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 million seed funding round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, also participated in this round. Founded by two former Google employees on the Angular team, Jeff Cross (CEO) and Victor Savkin (CTO), Narwahl actually started out as an Angular consulting

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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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Vietnam’s Rootopia secures $1m to aid more students in need of education loans

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Rootopia , a fintech startup connecting students with angel investors in Vietnam, has announced that it recently secured US$1 million in a pre-seed round. With the fresh capital from Genesia Ventures , ThinkZone Venture, and BK Fund, Rootopia will now be able to grow its early user base to reach product-market fit.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Sateliot’s $11.4M Series A deck

TechCrunch

You know what really sucks? Your IoT devices not being able to phone home. Rarely a problem when you’re in the center of a well-populated urban center with oodles of cell towers, but think of that water temperature buoy floating around in the Atlantic, an autonomous drone flying above the rain forest or a glacier-creep measuring sonde high up in the mountains.

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Solopreneurship Is Causing High Performers to Quit Their High-Paying Jobs in Their Prime

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s what this explosive trend means for you Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt

TechCrunch

Jon Zimmerman — the co-founder of ReadySpaces , a warehouse storage provider for small businesses — was working in the self-storage market when he had the idea for a product with the flexibility of self-storage but the capabilities of a traditional warehouse, aimed primarily at enterprise customers. His partner, Kevin Petrovic, had a different company that was a customer of Jon’s at his first “beta” location, in the ’90s.

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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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Ann & Bill Payne Announce $300,000 Match to the Seed the Future Campaign

Angel Capital Association

For Immediate Release. ANN & BILL PAYNE ANNOUNCE $300,000 MATCH TO THE SEED THE FUTURE CAMPAIGN. Overland Park, KS (November 16, 2022). The Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) is pleased to announce a $300,000 pledge to its Seed the Future capital campaign from the Payne Family, a name synonymous with angel investing. This is the second significant pledge from the Paynes and it brings their campaign contributions to more than half a million dollars.

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Service 1st Financial sells ‘home comfort as a service,’ gets $20 million in funding from Series B, debt

TechCrunch

Let’s face it: Most people aren’t early adopters, especially when it comes to their homes. Take the kitchen, for example, where many people still buy gas cooktops despite induction’s superiority. It’s not because everyone’s busy charring peppers over an open flame — it’s because they’re slow to adopt changes. When it comes to heating and cooling, that’s a problem for the climate.

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GCUC Podcast: James O’Reilly of Life Time Work

GCUC

Health and wellness is no longer just a perk, but a necessary cultural currency that nourishes employees, and members, alike. James O’Reilly, President at. The post GCUC Podcast: James O’Reilly of Life Time Work appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Can gaming resurrect the NFT market? OpenSea thinks so

TechCrunch

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami , OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. The digital assets, better known by the acronym “NFTs,” saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom. NFTs became synonymous with neo-wealth bubbling up from the blockchain economy, as a number of image collections that employed the digital asset format reached pop-culture status and eye-watering prices.

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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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[C2A Security in PRWeb] C2A Security’s EVSec wins “Automotive Cybersecurity Solution of the Year” In 2022 AutoTech Breakthrough Awards program

OurCrowd

C2A Security, the global leader of trusted automotive cybersecurity solutions focusing on electric vehicles, today announced for the second year in a row they have been selected to receive the “Automotive Cybersecurity Solution of the Year”, in the third annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards, recognizing automotive industry innovations across the globe, this time for their product, EVSec.

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Jack Selby of Thiel Capital is using a new VC fund to invest in Arizona startups

TechCrunch

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. The debut vehicle of the firm, called AZ-VC , is backed by a number of real-estate outfits in Arizona, along with a major local utility company.

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[ByondXR in Accesswire] Lindt USA launches its first-ever 3D virtual store with ByondXR and makes shopping for premium chocolate a truly innovative experience

OurCrowd

STRATHAM, NH / ACCESSWIRE / November 17, 2022 / Lindt, the premium Swiss chocolatier and confectionery company founded in 1845 known for its iconic LINDOR truffles and bars offerings, announces the launch of a 3D virtual store in the USA. Developed by ByondXR – the leading 3D commerce platform – the virtual store is truly a sweet spot between the traditional holiday sweets and the modern and innovative shopping solutions.

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The Generative AI Revolution in Games

Andreessen Horowitz

To understand how radically gaming is about to be transformed by Generative AI, look no further than this recent Twitter post by @emmanuel_2m. In this post he explores using Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth, popular 2D Generative AI models, to … The post The Generative AI Revolution in Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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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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[Alloy Therapeutics in Business Wire] Alloy Therapeutics and Normunity sign multi-program antibody discovery collaboration in immuno-oncology

OurCrowd

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alloy Therapeutics, a biotechnology ecosystem company, announced an antibody discovery collaboration spanning multiple precision immuno-oncology programs for Normunity, a biotech company that recently announced its $65 million Series A financing. The collaboration will support the advancement of Normunity’s immune normalizers, antibody therapies designed to target novel mechanisms that free the body’s normal immunity to fight cancer, which are conceived through

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Build a MVP and Validate Your Plan with Customers

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By this point, the word “lean” has been so used so frequently and in so many contexts that you could be forgiven for thinking that it was completely meaningless. But it’s actually quite the opposite. The reason the term—and the thinking that it represents—has swept the startup world is because it makes fundamental sense. Originally developed by Steve Blank and brought to popular attention by Eric Ries in his bestselling book and subsequent series, the core philosophy boils down to a loop that cy

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[Cyabra in Calcalist] Cyabra hires SVP Revenue to open NYC Office and accelerate hiring

OurCrowd

Emmanuel Heymann will be growing Cyabra’s Go-To-Market operations and help expand its presence in the U.S. as well as hiring and scaling the team. Read more here. The post [Cyabra in Calcalist] Cyabra hires SVP Revenue to open NYC Office and accelerate hiring appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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SaaS startups that ignored VC advice to cut sales and marketing were better off this year

TechCrunch

Venture-backed startups have had to make myriad spending cuts this year in an attempt to either live up to a high valuation, minimize their burn rate or both. But new data from fintech Capchase shows that many startups — especially venture-backed ones — seem to be getting the wrong advice concerning where to downsize. Capchase, which lends non-dilutive capital to SaaS startups, looked at how more than 500 SaaS startups fared in a number of areas including revenue, runway and growth between Augus

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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.