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Cultivating Inclusivity: How To Infuse Belonging in Your Classroom

Venture Well

We’re unpacking how the innovation and entrepreneurship community can bring a sense of belonging to higher education by starting in the classroom. The post Cultivating Inclusivity: How To Infuse Belonging in Your Classroom appeared first on VentureWell.

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Shinkei Systems’ AI-guided fish harvesting is more humane and less wasteful

TechCrunch

Fresh fish isn’t really that fresh — even straight off the boat. The way they’re caught and killed is not only inhumane but detrimental to the resulting meat. There’s a far superior alternative, but it’s time-consuming and manual — but Shinkei Systems has figured out a way to automate it, even on the deck of a moving boat and has landed $1.3 million to bring its machine to market.

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Investing in Fly.io 

Andreessen Horowitz

We’re very excited to announce that we’re leading the series B for Fly.io. Fly is one of the fastest-growing core infrastructure companies we have ever seen. And it’s worth understanding why. . Web applications are becoming more and more real-time, and … The post Investing in Fly.io appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession

TechCrunch

Alex Zekoff. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Zekoff is the CEO and co-founder of Thoughtful Automation , an automation-as-a-service platform. With rising interest rates, there’s a new sheriff in town for all companies. It’s called efficiency. Efficiency is now especially important for startups, which are always running fast toward a cliff.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Startups Are Drowning in Meaningless Analytics

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Third-Party Tools Need To Get Their Data Act Together Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Investing in Vicinitas Therapeutics

Andreessen Horowitz

Vicinitas (noun), Latin. Neighborhood, nearness, proximity, vicinity. Small molecules, or synthesized chemicals, are some of our most important and most recognized drugs (think Lipitor). Despite their success, small molecules have been limited by the types of therapeutic mechanisms of action … The post Investing in Vicinitas Therapeutics appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round. E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela.

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14 Documentaries That Will Teach You More About Marketing-Psychology Than a Four-Year Degree

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Master psychology and you can (essentially) print money at will Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Evabot secures fresh capital to inject AI into corporate gifting

TechCrunch

The idea of corporate gifting to maintain client relationships isn’t a novel concept. In fact, there’s a cottage industry of “gifting-as-a-service” startups that promise to streamline the task, ranging from companies such as Reachdesk and &Open to Sendoso and Goody. Vendors claim their industry is a profitable one (worth an estimated $258 billion) because the evidence suggests corporate gifting works.

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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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If You Can’t Buy It Twice, Don’t Buy It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And other practical money business advice Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck

TechCrunch

We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about? An online pharmacy that raised yet another round of funding. Don’t get me wrong, Alto Pharmacy raising a Series E is impressive, as is raising $200 million. But realistically, those companies often don’t turn up on my radar: They are too big to be startups and haven’t had a liquidity event (i.e., an IPO, an acquisition, or a bankruptcy), so there&#

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99 Group raises $52 million to expand in Southeast Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 99 Group , the company behind property platform 99.co , has announced raising $52 million in a Series C funding round led by Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners. The company said $37 million was completed at the first close and a further $15 million will be raised over the coming months, the majority of which has already been committed.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in 11 Tech Companies!     

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy! Eleven companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products and/or software applications or stabilize operations in a long-standing manufacturing business. The Ben Franklin program has been investing in tech startups and small manufacturers for nearly 40 years.

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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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Are you the leader if no-one follows?

Berkonomics

Here is a variation of the “tree falls in the forest” question. . In past insights, we’ve looked at leadership skills, ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to develop creative ideas that motivate and propel your organization to greatness. Here is the ultimate question for a leader…. You’ve heard the old saying that you can lead by fear or lead because people want to follow.

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Investing in VeeFriends

Andreessen Horowitz

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When Imitation Stops Being Flattery and Starts Being Theft

Entrepreneur's Handbook

This victimless crime actually creates a ton of victims Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Know and Get Known

The Seraf Compass

For most startups, developing relationships takes time and effort. The CEO has to make a deliberate and concerted effort to find and speak with key industry players to build rapport and awareness over time. Other startups, by contrast, are seemingly built for partnerships. These are startups focused on ecosystems, knowing they will need to work with partners to not only make their product function well but also to get it to customers.

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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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#39. How To Get Your Startup Funded Regardless Of Your Background w/ Maria Palma

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from a General Partner at Kindred Capital [link] Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today’s guest is Maria, a General Partner at Kindred Capital. They are venture capitalists who focus on the European tech scene.

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How Much Should You Expect Your Startup to Slow in 2022?

Tomasz Tunguz

AWS announced earnings earlier today and reported 33% growth. That concludes this quarter’s IaaS earnings scorecard reports & provides us a complete picture of the infrastructure buyer’s index. AWS’s growth rate is the slowest of the three largest public infrastructure clouds. With about 39% market share, AWS reigns supreme as the largest provider.

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No One Is Trying to (Really) Work a 4-Hour Workweek

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s what we’re chasing without even realizing it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Sports community platform Stadium Live raises $10M to expand its digital world for Gen Z

TechCrunch

Today, digital world maker Stadium Live Studios, Inc. announced its $10 million Series A funding round to continue its mission of bringing fantasy sports to a younger generation. The Canadian startup was founded in 2020 by Kevin Kim and Paul Xu with the goal of gamifying the sports fandom and building a “digital playground” of sorts for Gen Z sports fans.

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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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Office Hours with Bill Binch: Structuring Sales Teams for Success

Tomasz Tunguz

On August 11 at 9:30 AM Pacific time, Office Hours will host legendary sales leader Bill Binch. Bill started his career at Oracle where he rose to VP. He led Marketo sales as EVP of Worldwide Sales. Most recently, Bill led the sales team at Pendo as CRO. Today, he’s an operating partner at Battery. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about Deliberately Underselling as Sales Strategy.

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All my apes gone: Legal disputes at the intersection of IP and NFTs

TechCrunch

Kristen Corpion. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kristen Corpion is the founder of CORPlaw , a Miami-based law firm serving fast-growing technology companies and entrepreneurs as fractional general counsel. More posts by this contributor. When should an early-stage startup hire a full-time lawyer? Non-fungible tokens may be revolutionizing the way we own and transact with digital assets in the 21st century, but they’re no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re gov

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DAO governance attacks, and how to avoid them

Andreessen Horowitz

… The post DAO governance attacks, and how to avoid them appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Fly.io wants to change the way companies deploy apps at the edge

TechCrunch

Fly.io co-founder and CEO Kurt Mackey says that developers don’t really understand the term edge computing. They just know they want to run their applications closer to the user to make them more responsive. He believes that the traditional way of doing this with a content delivery network (CDN) is a flawed approach, and he started Fly.io to deliver applications close to the user in a more efficient way.

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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.