A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
As we all prepare for the fall back to school/back to work season, I thought I’d touch on a topic that has been top of mind for me for the last six months. The covid pandemic taught many of us that we can be productive and our companies can succeed in a fully remote work environment. But just because you can does not mean you should. In the venture capital business, this has meant making investments in teams we don’t meet face to face.
Paul G. Silva
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
When data is scant, scientists can greatly disagree. This video does a wonderful job of explaining why, and how the situation changes as data comes in. For those of us in innovation & entrepreneurship – this is our life! We are always starting in places of low data and high uncertainty, yet need to move forward. Lots of lessons to borrow from scientists here.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why you shouldn’t always trust billionaire’s advice. The founder lessons found in Uno (yes, the game). Let’s get to it. Should you trust billionaires for startup advice? When seeking advice on an app he was building, Aaron Dinin, PhD met two entrepreneurs.
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AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Morse Micro , a fabless semiconductor company reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that it has raised $140 million in a Series B funding round led by MegaChips Corporation , a leading ASIC and SoC services company based in Japan.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
MECHANICSBURG, PA – Gig and Take has closed a pre-seed round totaling $1.5 million led by Schematic Ventures with participation by Motivate Ventures and SHRM Labs (the venture capital arm of the Society of Human Resource Management). This capital will help fuel Gig and Take’s commercial expansion for the next two years. Finding and retaining labor is the number one challenge in domestic manufacturing.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Sam DeBrule. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sam DeBrule is co-founder and head of marketing of Heyday , the AI-powered research assistant that helps you retain more of what you learn. Whether you’re building a product at an early-stage startup or fine-tuning an already built-out product at a larger company, there is a straightforward process that can help you improve your onboarding experience.
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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.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s BIG IDEA Contest recently offered agriculture and food/beverage entrepreneurs, innovators, and companies in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint the chance to pitch to win up to $25,000 in seed funding. This cash prize is designed to support every aspect of turning a business idea into a business reality. “This is our first time focusing our BIG IDEA contest on a specific industry,” said Stephen Brawley, President & CEO of Ben Franklin.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Software company JusticeText today announced the closing of a $2.2 million seed round, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Reid Hoffman, John Legend and Michael Tubbs. The company, launched in 2019 by Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove, stores, catalogs, analyzes and then shares video evidence, hoping to increase transparency around criminal matters such as police interactions and improve overall judicial outcomes for low-income criminal defendants.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Gokomodo , an Indonesian agriculture supply chain platform , announced raising $26 million in its Series A funding round led by East Ventures. Other investors participating in the oversubscribed round are SMDV, Eight Capital, K3 Ventures, Triputra, Waresix, Indogen Capital, Sahabat Group, and Sampoerna Financial.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Arul Jegadish. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arul Jegadish , co-founder of OpsVerse , has spent the last decade building OSS DevOps pipelines. The DevOps methodology is becoming mainstream for good reason: 99% of practitioners say it has ??positively affected their organization. While DevOps is foremost a way of collaborating, a lot of it is shaped by tools.
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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.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Evolve , an India-based mental health startup focused on the LGBTQ+ community, has announced raising about $375,000 in pre-Seed funding round. According to the announcement, the funding round was led by Rajesh Ranavat, executive director at Fund Strategic Holdings, and saw participation from prominent angel investors including Ankit Mehrotra and Nikhil Bakshi (founders, Dineout) as wel
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We are back on a Tuesday instead of a Monday thanks to an American holiday, which means we are looking at a compressed week. But don’t let the shorter window for news fool you — it’s going to be busy.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Backed by investors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CDC Group, Cropin is set on digitizing the agricultural industry. Today, the company announced the launch of Cropin Cloud, a cloud platform with integrated apps. Founded in 2010, Cropin’s other products are live in 92 countries, it is partnered with over 250 B2B customers and has digitized 26 million acres of farmland.
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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.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Before a technology startup becomes a company, it spends a period of time as simply a project. The founding team is usually one or two individuals building and testing products as they try to validate a demand for them in the market. At some point, founders ask themselves: when is it time to turn this project into a company? The post When Should a Tech Startup Form a Company appeared first on Gust.
Feedough
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Imagine a scenario where you have to buy a new. Read more. The post Razor And Blades Business Model Explained appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’ attention these days, rare is the brand that’s able to make a lasting first impression. According to Microsoft Research, people only spend about 10 seconds on a company’s homepage if the page doesn’t immediately connect with a marketing message.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By my rough estimation, there are approximately 30m monthly active web3 users (getting closer to that 100m user mark! ) The activity rates of those users mirror web2 finance apps. MixPanel recorded the activity rate of web2 finance apps at 10.7% DAU/MAU. In other words, 11% of users who use the app every month, also use it daily. Dune Analytics provides insight into the DAU / MAU of Ethereum users for August.
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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
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Once upon a time, reaching a $1 billion valuation was a Big Deal. But the shine that a so-called unicorn valuation conferred on a startup eroded as more and more private companies reached the threshold — often with less and less to back it up. TechCrunch, where the term “unicorn” was born , noted the dilution of the denomination by working to collect notes instead on startups that had reached a $100 million revenue run rate, often measured in the form of annual recurring revenu
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Tailor , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. Founded in 2021 by Yo Shibata and Misato Takahashi, Tailor provides a headless ERP platform, meaning an ERP without a front end, instead delivering data from back-office systems like finance and procurement to other applications via API, Shibata told TechCrunch.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The vegan food market was pegged as a $27 billion industry last year , a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the major food and beverage incumbents such as Nestlé, which launched a plant-based dairy line under the Wunda brand last year, while rival Unilever has been doubling down on its vegan offerings.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Proposed EU rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study. The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development.
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