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Knowing what you know now, how would you have prepared for COVID-19?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization what they would have done differently knowing what they know now. . Declutter. Declutter. Declutter. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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The 4 States of an Engineering Team

Tomasz Tunguz

I’ve been steadily progressing through the excellent books in the Stripe Press catalog. First, I read High Growth Handbook. Most recently, I read An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson. It’s the best book I’ve read on engineering management. Will has worked at Digg, Uber, Stripe, and is now at Calm and has seen many engineering teams endure and thrive through hypergrowth.

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

Feedough

Over 96% of new businesses fail in the first 10 years. But in some cases, like Groupon, startups cross the $1 billion mark in just their initial years. Such growth isn’t new. Several startups, including Amazon and Facebook, saw their metrics shot up dramatically to form the shape of a hockey stick. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth.

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Shark Tank's Lori Greiner Joins Ramon on Verizon’s Small Business Talks

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you're an entrepreneur and you don't know who Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner is, where have you been friend? Basically, Shark Tank is an entertaining and educational show perfect for all business lovers. The multi-Emmy Award-winning show is a reality show featuring six multimillionaire and billionaire investors — known as sharks — looking to invest in the best businesses and products.

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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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FINALISTS FROM INDIANA, JEFFERSON, CLEARFIELD, AND CAMBRIA COUNTIES ANNOUNCED IN BEN FRANKLIN’S BIG IDEA CONTEST ANNOUNCED!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Over the course of the past two months, dozens of people located in the counties of Indiana, Jefferson, Clearfield, and Cambria visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our recent $50,000 contest. This week, our team had the difficult job of identifying finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs, innovators, and small manufacturers.

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Know When to Hold ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em: Timing Exits to Coincide with Key Company Inflection Points

The Seraf Compass

How do you know when it’s time? It’s not like a company is a baby that has a 9 month gestation period. Every company is different. Some are ready for a good exit after a year or two of product development. Others might take 10 years or more before they are ready.

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[BioCatch in Globes] Major banks invest $20m in biometrics co BioCatch

OurCrowd

Israeli behavioral biometrics company BioCatch announced that four major global banks – Barclays, Citi, HSBC and National Australia Bank (NAB) – have invested $20 million in the company, expanding the company’s recent Series C financing round to $168 million raised. Read more here. The post [BioCatch in Globes] Major banks invest $20m in biometrics co BioCatch appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Talk:NYC Podcast

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have been saying no to podcast requests and will continue to do so. But when Julie Samuels asked me to be the first guest on the Tech:NYC podcast, called Talk:NYC , I had to say yes. We talked about tech, NYC, the current moment we are living through, and a lot more. It’s about 35mins. You can listen here. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Sep 24, 2020 Fear is the Mind-Killer Nick Grossman — Sep 23, 2020 No Wasted Footsteps.

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[Hailo in TechCrunch] Hailo challenges Intel and Google with its new AI modules for edge devices

OurCrowd

Hailo, a Tel Aviv-based startup best known for its high-performance AI chips, today announced the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-AI acceleration modules. Based around its Hailo-8 chip, these new models are meant to be used in edge devices for anything from smart city and smart home solutions to industrial applications. Read more here. The post [Hailo in TechCrunch] Hailo challenges Intel and Google with its new AI modules for edge devices appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Software Development Company Capitalising On Affiliate Marketing – Estimate Startup Review

Feedough

Affiliate marketing isn’t new. But building a business model around it is comparatively a newer approach, not that capitalised on in the software development industry. But when you develop a business model around a referral concept, you invite a totally new target audience to join your business that has its own different needs. This may, sometimes, make you move away from your core goal of serving the customers better.

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[BioCatch in No Camels] Israeli Behavioral Biometrics Firm BioCatch Nabs $20M From 4 Major Banks

OurCrowd

Israeli-founded cybersecurity firm BioCatch announced on Wednesday that four major global banks – Barclays, Citi, HSBC and National Australia Bank (NAB) – are investing $20 million in the company, extending its recent Series C fundraising round to$168 million. Investors Industry Ventures and existing shareholders American Express Ventures, CreditEase, Maverick Ventures and OurCrowd participated in that round.

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[TytoCare in Yahoo! Finance] Amwell Expands Partnership with Tyto Care to Extend Healthcare at Home

OurCrowd

Collaboration Will Allow Care Providers on Amwell Platform to Remotely Examine Patients Using Streaming Information from Tyto Devices, Extending the Scope of Care Rendered at Home. Read more here. The post [TytoCare in Yahoo! Finance] Amwell Expands Partnership with Tyto Care to Extend Healthcare at Home appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[Hub Security in Seeking Alpha] HUB Security teams with Marsh to offer insured storage solution

OurCrowd

Hub Security, the cyber security platform, is announcing the use of its military-grade VaultHSM to secure INX Limited’s crypto services.This news comes on the heels of INX Limited’s latest announcement of its initial public offering this week of up to 130 million INX Security Tokens (the “INX Tokens” or “Tokens”).

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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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[Edgybees in PR Newswire] Edgybees Receives $950 Million IDIQ Award from U.S. Air Force

OurCrowd

Edgybees, the industry’s leading provider of geo-registration technology for real-time, full motion video announced today that it has been awarded a $950,000,000 ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software and algorithm development in order to enable Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).

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[CyberMDX in PR Newswire] CyberMDX Supports Cyber Awareness Month with Hospital Hacks Video Campaign

OurCrowd

CyberMDX, a leading healthcare cybersecurity provider delivering visibility and threat prevention for medical devices and clinical networks, today announced that they will release a series of videos in October to support National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), an initiative launched in 2004 by the National Cyber Security Alliance & the U.S.

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[Zoomcar in Forbes India] The pandemic has been the perfect tailwind: Zoomcar CEO

OurCrowd

If you have cycled into a headwind, then making the most of the tailwind becomes a lot easier. Nobody perhaps knows it better than Greg Moran, who zoomed into gusty headwinds the moment he co-founded Zoomcar, a self-drive car rental platform, in 2013 in Bengaluru. To start with, there was an operational challenge. Zoomcar didn’t have a licence. Read more here.

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