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Singapore’s Solar AI Raises $1.5 Million to Fuel Regional Solar Expansion in SouthEast Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based Solar AI Technologies has successfully secured a seed funding round of US$1.5 million, with Earth Venture Capital taking the lead, accompanied by participation from Undivided Ventures, Investible, and climate-tech angel investor David Pardo.

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. The New Zealand chapter of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) wants to see local and central government politicians initiate policies to make entrepreneurship easier and more effective.

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How to Fuel Your Startup’s Growth Engine

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Image: Created by author To keep close to the startup community, I chat with founders often. I’ll frequently get asked about what growth is, how you apply it to startups, and when you should focus on it. So to help with those conversations, I put together a quick “Growth 101” doc to answer some of the most common questions I get from founders. As a side benefit, my parents might have some idea of what I actually do for work.

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Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC?

Andreessen Horowitz

To put it simply: higher LTV:CAC → higher margins → higher valuation. Investors often use 3x LTV:CAC as a rough benchmark of a consumer company’s financial health. If your customer lifetime value (LTV) is 3 or more times your customer acquisition cost (CAC) within 5 years, that means your company has efficient returns on sales and marketing spend. But there’s little discussion of how a higher LTV:CAC actually translates to long-term profitability and, ultimately, valuation.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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The Complexity Tax is Much More Painful Than You Think

Entrepreneur's Handbook

When you build a thing, you can always make it more complicated with the hope of making it better. Image: Pexels Making your product or service more complicated allows you to try to solve more potential user problems, which hopefully anticipates the user’s needs and leads to a great product. The main question is, when is this complexity worth it? If you don’t introduce enough complexity into your product, you can’t solve enough user problems, and it will fail.

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The Dawn of AI : Pricing Power & Profits in NVidia's Business

Tomasz Tunguz

If we needed another exclamation point on the tremendous growth opportunity, NVidia’s earnings punctuated the euphoria with gusto. Revenue grew 88% in a quarter, nearly doubling. The company had projected $11b & exceeded projections by $2.5b or 26%. The Data Center business, which sells to clouds & consumer companies drove nearly all of the growth, surging 141% quarter-over-quarter to $10.3b & nearly 3x annually.

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Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music

Andreessen Horowitz

In the first episode of the Cultural Leadership Fund’s Zone of Genius series, we sit down with leaders in music, Doug E. Fresh, Dre Lyon, Nicole Wyskoarko, and Piff Marti. We explore balancing artistry with “the machine,” the future of music as an asset class, AI as a creative copilot, technology’s role in producing the sounds we love, and maintaining authenticity as artists grow their brands.

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How To Make Your Workplace Equitable Using Data

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Psst, our emails all come from Beehiiv now and we just released the first guest episode of season 2 of our podcast. Don’t miss out Our Next 3 weeks: Raz Golan (Co-Founder of Shopic)  — How To Use AI To Disrupt Traditional Markets Tyler Denk (Founder of Beehiiv)  — How To Grow Your Newsletter Sandhya Hegde (Partner at Unusual Ventures ) How Generative AI Is Shaping SaaS Join us and get 50 top lessons from season one from the likes of the cofounders of Netflix and Twitter How To Make Your Workplac

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Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC?

Andreessen Horowitz

To put it simply: higher LTV:CAC → higher margins → higher valuation. Investors often use 3x LTV:CAC as a rough benchmark of a consumer company’s financial health. If your customer lifetime value (LTV) is 3 or more times your customer … The post Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC? appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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OurSong co-founder PoChang Wu is remixing creation and licensing models for musicians

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Wu talks about “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X as an example.

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Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates

Andreessen Horowitz

WARNING: You will leave hungry from this episode! In the latest installment of Zone of Genius, guests Julia Collins, founder/CEO of Planet FWD, Nyesha Arrington, award-winning chef, restaurateur, and entrepreneur, and Alvin Salehi, cofounder/chairman of Shef, sit down with the Cultural Leadership Fund to share their insights about our ties to food. From comfort and safety to supply chain to the only way to make a proper mac n cheese, explore the many ways technology and the food industry impacts

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[Stellar Cyber in IT Digest] Stellar Cyber named as a representative vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for IT Management Intelligence, 2023

OurCrowd

The post [Stellar Cyber in IT Digest] Stellar Cyber named as a representative vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for IT Management Intelligence, 2023 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[Armory in PR Newswire] Armory launches developer hub to Ccelebrate 7th year in business

OurCrowd

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Armory, the Continuous Deployment (CD) company, celebrates their 7th birthday with the launch of their developer hub. Read more here.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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[Cyfirma in SC Media] CraxsRAT, CypherRAT malware developer unmasked

OurCrowd

Syria-based developer and malware-as-a-service operator “EVLF DEV” has been identified to be behind the CraxsRAT and CypherRAT remote access trojans, according to SecurityWeek. Read more here.

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[DailyPay in NBA] Houston Rockets and Toyota Center announce partnership with DailyPay 

OurCrowd

HOUSTON – The Houston Rockets and Toyota Center today announced they have entered into a long-term partnership with DailyPay, an industry-leading on-demand provider. In addition, DailyPay will become the presenting partner of an Employee of the Month recognition program which will reward Rockets and Toyota Center event employees.

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[Rebel Fund in PR Newswire] Novig announces $6.4M in Seed Funding from leading investors ahead of launch in Colorado

OurCrowd

The post [Rebel Fund in PR Newswire] Novig announces $6.4M in Seed Funding from leading investors ahead of launch in Colorado appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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