Thu.Oct 08, 2020

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What is your biggest error in company planning?

Berkonomics

The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation. It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. Sources for your data. Where did you get the data to drive your assumptions of market size or market share?

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E-Commerce and Retail

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Most of us have seen some version of this chart that shows how the Covid pandemic has accelerated e-commerce adoption: What is interesting to me is that it has also impacted in person retail experiences. Most restaurants in NYC are not passing out menus anymore. They just have a QR code at the table that you aim your phone camera at and are taken to the menu.

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NOCD Raises $12M in Series A

HPA

NOCD is a burgeoning telehealth company that specializes in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) identification and treatment. The online therapy app announced a Series A fundraising round of $12 million. Hyde Park Angels participated in the round, which was led by Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) , a healthcare-focused fund based in New York. Previous investors also participating in the round include 7Wire Ventures and Chicago Ventures.

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7 Tips for Starting an Online Business

StartupNation

Few things create a flood of new online business seekers like economic uncertainty, but the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly exceptional for one reason: remote work. Now that people have cut commutes and are getting more time at home, that side hustle that’s been shelved for so many years has become significantly more approachable. Unfortunately, there’s an abundance of website owners masquerading as “experienced professionals” who don’t have up-to-date experience and whose sole

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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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Four benefits of having a PhD researcher on your team

NZ Entrepreneur

Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, an established entrepreneur, or somewhere in between, when you’re developing new products and solutions it can be helpful to have a PhD researcher on your innovation team, write Associate Professor Mary Tate and Dr Ivano Bongiovanni. Innovation sprints, hackathons, and other rapid, agile problem-solving and prototyping approaches may seem like the antithesis of the academic approach to research.

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To succeed as an entrepreneur, make these 8 investments

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Noah B. Rosenfarb , a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and a certified public accountant who helps entrepreneurs increase cash flow, sell their companies successfully, manage their wealth and create predictable passive income. 1. Invest in Yourself. We all invest our time and money in people and things. The best investment for entrepreneurs is always going to be in themselves.

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How a Constant Growth Mentality Resulted in a Multi-Million Dollar Acquisition for This Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

Rich Hull breaks down how his streaming platform, Pongalo, was acquired by Spanish-language powerhouse VIX.

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[Neura in CTech] Neura offers governments the behavioral data they need to live with Covid-19

OurCrowd

The Israeli company realized that human behavior is the key to understanding the spread of coronavirus and encouraging a change is needed to cope with the pandemic. Read more here. The post [Neura in CTech] Neura offers governments the behavioral data they need to live with Covid-19 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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What Is Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)? – Formula & Examples

Feedough

An old business adage states that about 20 percent of the customers bring in 80 percent of revenue to the business. Now, a well-operated and managed business should be able to separate this 20 percent from the rest 80 percent and put most of its marketing and selling efforts wooing this profitable segment. But how do you identify the better revenue-generating customer segment?

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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.