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What does it take to go carbon neutral as a business?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As a global network of successful entrepreneurs , EO is proud of its members’ commitment to doing business for good. A vast number of our members are capitalizing on their business success in order to tackle the world’s greatest obstacles. Who better to move our world forward toward greater sustainability than today’s greatest innovators?

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Leaders Wanted - Assessing Leadership Teams

The Seraf Compass

Great ideas are a dime a dozen. For example, living in the Boston/Cambridge area, we are surrounded by some of the most innovative researchers in the world working at institutions like MIT and Harvard. I’m pretty confident when I say, in Boston, hardly a day goes by when some graduate student or professor doesn’t invent a new product, discover a new molecule or create a cool app.

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21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online in 2021

StartupNation

If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. As 2021 begins, we’re witnessing a fast-changing landscape. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything from working to socializing to ordering and shopping online has become the norm. In fact, according to emarketer.com ; “U.S. e-commerce sales will reach $794.50 billion (in 2020), up 32.4% year-over-year.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

TechCrunch

Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. However, due to RBI being a relatively new model, publicly available data is limited.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Is A Degree In Entrepreneurship Worth It?

Feedough

Entrepreneurship may be a calling for many of us who would love to jump into the world of entrepreneurship without any training and then learn and mature in entrepreneurship with years. However, in a world where more and more people opt to become entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship is no more a ‘calling’ where you can rely on your instincts to succeed.

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7 Things I Learned From Growing My Email List From 0 to 10k+ Subscribers in Less Than 10 Months

Entrepreneur's Handbook

An in-depth guide to increasing your subscribers, open rates, and sales. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Dear Sophie: Banging my head against the wall understanding the US immigration system

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Tips for getting a National Interest green card by myself?

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How to Avoid Becoming a Visionary Arsonist

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Entrepreneurs — don't fall into the trap of burning it all down Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India

TechCrunch

Bibit , a robo-advisor app that wants to make investing more accessible in Indonesia, has raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital India. Returning investors East Ventures, EV Growth, AC Ventures and 500 Startups also participated. This funding is a growth round and comes after Bibit’s May 2019 Series A. It brings the company’s total funding so far to $45 million, chief executive officer Sigit Kouwagam told TechCrunch.

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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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Mark Cuban Answered Business Questions from Twitter?—?Here Are His Best Insights

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Top tips from the most prolific Shark Tank investor Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Extra Crunch Live is back in 2021, connecting founders with tech giants and each other

TechCrunch

In April 2020, when the entire world was laser-focused on the coronavirus pandemic, we realized that startupland was in unprecedented territory. How should startups navigate fundraising, operations, and better understand the market? . In a matter of a couple weeks, we spun up a little series called Extra Crunch Live, giving Extra Crunch members the chance to hear from and connect with leaders across the industry.

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How To Properly Vet Vendors for a Two-Sided Marketplace Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The biggest vetting mistakes can be avoided Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Current Events and Math

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Watching the election returns last night made me think about all of the math we are learning in the last year. Now that our elections include different kinds of votes that have different demographics associated with them (mail-in votes, early votes, same-day votes), the absolute numbers move all around as the votes are being counted and reported. The networks are doing a pretty good job of trying to explain all of this math to us while it is happening and it is a real teaching/learning moment.

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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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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. That content, unsurprisingly, also typically costs a ton of money to produce, narrowing the production and distribution funnel even more.

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What You Can Learn from DH2 Chauffeured Transportation's Founder

Smart Hustle Magazine

Running a small business is one thing, and making it a success another. Ramon Ray recently talked to Nancy Vargas, who successfully pivoted her business amid COVID-19. During the interview, she shared how she started the chauffeured transportation company and what she was doing to succeed. They say - the road to entrepreneurial success is often paved with unexpected hurdles.

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At $35 to $39 per share, Poshmark’s IPO could 5x its last private valuation

TechCrunch

The new year is off to a busy IPO start. As The Exchange reported a few weeks ago , investors anticipate a busy Q1 IPO cycle, followed by a slower Q2 and a busy Q3 and Q4. With Affirm releasing an initial IPO price range last night and Poshmark repeating the feat this morning, private-market investor expectations are holding up thus far. Secondhand fashion marketplace Poshmark anticipates its IPO could price between $35 and $39 per share.

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The Next Chapter for StackRox

Tomasz Tunguz

Today, RedHat announced that it has acquired StackRox. By joining forces with RedHat, StackRox, which provides Kubernetes-native security, completes the next step a journey that started six ago, and will become a key part of OpenShift. The world of container and Kubernetes security evolved enormously during the past six years. Docker burst onto the scene and its containers took the infrastructure world by storm.

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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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Remote Workforce Management with Mobile Time Tracking

Smart Hustle Magazine

Remote workforce management is a must today. The coronavirus pandemic has changed a number of things about how our society functions and the organization of work life has certainly not escaped this tendency. A recent Gallup poll released in August of 2020 found that remote work days for U.S. workers has more than doubled during the pandemic. Due to lockdown orders and social distancing protocols, almost half of U.S. workers (49 percent) have telecommuted at some period during the year.

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4 Insurance Considerations for Your Home-Based Business

StartupNation

Starting and running a home-based business offers many benefits: decreased commute time, increased flexibility, and lower overhead costs, to name a few. However, when building or transitioning to remote business, several areas require extra attention. Digital advertising, data systems and connectivity tools need to be updated, and so does your business insurance.

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Atlanta’s SalesLoft raises $100M for its digital sales platform, now valued at $1.1B

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic and specifically need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus have continued to keep many of us away from the office. Now, increasingly, many organizations and people believe that it could usher in a more permanent shift to remote, distributed and virtual work. Today, a startup that has built a set of tools specifically to help salespeople with that change — by way of digital sales — has raised a substantial growth round to meet that demand.

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6 Powerful Brand Narratives Used By Tech Unicorns

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What’s in a story? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Pinball Pete’s Saved by GoFund Me Campaign (Episode 157)

StartupNation

Like many businesses during the pandemic, Pinball Pete’s faced looming doom when the business could no longer pay its bills. Instead of calling it quits, Pinball Pete’s turned to its loyal customer base to save them, raising more than $90,000 from almost 2,000 donors in an online donation campaign launched on GoFund Me on Christmas Day. The story, reported recently in the Detroit Free Press , goes to show you just how important it is to treat your customers right and deliver a highly valued prod

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How to Check Availability and Reserve Your Startup’s Name in Delaware

Startup Lawyer

Luckily, and unlike most states, Delaware has a free online system for checking legal entity name availability. That system can be found here. It is relatively easy to use and will make your filing process more efficient. For example, if you file a certificate of incorporation with a name that. The post How to Check Availability and Reserve Your Startup’s Name in Delaware appeared first on Startup Lawyer.

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[Nanomedic in PR Newswire] Nanomedic Technologies Appoints John R. Harper, PhD, to Board of Directors

OurCrowd

Leading Expert in Regenerative Medicine and Wound Care to Join Board of Israeli Medical Therapeutics Company. Read more here. The post [Nanomedic in PR Newswire] Nanomedic Technologies Appoints John R. Harper, PhD, to Board of Directors appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Senti Bio raises $105 million for its new programmable biology platform and cancer therapies

TechCrunch

Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer. The company’s technology uses new computational biological techniques to manufacture cell and gene therapies that can more precisely target specific cells in the body.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.