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Quitting Your Corporate Job Is the Scariest Thing You’ll Ever Do

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I’ve been contemplating it a lot lately. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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4 Action steps to teach kids financial literacy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed By Susan Michel, EO New Jersey member and founder and CEO of Glen Eagle Advisors , which provides investment management and financial planning advice. Raising kids in an entrepreneurial family comes with challenges. You want to be a responsible parent and raise financially literate children, but where do you start? April is National Financial Literacy Month, the perfect time to focus on the importance of teaching children about money.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Ecosystem builders know that entrepreneurship and startups are critical for a healthy economy.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Tonal EC-1, Deliveroo’s rocky IPO, is Substack really worth $650M?

TechCrunch

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. We’re seeing signs of an IPO market that may be cooling, but even so, “there are sufficient SPACs to take the entire recent Y Combinator class public,” he notes. Once we factor in private equity firms with pockets full of money, it’s evident that late-stage companies have three solid choices for leveling up.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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How to Ensure Your Star Employees Don’t Leave You

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Rank them on these 4 satisfaction metrics Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Less Than a Week Until EH’s Startup Summit!

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Hello hello —there’s under a week to go our first Startup Summit on April 8th at 12 PM EST where entrepreneurs, investors, and creatives from all over the world will come together to shake virtual hands and share inspiring ideas. We’re happy to announce our final two speakers: Luciana Carvalho Se , co-founder of Inia Health and VC Scout for Ada Ventures, will be sharing her fight to demystify mental health and drive tech in a way that augments our humanity rather than undermining it.

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Funding Friday: Sentien Audio

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don’t go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. I have been using AfterShokz bone conducting headphones for the last six months and they work well. So when I came upon this Kickstarter project to make a pair of “smart” bone conducting headphones , I got interested.

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7 YouTube Channels to Help Entrepreneurs Survive the Crisis and Mitigate Risk

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Using their insights, my businesses endured a tough year without major problems. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud

Tomasz Tunguz

Open source software marries the decentralized community of the Internet with the ambition to build great things. Databases, application servers, streaming technologies, application deployment, and container management - many modern tools were born open source. But the clouds are rolling in for open source companies (pun intended). Today, open source software faces an identity crisis: what does it mean to be an open source company in the cloud?

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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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What Are Key Result Areas? How To Identify Them?

Feedough

While destinationless journeys do appeal to many, work without clear paths and goals is inefficient. What happens here is that people waste their time and energy on tasks that yield little results and are then barely left with resources to do the actual work. The only way to deal with this problem is by distinguishing the important, less important, and unimportant jobs.

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Backflip offers an easier way to turn used electronics into cold, hard cash

TechCrunch

Mike Barile spent two years and racked up nearly $20,000 in credit card debt to bring his first startup, Backflip , to life. The former management consultant had spent years toiling in the startup grind, first at Uber, then, after taking a coding academy bootcamp through AppAcademy (where Barile met his co-founder, Adam Foosaner), at Google and at a failed cryptocurrency startup.

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How To Prevent Others From Stealing Your Business Ideas

Feedough

If you’re here, I will presume you already have an idea that you’re working on or are planning to work on it in the coming future. Well, if you’re the latter, I have bad news for you. You can’t protect just an idea. There’s no central bureau to register all the ideas you have in mind and prevent others from building on them before you do. But if you’re already started working on your startup and have something more than just the idea.

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Don’t miss the Pitch Off today at TC Early Stage 2021

TechCrunch

Ten global startups, three rounds of pitching, nine expert judges. It’s not the 12 Days of Startups (no robotic partridge in a pear tree here), it’s the TC Early Stage Pitch Off — otherwise known as day two of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Yesterday on day one, TC Early Stage was all about invaluable how-tos. Today, it moves into a full day of action.

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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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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Coffee Consumption is Booming During the Pandemic (Episode 204)

StartupNation

The pandemic has changed consumer habits in a number of ways, including what we drink and even how much. According to the Spring 2021 National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) survey conducted by Dig Research, COVID-19 drove record coffee consumption at home. Grab a hot cup of coffee and listen to this morning’s WJR Business Beat to learn more: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Private equity, a SPAC and an IPO walk into a bar

TechCrunch

The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. Coming off a hot period in the final quarter of 2020, it was no surprise that tech upstarts pursued liquidity through a variety of mechanisms as the new year began. There were IPOs, there were direct listings , there were PE deals. Hell, we even saw enough SPACs that we lost track of a few; amid all the noise, you’ll miss the occasional note no matter how well-tuned your ear.

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[Morphisec in Security Boulevard] The “Fair” Upgrade Variant of Phobos Ransomware

OurCrowd

The developers of the Phobos ransomware have added new fileless and evasive techniques to their arsenal. Constantly keeping their attack up to date helps them bypass detection technologies through several distinct approaches, the latest of which we detail in this blog. The following provides details on a new Fair variant of Phobos. The Morphisec IR team identified this variant during an incident response engagement in early March, provided as part of Morphisec’s new IR services offering.

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I Sell Ego at the Top of the World

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

How Lukas Furtenbach invented a luxury experience for adventurers climbing Mt. Everest.

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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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[Freightos in Vox] The fallout from the Suez Canal ship is coming to a store near you

OurCrowd

When a ship as long as the Empire State Building is tall got lodged diagonally across the Suez Canal on March 23, it provided immediate and exceptional meme fodder. This mammoth symbol of the hubris of capitalism, run aground by a windy day — like a modern-day Titanic, if all the passengers were giant metal boxes, no one died, and everyone was on Twitter.

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Uruguayan payments startup dLocal quadruples valuation to $5B with $150M raise

TechCrunch

Cross-border payments startup dLocal has raised $150 million at a $5 billion valuation, less than seven months after securing $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This means that the five-year-old Uruguayan company has effectively quadrupled its valuation in a matter of months. Alkeon Capital led the latest round, which also included participation from BOND, D1 Capital Partners, and Tiger Global.

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Clubhouse will create billions in value and capture none of it

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. It was a busy week on the IPO front, Danny was buried in getting the Tonal EC-1 out, and Natasha took some time off.