Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

When it comes to fundraising, there are some things outside of your control. Source: DocSend At DocSend, we studied the fundraising process of 175 startups at the seed stage in 2019 and analyzed data to understand which seed startups were successful in fundraising and why. Through comparing data from our first seed report in 2015, our analysis shows how the seed round has evolved since then and how the process and expectations have become more intensified today.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Startup entrepreneurs are not always the best negotiators. They step into the shoes of a business owner for the first time and find (to their surprise) that nearly everything involves negotiation of some kind, and they may not always have those negotiation techniques down. Starting a business requires, quite literally, hundreds of negotiations. Some are small, like securing the best price on printing your letterhead and business cards.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Danger is real, fear is a choice Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

By Scott Meacham. Oklahoma businesses and college students benefit from OCAST internship program. . Across Oklahoma, our college and university students, who have been pulled from pillar to post these last few months, are gearing up for internships. The time is right for Oklahoma’s startups and corporations to get in the hunt. The OCAST (Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology) Student Intern Partnership Program application is a great way to start.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Is now the right time? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Harry Stebbings, the podcaster-turned-VC, is stepping down as a partner of Stride.VC, the London-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Fred Destin, formerly of Accel. In a series of tweets , Destin said that Stebbings won’t be involved in Stride’s second fund (though he’ll remain a partner in fund one), and will instead be focusing on his podcast franchise “The Twenty Minute VC” and running his own micro fund, the aptly titled “20VC” “Harry’s 20VC podc

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

McDonald’s first plant-based burger was one of the new menu items the chain announced for 2021. And it seems that the rollout of the McPlant has already begun in some international markets. Read more here. The post [Beyond Meat in Yahoo Life] McDonald’s Is Rolling Out the McPlant Burger In These Countries Next appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Electric scooters promise a nifty new way to zoom around cities in a cheap, green and convenient way but the initial promise has been damaged by the anarchic nature of the technology’s success, with pedestrians cowering in fear on sidewalks while more adventurous riders have lost their lives venturing on to crowded roads shared with pantechnicons. Read more here.

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