A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When you look at the recent Q3 numbers on seed and early-stage VC fundraising, you might think we are in the late stages of a VC bubble: The words I would use to describe the current environment in early-stage VC are “fast and furious.” And yet the thing that makes me think this could be the new normal and not the late stages of a bubble is the dramatic increase in the number of people who are choosing to work in or form new startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. Joining the fray is Heart to Heart , an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for your next foray, whether that’s a saucy encoun

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Like most entrepreneurs, you have likely spent hundreds of hours developing skills to build your business. By the time you start turning a profit, you’re likely to spend thousands of hours and dollars trying out different business models and seeing what works for you. Many entrepreneurs who start turning a profit think that the hardest part of running a startup is behind them and that it will be smooth sailing moving forward.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Simon Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon is an investment director with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments. More posts by this contributor. From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. How retailers can survive the Amazon era.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The following is excerpted from “ Brand Tuned ” by Shireen Smith (Practical Inspiration Publishing, September 2021) with permission. Think IP first! In chapter 3, we became familiar with the concept of IP, and in chapter 2 we had a short introduction to the problems that can arise from ignoring IP in your branding process. In this chapter, we are going to look in more detail at the first step of the TUNED branding framework: think IP first.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By Harmony Major, founder of Radical Growth Guru. Entrepreneur mindset is the talk of the town in small business circles. For smart founders wanting to ditch blocks and boost growth, it’s the “it” thing to master. Indeed, without a flexible attitude and focused relentlessness toward our goals, our businesses will go the way of bulky 2-pound flip phones.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As scores of Indian edtech startups populate their catalogs with live and recorded courses to reach and serve students in the world’s second-largest internet market, a handful of new-age firms are beginning to explore different approaches to tackle the challenge. Teachmint , one such startup that is helping teachers and institutes create their own virtual classrooms with a few taps on their smartphones and build direct relationship with students, has raised $78 million in its Series B fina

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the importance of cloud-based solutions for your small business and our upcoming webinar. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn about choosing the right hybrid cloud environment: CLICK TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR : Servers to Cloud: Selecting the right IT platforms for your business. In today’s business environment, entrepreneurs have more choices than ever in how to deploy technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Digital lenders that share personal data of loan defaulters, with third parties, risk license withdrawal in Kenya after lawmakers added a clause – granting the banking regulator the mandate to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality – to the new law passed by the country’s National Assembly. . Typically, loan apps collect borrowers phone data including contacts and demand access to messages to check the history of mobile money transactions – for credit scoring and a

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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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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the FinTech trend and Detroit’s role in its popularity. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn about financial technology apps: . Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Rhinoceros beetles are one of the greatest threats to oil palm crops , attacking plants while they are young and potentially lowering a farm’s yield for years. They also affect workers’ health, since pesticides need to be sprayed frequently. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Poladrone wants to change the way farms use pesticides with a combination of drones and automation and analytics software.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meet Hera , a new calendar app that wants to turn the calendar into the main work interface. Hera helps you schedule meetings more easily with natural language processing and lets you share availabilities in an email or any messaging app. The startup is also going to build integrations with your other work tools so that you can surface important information before a meeting and extract information after a meeting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How would you feel about someone else getting rich from your hard work? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Buy now, pay later services like Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and many others have seen their businesses grow in huge leaps, as consumers buying goods increasingly turned to alternatives to credit to delay paying for them in full. Now a Berlin-based startup called Billie that has built a similar service — but specifically targeting B2B transactions — is seeing a lift of its own boat from that rising tide. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Don’t let inexperienced gurus suck you into making the same misguided yet widely praised mistakes I did. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. It was after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on expedited shipping after some designs were delayed that Paul realized there had to be a better way of engaging with other teams to develop hardware faster and validate more designs.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Hannah Perry shares her journey going to her first big digital marketing conference, Traffic and Conversion Summit. Hannah owns The Giggling Pig Art and Party Studio and shares her journey of success (and challenges) on the Smart Hustle Podcast. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Every Business Owner Is Marketer – Hannah’s Journey. Hannah Perry attended her first marketing conference.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It seems like every website has a chatbot of some kind to help answer simple questions without having to wait for a customer service representative. However, sometimes in the course of connecting it may take awhile, and as your attention shifts to something else, your time expires and you have to start all over again. AtomChat is developing conversational artificial intelligence software focused on improving sales team performance by converting more via asynchronous messaging in WhatsApp.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the most significant barriers for websites to get conversions is the website itself, specifically due to the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). Today, there are many ways to build a unique website without spending too much time or resources. These easy tweaks will help boost user experience and boost the website’s conversion rates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vendease , an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The news is coming seven months after TechCrunch announced that the company, founded in January 2020, took part in Y Combinator’s winter batch that included nine other African startups.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Excerpted from “The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More With Less” by Sahil Lavingia, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © Sahil Lavingia, 2021. Whenever I have to decide what to do next, I ask myself the question Gary Keller poses in “The One Thing”: “What’s the one thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Seems like the goal of every startup is to exit via IPO, and if you can’t do that, by way of acquisition. In many cases, a sale gives a founder the opportunity to pay back investors and reward long-time employees, but what happens after the ink dries on the contract, and the reality of being owned by a larger company settles in? We’re going to get the inside scoop from three founders who sold their companies, on a panel called ‘What Happens After Your Startup is Acquired’

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Feedough

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Starting a new business is a daunting task, especially if. Read more.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Welcome to the week! Sure, the technology and business worlds are busy digging through a deluge of Facebook-focused reporting ahead of the social media company’s earnings report, but we have other work to do. Namely, the Braze IPO filing. The New York City-based company focuses on customer engagement software. We’ll get into what that means in a little bit.

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