Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 6, 2021

With the advent of technological innovations, including dedicated servers and cloud hosting, businesses of all shapes and sizes are shifting to a more digital way of working. From international companies to locally owned small businesses, the landscape of how business is done has been gradually changing for some time now. One of the most significant changes—hastened by the global pandemic where contactless payments gained traction—is the switch from cash-in-hand transactions to cashless.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO?

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FundersClub

AUGUST 6, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: Embark Trucks , an autonomous trucking technology company, announced its intention to go public at a pro forma market cap of ~$5.16B via merger with Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. It’s a space many in the Nigerian ecosystem like to think is budding yet overcrowded. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” Two years on, the entrepreneur who is a household name has significantly scaled the company to new heights.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 6, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the top reasons that businesses fail, as found from a study by CB Insights. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about why small businesses fail: 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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2021

Number one trait: Answers “I don’t know” when he/she doesn’t know Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round , Verifiable snapped up another $17 million for its healthcare provider credentialing API toolkit. The Austin-based company’s technology creates an infrastructure for healthcare provider data management that puts providers at the center. Verifiable founder Nick Macario told TechCrunch that data fuels critical operations across health systems and insurance carriers, like contracting, credentialing, enrollment, claims and directories.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2021

Otherwise, you could accidentally run your business into the ground. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” As with nearly everything you read, the article in question is a bit more nuanced than its headline. Its author, Sam Lessin , makes some pretty good points. But I don’t fully agree with his conclusions, and want to talk about why.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2021

We’re tired of being underestimated. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

More than 40 African startups from a handful of countries have gone through YC over the past decade. Zambia joins that list today, and its entrant, Union54 , is a worthy first entry. Union54 (54 is a nod to the number of African countries) is a fintech company founded by Perseus Mlambo and Alessandra Martini. The startup claims to be Africa’s first card-issuing API and only just launched this year.

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GCUC

AUGUST 6, 2021

If I’ve learned anything in the last 18 months it’s that I don’t know what the future holds. It’s a funny thing to say. The post We Can’t Predict the Future appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of rules. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit?

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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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Impact Hub

AUGUST 6, 2021

Women entrepreneurs in West Africa are leading the way in creating sustainable businesses, growing their respective economies and generating lasting change. While entrepreneurs face all kinds of challenges starting up businesses anywhere in the world, women often have to deal with additional hurdles to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. Cultural and regulatory biases, as well as lack of access to ?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

V2Food is one of many new contenders in the alternative protein space, founded in Australia but now setting its sights on Europe, Asia and beyond. It has a few key advantages over the competition, and with €45 million in new funding it may be finding its way to plates in the Eurozone soon. The company has seen strong uptake in its home market, and the first goal is to be No. 1 in Australia, said CEO and founder Nick Hazell, formerly of MasterFoods and PepsiCo R&D.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 6, 2021

PartyBid is a fun way to collect NFTs with others. Here are some live parties you can join and bid with others: Funding Friday has always been about the idea that others might want to fund things that I am funding. Party Bid takes that idea a step further and makes funding things more social and fun. That’s a really neat idea. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jul 29, 2021 Transmutex Mona Alsubaei — Jul 28, 2021 The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity Lauren Young — Jul 28

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

U.K.-based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 million ($6 million) in a seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, and the founders of Wagestream, Peter Briffett and Portman Wills. The company says it enables small and micro businesses to bulk-pay bills, salaries and taxes using existing high street small business bank accounts, saving them a lot of time and money in administration.

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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.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2021

Connect with your prospects by avoiding robotic-sounding websites. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Hippo began to trade earlier this week after completing its SPAC combination. The home-focused U.S. neoinsurance provider initially stuck close to its $10 per-share pre-combination price before plummeting yesterday during regular trading. But Hippo’s declines don’t appear to be of its own doing. Lemonade, another U.S. neoinsurance player — albeit one more focused on rental coverage — posted slightly better-than-expected Q2 results earlier in the week.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Automation has become a business essential. For entrepreneurs looking to grow their business, the question always is, “How can I work smarter, not harder?” That’s where the power of marketing automation and your customer relationship management (CRM) comes into play. With such high demand to cut down on costs while increasing profitability, businesses are turning to automation as a means to keep the engine running while focusing strategic brainpower on more revenue-generating activities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Sam Richard. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sam Richard is senior director of growth at OpenView. More posts by this contributor. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. Everyone at an organization should own growth , right? Turns out when everyone owns something, no one does. As a result, growth teams can cause an enormous amount of friction in an organization when introduced.

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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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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2021

The new feature developed by D-ID showcases the many possibilities that AI and synthetic media will bring to the future of content development. Read more here. The post [D-ID in Financial Express] Josh joins hands with D-ID to bring new feature to the platform appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Michelle Davey’s pitch to Jordan Nof of Tusk Ventures about Wheel, a startup focused on providing a full suite of virtual care solutions to clinicians, was front-loaded with early metrics. It may not be standard practice to start with the numbers, especially early on, but she explained to us why she chose that strategy — and Nof told us why it worked.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2021

Austin-based ICON, developer behind the city’s first 3D-printed homes, is taking its construction technologies to space once more with a 3D-printed habitat known as the Mars Dune Alpha. Read more here. The post [ICON in Austonia] Austin 3D-printed homes startup prepares NASA for human Mars exploration appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

High-quality UX for websites and apps is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have if a company is to succeed. But scaling the impact of UX teams is not simple, and in recent years teams have turned to what’s know as DesignOps platforms to help them. Now, a new startup hopes to become a key DesignOps platform for UX teams, and has raised money to help it, in turn, scale-up.

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