Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky , disaster avoidance expert, speaker and author. . The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has changed life as we know it, as well as how we manage our households. While being shut mostly in our homes or observing infection prevention guidelines when leaving our house, it can be pretty hard to grapple with the reality of the world in which we now live.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Being a woman and owning your business means there's a good chance you're facing an uphill battle. And this was before COVID-19 hit the world by storm. Which means it has only added to your list of things to conquer. Now, we aren't saying that women aren't successful in business. We are just recognizing that women entrepreneurs have to fight harder and longer to be as successful as their male counterparts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have become standard tools for teachers who have had to run lessons remotely since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose. Today, a startup called Engageli is coming out of stealth with an app that it believes fills that need.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Building a team, securing funding, creating an amazing product, marketing, and generating a sales pipeline is difficult enough during a boom, let alone during a global pandemic – all while keeping everyone motivated and morale up. You’ve got a great idea, a great team and are ready to launch your business. It’s go time! But what happens when that “go time” is interrupted by circumstances beyond one’s control?

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are more than 2 billion websites in existence in the world today, millions of apps, and a growing range of digital screens where people and businesses present constantly changing arrays of information to each other. But all that opportunity also has a flip side: how can you say what you want, just how you want to say it, without technical hurdle after hurdle getting in your way?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dataloop , a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in helping businesses manage the entire data life cycle for their AI projects, including helping them annotate their data sets, today announced that it has now raised a total of $16 million. This includes a $5 seed round that was previously unreported, as well as an $11 million Series A round that recently closed.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The NVCA and Pitch Book are out with their Q3 report on the VC industry and what they report is that the VC industry continues to be very active throughout the pandemic. Deal counts and deal values are stable to up over last year. The massive expansion of later-stage private capital continues unabated. Valuations continue to rise. And exits have been very robust.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding. Augury , which works with large enterprises like Colgate and Heineken to maintain machines in their production and distribution lines, has raised $55 million in funding.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

How two average programmers created an e-commerce empire by imitating their former employer Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool , an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects. Along with Patrick’s brother, Daniel Chopson, the two Georgia Institute of Technology graduates have developed a suite of software products that are now used by thousands of architects, engineers, contractors and developers in 22 countries around the world, like EYP,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Use the VRIN Score strategy to make content that sells. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg , a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps SaaS companies build their products faster by giving them access to a set of enterprise-ready building blocks for often-used features like authentication and notifications, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round. The round was led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Entrepreneurship can be painful and that’s a good thing. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup Moment House $1.5 million in seed funding. The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto. Patreon chief executive Jack Conte and Sequoia Capital partner Jess Lee also participated in the round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Difference Between Elephants and Lions Matters Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Jay Srinivasan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jay Srinivasan is co-founder and CEO of atSpoke. I’m an immigrant, and since arriving from India two decades ago I’ve earned a Ph.D., launched two companies, created almost 100 jobs, sold a business to Google and generated a 10x-plus return for my investors. I’m grateful to have had the chance to live the American dream, becoming a proud American citizen and creating prosperity for others along the way.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Last month, I published an analysis of venture deal activity in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated that despite early warnings of an impending collapse, the pace of venture deal activity in the first half of 2020 was more or less on par with 2019. I concluded that many early observers failed to appreciate the ability of venture capitalists to adjust to a virtual environment and some analysts undercounted real-time deal activity by failing to account for the system

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The company formerly known as NewsCred has a new name and a new product: Welcome. Co-founder and CEO Shafqat Islam explained that this follows a broader shift in the company’s strategy. While previously known as a content marketing business , Islam said NewsCred has been increasingly focused on building a broader software platform for marketers (a platform that it uses itself).

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GCUC

OCTOBER 14, 2020

GCUC Mastermind is a virtual learning series focused on the accelerating nature of work and the humans driving it. You need new skills and. The post GCUC Mastermind: The Future appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Amid a rebound in short-distance travel, Getaround , a Silicon Valley car rental startup, has raised some new money to meet demand. The startup, which allows customers to instantly rent cars near them in over 100 cities, announced today that it has raised $140 million in a Series E deal, bringing its total known venture funding to $600 million. The Series E deal was led by PeopleFund with new investors including Reid Hoffman’s and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital, AmRest founder Henry McGovern, Pen

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Global venture investing platform OurCrowd is busy implementing its aggressive growth plans in the UAE as it sees huge synergy between the UAE and Israel’s startup ecosystem. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Khaleej Times] OurCrowd keen to boost UAE’s startup ecosystem appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just months after it announced a $33 million Series B, Chicago-based M1 Finance today disclosed a $45 Series C. The new financing event was led by Left Lane Capital , the same investor that led M1’s Series B. Bear in mind that so-called inside rounds are now a bullish sign in 2020, as opposed to in prior VC eras when they were viewed more cooly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Your mentor is not your ride-or-die Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Playbook , aiming to be the Patreon of fitness content, has raised an additional $9.3 million in Series A funding from E.ventures, Michael Ovitz, Abstract, Algae Ventures, Porsche Ventures and FJ Labs. The pandemic has hit the personal trainer and fitness industry incredibly hard. With gyms closed, trainers’ primary funnel for new customers has been shut down or slowed.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In the beginning of this deal terms series, we observed that the concepts covered in a typical term sheet can be grouped into four main categories of investor concerns: Deal Economics; Investor Rights/Protection; Governance, Management & Control; and Exits/Liquidity. In this last article we are going to finish off the series by looking at the provisions relating to Exits and Liquidity.

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