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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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

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Jon Medved writes: The third Ukrainian Israeli Innovation Summit at the end of October will take place in a new format this year combining online and offline communication due to the international pandemic, and will focus on the challenges and opportunities created by the COVID-19 crisis. A major tech event, the UISS was first launched in Kyiv in 2018 in order to establish cooperation between Israel and the Ukraine in the area of innovation.

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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

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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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

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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.

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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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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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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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

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: How can employers hire & comply with all this new H-1B craziness?

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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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