Wed.Mar 17, 2021

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How to Build a Press Kit for Your Startup

StartupNation

If you’re interested in garnering visibility for your business now, or in the future, you’ll want a press kit. Alternatively referred to as a media kit, press kits can be one of the most valuable resources that you invest time and money into, as they consist of elements that you will use over and over again throughout the lifespan of your new business.

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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurial success hinges on generating breakthrough ideas. But we have cognitive biases that keep us stuck in well-worn patterns of thinking. In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination.

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News Moments

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

There are these news moments that we remember vividly forever. The plane flying into the World Trade Center. The mob breaking into the Capitol. Reagan at the Berlin Wall. Just writing the words, I can see the images in my head. Our portfolio company Recount Media is all about these moments. Recount captures them quickly and concisely and shares them on social media and other digital platforms so that the world can see what is going on around them.

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How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar

TechCrunch

Michael Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tianhui Michael Li is founder of The Data Incubator , an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s and postdocs transition from academia into industry. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan and D.E. Shaw. More posts by this contributor.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Make It Easy for Customers to Buy

The Seraf Compass

Watching your family lose their home to entrepreneurial failure would scare a lot of people right into a conventional non-entrepreneurial career. Not Jon Strimling. The son of a semiconductor equipment entrepreneur, and the grandson and great grandson of entrepreneurs, he’d grown up around entrepreneurship as a way of life. Jon saw first hand the empowerment that comes with entrepreneurship.

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Is Pivoting in Business Necessary? Hear from Our Experts

Smart Hustle Magazine

COVID-19 has caused many people to pivot unexpectedly. From CEOs to stay-at-home parents to educators, everyone had to learn quickly how to shift and embrace this new normal. But pivoting in business is not for everyone. Some businesses are better off weathering the storm while others would be smart to shift as soon as possible. How do you know which category you fall under?

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The Robinhood competitor landscape intensifies as Invstr raises $20M

TechCrunch

One of the biggest gripes about investing apps is that they are not acting responsibly by not educating users properly and allegedly letting them fend for themselves. This can result in people losing a lot of money, as evidenced by the number of lawsuits against Robinhood. Today, an eight-year-old company that has been focused on nothing but financial education is now offering trading and banking services in the U.S.

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COVID-19 Exposed the Digital Divide: Here’s How We Can Close it with 5G

StartupNation

The pandemic has recast our view of internet connectivity for all as a critical component to an equitable society. Yet many rural and low-income communities around the world, including those in large urban areas, lack reliable, affordable internet access. Learn what needs to be done now to close this digital divide. In 2020, the world embraced digital transformation at an expedited pace, reimagining technology’s critical role in how we work, learn and live.

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From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class

TechCrunch

Ultra-precise cancer therapies! Human-like hair grown from plants! A way to potentially save the bees! The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch definitely doesn’t disappoint. As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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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Get to the Bottom of Your Employees’ Collaboration Issues

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A Quantitative Approach to Trust Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Financial API provider Brick is building the infrastructure for open banking in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

The adoption of financial apps is surging in Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia , the region’s most populous country. Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users. It is currently partnered with Indonesia’s seven largest banks, covering more than 90% of the country’s bank accounts, and plans to expand into all Southeast Asia countries.

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1 in 3 Small Business Owners Used Digital/Online Tools to Grow Sales Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Smart Hustle Magazine

The coronavirus pandemic has affected most small businesses. With changes in consumer behavior, businesses are still trying to adapt to the new normal. If you’re finding it difficult to stay afloat, you should start boosting your business’s online presence. According to Facebook US State of Small Business Report 2020, 34% of small businesses increased their use of online or digital tools to grow sales.

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Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable

TechCrunch

This morning TechCrunch covered an interesting round for Copy.ai , a startup that employs GPT-3 to help other companies with their writing projects. GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 , is a piece of AI from the OpenAI group that takes text from the user, and writes a lot more for them. As part of the process of covering the Copy.ai round, I got caught up in the idea of AI-powered writing.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Should You Really Turn Your Hobby Into a Career?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Watch out for the pitfalls of becoming a creative entrepreneur Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Dear Sophie: What type of visa should we get to fundraise in Silicon Valley?

TechCrunch

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: What are the pros and cons of the H-1B, O-1A and EB-1A?

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I Hope Clubhouse Is Taking Monetization Notes From OnlyFans

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Can the audio app hang on to its hype? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Nigeria’s Plentywaka gets backing from Techstars, plans expansion to Canada

TechCrunch

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. It will join nine other startups in the class of 2021 and secure funding from the accelerator as it sets its sights on global expansion. The Lagos-based company, founded by Onyeka Akumah , Johnny Ena , John Shaibu and Afolabi Oluseyi, operates an ‘Uber-for-buses’ model connecting commuters with buses via an app.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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5 Methods to Survive Price Wars and Not Risk Your Business Future

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Avoid the financial bloodshed of competitors fighting for breadcrumbs, and build your own feast Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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On Friday the EU will put startup-friendly legislation to member states — will they sign up?

TechCrunch

This Friday at its annual Digital Day , the European Commission will be launching a “legislative instrument” called the EU Startup Nations Standard (SNS). Now, before you think I’m about to bore you to death, you might like to know that the SNS is a huge political initiative. It will aim to make the European Union the most attractive place to create a startup, in comparison with obvious global leaders like the U.S.

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Stop Looking For a New Idea, Start Building Your Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The real reason why you keep yourself stuck. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OctoML raises $28M Series B for its machine learning acceleration platform

TechCrunch

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $47 million.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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What is Unit Testing? – Meaning, Process, & Tools

Feedough

Companies carry out testing of their products to ensure that their products are giving the desired outputs. But to ensure this, the companies need to test each unit of the product individually because even a minor fault in the smallest unit of the product can result in wrong output. Therefore, unit testing is a vital part of a product’s testing process.

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Writing helper Copy.ai raises $2.9M in a round led by Craft Ventures

TechCrunch

Copy.ai , a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by Craft Ventures. Other investors took part in the deal, including smaller checks from Li Jin’s newly-formed Atelier Ventures , and Sequoia. The startup is notable for a few reasons. First for its model of building in public.

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Red Rocket Blog Passes 2,000,000 Reads

Red Rocket

Well, it is only fitting, that in the same month the Red Rocket Blog hit its 10th year anniversary , the all-time blog reads passed the 2,000,000 mark!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, for your continued readership after all these years. We will do our best to continue to bring you useful how-to lessons and interesting small business case studies for you to learn from, in the years ahead.

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Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers

TechCrunch

When we think about getting access to an application, we tend to focus on the authentication side — granting or denying people (or devices) entry. But there is another piece to this, and that’s authorization. This is related to what you can do once you are inside the application, and Oso , an early stage startup, has created an open source library for developers to make it easier to build authorization in their applications.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.