Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Contributed by Eden Gillott, an EO Accelerator participant in Los Angeles. As president of Gillott Communications , a strategic and crisis communications firm, Eden helps companies protect reputations and build trust. We asked Eden how she guides companies to navigate difficult internal communications challenges and minimize brand damage. Here’s what she shared: As entrepreneurs, we enjoy spending our time building.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 15, 2021

3 ways to optimize your e-commerce site for better sales. Adapted from a blog by Christina Gwira of NOYADESIGNS. We all want to make more sales. There is so much more to having success with your online store than simply having a website. It’s very easy to think that all you need to do is hire a designer and sales will come. It just doesn’t work like that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. More posts by this contributor. Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it? Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Over the course of the summer, hundreds of people located in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint in Pennsylvania, visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our $50,000 innovation contest. On October 14, 2021 beginning at 2:00 PM, the eight finalists competed virtually via Zoom. They made their presentations to a panel of independent judges from CARGAS, Perceptive Automata, EG Associates Group, Sheetz, and Erie Insurance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It’s difficult for startups on a small budget to attract executives with the knowledge base to propel them forward, but Continuum , a talent marketplace for fractional employees, doesn’t think it should be. The remote-first company, which launched today, has been quietly developing a tool that matches venture-backed companies with executives who have been-there-done-that, but don’t want to be tied down again by a full-time position.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ran Ronen. Contributor. Ran Ronen is the founder and CEO of Equally AI. The technology sector is filled with amazing examples of innovation and collaboration coming together to make the world a better, more accessible place for people with disabilities. For example, hearing aids empower millions of people to perceive once-unimaginable sounds, and today’s next-generation hearing aids are making that process even more immersive and effective.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 15, 2021

iMCI Managed Funds. Technology Business Finance Program *. This Concept Fund provides pre-seed financing and early stage risk capital to advance scalable startup Oklahoma companies to prove new products and processes. OCAST TBFP has made 151 investments in 139 companies totaling $12.95 million. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund*. A state-funded investment fund that provides concept, seed and start-up equity investments to Oklahoma-based, innovative businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

January 2020 seems like a long time ago: Billie Eilish swept the Grammy Awards, Tesla’s market cap made it America’s most valuable car company, and Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 billion. A year later, the credit card giant balked at the deal after it attracted regulatory scrutiny, but Ryan Lawler reports that “the year wasn’t a total loss for the data connectivity startup.” He spoke to CEO Zach Perret, CTO Jean-Denis Greze and COO Eric Sager about

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Most entrepreneurs are too scared or embarrassed to check the destination plugged into their startup’s GPS. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups. Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Arvind Gupta. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arvind co-leads Mayfield’s engineering biology practice and is founder and venture advisor at IndieBio. He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite and Memphis Meats. Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Don’t be among the 20% of businesses that fail in year one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Continuing our series of interviews with leading technology luminaries , The Exchange recently caught up with Visionary Founder/CEO at Large Unicorn as its IPO priced and began to trade this week. After a rapid-fire series of S-1 filings, Large Unicorn priced above its own expectations, raising more capital than it had likely anticipated during the lead-up to its public offering.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 15, 2021

How to measure business success with marketing analytics. By Jewelle Saunders. Measuring your marketing efforts is a necessary step to move your brand forward and find sustainable success for your business. Understanding marketing analytics allows your marketing efforts to be more efficient and effective. Getting familiar with your data and learning how to use those measurements will make you more in tune with your audience and produce more effective results. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ivan Baidin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ivan Baidin is head of Travelpayouts , a global integrated affiliate program focused exclusively on travel offers. During the pandemic, we realized that we were swamped with work and overloaded with information. So we came up with an idea to fix that. At Travelpayouts, we plan a strategy for a year, then each team plans iterations for every quarter, and within a quarter, we plan for two weeks ahead.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Digital Marketing for Entrepreneurs. Just a moment, loading… The post Digital Marketing for Entrepreneurs appeared first on Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pagos, a payment intelligence infrastructure startup founded by former Braintree and PayPal execs, has raised $10 million in seed funding. Started earlier this year, the remote-first Pagos is building a data “platform” and API-driven micro-services that it says can integrate with any payment stack. The end goal is to drive better performance and “optimization” of a business’ existing payments infrastructure.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The complete guide to finding truly special talent Image by author Suppose you want to digitize your business “for real”, where you have a sensible digital strategy and development of existing teams and recruit the digital stars who can close the gaps you have internally. In that case, several different criteria apply. And the most important insight of them all is: it’s largely about diametrically different things compared to “traditional” recruitments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tim Parilla. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tim Parilla is LinkSquares ’ chief legal officer. More posts by this contributor. How to make sure your legal team is M&A ready. A recent Corporate Counsel article highlighted a growing trend: More senior legal leaders are migrating to startups to take on general counsel roles. For some, it’s an attempt to find a better work-life balance (whoops!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

There’s a clear pain point when it comes to drug discovery: Depending on which study you cite, creating an approved drug costs anywhere from $985 million to $2.6 billion. And R&D returns have rebounded to only about 2.5% in 2020, up from a low of 1.6% in 2019. Not to mention the fact that drugs that fail in clinical trials don’t actually help people who need new treatments. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was one of our strongest shows yet, with a wide diversity of news items that were genuinely fun (and complicated) to chew through. And even though we started off kind of grumpy, we laughed through tech difficulties, crypto puns and fintech CAC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Security cameras, for better or for worse, are part and parcel of how many businesses monitor spaces in the workplace for security or operational reasons. Now, a startup is coming out of stealth with funding for tech designed to make the video produced by those cameras more useful. Spot AI has built a software platform that “reads” that video footage — regardless of the type or quality of camera it was created on — and makes video produced by those cameras searchable by a

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

There may be plenty of funding for some startups these days. But plenty of companies will tell you otherwise. VC Lab , an accelerator for venture capital firms, wants to create investors who will back the rest of the world. A basic hurdle to this goal is the standard paperwork you need to set up a new fund. It currently requires specialized lawyers whose time can cost more than $100,000 per fund formation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision. Since its $30 million Series B in 2016 , Clarifai has been rolling out new capabilities and products targeting a company’s unstructured image, video, text and audio data files.

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