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How to Make the Most of a Hybrid Business Model with or without PPP Relief

Smart Hustle Magazine

Small businesses are vital to our global economy, yet they are disproportionately vulnerable to the economic fallout from COVID-19. In fact, more than 70 percent of small business leaders felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic, according to an October 2020 U.S. Census Bureau Small Business Pulse Survey. While 4.9 million PPP loans were issued this summer to provide relief for small businesses, it is uncertain how many businesses will benefit from this next wave of governme

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SourceLink Commits to Innovation In Key Partnership with NLC

Source Link

Innovation is never born in a silo, and solutions are always meant to be shared. That’s precisely the philosophy behind the City Innovation Ecosystems program from the National League of Cities. At SourceLink, we are proud to continue to support the NLC's NIE program and have gained commitments from three new cities to become actively engaged in the program to right resource inequality and drive innovation across the country.

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Commercializing deep tech startups: A practical guide for founders and investors

TechCrunch

Vin Lingathoti. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vin Lingathoti is a partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital , where he focuses on technology investments. A software engineer by background, Vin has spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley working with tech companies. Before joining CIC, he led venture investments and acquisitions for Cisco Systems in London and San Jose.

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Someone Will Walk Away With Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

For the past ten weeks, six entrepreneurial teams have been participating via Zoom in an intensive Business Startup Boot Camp, The Tech Celerator @NWPA. In partnership with Gannon University’s Small Business Development Center and Erie Technology Incubator, the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority, and Knowledge Park at Penn State Erie, this program targeted emerging tech entrepreneurs from northwest Pennsylvania, and the applicants represented an exciting mix of target markets, products, and s

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 billion in assets under management , has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Copenhagen-based Labster , which sells virtual science laboratory simulations to schools, announced today that it has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by the prominent Silicon Valley firm, including participation from existing investors GGV Capital, Owl Ventures and Balderton Capital.

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LA-based SoLo Funds raises $10 million to offer an alternative to predatory payday lenders

TechCrunch

SoLo Funds wants to replace payday lenders with a community-based, market-driven model for individual lending, and now has $10 million to expand its business in the U.S. Payday lenders offer high-interest, short-term loans to borrowers who are at their most vulnerable, and the terms of their loans often trap borrowers in a cycle of debt from which there’s no escape.

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Female-Founded Afloat App Makes Asking for Help Easier

StartupNation

Asking for help is hard because being vulnerable is hard. Female entrepreneur, Sarah-Allen Preston, launched an app to help people who feel like they’re sinking, but have a hard time leaning on their community to receive a helping hand. Preston shares how her own traumatic experiences pushed her to find a solution to help others create an online support system and accept help in non-traditional ways when they need it most.

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TomoCredit raises $7M to help the cash rich and credit poor

TechCrunch

It’s difficult to get credit if you don’t have credit. That’s the problem that startup TomoCredit is trying to solve. Co-founder and CEO Kristy Kim came up with the concept for the company after being rejected multiple times for an auto loan while in her early 20s. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea with her family as a child, was disappointed that her lack of a credit history proved to be such an obstacle despite the fact she had a job “and positive cash flow.”.

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Use DRR to Measure the Health of Your SaaS Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Ensure you have a fighting chance at survival and growth Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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NeuReality raises $8M for its novel AI inferencing platform

TechCrunch

NeuReality , an Israeli AI hardware startup that is working on a novel approach to improving AI inferencing platforms by doing away with the current CPU-centric model, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8 million seed round. The group of investors includes Cardumen Capital, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd and Varana Capital. The company also today announced that Naveen Rao, the GM of Intel’s AI Products Group and former CEO of Nervana System (which Intel acquired), is joining the c

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Make Your First Customer Success Team a Well Oiled Machine

Entrepreneur's Handbook

SaaS businesses thrive on adoption, upsell and renewal — with the right Customer Success engine under the hood. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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‘Knowledge hacking’ app Uptime raises $16M

TechCrunch

Uptime , the self-described “knowledge hacking” app, has raised $16 million in seed funding, after officially launching on iOS in January. Positioned as a “micro-learning” platform,” Uptime presents five-minute “knowledge hacks” from books, courses and documentaries. The idea is to let you quickly “grasp ideas and insights from trusted authors, instructors, and creative minds,” without spending too much of your precious time.

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[ADvantage in Business Wire] Veteran Sports CEO Ahron Cohen Joins the ADvantage Sports Tech Fund

OurCrowd

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Experienced sports chief executive officer Ahron Cohen has joined the ADvantage Sports Tech Fund, a global leader in early-stage sports investing backed leAD and OurCrowd, as a venture partner. Read more here. The post [ADvantage in Business Wire] Veteran Sports CEO Ahron Cohen Joins the ADvantage Sports Tech Fund appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Sweden-based digital bank Northmill raises $30M

TechCrunch

Northmill Bank , the Sweden-based challenger that has around 200,000 customers across three European countries, has raised around $30 million in new funding. Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli. The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products.

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Leaders Wanted: The Importance of Deal Leadership

The Seraf Compass

The first time I served as a deal lead was unintentional. I happened upon a team I really liked, going after a market I thought was really attractive, with a solution I thought was really smart. So I started telling other investors about it. Many perked up and took an interest, but nothing was really happening because there was no bandwagon to jump onto. .

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Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips

TechCrunch

Meet Powder , a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. The company has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Serena. Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. While many communities of gamers already share content on Twitch, Discord and Reddit, there isn’t a dominant mobile app focused on gaming.

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The Formula that Got My Business a 200x ROI in Our First 90 Days

Entrepreneur's Handbook

This formula is proof you can launch a business for under $1,000. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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SecuriThings snares $14M Series A to keep edge devices under control

TechCrunch

Managing IoT devices in a large organization can be a messy proposition, especially when many of them aren’t even managed directly by IT and often involve integrating with a number of third-party systems. SecuriThings wants to help with a platform of services to bring that all under control, and today the startup announced a $14 million Series A.

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What Problem Are We Trying To Solve?

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Pro-Publica has an excellent interview with Jeff Kosseff , the author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet , a book about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Those 26 words are: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”.

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Scalarr raises $7.5M to fight mobile ad fraud

TechCrunch

Scalarr , a startup that says it uses machine learning to combat ad fraud, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The company was founded by CEO Inna Ushakova and CPO Yuriy Yashunin, who previously led the mobile marketing agency Zenna. Ushakova told me that while at Zenna, they realized that ad fraud had grown to the point that it posed a real threat to their business.

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[BriefCam in Security Today] BriefCam names Igal Dvir as Vice President of Technology, Product

OurCrowd

BriefCam has announced the appointment of Igal Dvir as vice president of Technology and Product. In this newly created role, Dvir will oversee product vision, strategy and roadmap execution to drive company-wide innovation. Read more here. The post [BriefCam in Security Today] BriefCam names Igal Dvir as Vice President of Technology, Product appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Ramp secures $150M debt line from Goldman Sachs as the corporate spend market grows

TechCrunch

This morning Ramp , a startup that competes in the corporate spend market, announced that it has secured a $150 million debt facility with Goldman Sachs. Ramp previously raised a $30 million Series B in late December 2020, after raising a $23 million Series A earlier in the same year. TechCrunch spoke with Ramp co-founder and CEO Eric Glyman about its new credit access.

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[BriefCam in Business Wire] BriefCam Names Igal Dvir as VP of Technology & Product

OurCrowd

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BriefCam, the industry’s leading provider of Video Content Analytics solutions, today announced the appointment of Igal Dvir as VP Technology & Product. In this newly created role, Dvir will oversee product vision, strategy, and roadmap execution to drive company-wide innovation. Read more here. The post [BriefCam in Business Wire] BriefCam Names Igal Dvir as VP of Technology & Product appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Israeli startup CYE raises $100M to help companies shore up their cyber-defenses

TechCrunch

Cybersecurity startup CYE has raised $100 million in a new growth round, led by investment firm EQT and with participation from 83North. CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to help companies shore up their security posture. It does this in large part by conducting offensive operations against their customers — with their explicit consent — to find weaknesses in their network defenses before malicious hackers do.

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Summiting Mount Kilimanjaro: A Lesson in Self-Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Miranda Naiman, founder and managing partner of Empower, a Tanzanian consulting firm and a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. . It’s 2:17am on December 17 2020 and my tightly booted feet trudge gradually forward in zig-zag formation up a 70 percent incline in the eerie darkness. An artic breeze bites my exposed face—the balaclava pulled down to allow extra oxygen deep into my lungs.

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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.