Thu.May 07, 2020

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Honored! Sigma Nu Tau

Paul G. Silva

The entrepreneurship faculty of Western New England University kindly inducted me as an honorary member of Sigma Nu Tau , the only academic honor society dedicated to entrepreneurship. My sincere thanks to WNE, and especially Mary Schoonmaker.

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Growth

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

One of the great joys of the work I do is I get to watch the leaders of our portfolio companies grow over time. I’ve had a number of moments over the last few months where I got off a call or a meeting and thought to myself “wow, she’s a new person.” Growing as a leader takes time, mistakes, failure, feedback, and a lot of work.

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Catch Me Inside with Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran: Keeping up with COVID-19

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Local entrepreneur and YLAI alumni, Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran, shares valuable tips and best practices needed to navigate your businesses through COVID-19. Feel free to add to the discussion or leave questions in the comments below. #CatchMeInside. How to navigate your business through COVID-19. Posted by Youth Ambassadors Guyana 2015 on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.

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Startup HR: What’s important?

Y Combinator

In the early stages of working on a startup, there is little time to spend on areas other than product development and talking to users. However, as you start to hire people and build a team, there are HR fundamentals worth investing in. Having basic HR practices in place can help your startup scale quickly and may eliminate unforeseen and often costly problems down the road.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Oklahoma Investors Lead $5 Million in Funding for Tulsa Battery Material Developer and Manufacturer, Ten-Nine Technologies:

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., investing for growth in Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma and Kansas angel investors. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. May 7, 2020, 09:00 US Central Time.

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Keynote Spotlight: Vision Critical: Breaking News With the SEC

Angel Capital Association

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager We can’t wait to welcome Martha Miller, Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing ! Martha will join ACA for an exclusive fireside chat to discuss updates, trends, and perspectives about how COVID-19 is impacting raising capital, crowdfunding, and strategies to bridge networks.

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Catch Me Inside with Abbigale Loncke: COVID is all a we business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Covid19 is all ah we business with Abbigale Loncke#catchmeinside. Posted by Youth Ambassadors Guyana 2015 on Monday, May 4, 2020. This session of #CatchMeInside was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Guyana. . YLAI Professional Fellows Program alumna Abbigale Loncke discusses your role in the fight against COVID-19 and how you can help your communities and our country survive and recover from these challenging times.

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Have you experienced your disaster recovery event yet?

Berkonomics

Have you ever lost all your data on your smartphone, laptop, company server or desktop PC? If not, it is probably only a matter of time until you do. Those of us who have experienced this heart-stopping event now regularly back up our data and many of us create daily images of our entire hard drives often, ready this time to address an effective recovery.

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We Need Better Rural Data

EntreWorks Consulting

We’ve learned a lot of lessons—most of them painful—during the current COVID-19 crisis. In the policy-making world, we’re certainly learning that we need to do a better job in developing, using, and sharing data, research, and analysis. While we’re now rightly focused on issues related to public health data, we also need to think about how to address other data challenges as we move toward economic recovery.

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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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[The Bouqs in Forbes] How The Bouqs Company Is Bringing Flowers To Every Moment Of Life

OurCrowd

John Tabis, CEO of The Bouqs Co, believes that the consumer brands that are going to win are the ones that are where customers want them to be. That is why he thinks of Bouqs as much more than just an e-commerce company, with plans to be in retail and anywhere else a customer might want them to be. Read more here. The post [The Bouqs in Forbes] How The Bouqs Company Is Bringing Flowers To Every Moment Of Life appeared first on OurCrowd.

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GCUC Online: Enabling Technology Follow up

GCUC

As promised we gathered up the unanswered questions from our GCUC online event on the 21st and tracked down the answers for you. Below. The post GCUC Online: Enabling Technology Follow up appeared first on GCUC Community.

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[Zoomcar in The ET CIO] Zoomcar gears up tech to meet expected surge in demand

OurCrowd

In times of lockdown, mobility is certainly challenged. However, through a fleet of over 10,000 cars Zoomcar is trying to ensure that mobility-as-a-service is available for anyone who needs it on time. Read more here. The post [Zoomcar in The ET CIO] Zoomcar gears up tech to meet expected surge in demand appeared first on OurCrowd.

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[Hub Security in TechCrunch] Hub Security raises $5M Series A for its cryptography platform

OurCrowd

In recent years, more than a dozen Israeli cybersecurity startups including Tufin, Morphisec, Hexadite, Cybereason have migrated to Boston, thanks to a booming market of customers and local tech talent, WBUR noted. Read more here. The post [Hub Security in TechCrunch] Hub Security raises $5M Series A for its cryptography platform appeared first on OurCrowd.

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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.