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Together We Grow: 11 Expert tips for scaling a SaaS business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jan Heybroek, the founder and CEO of MDoutlook , is the moderator of EO Atlanta’s Forum Confidential programme. Jan contributed this article with help from Rhonda Suttle, EO Atlanta executive director, and Thamara Ataide, EO Atlanta marketing manager. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) exists to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential.

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Motivating global youth to find their WHY with Alpha Sennon of WHYFARM

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Jewelle Saunders. “Not everyone has unwrapped theirs yet, but everyone has a gift to give to the world,” says Alpha Sennon. 2016 YLAI Fellow Alpha Sennon is a well-recognized global “farmerpreneur,” motivational speaker, agri-youth advocate. He is also the founder of WHYFARM (We Help You-th Farm), an award-winning nonprofit organization that pioneers agricultural educational entertainment (AgriEduTainment), and creator of AGRIman, the world’s first superhero for food and nutrition security.

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Funding Friday: Ethereum: The Infinite Garden

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

ETHEREUM: THE INFINITE GARDEN is a “feature-length documentary film that explores the innovative real-world applications of the Ethereum blockchain, the die-hard community of enthusiasts and developers, and its creator, Vitalik Buterin, whose vision for the internet has the potential to change the world.” The film is being crowdfunded on the Ethereum blockchai n and the campaign ends at 6pm eastern time today.

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Growing your online presence: How to manage your organization’s social media

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Bryce Kelly. Standing out from the crowd can be difficult. In the age of social distancing, it can be even more complicated, as so many daily activities have moved online. Using social media to promote your organization has become one of the most important strategies and skills an entrepreneur can have. We’ve assembled some of the best tips and tricks from our YLAI Network alumni and experts to show how they are effectively using Facebook, YouTube, and more to establish a unique online presen

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

TechCrunch

Lee Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). The fintech sector has been hugely successful (and hugely profitable) for much of the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic. But it might come as a surprise to learn that many in the industry believe that the story is just beginning and the sector is poised to achieve much more, wit

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Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’

TechCrunch

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020.

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How to identify, target, and keep your digital audience

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Glenn Pingul and Bryce Kelly . During a recent poll of YLAI Network members, an overwhelming number of young leaders noted that while they understood the importance of branding, they still felt as though they were struggling to figure out just who they should be marketing toward. Business and nonprofit managers of course want to receive as much support as possible, but they also want to know how to stand out from the crowd and build a loyal audience.

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Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs

TechCrunch

Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee between them. Young was there on a marketing contract. Cavins was a board member. They shared one of those looks that only couples can understand. It said: There’s got to be something better than this.

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Making Money on LinkedIn Is a Secret Society

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Let me show you exactly how content creators make money on LinkedIn. It’s not obvious — and I’ve been doing it 7 years. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key

TechCrunch

John Flavin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John Flavin is founder and CEO of Portal Innovations, LLC. More posts by this contributor. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early. Kevin O’Connor. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kevin A. O'Connor, Ph.D., is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice group at Neal Gerber Eisenberg.

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5 Startup Scandals That Show Even The Smartest Investors Get Scammed

Entrepreneur's Handbook

#1 — the unicorn made of shells Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter

TechCrunch

Visualping , a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced earlier this year. The round was led by Seattle-based FUSE Ventures , a relatively new firm with investors who spun out of Ignition Partners last year. Prior investors Mistral Venture Partners and N49P also participated.

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La expansión de tu presencia en línea: Cómo administrar las redes sociales de tu organización

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Bryce Kelly. Destacarse puede resultar difícil. Esto podría ser aún más complicado en la era del distanciamiento social, ya que muchas de las actividades diarias han pasado al ámbito virtual. La utilización de las redes sociales para promover sus organizaciones se ha convertido en una de las estrategias y destrezas más importantes que los emprendedores pueden tener.

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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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Digital lending platform Blend valued at over $4B in its public debut

TechCrunch

Mortgages may not be considered sexy, but they are a big business. If you’ve refinanced or purchased a home digitally lately, you may not have noticed the company powering the software behind it — but t here’s a good chance that company is Blend. Founded in 2012, the startup has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. Blend’s white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks including Wells Fargo and U.S.

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Feel better, brand better: How one YLAI Fellow made body positivity his message

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Bryce Kelly. Whenever YLAI 2021 Fellow Luisfer Pelayo gets asked what he is most passionate about in his work, he never hesitates with his answer: “To see the faces of the women in the mirror when they see the package of something they bought on ATÁLIA, because they bought something that they liked … that when they see themselves, they are happy.”.

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Taste intelligence startup Halla closes $4.5M Series A1 to predict which grocery items shoppers will buy

TechCrunch

Halla wants to answer the question of how people decide what to eat, and now has $4.5 million in fresh Series A1 capital from Food Retail Ventures to do it. Headquartered in New York, Halla was founded in 2016 by Gabriel Nipote, Henry Michaelson and Spencer Price to develop “taste intelligence,” using human behavior to steer shoppers to food items they want while also discovering new ones as they shop online.

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[JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] People of JumpCloud | Ryan Bacon

OurCrowd

People are the lifeblood of any organization, but so rarely do they receive the spotlight like the innovative applications and services, company missions, and devoted customer communities they work so hard to create. We want to change that. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] People of JumpCloud | Ryan Bacon 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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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

TechCrunch

Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos.

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Cómo utilizar las redes sociales como una herramienta: la marca de joyería única de una becaria de la YLAI

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Yarielka Arrieta Batista. Como consecuencia de la pandemia de COVID-19, muchas pequeñas empresas por todo el mundo han cambiado los métodos que emplean en sus negocios, pasando de las operaciones en persona a las operaciones digitales. Al no poder atender clientes en sus tiendas, los dueños de empresas han tenido que depender del mercadeo digital para comercializar sus productos y servicios.

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Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round

TechCrunch

TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capital in today’s frenetic fundraising environment , digging into the gritty mechanics for the audience. Cleo Capital invests $500,000 to $1 million into early-stage startups, with portfolio companies that include mmhmm, Cameo and StyleSeat, among others.

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Cómo identificar a tu público digital, dirigirte a él y mantenerlo

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Glenn Pingul y Bryce Kelly . Durante una encuesta reciente que se les hizo a miembros de la Red YLAI, un número abrumador de jóvenes líderes señaló que, si bien entendían la importancia de la creación de marcas, todavía sentían que estaban luchando por descubrir exactamente hacia quién deberían dirigir su mercadeo. Es claro que los gerentes de empresas y de organizaciones sin fines de lucro quieren recibir el mayor apoyo posible, pero también quieren saber cómo destacarse y generar un públic

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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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Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. At NEA, where she was a partner for eight years, she led investments in and sat on the boards of companies including Desktop Metal, Onshape, Framebridge, Tulip, Formlabs and Guideline.

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3 Questions to Consider About Remote Workers Before Making a Hire

StartupNation

One of the most critical steps in successfully scaling a business is to hire staff, and the hiring landscape has changed drastically amid COVID-19. Many employees are now being interviewed, hired and onboarded as remote workers. Bank of America’s 2021 Small Business Owner Report revealed that one in five business owners plans to hire in 2021.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

Switzerland-based privacy startup Nym Technologies has raised $6 million, which is being loosely pegged as a Series A round. Earlier raises included a $2.5 million seed round in 2019. The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. The latest funding will be used to continue commercial development of network infrastructure, which combines an old idea for obfuscating the metadata of data

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`How to Make Your Business More Visible to Win Customers

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A guide to step up your marketing and get some recognition Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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.