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Vareto raises $24M from GV, Menlo and all-star angels to reinvent financial planning for enterprises

TechCrunch

Vareto , a startup aiming to help companies conduct more forward-looking financial planning and analysis, is coming out of stealth today with $24 million in total funding. GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2 million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Menlo also put money in the company’s latest round, in addition to 40 angel investors, including tech unicorn founders and chief financial officers.

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WJR Business Beat: Local Company AdAdapted Strikes Major Partnership For Growth (Episode 298)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about a major collaboration between Ann Arbor startup AdAdapted and Buzzfeed that impacts how consumers find recipes and shop. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about AdAdapted’s partnership: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Alternative financing, Web3 adoption, India’s hot Q3 fundraising

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Web3 is still taking shape, so it is hard to define. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. In today’s Web 2.0, individuals give money and personal data to network operators in exchange for access to information. “In Web3 there is a possibility — not saying that it’s going to actually 100% gonna happen — but there is a possibility where the network owns the network,” said Rubin.

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i2E adds experience and talent to better help Oklahoma entrepreneurs

Innovation 2 Enterprise

We’re still the same i2E that has served Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community for the past 22 years, providing business advice to nearly 800 startups and investing $79 million in 187 companies. We’ve celebrated 11 major exits and one “unicorn” among our portfolio companies over more than two decades of service to Oklahoma. Now, we offer even more to Oklahoma’s founders to keep up with the growing demand for our services through our subsidiary, i2E Management Company, Inc.

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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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Rivian’s IPO filing is now public

TechCrunch

Electric vehicle startup Rivian, which started deliveries of its R1T pickup truck in September, released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States. The S-1 document, which was filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, does not include terms for its offering. The company filed confidentially for its IPO in late August, just two months after it had closed a $2.5 billion private funding round led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Fo

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Startups have more options than ever to lower their reliance on venture capital

TechCrunch

The capital market for startups has perhaps never been more attractive than it is today. Not only are venture capitalists raising more capital than ever , but new methods of financing startup activity are maturing. The result is a capital market that is increasingly competitive for startup attention, and business, which may lead to better prices for founders and their startups.

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Founders speak on impact of e3 class on their ventures

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Words like ‘focus,’ ‘structure,’ ‘strategy’ and ‘invaluable’ are heard over and over again as we talk with the founders who participate in our popular e3 – evaluate, equip, empower — workshop for entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs bring their ideas and new concepts to e3 with a mission to determine the best market and test customer acceptance of their venture.

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Here’s all 10 companies from IndieBio’s latest New York cohort

TechCrunch

Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio , it’s the primary focus. Last time we checked in with IndieBio , their companies were working on everything from lozenges to treat gum disease, to vertical farms for the sustainable production of shrimp, to saving the bees.

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5 Unexpected Epiphanies That Will Rock Your Reality Once You Achieve Entrepreneurial Success

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Losing 6-figures was devastating, but making it back many times over has triggered some stark realizations. 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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All Day Kitchens wants to expand every independent restaurant’s delivery network

TechCrunch

The pandemic ushered in the popularity of shared workspaces, known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens, for restaurants to cook meals exclusively for delivery. But for small, independent restaurants that couldn’t afford the upfront costs for expansion, Uber Eats alums Ken Chong and Matt Sawchuk came up with another approach. They founded All Day Kitchens in 2018 to partner with restaurants to share their food across a city through use of a network of satellite kitchens, without having to put up

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How Launching Every Month Doubled My Annual Revenue And Profits

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Launches take practice, but are powerful when wielded well. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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7 takeaways from Rivian’s IPO filing

TechCrunch

Rivian , the electric automaker backed by Amazon, Ford and a cornucopia of heavy-hitting institutional investors like T. Rowe Price Associates and Coatue, finally made its once-confidential IPO filing public. . The company, which started in 2009 as Mainstream Motors before adopting the Rivian name two years later, has exploded in terms of people, backers and partners in the past few years.

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5 Tips to revamp your performance review process

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Chiara Toselli, head of marketing and sales for Pavestep , a performance management solution that helps businesses effectively manage their talent. We’re approaching that dreaded time of year: performance review season. For many companies, it’s the one time a year that employee performance is examined and evaluated. The problem? People on both sides of the desk loathe annual performance reviews.

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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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Utopia Labs is building an operating system for DAOs

TechCrunch

Decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, are all the rage at the moment. We’re seeing explosive growth in this sector as people experiment with building companies on top of tokens and smart contracts. And where new organization types bloom, so does the need for infrastructure. Utopia Labs is a team of four founders who met on Discord and Twitter over the past few months — a story that is getting increasingly familiar in the crypto-driven web3 space where everything is moving incred

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Why Elon Musk’s “Two” Learning Rules Won't Work For You

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Only 1% of entrepreneurs will succeed Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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LeadIQ’s rapid growth snags venture attention as sales software market stays hot

TechCrunch

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. Other investors in the transaction include Fresco Capital , Strong Ventures , and Eight Road Ventures. LeadIQ frames its product from the perspective of missed revenue targets at companies, which it claims impact nearly two-thirds of today’s deals.

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Targeting Leads – The Lifeline to Finding Your Ideal Customers

Smart Hustle Magazine

Welcome to Episode 2 of “Lifecycle Marketing Made Easy,” a conversation with Clate Mask, CEO and co-founder of KEAP. In this new series, Ramon and Clate dive deeply into the topic of Lifecycle Marketing for small businesses, and in this episode, they focus on Targeting Leads. As you may recall from the first episode, Lifecycle Marketing is a process of taking a brand new person into your business, a brand new prospect, bringing them through as a lead, to a client, to a raving fan.

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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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Reid Hoffman on the evolution of ‘blitzscaling’ amid the pandemic

TechCrunch

When LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman first coined the term “blitzscaling,” he kept it simple: It’s a concept that encourages entrepreneurs to prioritize speed over efficiency during a period of uncertainty. Years later, founders are navigating a pandemic, perhaps the most uncertain period of their lives, and Hoffman has a clarification to make. “Blitzscaling itself isn’t the goal,” Hoffman said during TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. “Blitzscaling is b

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5 Ways to Practice Self-Care When Working From Home

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Chris Mut, CEO of nerdytec UG, an innovative lap desk producer. Eco-friendly, improving productivity, and reducing stress levels… Are we talking about holidays? Not quite. In fact, these are all benefits of the home office —if done the right way. Unfortunately, we often associate the home office with children interrupting video calls, late-night working hours, and sharp back pain from maneuvering our workplace into the bed.

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Where and when to spend your recently raised dollars

TechCrunch

The market today has a lot of activation energy, even as the pandemic continues to play out. We’re seeing ample capital, a focus on distributed investing, more first-check investors than ever before, and, fittingly, a parade of new startups. That said, momentum has a way of overwhelming even the most ambitious. For founders at the earliest stages of building a company, it’s imperative to spend in a balanced yet growth-focused manner.

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The first win: Getting early customers to take a chance with you

TechCrunch

New companies face innumerable challenges around fine-tuning their product and constructing the appropriate revenue model. You may be looking ahead to raising some funds and trying to juggle the administrative aspects of running a business, but before all that, the purpose of your company is to sell your solution and generate revenue. But to do that requires customers, so how do you get someone to take a chance with you?

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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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Orchest raises $3.5M to provide a simpler way to build data pipelines

TechCrunch

Orchest co-founder and CEO Rick Lamers calls himself, his co-founder Yannick Perrenet and his team “a bunch of data nerds” that love making data tools. In this case the company is building an open source integrated development environment tool for data scientists so they can develop, iterate and deploy data pipelines without having to rely on an infrastructure or engineering team.

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SquadPal is a social app to help remote working teams gel

TechCrunch

The future of office work, post-COVID-19, is driving plenty of startup activity. Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al) — but entrepreneurs are also competing to come up with the perfect tool to recreate the social serendipity of office life in order to make dispersed workers feel a bit more connected. This may actually be an impossible task.

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AutoLeap drives technology for car repair shops with new $18M capital infusion

TechCrunch

Nine months after announcing a $5 million seed round , Toronto auto repair software company AutoLeap is back with $18 million in Series A funding, this time led by Bain Capital Ventures. Joining Bain in the round is existing investor Threshold Ventures, which led the seed round, to give the company $23 million in total funding. Co-CEO Steve Lau told TechCrunch that AutoLeap is bringing the auto repair shop into the 21st century by reducing the double- or triple-entry shop owners typically have t

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How four-person startup Luminopia is using TV to treat lazy eye 

TechCrunch

If you’re diagnosed with lazy eye — otherwise known as amblyopia — as a child, there are only a few options at your disposal. You can wear an eye patch, you can take eye drops or you can wear corrective lenses. Or, in the future (pending FDA clearance), you could watch TV. . That’s the central idea behind Luminopia, a four-person startup headed by Scott Xiao and Dean Travers.

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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.