Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Contributed by J. Cornelius, an EO Atlanta member. J. is the founder and president of Nine Labs , which helps companies imagine, design and build world-class web and mobile products. Great design is not a luxury. It’s a necessity. . That bears repeating: Great design—a product that looks good and works well—is essential for success. Product design in the software industry has matured enough that you simply will not succeed with an ugly, ill-conceived digital product.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Every entrepreneur’s story is unique. Many individuals start off with a good idea. This idea allows them to create an offering or product that helps solve a problem facing customers. They acquire the necessary legal assets, including entity formations and tax IDs, so this idea may become a startup, launch, and open for business. What about entrepreneurs that don’t start their business from scratch?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

More spacecraft will be sent to orbit this year than ever before in human history, and the number of satellite launches is only anticipated to increase through the rest of the decade. Under these crowded conditions, being able to maneuver satellites in space and deorbit them when they reach the end of their useful life will be key. Enter Aurora Propulsion Technologies.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff spotlights a grant program for military veterans with outstanding entreprenuerial ideas: Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about the Military Entrepreneur Challenge presented by the StreetShares Foundation: 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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Major gains in online advertising have boosted valuations for adtech startups since the pandemic began, but one insider says investors are missing the party. “Adtech is having a moment,” writes industry veteran Casey Saran. “And while much of the oxygen has been soaked up by large legacy companies hitting the public market, there have been smaller deals that indicate a hunger for better creative adtech.” Saran shares five reasons “why VCs should consider ratcheting up the

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Apple is planning to remove developer access to important user data as part of its iOS 15 release on Monday, leaving email marketers in a dilemma about how they will figure out metrics. To find out how the industry is approaching this problem, we spoke with Vivek Sharma, CEO of Movable Ink , a software company that helps marketers act on the data they’re collecting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

How I Became an Accidental Entrepreneur A journey from leaving the family path of medicine to launching a successful cosmetics business I stood at the window of an operating theatre and watched my grandfather lead his team through a total knee replacement. I was barely ten. My grandfather is in his eighties now and still a practicing orthopaedic surgeon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Six months after securing a $23 million Series A round, Ketch , a startup providing online privacy regulation and data compliance, brought in an additional $20 million in A1 funding, this time led by Acrew Capital. Returning with Acrew for the second round are CRV, super{set} ( the startup studio founded by Ketch’s co-founders CEO Tom Chavez and CTO Vivek Vaidya ), Ridge Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We devour their books and podcasts — but can you really trust their advice? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Startups are raising record sums around the world , thanks to several contributing factors. As The Exchange explored yesterday , historically low interest rates have helped venture capitalists raise more capital than ever, to pick an example. Low rates have helped startups in another manner: As yields fell for certain assets, investors chased returns by betting on growth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Heights show brain care matters more than you think Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Aircover raised $3 million in seed funding to continue developing its real-time sales intelligence platform. Defy Partners led the round with participation from Firebolt Ventures, Flex Capital, Ridge Ventures and a group of angel investors. The company, headquartered in the Bay Area, aims to give sales teams insights relevant to closing the sale as they are meeting with customers.

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INBIA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The post Time Management and Feedback Strategies to Hone Leadership Skills appeared first on InBIA.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Instacart ‘s chief financial officer Sagar Sanghvi has departed from the on-demand grocery delivery company after nearly six years and is returning to his investing roots. Specifically, Sanghvi has joined Accel as a partner focused on global growth-stage consumer and enterprise investments. Prior to becoming CFO of Instacart, Sanghvi served as the company’s vice president of finance and strategy.

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INBIA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The post Time Management and Feedback Strategies to Hone Leadership Skills appeared first on InBIA.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I just backed this project to support a festival of street musicians in NYC in late October. Street bands have been picking up the slack for the last year in NYC, performing for outside diners and more throughout the city. This festival celebrates them and puts them front and center. Email readers can see the video here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“I’ve seen startups spend thousands of dollars inefficiently as a result of not having optimal signal in their paid acquisition campaigns. I’ve also spent millions at companies such as Postmates refining our signal to the best possible state,” says growth marketer Jonathan Martinez in a guest column for Extra Crunch this week. “I’d like every startup to avoid the painful mistake of not having this set up correctly, instead making the most of every important ad dollar.”.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding startups for 9 years, but we’d mostly funded software companies. While we hadn’t funded many, we thought that the YC model might work well for hard-tech companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic biology company now valued at around $15 billion, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. Gingko’s market debut is one of the largest in biotech history. It’s expected to raise about $1.6 billion for the company. It’s also one of the biggest SPAC deals done to date — Gingko is going public through a merger with Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., which was announced in May. .

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

As a small business owner, once you’ve finally mapped your. Read more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Nick Costelloe. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nick writes actionable growth marketing insights as head of content at Demand Curve. More posts by this contributor. Demand Curve: How to double conversions on your startup’s homepage. Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing. When people are uncertain, they look to others for behavioral guidance.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

One of the nation’s best places for apple picking is nestled in the North Carolina mountains, a new report finds. Read more here. The post [SmartAsset in The Charlotte Observer] This apple-picking orchard in North Carolina was named one of the nation’s best appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Companies typically have to settle on strategies that align with their customers, employees, investors, and regulators. The more they know about how the other side will decide, the clearer their own strategies become. If regulators always prefer choice for consumers, then it is easy for a platform to allow multiple payment choices: Shopify allows multiple payment options from its partners, Apple doesn’t.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We live in a very image-focused world and this is particularly true of the business world. Businesses pay top dollar to advertise on billboards, posters, online, and in any other way so that they can be seen in a favorable light. They also go through great pains to make sure that customers can get an accurate view of their products, with high-definition video and pictures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week under the guidance of Chris and Grace , which meant we had the full team. And speaking of teams, Mary Ann is joining the Friday show on a weekly basis now. She’s been a friend for years, and a colleague now twice-over for Natasha and Alex and we could not be more excited. That personal news aside, here’s the rundown for today’s show!

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