Mon.Nov 09, 2020

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The 7 Business Lessons We’ve Learned in 7 Years

StartupNation

Fewer than 50 percent of businesses make it to their fifth year. That means that half of all companies have a short lifespan, despite their efforts to build something successful long-term. The interior design space is particularly competitive: predictions state that by 2026, the market will be worth $270,410 million , and in turn, a whole host of new ventures are battling for consumers’ attention and business.

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. More posts by this contributor. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face.

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How to Think Like Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Success always leaves clues Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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MSCHF’s Push Party raises an unconventional seed round at a $200 million valuation

TechCrunch

As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun at the venture industry itself — and perhaps publications like TechCrunch, too. The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a very real venture capital firm at an eye-popping $200 million valuation.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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GCUC Podcast: A Texas built boutique coworking brand

GCUC

Liz Elam interviewed Nick Clark, founder and CEO at Common Desk in this exciting episode of the GCUC Podcast. Nick reminisces about being swept. The post GCUC Podcast: A Texas built boutique coworking brand appeared first on GCUC Community.

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From 0 to 100k Followers on TikTok in 10 Months?—?without Dancing

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Build a following authentic to you Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Cookware startup Great Jones raises $1.75M as it expands into bakeware

TechCrunch

Great Jones is expanding into a new area of the kitchen tomorrow, with what co-founder and CEO Sierra Tishgart described as the startup’s biggest launch since it released its first products two years ago. Ahead of launching the new bakeware line, Great Jones is announcing that it has raised $1.75 million in new funding. The money comes from notable figures in the e-commerce world — Fellow founder Jake Miller and Very Great founders Eric Prum and Josh Williams — along with restauranteurs i

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The Mark Cuban Business Advice Winning Shark Tank Contestants Already Know

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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5 UX design research mistakes you can stop making today

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Jason Buhle. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Buhle is a professor in the online Master of Science in the Applied Psychology program at the University of Southern California and Director of UX Strategy at AnswerLab, the largest independent consultancy exclusively focused on UX research. A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine listed “inadequate testing” as the top reason why startups fail.

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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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[Zoomcar in The India Today] Innovating India: The Story of Zoom Car

OurCrowd

In today’s episode of Innovating India, we spoke to the Founder & CEO of Zoom Car , Greg Moran. Read more here. The post [Zoomcar in The India Today] Innovating India: The Story of Zoom Car appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Qumulo update adds NvME caching for more efficient use of flash storage

TechCrunch

Qumulo , the Seattle-based data storage startup, announced a bunch of updates today including support for NvME caching, an approach that should enable customers to access faster flash storage at a lower price point. NvME flash storage development is evolving quickly, driving down the price with higher performance, a win-win situation for large data producers, but it’s still more expensive than traditional drives.

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Carl Reader's New Book, Boss It. Recipe to Start, Plan and Grow Your New Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Carl Reader's New Book " Boss It ", is the recipe for success for business owners who want to control their time, income and life - as the subtitle reads. For new business owners Boss It, is a must, for seasoned business owners you'll learn something as well. Mindset in business is so important and Carl lays out the key aspects of why you should even consider being in business, right at the start of the book.

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Hong Kong insurtech startup Coherent gets $14 million Series A led by Cathay Innovation

TechCrunch

Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new funding. The Series A round, led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Franklin Templeton, will be used to grow Coherent’s client base in Asia, including insurers who want to add more digital services to their usual sales processes because of the pandemic.

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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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Business Line of Credit vs. Business Credit Card: Which is Right for My Business?

StartupNation

As an entrepreneur, capital is one of your most valuable tools. It takes money to make money, but you often need an initial influx of cash to turn a healthy ROI. However, even the most successful businesses don’t always have a pile of cash on hand to supplement its cash flow—that’s where a business line of credit or a business credit card can come in handy.

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Positive vaccine news punishes pandemic-boosted companies like Zoom, Peloton, Etsy

TechCrunch

Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. This is upending the stock market, sending futures shares shooting higher in pre-market trading. But while the euphoria is helping sectors that have taken punishment during COVID-19, not all companies are catching the same updraft.

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[Juganu in Jerusalem Post] Light can be used to destroy coronavirus on surfaces, company claims

OurCrowd

A company called Juganu has launched a new lighting system which it claims is able to “inactivate” viruses and bacteria on surfaces with the coronavirus among them. Read more here. The post [Juganu in Jerusalem Post] Light can be used to destroy coronavirus on surfaces, company claims appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Early-bird savings ends this Friday for TC Sessions Space 2020

TechCrunch

Could there be a tech sector more thrilling and daunting than space? We think not. If that’s your orbit, don’t miss TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. It’s where you’ll find the industry’s greatest thinkers, makers, shakers and investors. More on that in a minute. Right now, a reminder that the $125 admission price remains in play for just five more days.

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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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What You Need To Understand About Productivity Advice

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Productivity advice is about more than doing well at work Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million

TechCrunch

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. The Pune-headquartered startup’s Series E financing round was led by private equity firms Investcorp, Norwest Venture Partners and Gaja Capital, the five-year-old startup said.

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What Is Churn Rate? – Meaning, Types, & Formulas

Feedough

According to Stanford , every business that exists today might become a subscription business soon. And with the subscription-based business model comes the requirement of calculating KPIs like: How many customers are getting on board every month, and How many customers leave the business every month? The churn rate, even though a metric used to calculate the second performance indicator, is one of the essential KPIs suggesting how good or bad is your startup’s offering, user experience, and cus

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Riverside.fm launches its video podcasting platform

TechCrunch

Riveside.fm is a new startup with an easy-to-use platform for recording professional-quality video podcasts. In fact, although the company only recently came out of stealth , it already has a number of high-profile customers including TechCrunch’s parent company Verizon Media and Hillary Clinton, who’s using Riverside.fm to record her new podcast “You and Me Both With Hillary Clinton.” “Just imagine, we needed a recording platform that could help us make a podcast d

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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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Newsletter: Fruit, fraud and robots

OurCrowd

. The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Fresh fruit picked from the tree by Israeli robots. Startups tackling Covid and urgent health challenges. BioCatch: Fingering fraudsters, saving millions. Insightec: Can ultrasound help treat brain tumors? YuLife enhances group risk coverage for UKs medical insurers. QuantLR among Top 5 picks for Israel Aerospace Industries program.

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Uzabase sells Quartz to the site’s CEO and staff

TechCrunch

Quartz is going private, with co-founder and CEO Zach Seward buying the business news site from its current owner Uzabase. In his post announcing the deal , Seward described the move as a management buyout that will also see Editor in Chief Katherine Bell and the rest of the Quartz staff taking equity in the new company. “Most of the time, I hope, Quartz’s finances and our corporate parentage are irrelevant, as long as we’re doing our job well,” he wrote. “But this is an import

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[OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in Wall Street Journal] Mideast Peace Means Open Markets

OurCrowd

“Once the Sand Curtain starts coming down, there’s no stopping it.” This from my friend Jon Medved, CEO of the Israeli venture-capital firm OurCrowd. He likens the Aug. 13 announcement of the Abraham Accords peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to the Berlin Wall falling and the end of the Iron Curtain. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in Wall Street Journal] Mideast Peace Means Open Markets appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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What happens to high-flying startups if the pandemic trade flips?

TechCrunch

So much can change in a day. This morning, news that a trial COVID-19 vaccine candidate had an effective rate of more than 90% shook the financial world. The Pfizer vaccine is reportedly so effective, the company “will have manufactured enough doses to immunize 15 to 20 million people” by the end of the year, according to the New York Times , appears to have given investors the green light to pile back into companies harmed by the pandemic.

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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.