StartupNation

MARCH 5, 2021

If you’ve ever aspired to start your own business, you know how exciting the idea can be. It’s easy to get carried away thinking about all of the possibilities of a business you’re passionate about, and how you can develop that business to make those aspirations of running your own company a reality. But smart entrepreneurs know that starting and running a successful business takes a lot more than just a great idea and enthusiasm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Alan Radford. Contributor. Alan Radford is regional CTO of One Identity and has a passion for helping organizations solve unique challenges in the identity and access management space. Robotic process automation (RPA) is making a major impact across every industry. But many don’t know how common the technology is and may not realize that they are interacting with it regularly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 5, 2021

Yes, you can still be of value to your more technical folk Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

If you run a profitable business and you’re looking to expand, how about going global? Have you considered it? . While several businesses might be in that stage where they’re ready to go international, the thought might be daunting. How do you start and what if things don’t go according to plan? These are common concerns, however, it might be easier to delve into it than you think.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 5, 2021

A simple yet remarkably useful recipe for elevator small talk and impressing clients Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

A new auto-injecting pill might soon become a replacement for subcutaneous injection treatments. The idea for this so-called robotic pill came out of a research project around eight years ago from InCube Labs —a life sciences lab operated by Rani Therapeutics Chairman and CEO Mir Imran, who has degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering from Rutgers University.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

By: Amy Duncan, Fund Manager - San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC) III The number of accredited angel investors in the U.S. has held steady at around 300,000 for the last ten years. Based on the definition of an accredited angel of a net worth of $1 million or more, the potential number of angel investors could be up to four million. As angels are typically characterized as making individual investments between $25,000-500,000 in early-stage companies, it’s likely that many who are qualified have

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Tech stocks are getting hammered today, with previously high-flying shares of software companies taking even more damage. For a sector that has enjoyed a year in the sun , recent trading sessions have punctured a period of market adoration. It is too soon to say that the market is repricing tech stocks, but the selloff has reached the point of materiality and is therefore something we need to note.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 5, 2021

Lessons from failing miserably and succeeding wildly Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Masami Takahashi, the president of Scrum Studios. Headquartered in San Francisco and Tokyo, Scrum Ventures is known for its accelerator programs focused on sports, food and smart city tech. Today it announced the launch of a new incubator program that will help startups from business partnerships with Japanese corporations. Called Scrum Studio, it will be spun out as an independent entity from Scrum Ventures, and headed by Masami Takahasi, who was previously strategy officer and general manager

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2021

Contributed by Damon Finaldi, an EO New Jersey member and president of Tele-Data Solutions. When it comes to leadership training, you hear a lot of clichés: To achieve success, everyone must row in the same direction. To arrive at your destination, you have to know the direction you’re headed. If you don’t know your destination, you can’t make an effective plan to get there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

After TechCrunch broke the news yesterday that Coursera was planning to file its S-1 today, the edtech company officially dropped the document Friday evening. Coursera was last valued at $2.4 billion by the private markets, when it most recently raised a Series F round in October 2020 that was worth $130 million. Coursera’s S-1 filing offers a glimpse into the finances of how an edtech company, accelerated by the pandemic, performed over the past year.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 5, 2021

My normal practice on Fridays is to post a Kickstarter project that I have backed that I think is interesting and that others might want to back. But today, I want to talk about Kickstarter’s Watch Now on iTunes offering. If you are like us and have watched so much TV during the pandemic that you are now struggling to find new things to watch, click on over to Watch Now and find amazing independent films that were funded on Kickstarter and are available to watch on iTunes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. It was yet another crazy week, but did our best to get through as much of it as we could. Here’s the rundown, in case you are reading along with us!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

Social media stories are a powerful tool to connect with prospects and customers on a deeper level. This is because good social media stories evoke emotions, inspire actions, add value, and connect with our memory. However, telling captivating social media stories is a challenging task because you have to grab your audience’s attention in just a few seconds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Founders in the earliest stages of startup life face a hefty learning curve. Just some of the core competencies you need to lock down include how to raise VC funding, recruiting the right people, finding product-market fit and building a killer go-to-market team. The list goes on and on…and on. You’ll learn about all those topics and more at TechCrunch Early Stage Operations & Fundraising taking place on April 1-2. .

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

Think about how one instantly associates Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon with Jeff Bezos. They are their respective companies’ faces, and they approve every major decision that the company announces. Being the chief executive officer or the CEO, these individuals set the vision and lead the company. The CEO is the highest-ranking individual in a company making up the corporate ladder’s top rung.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s more AI news out there than anyone can possibly keep up with. But you can stay tolerably up to date on the most interesting developments with this column, which collects AI and machine learning advancements from around the world and explains why they might be important to tech, startups or civilization. To begin on a lighthearted note: The ways researchers find to apply machine learning to the arts are always interesting — though not always practical.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

Think about how one instantly associates Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon with Jeff Bezos. They are their respective companies’ faces, and they approve every major decision that the company announces. Being the chief executive officer or the CEO, these individuals set the vision and lead the company. The CEO is the highest-ranking individual in a company making up the corporate ladder’s top rung.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

In the world of early-stage startups, job titles are often a formality. In reality, each employee may handle a dozen responsibilities outside their job description. The choose-your-own-adventure type of work style is part of the magic of startups and often why generalists thrive here. However, as a company progresses and the team grows, there comes a time when a founder needs to carve out dedicated roles.

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StartupNation

MARCH 5, 2021

On today’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares results from the Comcast 2020 Performance Data Report , which shows that Comcast customers generated 1 trillion plus internet requests daily last year. Other key findings include: Peak internet traffic rose 32% compared with pre-pandemic levels. Entertainment activities continued to dominate network traffic, with video streaming accounting for 71% of all downstream traffic, growing by 70% compared with 2019 levels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Optimizely co-founder Dan Siroker said the idea for his new startup Scribe goes back to a couple of personal experiences — and although Scribe’s first product is focused on Zoom, those experiences weren’t Zoom-related at all. Instead, Siroker recalled starting to go deaf and then having an “epiphany” the first time he put in a hearing aid, as he recovered a sense he thought he’d lost. “That really was the spark that got me thinking about other opportunities to

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OurCrowd

MARCH 5, 2021

NEW YORK, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO), a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics (DTx) market, announced today that the company will participate in the upcoming Stephens 2021 Best Ideas Conference on March 11, 2021. Read more here. The post [DarioHealth in PR Newswire] DarioHealth Announces Participation in Stephens Virtual Best Ideas Conference appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

We’re not digging into another IPO filing today. You can read all about AppLovin’s filing here , or ThredUp’s document here. This morning, instead, we’re talking about an old favorite: software valuations. The folks over at Battery Ventures have compiled a lengthy dive into the 2020 software market that’s worth our time — you can read along here; I’ll provide page numbers as we go — because it helps explain some software valuations.

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