Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When pitching a potential investor or customer, time is of the essence. Most of that time goes to the meat of the conversion: the question-and-answer portion. During Q&A, both sides start engaging in a sort of conversational dance - with one side leading (VC/customer) and the other side following (founder). But often, we’ll hear founders misstep and repeat easy mistakes that throw off Q&A flow and cause startups to lose points.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How entrepreneurs are building resilience in their communities. By Shannon Courtney. Developing the skills to be resilient is essential in order to be a strong leader, to recover from setbacks and to adapt to whatever challenges come your way. Communities, economies and trade benefit from strong businesses that have learned to weather unexpected challenges.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Securing funding for a startup relies heavily on the connections you have among investors, as well as your ability to attract attention to your business. What happens when those investors are mostly upper-class white men, and you are not? It can be difficult for people of color, women, and working-class backgrounds to find investors for their startups when most of the funding comes from people outside their social circles.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Why self-care is important for entrepreneurs. By Jewelle Saunders. Entrepreneurs know that it takes a lot of time and effort to get their dreams off the ground. Meeting your goals as an entrepreneur often requires long days and long nights, navigating stressful decisions and finances, and dealing with rejection and redirection. In order to meet these goals and find success, as an entrepreneur you may experience poor work-life balance and periods of burnout, where you can feel overwhelmed and una

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers. One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. soft drink industry. In Olipop ’s case, the three-year-old brand is going after function, with a line of sodas aimed at supporting digestive health. The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Great Resignation may have an ominous tone, it’s true. Just don’t let the name fool you. The massive wave of professionals who are opting out of their current jobs might be a boon for the startup community. As noted by MarketWatch, new businesses have begun to spring up around the nation in record numbers. At this point, we’re looking at a 50% bump in annual organization births compared to pre-COVID figures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. But new technologies such as crypto and web3 provide hope to Africans to play a massive role in defining what it looks like in years to come.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been the emergence of a new wave of entrepreneurs and investors committed to being catalysts of economical and societal progress across Africa. The second edition of Deep Dive Africa (DDA II) is geared towards startups raising pre-seed and seed round funding. Between 2021 and 2022, DDA II is being delivered across four key markets; Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners. The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. The next generation of global payments: Afterpay + Square.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Most of the reasons that startups fail stem from an inability to attract the right kind of attention. In some cases, they do not attract the attention of investors, which typically results in the startup running out of cash. In other cases, they do not attract the attention of customers, once again resulting in the startup running out of cash. In either case, startups can address the problem and give themselves a better chance of succeeding by paying attention to search engine optimization (SEO)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s not a secret that the restaurant industry was a late adopter of technology, a move that unfortunately left many restaurants unprepared when online ordering and delivery became the norm during the global pandemic. Those that did embrace delivery found out quickly that the fees tacked on by food delivery companies were difficult to maintain for restaurants, which traditionally have thin profit margins.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When you’re facing growing pains, the right tweaks can boost growth and create new opportunities Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As our working world sees more shifts to the metaverse, Pesto , formerly known as Pragli, is jumping in with its avatar approach to making remote work a little less lonely. “Zoom fatigue” was real for Doug Safreno and his co-founder, Vivek Nair, who started batting around the idea for a company in 2019 and made it official a year later. Their idea is a digitally native human workplace where employees can customize an avatar in the workplace, with the idea that the avatar would take the place of

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

All of us who got into this work, at one point, sucked. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Regardless of your perspective on blockchain-centered projects, venture capitalists appear to have made up their minds about the sector: Investments into crypto-themed companies — the web3 space, as its supporters call it — set records in 2021, records that could be beaten in 2022 if early data indicates where capital will flow this year.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff Sloan talks about the Federal Trade Commission’s report that in 2021 consumers lost $770 million to social media scams. Tune in to the Business Beat below to find out who is being scammed most and how: . 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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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.

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Stating the obvious: customer discovery is essential for startups that hope to achieve product-market fit. Unfortunately, most of us are not skilled when it comes to talking to strangers. Each member of a startup’s founding team was hired for a specific reason, but customer outreach rarely leads the list. Early-stage startups that hope to refine their value proposition and triangulate target users cannot afford to sit back and wait for customer intelligence to roll in.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Superpedestrian, the pioneering transportation robotics company, today announced its largest-ever funding round, closing $125 million in debt and equity capital. The latest investment comes from Jefferies, Antara Capital, the Sony Innovation Fund by IGV* and FM Capital alongside existing backers like Spark Capital, General Catalyst and Citi via the Citi Impact Fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

E-commerce has continued to boom in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but running an e-commerce business has also become significantly more chaotic, with unpredictable supply chains, logistics hiccups, and overall higher costs upending even the best-laid plans. To underscore the demand for solutions to address this, today a startup called Wayflyer — which has built a new kind of financing platform, using big data analytics and repayments based on a merchant’s revenue activity —

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Finding work-life balance as an entrepreneur. By Shannon Courtney. As an entrepreneur, creating a healthy work-life balance is crucial to maintaining strong mental health and avoiding burnout. Resilience as an entrepreneur helps your business become stronger and adapt to whatever setback or unexpected hurdle comes your way. Your communities and partnerships can also fortify necessary resilience.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As more software companies shift to more flexible pricing models based on consumption, many are choosing to charge customers on a per-use, or usage, basis. While this is easier for customers, it has created headaches for many software, or SaaS, businesses that are not equipped with billing systems that can easily charge customers on a usage basis. Enter Metronome.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel’s SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards. Read more here. The post [Flytrex in Dallas Innovates] He Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft to the Moon—Now His Flytrex Drones Will Deliver Burgers to DFW Back Yards appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Netlify, the well-funded company that, in many ways, started the Jamstack movement, today announced that it has acquired Quirrel , an open-source service for managing and executing serverless functions. Founded by Simon Knott , who is also the maintainer of the popular Blitz.js React framework , Quirrel never raised any outside funding before the acquisition, which quietly happened in the middle of last year after one of Netlify’s investors made the introduction, as Netlify CEO Matt Biilma

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Rewire is returning to OurCrowd to enable smaller investors to participate in its next funding round. Last year, OurCrowd listed (and led) Rewire’s Series B round for $20 million. At that time, the funding also included a line of credit from a bank partner. Read more here. The post [Rewire in Crowdfund Insider] OurCrowd lists opportunity to invest in neobank Rewire appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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