Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

by Mark Lauinger, SVP, Client Services, i2E. The questions of when and how to fund your business are associated with two important aspects of commercializing your startup. The When to Fund question is driven equally by the competitive environment of your market and where you are in development of a product to take to market. More basically, how fast do you need to commercialize the business and is there a market gap that is opening or closing?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Almost overnight, these startups transformed into consequential platforms, earning billion-dollar valuations along the way.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, angels are telling founders to scrutinize their sales forecasts, hiring plans, costs and every other assumption about their business.

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not everyone has the drive to start their own business. Even deciding to press ahead and take that risk is a massive first step, and one to be applauded. We need that entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in the world in order for innovative new businesses to emerge. However, it’s important to take things slowly and wisely. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

German fintech startup Vivid Money has raised a $17.6 million Series A funding round (€15 million). Ribbit Capital is leading the investment. Today’s funding round gives Vivid Money a valuation of $117 million (€100 million). Vivid Money is quite a young startup, as the company started accepting customers just a few months ago. Built on top of Solarisbank for the banking infrastructure, Vivid Money is a challenger bank with a few nifty features.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The flow of venture capital in 2020 has been surprisingly strong given the year’s general uncertainty, but while investors have showered plenty of dough on growth-stage companies, seed-stage startups are down 32% last quarter compared to the year before. There have been plenty of recent conversations about alternative funding routes for founders, and one of those oft-overlooked paths has been equity crowdfunding.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In 2008, Drew Houston posted a screencast of his demo product online. Two years later, he was sitting across the desk from Steve Jobs… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Q&A with Meg Salyer. Founder, and former President and CEO. of Accel Financial Staffing. President and CEO, Broadway Realty. A native of Long Island, Salyer has made her home in Oklahoma City for more than 35 years. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, having also completed two years of study abroad at the University of London, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Franklin University Switzerland.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How to kill your idea and get your first customer Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When it comes to financing a startup, the most important — and hardest — check to land is the very first one. The growth of accelerators, rolling funds, community funds, hungry angels and institutional investors has given founders more options than ever before, but for women and people of color, access to funding continues to be a struggle.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Well, we don’t know who won the election this morning, but we know that the turnout was the strongest in 120 years at roughly 2/3 of eligible voters. We can thank mail-in votes and early voting for that. Some will take offense at the late counting of mail-in votes and claim fraud. I am not one of them. I believe that massively opening up access to our elections by making voting by mail easy and trusted and by allowing voting to happen for weeks (or months) before election day is a good thi

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Christopher has been known to quip every now and again, “Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good”. Like most humor, this phrase has its foundation in truth. When it comes to different types of luck, good timing can be one of the most powerful kinds of luck you can have. Consider the story of IONA Technologies, where Christopher was an executive from 1997 until 2008.

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The Startup Blog Market Brief

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Whether space is the final frontier remains to be seen, but it’s certainly the next one as far as we’re concerned. On December 16-17, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Space 2020, a two-day online conference and our first event focused squarely on space technology and the early-stage startups and investors that make it possible. The future of this industry is wide open, and it’s going to require cultivating a deep bench of visionaries to sustain it.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

During yesterday’s tense voting and this morning, shares of American-listed technology companies are shooting higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up around 3.35% this morning, more than double what the broad S&P 500 index is currently managing. SaaS and cloud stocks kicked off the day up a staggering 4.98%, a sharp rally in the value of smaller, more growth-oriented technology companies.

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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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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Speaking with CEO Jon Medved as part of Calcalist and Bank Leumi’s “Economic Opportunities in the UAE” online conference, Dr. Sabah-al Binali outlines what makes the new normalization such a success story. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in CTech] “We speak the same language,” says OurCrowd’s new UAE-based Venture Partner appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Every business has a journey. Their endings might be different but starting is always the same i.e. from a small-scale business to a large-scale business. But in many cases, the business might remain small/medium-sized throughout its life-cycle. These types of businesses come under small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The number of SMEs in the world is way more than large companies and employs many more employees collectively.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Subspace CEO: ‘The internet doesn’t understand the needs of real-time applications, like multiplayer gaming’. Read more here. The post [Subspace in RCR Wireless News] 5G, cloud computing won’t fix online multiplayer gaming issues appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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