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Innovation Indicators

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators. Innovation Indicators is a dashboard that shows the latest data on the impact of the tech sector on the NY economy.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. More posts by this contributor. Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? When it rains, it pours.

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Three Startup Pitch Deck Mistakes That Are Red Flags For Venture Investors

Hunter Walk

Fortunately They’re Really Simple To Fix! You might think my job is about saying “yes” to founders, but statistically it’s *actually* about saying “no,” given we typically see 3,000+ companies annually in order to make 10–12 investments. Despite the volume, each opportunity to hear or read more about someone’s idea is a privilege and I try to treat it respectfully, despite not being able to spend meaningful time on the majority of inbound we receive.

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The Station: Rivian trims its workforce and a supply chain-tainted earnings season begins

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Listen up founders! In a few months, TC Disrupt will kick off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Join Us For a Live Community AMA Event!

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Hi everyone, exciting news! We’re holding a community event. It’s a chance to meet the editors and top writers of Entrepreneur’s Handbook and hear tips and stories about Medium. We’re also going recognize and award the top contributors to the pub from the last year. Medium is supporting us with some CASH for the winners. It will be casual, fun, interactive, and packed with tips and takeaways.

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The Math Behind Starting a Successful Software Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

How much value does a successful software startup create per dollar of venture investment? About 10x, though it’s volatile. Let’s call the value generated per venture dollar the MOIC (multiple on invested capital). MOIC = value_at_exit / total_VC_dollars_raised. Over the last 30 years, a venture dollar invested in a successful US software startup generated $10 of value.

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Concert Bio lands pre-seed round to fix hydroponic farming’s ‘dirty secret’

TechCrunch

If the world wants to feed 10 billion people in 2050, it’ll need to find a better way to grow food. Today, about half the world’s habitable land is devoted to agriculture, yet even that amount can’t provide everyone with the sort of diet enjoyed by people in developed countries. If everyone wanted to eat like Americans, we’d need to farm about 140% of the world’s habitable land.

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Here’s What Web3 Actually Is

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you’re tired of all the jargon about the next phase of the Internet, here’s a better explanation Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Daily Crunch: Did Bolt Mobility bolt? The startup left equipment and confused customers in its wake

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Monday is here, and we are excited to throw ourselves into another week of summertime tech news. Apropos summer — as the VCs stop answering their phones in favor of drinking elderflower lime martinis, playing pickleball, spelunking in the Bitcoin mines, and kite surfing (I can only assume that’s what VCs do for their summer break), it gives us tech reporters a bit

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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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Endeavor Indonesia to fund companies in its growth program

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Ten industry-neutral firms (not fixated on one specific industry) have been selected to participate in the ScaleUp Growth Program Batch 3 by Endeavor Indonesia, the world’s premier community of high-impact entrepreneurs. The 36 companies having their primary offices in Indonesia and/or Singapore and at least $2 million in equity capital or $2 million in annual revenue by 2021 are

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A Short Post on Upleveling Your Marketing

OkDork

There’s a lot of marketing tips out there—and some of them work. But sometimes, they’re just noise. I’ve spent DECADES of my life marketing different products and businesses, and these are 4 key marketing tips that work pretty universally across them all. If you can do these 4 things really well, your business will be off to a great start. Let’s get into it. 4 Marketing Tips to Uplevel Your Growth.

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Cambodian agritech startup Azaylla raises pre-Series A funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Cambodian food distribution firm Azaylla announced that it has received Pre-Series A funding from Insitor Impact Asia Fund II, an impact investment fund managed by Insitor Partners. The company, which works with smallholder farmers and co-operatives across the country to source fresh produce, will use the new funding to grow its sustainable and socially responsible agri-business networ

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You're Not Taking Recruiting Seriously

This is going to be BIG.

Recruiting is hard. Good candidates are hard to find. What tells you this? Well, you can see it. Out of all the candidates that applied to your job post, very few are what you’re looking for and those that are seem to be falling down in the interview. I hear it all the time—and when I hear it, I hear a red flag. Did you hear it? “Applying to our job post.

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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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Why I Walked Away From an Exciting Cofounder Role

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Choose this one thing over career Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Design with Purpose: Living Walls & Biophilia

GCUC

After discovering the art of nature bathing, Zach Smith, the founder at Zauben, traded in investment banking for living wall architecture. Zach talks about. The post Design with Purpose: Living Walls & Biophilia appeared first on GCUC Community.

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What will it take to reignite the NFT market?

TechCrunch

With July now behind us, we have a full month of trading data from the NFT market to digest. The numbers are mixed. While there are some positive signals from the non-fungible token market that matter, others are decidedly negative. Trading continues, but at what appears to be a far slower pace. For companies in the NFT space, the news is likely unwelcome.

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How to improve deliverability and email reply rates in email marketing

Founder Bounty

There are a ton of things you can do to try to improve the deliverability of your email marketing reply rates ensuring a healthy domain and avoiding spam. The first step is checking the email reputation audit First thing you need to do is check if you are on this blacklist. ( click here ) Asses the quality of your IP ( click here ) Your open rate is lower than 60% and reply rate is lower than 4%.

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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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Public tech’s espresso shot is quite literally the cloud

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Last week we said that you needed to pay attention to the public markets, and we weren’t kidding. It was a huge week for earnings — with notes from all over, including the ad market and cloud spend. But this week’s Monday show was more than just another entry in the series — it was an experimental live show!

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20 In-Demand Skills & How Much Do They Pay

Feedough

Today just a mere degree does not guarantee a stable. Read more. The post 20 In-Demand Skills & How Much Do They Pay appeared first on Feedough.

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The disappearance of Bolt Mobility shows how corrosive depreciation can be for IRL startups

TechCrunch

With the apparent demise of Bolt Mobility, the divide between technology businesses and those that are merely tech-enabled is back at the forefront of our minds. Once a key point of discussion when the IPO market was alive , today we’re sifting through what is left of the micromobility sector, now freshly depopulated to a new local maximum. Not every great product makes for a good business.

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Indonesian foodtech startup GREENS secures pre-Seed funding led by East Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-based integrated food technology startup GREENS announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in its pre-Seed funding round led by East Ventures and backed by other investors. GREENS said it will allocate the new funding to build the ecosystem for food decentralization in two phases.

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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.