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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow. By Shannon Courtney. As an entrepreneur who aims to build sustainable success, you must always be ready to shift focus and be flexible — flexible not only in your professional career but also with the direction of your company branding, team and digital marketing strategies, which is something that 2017 Colombian YLAI Fellow Katherine Villa has recently come to understand.

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EO Canada Bridge chapter welcomes its youngest member

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Canada Bridge member in Montreal and the founder of Brand of a Leader , a personal branding agency that builds and scales the personal brands of entrepreneurs who inspire and make an impact. Marina is delighted to introduce a new member of her chapter, Brandan Ranaldi—a former GSEA competitor and EO Accelerator—who is now one of the youngest members in EO.

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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

TechCrunch

Helion Energy , a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 billion Series E, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific milestones. The round was led by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator. Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Invest

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StartupNation Radio: Pandemic Prompted Start of a Social Media Platform

StartupNation

On today’s episode of StartupNation Radio show, Jeff Sloan talks to Chris Budnik, creator of Heiroom, a way to connect with your family, create private vaults and take a trip down the memory lane. During the segment, Budnik talks about: How the pandemic sparked his idea for a private social media platform. The investment pursuit. His thoughts on scaling his business.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Why we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too)

TechCrunch

Colin Turner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Colin Turner is co-founder and COO of Postscript , an SMS marketing platform leveraged by thousands of Shopify businesses. Mailchimp made headlines last month when it sold to Intuit for $12 billion, but many of the stories surrounding the news were far from glowing. Its 1,200 employees didn’t get any equity in the company and missed out on the life-changing financial upside that would typically come from a deal of this magnitude.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

Appetiser ‘s site lists three factors for app success: Technology, marketing and design. And while the Australian agency was recommended to TechCrunch via our our survey to identify software development partners for startups , it could just have well have come through our survey to recommend growth marketers, which you can answer here. With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several

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How to Ensure Your Product Stand Outs and Captures Clients

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In a world full of pink piggybanks, be a gold one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

TechCrunch

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Last year, 34% of survey respondents said they were using a flexible pricing model. This year, that figure rose to 45%. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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The Coworking Data You Want and Need

GCUC

In 2015 we did a survey for this data with Emergent Research and it has been utilized and quoted all over the world! We. The post The Coworking Data You Want and Need appeared first on GCUC Community.

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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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VCs are racing to pay more to get smaller pieces of less profitable companies

TechCrunch

It’s data season, with groups like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), CB Insights, PitchBook and Crunchbase News putting out data sets that we’re having fun exploring. This morning, we’re adding one more to our arsenal. The Exchange spent some time this week diving into the SVB “ State of the Market ” report for the fourth quarter.

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What you need to know about positioning your business for expansion

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

What you need to know about positioning your business for expansion. By Shannon Courtney. As an entrepreneur, you may find yourself at the point where you ask, “What are the steps to take my company to the next level in the global marketplace?” Often, young entrepreneurs will have the skills, knowledge, and branding strategies down but are not sure of the resources needed to position their business for expansion to export to new markets and reach new audiences.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

More fuel for social audio: Berlin-based social audio startup Beams , which is building a platform for sharing and consuming short-form audio recordings — as a sort of bite-sized/deconstructed and/or collaborative podcast format which it bills as “audio-based social media” — has doubled its seed funding, adding another $3 million to close out the round at $6M. “We raised $3M in late 2020.

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Why You Should Treat Startup Fundraising Like Modern Dating

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Slide into their DMs Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Guardians Collective wants to make parenting easier, or at least less alone

TechCrunch

While few would argue over the need for a tech-enabled solution to make parenting easier, the demand is more obvious than the execution. Parenting is hard and requires support for a whole range of moments, from when your kid accidentally eats a button to early signs of depression during the remote school day. The diversity of issues that parents face could thus be a customer service nightmare, but it’s exactly the reason that founder Saurabh Kamalapurkar feels strongly about building Guard

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What Is Place Mix? – Components & Examples

Feedough

It’s one thing to have a fantastic product at a. Read more.

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MilkRun lands new capital to deliver farm-fresh groceries

TechCrunch

Julia Niiro is on a mission to create a food supply chain that connects small farmers directly to consumers. Niiro started MilkRun , a subscription service delivering weekly grocery staples sourced from small, local farms, in 2018 after becoming a small farmer herself in Portland, Oregon. She had purchased a meat-processing company and was working with area ranchers when she learned that 85% of farmers are over 65 years old and were being asked to increase food output as populations increase, ye

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WJR Business Beat: The Metaverse is Big Business (Episode 317)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff explains how the metaverse is making its way into the business world. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about what the metaverse is and its role in business: 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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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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Should your company be using a flexible pricing model?

TechCrunch

This week’s top story is located at the crossroads of growth marketing and software development. Usage-based pricing (UBP) for SaaS services is becoming more popular as companies of every type automate their processes, but one important result of the shift is that companies that adopt UBP see a return on their customer acquisition costs much sooner than the competition.

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[Insightec in Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management] Insightec announces FDA approval of Exablate Neuro for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

OurCrowd

Insightec®, a global healthcare company creating the next generation of patient care by realizing the therapeutic power of acoustic energy, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Exablate® Neuro for treating advanced Parkinson’s Disease patients suffering from mobility, rigidity, or dyskinesia symptoms.

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Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M

TechCrunch

In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China, announced today an additional $500 million added to its Series C round. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion. Momenta adapts what it calls a two-legged strategy of supplying advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to auto OEMs like GM and Tier 1 suppliers like Bosch, while conducting R&D on truly unmanned ve

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Zawya] Hyperloop speeding towards Saudi Arabia debut

OurCrowd

Hyperloop CEO has a dream of a 48-minute Riyadh to Abu Dhabi trip as he wants to connect Middle East. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Zawya] Hyperloop speeding towards Saudi Arabia debut appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.

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Three quarters of record-breaking funding for female founders is a win

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. And have fun! This week our very own Mary Ann was off — we send her our best, as she is a living saint — so Natasha and Alex and Grace and Chris got together to compile our news roundup. And oh boy was there a lot to corral.

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[MigVax in The Jerusalem Post] Israel’s MigVax oral vaccine scores $4.3m. to fast-track development

OurCrowd

The award is part of a $200 million program to advance the development of vaccines that provide broad protection against COVID-19 variants or future coronaviruses. Read more here. The post [MigVax in The Jerusalem Post] Israel’s MigVax oral vaccine scores $4.3m. to fast-track development appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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HashiCorp’s IPO filing reveals a growing business, but at a slower pace

TechCrunch

HashiCorp filed go public this week , becoming the latest addition to our growing roster of expected fourth-quarter IPOs. The cloud infrastructure unicorn presents an interesting mix of open source and proprietary code, with recurring revenues and a nascent hosted product. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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[MigVax in The Washington Post] Pills brings new hope in the global fight against covid-19

OurCrowd

In the battle against covid-19, injected vaccines have been a game-changer in many countries. But while existing vaccines have stemmed a tide of cases in many high-income countries, massive disparities in supply have left many other countries without. Even when doses have arrived in these nations, there have been issues with distributing them before they reach their expiration date.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.