A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A number of friends have been asking us how to buy crypto assets. This is not the first time we’ve gotten this question and it won’t be the last. When I first started getting this question, my answer was “open a Coinbase account and buy Bitcoin.” Then there was a period when my answer was “open a Coinbase account and buy Bitcoin and Ethereum.” Today, my answer is “open a Coinbase account and buy a diverse set of crypto assets.” A diverse set of cry

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Infrastructure support services may not get the attention of a game-changing technology, but, as the RADx program demonstrates, it can be a deciding factor in whether an innovation fulfills its commercial promise. The post infrastructure support services: the behind-the-scenes secret to RADx appeared first on VentureWell.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Creating a successful digital marketing strategy for any business involves finding out where your target market spends most of its time. If your marketing goals include selling to a young audience, then you can’t afford to overlook influencer marketing, especially on Snapchat. Although most Americans now use social media to some degree, not everyone is using the same platforms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Ohio-based startup Mantium has today announced closing $12.75 million in seed funding, as well as the launch of a cloud-based AI platform — which allows users to build with large language models. . The seed round, co-led by venture funds Drive Capital and Top Harvest, will be used to source for more talent, to add more features to Mantium’s AI platform and in driving awareness around what is achievable with large language models, especially across Africa, the firm’s CEO and co-founde

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

So, you’re having a hard time figuring out why your digital ads aren’t performing as you expect them to. Despite all the time and effort you’ve put into them, nothing seems to be going in the right direction. Why is that? Our best guess is you’re probably doing something wrong. There’s no need to worry, though, as it’s not just you who’s struggling to pinpoint the causes behind your failing online campaigns.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

S even local entrepreneurial teams are in the process of completing a ten-week, virtual, business startup boot camp. This exciting program has been offered by Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @State College, in partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, for nine years. On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams will pitch their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Great Resignation, the pandemic-caused seismic shift in the way we work, play and live, and the boom of the creator and influencer economy, has led to a surge in apps designed to serve those creators. In fact, we had a very long-winded discussion about it at TechCrunch just this week. It’s hard to know which apps are going to change the game and which are going to sink, but Emergence is betting big on a platform called Talent Hack.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What It Means When Investors Say “You’re Too Early” and How to Fix it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. And rightfully so: Business school is damn expensive and largely reserved for a select group of people who have the time and money to invest in elite education. While no single company has perfectly cracked the code yet, Stoa School isn’t phased.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

You’ll be inspired to go do it once you read these simple truths. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Socure , a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. Rowe Price. . The round brings the company’s valuation to $4.5 billion, up from $1.3 billion this March when it raised $100 million for its Series D. Its new valuation makes Socure the highest-valued private company in the identity verification space, according to the company.

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Continuations

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I have missed writing (my last post was at the beginning of September). Well writing publicly. I have started to keep a journal which takes a bit of time every day. I have also been ridiculously busy with both existing and new investments as well as several projects, such as finally wrapping up work on my book The World After Capital. But I have a lot of thoughts rattling around my brain and I find that only writing has the power to help sort through them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, and his co-founders at You.com have been on a mission over the last year to build a different type of search engine, and today the company is releasing a public beta, while announcing a hefty $20 million seed investment. The new search engine doesn’t use a scrolling vertical set of results as you see on every search engine out there.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mondel?z International, the multinational advertising agency Publicis, and Digitas Vietnam have partnered with visionary Artificial Intelligence startup D-ID to transform food marketing into an interactive, user-driven experience. Read more here. The post [D-ID in PR Newswire] Creative reality company D-ID and global family history platform MyHeritage enter multi-million dollar partnership appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping , we don’t often step back from the numbers to have a hard think about innovation. But today, that’s precisely what we are going to do. The Exchange gained early access to pi Ventures’ Deep Tech Shifts 2026 report , which identifies 15 deep tech sub-sectors the firm believes will reach an inflection point by 2026.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Negotiation is one of the fundamental parts of staring your own business. Everything from acquiring a business loan to clinching deals with new clients and settling prices with suppliers will take an element of bargaining and compromise. For some, this type of haggling comes as second nature; but for others, the mere thought of business negotiation makes them break out in a cold sweat.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenyan edtech startup Craydel , a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go toward improving its search and recommendation technology and enhancing its online resources. . The round was led by Enza Capital, a private venture fund that invests in early-stage tech startups across sub-Saharan Africa.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A business owner looking for a deposit for a building he wanted to purchase says he wound up losing $1,200 to a loan scammer, according to a complaint filed on the Better Business Bureau website. He’s not the only entrepreneur who has reported being ripped off while trying to find financing. The “ BBB Scam Tracker is seeing an increase in scammers masquerading as legitimate loan providers,” warns Paula Fleming, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer with the Better Business Bureau.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Benjamin Joffe. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Benjamin Joffe is a partner at SOSV. More posts by this contributor. What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space. 10 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers. Two weeks ago, 50 iconic founders and investors shared their insights on how the world can tackle the planetary “Code Red” with over 2,000 participants at the inaugural SOSV Climate Tech Summit.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Does premium customer service matter? Aboslutley. Premium service helps your business get premium profits, due to customer loyalty and more! Mickey Fain, owner and president of Stoneside Blinds and Shades based in Denver, Colorado, recently spoke with Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHustle.com and entrepreneur about success in business through great customer service and customer experience.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With restaurants having difficulty hiring workers, as is the environment today, one company is developing a hiring platform and restaurant worker network that aims to make that easier. Seasoned announced Tuesday it received $18.7 million in a Series A round of funding to continue developing its mobile app employee networking and recruitment tools that are being used by more than 250,000 restaurant workers.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

When it comes to business success, not everything is in. Read more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Content publishing platform Medium is acquiring a small startup called Projector. As part of the deal, the entire Projector team is joining Medium with Projector’s co-founder and CEO Trevor O’Brien becoming Medium’s chief product officer. If you’re not familiar with Projector, the company has been building a browser-based graphic design tool. In just a few clicks, Projector users can create graphics for social posts, such as podcast artworks, a logo for a Facebook event, an Instagram story

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Common Reasons Why Startups Fail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Most people nowadays rely on the utilization of technology in every aspect of their lives. You will see that almost every person from all around… The post Types of Digital Marketing and Its Impact on Your Business appeared first on.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As more data moves to the cloud, it often still lives in multiple places on a business’ network, making it difficult for organizations to understand and access the right data they need and easier for data breaches to occur. Collibra , which provides tools to find, understand, access and analyze data, announced today that it raised $250 million in Series G funding, at a post-money valuation of $5.25 billion.

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