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Cultivating Inclusivity: Engagement at Community Colleges and Beyond

Venture Well

Learn how community colleges welcome and encourage entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds—and how you can, too. The post Cultivating Inclusivity: Engagement at Community Colleges and Beyond appeared first on VentureWell.

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Synthetic speech startup Murf lends a voice to content creators of all sizes 

TechCrunch

Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. Murf, which now has a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, announced today it has raised $10 million Series A funding led by Matrix partners. Participation came from returning investors Elevation Capital and several prominent angel investors like Ola founder Ankit Bhai; Disney Streaming SVP of product; Ashwini Asokan, the founder of Mad Street Dap; and Pushkar Mukewar, f

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How to Make Money out of Thin Air

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What it means to be an entrepreneur in 2022 Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Knoetic lands $36M to unify diverse sources of HR data

TechCrunch

In the last decade, so-called chief people officers (CPO) have seen a dramatic expansion of their day-to-day responsibilities. The role has evolved from an administrative HR function to a more strategic position, particularly as the pandemic has shined a spotlight on the importance of retention, upskilling and recruiting during a crisis. But despite the increased interest — the CPO is the third-fastest growing C-level position, according to LinkedIn — CPOs are often behind sales, mar

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Own Your Calendar: How to Run 4 Types of 1:1 Meetings

Reforge

Table of Contents The 4 Different Types of 1:1s Execute the 1:1 by Avoiding Common Mistakes Two Things You Can Do Today to Start Owning Your Calendar If you’re involved in cross-functional work, it’s easy to fill your calendar with 1:1 meetings. They can be a high-fidelity way to build relationships and collaborate. The problem is that most of us have no idea how to make them useful — or we’re embarrassed to cut the cord when they’re not — so we end up with a bloated calendar full of ineffective

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Web3 finance dashboard Headquarters raises $5m in pre-Seed funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Headquarters , a Singapore-based finance dashboard for Web3 teams , has announced raising $5 million in a pre-Seed funding round co-led by Crypto.com Capital , Forge Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures. The funding round was also participated by Web3 funds including Saison Capital, Coinhako, Longhash Ventures, Ocular, Sky9 Capital, and DWF Labs.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

TechCrunch

From healthcare to manufacturing, traditional industries have been getting a digital makeover over the past decade. But some sectors have been left behind. Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels.

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Korean food tech TissenBioFarm raises $1.6 million to bring culture meat with real texture & marbling

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register TissenBioFarm , a South Korean food tech startup developing cultured meat, announced that it had attracted 2.2 billion KRW (approx. 1.6million USD) in its pre-series A funding round. An impact investing company, Envisioning Partners, was the lead investor, with FuturePlay and Stonebridge Ventures participating.

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What a Cupholder Says About Competing with Giants

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Industry leaders are easy to beat if you follow this playbook Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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News: What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Startups

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The Inflation Reduction Act is a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax, and climate bill that was signed into law on August 16, 2022. There is a lot of news about this significant legislation and what it’s doing for lowering drug costs and subsidizing clean energy. One topic that isn’t getting enough attention, however, is that this bill is big news for small businesses and startups.

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7 Reasons to Resign as CEO After Selling Your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Do I regret staying the CEO after our acquisition? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Block Party, a tool to combat online harassment, raises a $4.8M seed

TechCrunch

If you’ve experienced any form of harassment on Twitter in the last couple of years, then you’ve probably heard of Block Party. And if you haven’t, lucky you! Developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, Block Party helps people curate a safer experience on Twitter. By building on top of Twitter’s API, Block Party lets users automate the process of blocking bad actors and creating block lists on Twitter.

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Our Third Founder (And Best Friend) Never Spoke to Us Again After We Ousted Him From Our Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Only then did I learn the biggest lesson of entrepreneurship. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Ghanaian fintech SecondSTAX allows investors to access capital markets outside their countries, raises $1.6M

TechCrunch

African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. For instance, a South African investor who wants to diversify their portfolio outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange may find investing in the Nigerian Stock Exchange difficult. Not only does this limit investors’ access to high-growth securities, but it also limits access to capital that has grown in leaps and bounds over the past couple of years.

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Cake DeFi launches hybrid product for conservative crypto investors

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Cake DeFi, the leading and fastest-growing Singapore-based fintech firm, providing easy access to Decentralized Finance (DeFi), has launched its latest product – EARN – allowing users to generate returns via a single-sided liquidity mining service while protecting users against market volatility.

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Noble emerges from stealth to help companies extend lines of credit to their customers

TechCrunch

Credit lines are a lucrative product. U.S. consumers alone pay $120 billion in credit card interest and fees every year, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Given the revenue opportunity, it’s no surprise that there’s enduring interest from both startups and established companies in delivering credit-based products. But challenges stand in the way, including — but not limited to — complying with local laws and regulations and modeling credit risk.

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5 Years in Venture Capital: 10 Key Lessons Learned

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Photo: Pexels A lot of wrinkles and grey hairs ago I joined Slingshot Ventures. And even if I could count them, I wouldn’t?—?that would be way too confronting. Luckily, counting the number of years is much easier: five to be precise. As a VC, you’re always looking ahead, but I kind of feel that this is actually a good moment to look back and reflect.

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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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Ledgy, a Carta for European startups to manage equity and cap tables, raises $22M from NEA, Sequoia and more

TechCrunch

Managing cap tables and equity at high-growth companies can be a complicated (and sometimes messy) business, a fact that founders and employees often discover too late. That’s given rise to a wave of companies building software to help, and today a European leader in that pack is announcing some funding to fuel its own growth. Ledgy , a startup out of Zurich that builds cap table management software specifically for companies and their employees working across multiple countries, has raise

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Network isn’t a dirty word

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha asked: What does breaking into venture capital look like today, and how is it changing?

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Brightflow AI aims to spotlight small business cash flow

TechCrunch

Cash flow can make or break a small business; in fact, issues in this area account for 82% of small business failures , according to U.S. Bank data. Robbie Bhathal, co-founder and CEO of Brightflow AI Image Credits: Brightflow. Brightflow AI is injecting technology into this problem with its forecast and analysis tools so that small businesses can assess their cash flow and make data-driven decisions in real time.