June, 2022

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Studying the Impact of STEM Entrepreneurship Programs: The Why and How

Venture Well

Penn State’s Sarah Zappe and Stephanie Cutler share research showing the positive student outcomes of STEM entrepreneurship programs, outlining critical steps for faculty to take on their entrepreneurship education journey. The post Studying the Impact of STEM Entrepreneurship Programs: The Why and How appeared first on VentureWell.

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How EO helped me realize my dream of launching a hospice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Chris Warburton of EO Detroit, who is the founder of both Balanced Home Care and his passion project, Lily Hospice. We’re all born, and we all die. We celebrate the day of our birth each year, even though we don’t remember our birth. However, death is something we all know will happen, and many people are alert and oriented right until the moment life ends.

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7 Key Risks in Early Stage Investing [Infographic]

The Seraf Compass

Good decisions begin with good information. During due diligence, you will want to determine whether the risk level is low, medium or high for each area. For low risk areas, you shouldn’t put in any effort from a due diligence perspective. For medium risk areas, you might need to perform some cursory diligence. It’s the high risk areas where you will need to apply significant resources.

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The Case For EVs

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The Gotham Gal and I own five EVs and have been driving electric-powered cars since 2014. I don’t drive gas-powered cars and haven’t for a few years now. We have purchased two Chevy Bolts, two Tesla Model Ss, and one Rivian truck. I love the instant acceleration you get from an EV, I enjoy driving mostly with just one foot due to the fact that EVs accelerate and brake using the accelerator pedal, I like that I can charge my car every night at home (using solar panels on our roofs) an

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Number Three

Entrepreneur's Handbook

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) This current crypto nuclear bear market marks my third brush with generalised market carnage. And while they can sometimes feel like reruns, every episode yields new lessons to be learned.

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WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN $50,000 PA WILDS BIG IDEA CONTEST!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DUBOIS, PA – In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship, and with funding support provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ recent innovation competition targeted the counties of Centre, Clarion, Clearfield and Jefferson located in the PA WILDS. Ben Franklin has been offering Pennsylvania entrepreneurs and small manufacturers the opportunity to compete in our risk-free BIG IDEA contests for nearly 20 years.

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3 steps to kick off your chapter’s virtual GSEA competition

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Have you been watching Start It Up, EO’s mini-series chronicling the 2022 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) competition? The finale airs on 30 June 2022. You can watch all four inspiring episodes on EO’s GSEA Competition YouTube Channel. Libby Rothschild is an EO New Jersey member, a registered dietitian nutritionist and founder of Dietitian Boss , where she shows dietitians how to go from zero to creating a six-figure virtual practice using her trademarked method.

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Protect your small business from cyberthreats with these simple interventions

NZ Entrepreneur

The last couple of years have accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses. Pandemic restrictions forced us to think creatively, be more innovative and, in many cases, digital adoption has played a big role in that. As a specialist small business lender, we’ve seen our customers use their funds to invest heavily in technology – setting up e-commerce sites, implementing CRM systems, adopting cloud technologies and trialling digital marketing strategies.

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The Web3 Marketing Stack: The Next Big Wave in Crypto

Tomasz Tunguz

For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Web2 marketing employs the cookie as the primary identifier of a person, not a wallet. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. The behavioral patterns in web3 differ driven by anonymity, communication patterns on discord and telegram, and the consequences of using tokens as user acquisition, as governance

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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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Why I Went from Selling a Software Company to Selling T-Shirts

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The Mark Zuckerbergs and Evan Spiegels of the world have shown how software businesses can be a fast track to fame and fortune. With a good idea, hard work, and skillful execution, you too can go from rags-to-riches (or, in their cases, riches-to-filthy-riches) and own a Hawaiian island or marry a supermodel. I too created a software company out of my dorm room.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. As a part of an expansion, Google today announced that it’ll invest just over $8 million in organizations helping “justice-impacted” individuals, including the formerly incarcerated, enter the workforce.

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The Cloud Killed Infrastructure, Long Live Infrastructure!

Andreessen Horowitz

Verticals clouds are on the rise, as traditional clouds give way to specialization. The infrastructure narrative of the last 15 years has been dominated by the cloud. Its growth has driven a surge of innovation in everything from hardware, to … The post The Cloud Killed Infrastructure, Long Live Infrastructure! appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Collector’s Holmberg is Refreshing a Stifled $400B Market in Physical Collectibles

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tuomas “Tuom” Holmberg, a serial high-tech and biotech entrepreneur who is spearheading a new blockchain startup called Collector. Tuom earned his MBA from the University of Southern California after battling through Caltech’s fierce physics program. While founding and raising over $100M in funding for early-stage companies, Tuom’s favorite hobbies have had him keeping a close eye on collectibles markets and cryptocurrency for far longer than most.

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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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5 tips for communicating and collaborating effectively when remote working

NZ Entrepreneur

The landscape businesses operate in has been permanently altered after two years of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies big and small are moving towards hybrid models that will continue to permit a portion of the work week to be done from home. It’s certainly tested traditional management styles as managers continue to learn to trust people and ensure they are productive, meet deadlines and meet KPI’s with ease.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.

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Everything Startups Need to Know About the SAFE Agreement

Entrepreneur's Handbook

SAFE is simple but there are critical details to understand to avoid mistakes with investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Ivella is the latest fintech focused on couples banking, with a twist

TechCrunch

Money can make people moody. There are layers of privilege, or lack thereof, that can make even the simplest conversation about bills feel like baggage to deal with. Translate that discomfort to relationships and it can feel like an awkward — and fragmented — dance on who pays which bill when (and how). Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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All About Acquihires

Andreessen Horowitz

In today’s ever-competitive environment to drive growth, identifying and hiring key talent through a structured transaction — known as an “acquihire” — has become an increasingly popular and effective way for companies to address hiring needs and accelerate product innovation and development. Often joining the acquiring company as a unit or existing team, employers also.

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Too Much Inventory Can Harm Your Business – 10 Tips

Smart Hustle Magazine

Running a business successfully takes accurate planning and forecasting. It’s normal to have the number of clients you service fluctuate over time and for business to come in surges and spurts. Some industries are busier at specific times of the year and find recurring downtimes that fit predictable patterns. In others, however, what’s hot one moment, and not the next, can be difficult to foresee.

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MyShoot’s Bowman is Taking Her Experience & Passion to Grow MyShoots

Jason Malki

Georgina Bowman is the Founder of MyShoots app, which is designed to connect shoots, clubs, people who take part in shooting sports and staff of the venues. The concept has come from a former shooting clothes sales agent Georgina Bowman, who is following her vision to bring together all the key elements of a shoot day, from what if offers to location to who is going with you and where to stay.

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Coinbase & Uniswap: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tomasz Tunguz

Coinbase and Uniswap are two of the leading crypto exchanges. The market values COIN, Coinbase’s stock, and UNI, Uniswap’s token at about 3x trailing 12-month revenues. But should they be trading at similar multiples? As the market has corrected, so have the trailing 12-month revenues (TTM)/Market Cap multiples. They move in synchrony with an R^2 of 0.79.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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#32. From Crashing To Zero To Investing $100m In Snap and Lyft w/ Nabil Borhanu

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from the founder of Graphene Ventures Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Nabil Borhanu who is the founder of Graphene Ventures. They invested in both Snap and Lyft before their IPOs. He’s got a very interesting background having grown up in Saudi Arabia.

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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. While there are many data analysis tools available, including the sophisticated data science variety, and more line of business-focused BI tools, it hasn’t been easy for a person with little experience to work with data without going to one of these experts for help.

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Joe Morrissey

Andreessen Horowitz

On behalf of a16z, I am thrilled to welcome Joe Morrissey as a General Partner to the a16z Growth team. Joe will focus on investing in enterprise companies—from the moment they’ve found product-market fit, all the way through to when … The post Joe Morrissey appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Get one-on-one career advice from YC, starting with Anu Hariharan (Managing Director)

Y Combinator

Women have historically been underrepresented in tech, especially in technical roles like engineering and product. YC has run events to educate and support women in tech, and now we’re doubling down to offer tailored advice that’s specific to you and your career. We’re setting up chats for women engineers to get one-on-one career advice from YC, starting with Anu Hariharan, Managing Director of YC Continuity.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in