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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Extend your runway.” That’s what every VC is telling their portfolio companies these days. The very important part they’re leaving out, however, is, “But keep growing at the same pace before the cuts.” In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learning how to tell when investors aren’t interested will save you tons of time and frustration.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropic , a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. The first commercial venture to announce that it’s integrating Anthropic models is Robin AI , a legal tech startup that’s raised over $13 million from investors including Plural, Episode 1 and the Google Black Founders Fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Since February 2022, the UN High Commission on Refugees reports that nearly 14 million people have been displaced from their homes in Ukraine—most of them seeking safety and shelter in other countries. More than 9 million of them crossed the border into Poland alone. Dawid Adach, a co-founder of technology company MDBootstrap and former EO Poland president from 2021-22, partnered with fellow EO members Szymon Boniecki, Jakub Szalaty and many others across Europe and North America to fundraise, c

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). Despite the recognition of bias and calls for change, systemic inequities unfortunately persist. Case in point: only 1% of 2022 VC dollars went to Black founders, a marked decrease year over year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When OpenAI released its chatbot ChatGPT last year, proponents were quick to announce the death of various writing-related fields, such as screenwriting, computer programming, and music composition. One particular field stood out as a sector that would feel the power … The post Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So your looking to get a business or startup of the ground but dont know where to start. Anter and EF position themselves as pre seed investors. But what if you where looking for an alternative way with real entrepreneurs and mentors to help you get your business of the ground and moving.  There are some online alternatives you could use which could give you some real guidance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. First off, hello to all the new Startups Weekly subscribers who joined us after last week’s newsletter. I’m glad we all still resonate with a comeback story. Second, here are some basics on what to expect.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Antonio Lennert , a member of EO Canada Bridge, is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. Marina Byezhanova interviewed Antonio about his entrepreneurial journey and contribute this post.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I recently got connected to Alyssa Hitaka at TopTierStartups.com , a new content site rich with startup related news, tips and interviews with startup founders. I was curious what her startup founders were seeing, in terms of the best marketing strategies they are successfully using today. Alyssa was kind enough to interview ten of her founders, to get those learnings.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Turno , an India-based platform for commercial electric vehicle (EV) distribution and financing, has raised $13.8 million in Series A that it could use to build a proprietary battery tech platform that will address issues on end-of-life battery value.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems. They’ve often lived through the pain of bad software, diagnosed the cause of their suffering, and made it their mission to convince the world they have … The post Investing in Svix appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Starting a business from scratch is hard and you must know it. Having been though Techstars and interviewed at YC i know this. There are so many things that have to go right for it to work. The team, the funding (if you have any) the idea, the timing, the advisors, the pilots to get your investment. The point is whatever business your trying to build its good to have coaching advice and mentoring from people in the space your trying to build.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. According to a statement shared by the firm, the accelerator program will support and amplify the impact of edtech startups across Africa, as well as support founders offering tech solutions that will address learning innovation in an educational se

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Whether you’re managing an early-stage startup or running a sales department for a larger company, a strong sales… The post 5 Proven Tips for Accelerating Your Sales Process In 2023 (and Beyond) appeared first on StartupNation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

(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.) There are many activities we modern humans engage in so that we can be more present. Mental clarity and internal peace takes on extreme importance in a global society addicted to their endlessly pinging, internet-connected devices.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FreshToHome ‘s mission to make 100% preservative and antibiotic-residue free fish, seafood, and meat affordable and accessible to millions of meat lovers received a boost from the outcome of its recently concluded Series D. The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and antibio

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It’s very rare to see a new building block emerge in computing. If aliens landed on earth and decompiled our software, every app would look roughly the same: some combination of networking, storage, and compute. The way developers consume these … The post Investing in Replicate appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In August, I wrote about why Omni’s technology reinvents BI once more. The Omni founding team hails from Looker & Stitch. They’ve set out to solve the problems customers faced with the previous generation of BI. Today, I can show you what this means in practice because Omni is commercially available. Anyone who has managed a larger BI deployment has faced the challenge of managing hundreds, perhaps thousands of metrics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”. It would be fair to say that TechCrunch can only concur with this sentiment.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There will likely be a recession in 2023, and the major downsides to starting a startup are obvious: There is less money in the system so selling and fundraising are harder; investors have less money to invest and companies have less money to spend on products. But these are also reasons it’s an especially good time to start a startup, especially with YC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You’ll never hear this from billionaire entrepreneurs, but learning from small online sellers can change how you run your business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ That is, just because you don’t like something there’s no reason to share that in the moment with another person enjoying it. There’s a lot of yumming AI right now and it’s of course perfectly fine (often helpful!

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that a16z Games has led the Series Seed investment in Snapser , a games backend technology company poised to become the de facto platform for games studios. Twenty years ago, game studios had to develop … The post Investing in Snapser appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis DCF analysis is a valuation method that takes into account a startup’s expected future cash flows. This method calculates the present value of future cash flows by applying a discount rate that reflects the business’s risk. Angel investors and VCs prefer this method as it is a quantitative approach that relies on future projections.

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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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