The Seraf Compass
MAY 3, 2023
Warren Buffett is known for turning a great phrase. Besides being the second richest person in the world, he is a creative writer with an ability to explain complex topics in a simple and effective way. Buffett’s concept of winning the Ovarian Lottery is an excellent starting point for the second article in our series on building a diverse portfolio.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 2, 2023
Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. Hence, it’s important to spend significant time up-front to probe co-founder compatibility more deeply — beyond sharing your work experiences, future vision, or a brief phone call.
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Revolution
MAY 23, 2023
Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation As mentioned in Part 1 , an outsized portion of the proptech investor base comes from the real estate community — a reality I would argue is complicating the industry’s growth. Part of the antidote for startups: employing a more prudent approach to raising capital and curating a diverse investor base.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 2, 2023
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Vietnam, with its youthful population, a growing middle class, and the strong work ethic of its people. But entrepreneurship is a challenging journey, no matter where you are in the world. In Vietnam, the road to entrepreneurial success can be especially tough. From navigating complex regulations and securing funding to connecting with and growing a network, entrepreneurs in Vietnam face a unique set of challenges as they build their businesses: Ac
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Startup Blogpost
MAY 11, 2023
To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights. From understanding the bigger picture to breaking free from constraints, discover the top 14 benefits of business consulting for startups, as shared by these experienced professionals. Understand the Bigger Picture Gain Expertise and Experience Improve Adaptability Discover Marketing Strategies Achieve Specific Goals Temporarily Enhance Financial Planning
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 12, 2023
Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. The founding team of the user-generated gaming platform Overplay, gained timely and sizeable backing through its Wefunder campaign , a Regulation CF community investment round.
TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2023
Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. Pegasus will select startups with products that “fill a market need” and give them up to $350,000 in Azure, GitHub and LinkedIn credits plus backing from advisors, as well as “access to the best Microsoft tech,” according to Hans Yang, general manager at Microsoft for Startu
Revolution
MAY 11, 2023
Insights and soundbites from our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit This year, we had more than 150 investors from 31 states join us for our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit. And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 24, 2023
Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Chris shared his experience around creating effective systems and processes in his company: Albert Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again — and expecting different results.
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AsiaTechDaily
MAY 11, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. participated in the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau, recognized as Asia’s largest technology expo. This renowned event, held from May 10 to 12, provides a valuable platform for global technological innovation and industrial modernization, attracting participation from over 800 exhib
Y Combinator
MAY 10, 2023
Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. With both eager to build, work began on Whalesync — which helps businesses sync their data across no-code tools like Airtable and Webflow — before the two even met in person.
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 4, 2023
Deadline approaching for Grant Applications; Survey Results Share Insight about Small Business Secto Amazon continues its support for small businesses that make up a significant portion of its online vendor base. As part of Small Business Month, Amazon Business, the Amazon business procurement storefront, announced its 2023 Small Business Grants and the results its poll of small business decisionmakers.
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
There are many questions around the implications of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse that won’t be answered for a long time. But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? SVB was one of the larger, if not the largest, providers of venture debt to U.S.
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Revolution
MAY 5, 2023
A salon dinner on planet, policy, and private sector momentum By Revolution Growth Partners, Kristin Gunther and Todd Klein Over the past decade, Revolution has backed a number of sustainability-focused companies, including those working to enable the circular economy, support the adoption of electric vehicles, create planet-friendly culinary experiences, and facilitate the adoption of clean energy.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2023
The other day, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld and was struck by how dramatically different location-aware mobile phones have made our day-to-day existence. The entire plot was based around no one having a phone in their pocket. Watching the characters leave answering machine messages for people (and miss them), use paper maps, and get lost on the way to a cabin made it all seem pretty dated.
AsiaTechDaily
MAY 10, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The highly anticipated in-person third edition of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) Asia’s foremost annual gathering for technology and innovation, commenced with grandeur in Macau today, on May 10. With a resounding vision of bridging Asia and the rest of the world amidst geopolitical tensions, Jason Ho, one of the co-founders of BEYOND Internat
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 23, 2023
Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff. In my testimony, I explained to the DFS staff that the difference between the US and China is that the US respects the freedom to innovate: REMINDER: ANYTHING THAT CHINA BANS, INVEST IN!
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American Entrepreneurship
MAY 18, 2023
Survey results show the important role of small businesses to their local communities Building on its success in 2022, Intuit Quickbooks and Mailchimp announced the winners of its Small Business Hero awards, celebrated as part of their Small Business Success Month. Three small businesses have each been awarded $20,000 that will help them grow and contribute more to their communities.
TechCrunch
MAY 9, 2023
For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt This year, we’re reimagining and refreshing Disrupt to deliver the essential tools, knowledge, and connections that help ignite ideas and accelerate the next ge
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 17, 2023
If you’ve made it this far into 2023 without hearing about ChatGPT or the artificial intelligence (AI) technology powering the tool, here’s your notice: it’s time to pay attention. For years, we’ve heard about the promise of AI—some of which, frankly, felt like baseless hype. But almost overnight, ChatGPT’s generative AI, built by OpenAI, has shown signs that AI can actually deliver on its futuristic potential.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 17, 2023
What I’ve Learned After Holding 1000 Interviews How to hire in startups and big companies the interview process Hiring is one of the most important things you do as a manager or entrepreneur. It will make or break your startup, team or project. In the past 10 years, I’ve been hiring and building teams for startups and big companies, and I’ve got some valuable tricks up my sleeve in keeping a good process and hiring great people.
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AsiaTechDaily
MAY 18, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Korean startup Noutecompany has captured the attention of the world with its ground breaking platform, WeBudding , revolutionizing the digital stationary market. This remarkable achievement has now propelled its visionary founders, Donggyun Ko, Chaeyoung Lee, and Donghwan Shin, onto the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in consumer technology.
NZ Entrepreneur
MAY 2, 2023
Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki’s PowerUp podcast is back with the release of the first three episodes of the latest six-part series that celebrates the prominent Taranaki entrepreneurs and innovators who are leaving their mark on the world. As the Regional Development Agency, Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki is powering up the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Taranaki so that fresh thinking and innovation can continue to thrive in the like no other region.
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 9, 2023
Organovis hopes to transform drug testing by making it more precise, ethical, and affordable NEW YORK, May 8, 2023 – The City College of New York (“CCNY”) student-led start-up, Organovis has won the 2023 Women in Tech (“WiT”) Incubator Competition. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas (“Bank”), the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center (“Zahn Center”) at CCNY to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector.
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show.
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