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.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company.

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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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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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The Seraf Compass

MAY 10, 2023

Staying on top of the early stage investing world requires a lot of reading. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested. A decade or two ago, most of the new funds were traditional VC funds located in technology hubs in the US and a few other countries around the globe.

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that with an interactive tutor powered by computer vision , letting aspiring ASL speakers practice at their own rate like in any other language learning app. SLAIT started back in 2021 as the sign language AI translator (hence the name): a real-time video chat and translation tool that could recognize most

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group and individual office hours, Demo Day prep, and more.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2023

Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki has now released the final three episodes of PowerUp Podcast , Season Three, hosted by long time business advocate David Downs. Over the six-part series, we have heard valuable insights and practical advice from trailblazing Taranaki enterprise owners who are leading in their fields. While all six guests have unique stories, they are all shining examples of how the region’s famous lifestyle and thriving entrepreneur ecosystem allows big ideas to flourish.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 22, 2023

In our popular post on emerging data infrastructure , we highlighted technologies that have led to a new wave of data-stack investments. These stacks represent the culmination of a number of trends in the industry, including the migration from on-prem … The post The Rise of the Composable CDP appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 14, 2023

One of the biggest startup accelerators is being liquidated. Was it a scam or just another failed startup?

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 24, 2023

Ten years ago, Nvidia’s market cap hovered around $4b, down from its previous high of $13b in 2008. Today, Nvidia is the fifth most valuable technology company in the US, worth nearly $1t - just 20% less valuable than Amazon. In a decade, the business increased in value about 250x, compounding at about 74%. Nvidia’s most recent breakout occurred in the last two years.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Deskmag

MAY 15, 2023

What types of workspaces are most in demand right now? And how are coworking spaces responding? We answer these questions in the second article on the new business trends in coworking spaces.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 24, 2023

Just because a best-selling startup playbook tells you to do something doesn’t make it right, relevant, or the optimal option.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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INBIA

MAY 10, 2023

The post InBIA’s 2023 Entrepreneur Support Organization of the Year, Specialty and Prestigious Awards appeared first on InBIA.

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This resource discusses the gap between early funding from friends/family and the more substantial rounds from angel groups and VCs. Why does this gap exist and what can be done about it?

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 24, 2023

In Part I of this article we addressed trends in VC fundraising, the roles played by GPs and LPs, and key questions fund managers should expect during the prospecting process. Now let's take a closer look at the primary elements of a fund prospectus and the critical skills every fund manager should possess.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 26, 2023

Nonprofit advances to transform biomedical research with novel protein tools and expertise Very few individuals have the ability and the opportunity to directly impact a large number of people’s lives. Entrepreneurs, innovators, doctors, political leaders and others may have success of that magnitude. Tim Springer, Ph.D., entrepreneur and professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, is in that elite club.

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Deskmag

MAY 4, 2023

How are coworking spaces doing after the end of the pandemic? What problems are they facing today? We adress these questions in the first article of the 2023 Global Coworking Survey.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 31, 2023

Get investors excited about the opportunity without losing credibility Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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