Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 23, 2023

Any one of these will slowly kill your startup. Tackle these head on at the starting line.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 22, 2023

You know that many startups fail to take advantage of one of the best kept secrets of product management and company strategy, the customer council. If you’re invested in a growing company that does not yet have a customer council, you may want to encourage the founders to create one. Here is how to operate one and some important traps for the unwary that you can use as a framework when you talk to your CEOs about the concept.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman Given the tumultuous year in tech and overall market uncertainty, a hot topic among institutional investors right now is the magnitude of potential markdowns in the coming year or two. But what could that look like? To determine approximately how many U.S. VC dollars are at risk, we conducted a historical analysis of top quartile fund managers over the past quarter century (as far back as we could access reliable Cambridg

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2023

Contributed to EO by Chantel Cohen, an Atlanta EO Accelerator participant who founded CWC Coaching & Therapy to help entrepreneurs and professionals alike find a healthy sense of work-life integration and create the lives they always imagined. Through the Become One Again Method, Chantel helps clients enhance their relationships with themselves, their partners and their businesses with the goal of alleviating the associated mental stresses that come with high-demanding careers.

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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.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The share of funding for companies co-founded by women? That ticked up to 15.4% last year, which still leaves a massive delta. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2023

As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. The core engineering team ships the product & focuses on reliability. For most companies, the data science team analyzed data & wrote machine learning models to support the business functions : sales, marketing, customer support.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

“Re-imagining” our lives The world is experiencing a new era of re -imagination , in which virtually all our old ways of doing things are being uprooted by new, more efficient and more widely available methods of accomplishing old tasks. We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users.

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Deskmag

MARCH 28, 2023

Struggling to increase the revenue of your coworking space? In this article, our guest author Helga shares five effective hacks to help maximize profits and keep your business running smoothly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 6, 2023

Angels have different motivations from VCs and need to be approached differently Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

In March, EO recognizes and celebrates women entrepreneurs with its second annual EmpowHER virtual conference , which focuses on the specific challenges women in business experience. Women entrepreneurs will learn from experts how to navigate the three pillars of every woman entrepreneurs’ life: business, family and self. Miranda Naiman, a 7-year EO Tanzania member and an unstoppable force for good, is the founder of Empower , a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advis

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Why it will revolutionize the way we shop, browse, and learn Source: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins The electrifying launch and global adoption of ChatGPT has been amazing to witness. The platform continues to achieve historical milestones, garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, marking the beginning of a new era of disruption.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 20, 2023

Mike Zamansky is the person who got me interested in K12 Computer Science Education in NYC, a cause I have now contributed almost fifteen years of my life to. Our family’s public charity, Gotham Gives , has been funding the work we do in K12 Computer Science Education in NYC for the last decade and a month or so ago, the Gotham Gal recorded a podcast with Mike talking about the early days of our journey into K12 Computer Science, how we met, and what transpired.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 15, 2023

This profile is the ninth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting fund investors. Matt Johnson is the founder and Managing Partner of Johnson Venture Partners, a micro venture capital fund investing in seed and early-stage startups. Matt has invested in over 40 venture-backed companies throughout 15 years of early-stage investing experience.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 30, 2023

In February Sandy Wollman, Marty Isaac, and myself worked with the Angel Capital Association to evolve New England & New York’s syndication process to work for more angel groups. Angels from New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania came together to test out our new approach to syndicating deals. Representatives from other syndication groups from as far as the west coast attended as well.

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Source Link

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to supporting entrepreneurs at any stage in their business journey, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has been a critical resource since 1980. Since its inception, the SBDC has grown to over 1,000 centers across the nation with its mission to offer “no-cost business consulting and low-cost training to new and existing […] The post Celebrating Our Partners in Entrepreneurship Support: The Small Business Development Center appeared first on SourceLink.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2023

In March, EO recognizes and celebrates women entrepreneurs with its second annual EmpowHER virtual conference , which focuses on the specific challenges women in business experience. In each one-hour session, women entrepreneurs will learn from experts how to navigate the three pillars of every woman entrepreneurs’ life: business, family and self. We asked EO members how the workplace could and should change to improve women’s lives and empower better balance in regard to family.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2023

Creating agents of change with English language education in Argentina By Grace Zimlich 2022 YLAI Fellow Danila Blanco Travnicek has always been passionate about education and leading the charge of reforming the entrepreneur ecosystem in her home country of Argentina. In 2020, she founded EduStorm , an organization focused on providing educational experiences emphasizing English education and interpersonal skills.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 29, 2023

USV is an investor in Bolster , a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for startups and growth companies. This week Bolster launched a daily short (5min) podcast and email with actionable insights and advice from founders, operators, and investors. It is called The Daily Bolster. I did a Daily Bolster episode and it is featured today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FunP Innovation Group, a Taiwan-based digital advertising sales and advertising technology conglomerate, announced that it has secured $3.12 million in additional investments to fuel smart retail and cloud drive into the Indonesia market. The company received the support of Ennoconn Corporation, a global leader in integrated cloud management services, industrial internet of things (IoT

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. She is also a Finance Director at Visa and has previously worked for PepsiCo and American Airlines. A self-described operator turned investor, Karen began angel investing 3 years ago and, ever since then, has dedicated much of her time to uncovering opportunities in unlikely places.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Contributed to EO by Abeer Qumsieh, a seven-year EO Jordan member who is the founder of Better Business , the leading organization for management consulting and human capital development in Jordan, and Khibraty , an intelligent digital matchmaking marketplace for expertise seekers and providers. She is also a partner in MakanE , an e-commerce enabler in the Middle East.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. What are these moats?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 6, 2023

Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies understand the folks they will be talking to. Grace joins us from Silver Lake where she was working on their ESG strategy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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