Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 5, 2022

The traditional startup investment instrument remains popular with angel investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Feedough

JULY 4, 2022

Small businesses are the backbone of any economy. They are. Read more. The post How Do Digital Payments & Cryptoassets Benefit Small Businesses? appeared first on Feedough.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

As one of the best marketing channels to connect with audiences and build your brand , email continues to serve as a valuable tool to communicate with potential customers and move them further along your conversion funnel. That said, all marketers know that high conversion rates don’t appear out of thin air; it takes quality content that informs and inspires to persuade your leads to make those final clicks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. Kimer Med. “Talk to your potential customers as soon as you can.” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Tactics to master entrepreneurship, marketing and sales Building huge social audiences The defining qualities of successful entrepreneurs Let’s get into it. The introvert’s guide to entrepreneurship Rachel Greenberg graduated from unsuccessful attempted sales calls to running multiple businesses that make 6+figures for just a fe

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 28, 2022

We’re very excited to announce that we’re leading the series B for Fly.io. Fly is one of the fastest-growing core infrastructure companies we have ever seen. And it’s worth understanding why. . Web applications are becoming more and more real-time, and … The post Investing in Fly.io appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2022

Elon Musk recently declared an end to remote work at Tesla , announcing that all Tesla staff must return to the office full-time, according to an email sent to executive staff and leaked on social media. Musk said those who don’t want to come to office should “pretend to work somewhere else.” This strict, top-down approach rooted in mistrust and false assumptions goes against best practices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. Holberton’s technology platform will become part of ALG’s existing ALX online learning platform and the existing 34 physical locations will get spun out to become a stand-alone business under current Holberton COO Florian Bucher.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 17, 2022

Are entrepreneurs born or made? We think both. While it helps to have that entrepreneurial flair inbuilt, there’s no reason you can’t learn and develop the qualities of an entrepreneur. Here, we share three essential skills for taking ventures from ideas to reality. Essential skill #1: falling in love with the problem, not the solution. Successful products, services and businesses solve problems for people.

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Impact Hub

JULY 27, 2022

July 2022 – Social and Technological Innovation Factory for Low-Carbon and Circular Industrial Value Chains , or SoTecIn Factory, is a new project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. The consortium led by INESC TEC, composed by 5 other European partners – Impact Hub, F6S, BWCON, Metabolic and CNR, who teamed up to achieve their common mission for a more resilient and sustainable industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 18, 2022

Some of those clients have startups that raised over $100 million, while others tuned out to be fraudulent individuals. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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INBIA

JULY 25, 2022

The post InBIA’s 2022 Entrepreneur Support Organization of the Year, Specialty and Prestigious Awards appeared first on InBIA.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2022

“Start now. Don’t wait for anything. Start.”. — Alberto Soto, Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Alumnus and EO Guatemala member. Explore your endless opportunities. As a student, you have so many extra opportunities available—grants, resources and an overall willingness from society to help students. Many GSEA alumni suggest taking advantage of the safety net you have, rather than waiting to start your company when you have more to lose.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. While companies around the world turned to software during the pandemic to ensure that they could keep operating , accelerating the digital transformatio

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 21, 2022

Since our inception in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has been a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. This was highly intentional on our part. Historically, the largest number of great technology companies emerged from Silicon Valley for good reason – the network … The post a16z is Moving to the Cloud appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 11, 2022

Don’t make the same mistakes I made during the last financial crisis Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 25, 2022

In Deliberately Underselling as Sales Strategy , I wrote about the importance of sizing contracts below customer needs to ensure customer success. “A key part of the formula: crafting the right account executive compensation structure to reward this strategy.” I received a pile of questions asking for more detail. Since then, I’ve spoken to many sales leaders & Lee Kirkpatrick who originally surfaced the concept during Office Hours on how to do this well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 29, 2022

Like many companies at the beginning of the pandemic, we knew that if we wanted to survive, we couldn’t wait for lockdowns to end. We had to think differently and make experimentation the ethos of our company. In the past, we looked at trying new things as another “goal” to add to the list. But we couldn’t get hung up on perfection as revenue declined.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

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, I’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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 20, 2022

As the successful businesses of tomorrow launch in multiple countries at a time, opportunities abound for ambitious startups looking to build the internal software systems these companies will need to grow. . For decades, startups largely followed a well-trodden playbook for … The post The Company of the Future is Default Global appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Another leadership development bit? Yup. But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical. Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. The conundrum of competing needs. As a leader, you must worry over issues from mundane to strategic, constantly reordering your priorities to accommodate competing needs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 14, 2022

Learn from the founder of Apprentice & Likeable Media Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today’s guest is a best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen. He’s founded companies such as Likeable, Apprentice, and Remembering Life. His books include “The Art of People” and “Likeable Social Media”. On top of this, he’s built a huge audience on social media, and he’s got nearly 700,000 followers on LinkedIn.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2022

Let me tell you a tale of two software sales processes. Take 1: An ambitious account executive engages a sales prospect and hustles to sell the customer a mega contract that consumes nearly the entirety of a budget. Big commission check, high fives, president’s club, feeling fine. Nine months into the contract, the customer realizes they have over-provisioned.

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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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