Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 5, 2022

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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 6, 2022

Similar to entrepreneurship, parenthood doesn’t come with a manual. Parents are left on their own to learn how to raise well-adjusted, informed, self-starter adults. But even with an EO-level thirst for learning, parenting isn’t always easy. Even the best parents find it difficult to talk to their kids about tough topics like puberty, sex, and porn.

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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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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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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 22, 2022

( 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. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”. I recommend reading that entry first before diving into this one.

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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 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

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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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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Y Combinator

JULY 26, 2022

On the morning of September 7th and September 8th, 2022, YC will host our 35th Demo Day live on Zoom. This two day event will feature founders from 30 countries and startups in every sector — open source, ML/AI, dev tools, fintech, B2B SaaS, consumer, healthcare, hard tech, and more. Every company will have one minute to present. At the start of the day, a single-slide company summary, short company description, and team bio will be available through the YC Demo Day website.

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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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Jason Malki

JULY 18, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Crew, the CEO and co-founder of Planet Theta. Chris lives in the Pacific Northwest and is an avid PC gamer. A former collegiate debater and coach, Chris has made a career out of creating new businesses. Some of his larger successes include starting three multimillion-dollar companies including a niche plastics manufacturer, a growing agricultural processor, and a thriving retail store.

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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 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 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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Impact Hub

JULY 28, 2022

July, 2022 – Along with the Luc Hoffmann Institute and the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) , we are pleased to announce the winners of the future of conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge was launched on 21 April 2022, with the aim of surfacing innovative ideas and solutions that proactively address the deep-rooted issues facing the conservation sector and impacting conservation effectiveness.

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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 28, 2022

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

Contributed by Chris Jacks , director of growth strategy for HireInfluence , where he analyzes and adapts to the ever-changing influencer marketing industry. In 2020, the Instagram influencer market size across the globe surpassed US$2 billion. Other platforms such as TikTok are also steadily increasing in popularity among marketers. In 2020, TikTok’s initial influencer count was 35,500 but later leaped to over 106,000.

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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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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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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( 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. ) Betwixt a placid pond and the high road rests an inn. That is where you shall find me, a humble inn keeper. Many interesting travellers traverse the road from here to hyperinflation.

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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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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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