Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Contributed by Jackie Carrillo, a content coordinator and contributor who writes on technology, marketing, business management and education. . SEO is often touted as one of those essential business practices that are simple enough to do yourself. After all, you probably have the power to edit your business’s website, so you can stuff pages with keyword phrases, sprinkle links galore and alter other factors that could improve your performance on the search engine results pages (SERPs).

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

By Scott Meacham. It is hard to start a business — very, very hard. This is true on Main Street, for information technology businesses and in biotech. For all entrepreneurs, building a company is a race against time, a race in which every milestone of success increases the pressure on the business plan. The biggest challenge is capital—where to get it and how to stretch it until the enterprise is cashflow positive.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. “VCs are looking for a grand slam,” according to Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures.

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500

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

As sector agnostic investors, we get a first-hand look at tech-enabled startups across a number of different verticals. One which you may not have heard much about is HTaaS — or Hospitality Tech as a Service. We’ve recently partnered with LA Fund, an innovative hospitality-focused venture fund, to launch a bootcamp for startups building products that have the potential to disrupt this space.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

What makes a great leader? Nationally recognized leader and executive coach Jackie Jenkins-Scott provides her perspective as she explores examples of responsive leadership in her new book, 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership. While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. .

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Why do web and software businesses seem to get investment traction while real, down-to-earth business and manufacturing-intensive companies flounder to raise capital? It has to do with the type of investor model involved. The investor model has to match the type of company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

My partner Rebecca brought an appreciation for and an understanding of marketing to USV and it has made us better investors and it has helped us assist our portfolio companies with their marketing efforts. Rebecca is going on Simulmedia Live tomorrow at 2pm ET to talk about startups, marketing, growth strategies, and how she thinks about all of these issues in identifying attractive investments and helping our portfolio companies with their growth strategies.

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INBIA

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The post Five Reasons You Should Attend ICBI34 appeared first on InBIA.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

When I started in venture capital, one of the questions I learned to ask very early on was competition. Founders would often reply that competition validates the opportunity. At the time, I thought it was a canned response, a clever parry, to avoid answering the question directly. I’ve since realized I was wrong. Let’s say you’re creating a category.

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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Venture Well

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Wyatt Dike of E-Team, VertX Advertising, is developing antimicrobial coatings for use in public transportation that double as advertising space. The post innovating the public transportation experience: q&a with Wyatt Dike from E-Team, VertX Advertising appeared first on VentureWell.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building a tech startup? Learn about business development with this free e-guide from tech business strategist Flavio Hangarter. The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

You've got the hot lead, or several of them. They're really interested in your service. 2 weeks later, you look at your desk and realize their business card is still on your desk and you've not connected with them. Sales follow up is essential to driving more profit and revenue in your company. You see the potential client at the next local Chamber of Commerce meeting and they tell you they went with another company.

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Forward Cities

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This interview is part of the “Ecosystem Builders” series. More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Q:What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . A: Starting out in both the tech sector and restaurants, we made a lot of costly mistakes that made life very hard.

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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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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How it happens. When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?” Investors love to see entrepreneurs who have used their own money to ignite their businesses. But often, entrepreneurs turn to others for initial capital. Describing that capital using the phrase “friends, family and fools,” or “FFF,” has become as common as to be trite.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

All too often, we see news stories of high-profile trade secrets disputes involving high legal fees, damage to reputation and, most importantly, a loss of intellectual property (IP) and its related advantages for a business. Typically, these trade secret disputes involve big-name companies, corporate espionage and national pride, and, as such, are often unrelatable to most business owners.

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GCUC

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We are crafting GCUC events very intentionally this year. You will notice starting with Seattle each of our events will include 5 things. A wellness component – a nature walk, yoga, a meditation or a stretch- for your physical and mental health. Knowledge based content – the programing, thoughtfully curated to help you build and grow your business. Social comradery – a party, long networking breaks, opportunity to break bread- something to get you connecting with and to our community.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mentioned it yesterday but given its impact on global health and capital markets, I thought I’d share a few things I’ve read and watched in the past few days that I found helpful (both shared on Twitter by my friend Phil ). This is a conversation that was held last week at Johns Hopkins Business School: This is a good article from The Atlantic.

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Venture Well

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Day One initiative focuses on opportunities for the science and tech community to inform nonpartisan agenda-setting on critical issues in the US. The post why science matters and how government can amplify its impact appeared first on VentureWell.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

HoneyBook, the leading business and financial management platform for creative entrepreneurs and freelancers, today released its scheduling tool, a new feature that makes scheduling meetings easier and faster for its members. Read more here. The post [Honeybook in WebWire] HoneyBook Launches Scheduling Tool to Help Freelancers Take Back Their Time appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

By Japhé Mercier. Negotiation is a fundamental part of our day-to-day lives. Whether we like it or not, we are often obligated to immerse ourselves in negotiation, particularly in business settings. Negotiation is a means of obtaining, through persuasive approaches and strategies, wants and needs from others. Negotiation comes in many forms, formal and informal, generally to settle disputes, reach agreements, or make key decisions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I am going to spend much of today in my Zoom roo m participating in several meetings around the country and around the world. If you look at Zoom’s stock price over the last month, since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, you will see that the market thinks that I am not the only one who will be doing that. The combination of limiting travel due to Coronavirus fears and the desire to lower carbon footprints tells me that we may have reached videoconferencing’s moment.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

So many times companies focus on giving their employees raises to show appreciation but there's so many other things they can do, that might matter more. Often times it's not money that keeps an employee (or freelancer team member) wanting to working with you, it's just them knowing that you care and appreciate them. For the last year, I've been focused on this more for my own team.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

CyberX, the IoT security company, today announced record growth in 2019, tripling bookings year-over-year and securing a series of impressive Global 2000 customer wins. Additional achievements include new partnerships with premiere channel partners and technology providers, and new, innovative IoT-aware behavioral analytics and threat intelligence capabilities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This is the theoretically ideal organizational chart of a startup. There’s a CEO at the top in red, VPs in orange, senior contributors in dark gray, team leads in green, and junior individual contributors in light gray. This is the org chart of the typical startup. It’s a very different in reality. The departments are lopsided and scraggly.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Rocketbook is a serial Kickstarter creator, having done five successful projects already. They make notebooks and note pads that you can write on but also save your work to the cloud. They are back with the Rocketbook Orbit which is a “legal pad” that saves your work to the cloud. I backed it this morning. USV TEAM POSTS: Nick Grossman — Feb 24, 2020 Bird by Bird Albert Wenger — Feb 24, 2020 Coronavirus and World After Capital.

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