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6 traits that make an entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Noelle Fauver, marketing consultant and writer. . Heidi Zak , Elon Musk, Oprah, Warren Buffet, Kendra Scott , Sara Blakely and Bill Gates—entrepreneurs may appear quite diverse, but they typically share a few key qualities. What makes an entrepreneur? Let’s focus on the traits shared by most entrepreneurs—and how you can tap into these characteristics to jumpstart your own success. . 1.

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Why Recessions Are a Good Time to Start a Side Hustle

StartupNation

The truth is, recessions happen, and they happen often. Since 1900, the U.S. economy has averaged one recession about every four years. They’re not so regular as to be predictable and they cause real economic damage, but they don’t halt business and entrepreneurship entirely. In fact, according to a 2009 study by Dane Stangler for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , more than half of Fortune 500 companies were started during a recession.

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Why Perfectionism Is Not Good for Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And how to create a culture that isn’t afraid of making mistakes Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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What Is Going To Happen In 2021

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Hi Everyone. Happy 2021. Today, as is my custom on the first day of the new year, I am going to take a stab at what the year ahead will bring. I find it useful to think about what we are in for. It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. But having a point of view is very helpful when operating in a world that is full of uncertainty.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

Levin Bunz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize.

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Social Media Marketing Tips and More Shared by Small Biz Panel

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you’re are thinking about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship, you should avoid making common business mistakes and learn from thriving small business owners. Recently Ramon Ray hosted a small biz panel discussion, consisting of three successful small business owners. Ramon and guests discussed various aspects of running, growing, and surviving a small business.

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What Happened In 2020

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It is my tradition to end the year looking back and start the year looking forward. So today, I will write about 2020 in the context of tech/startups/VC/crypto. While it is inarguably the case that 2020 was a terrible year with a global pandemic, racial strife and ugly politics in the US, and an economic downturn that is impacting exactly the people who have already been hurt the most, it was an inflection point for the tech/startup/VC/crypto sectors and a very significant one.

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Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba

TechCrunch

The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang , which announced toda y (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 billion Series E+ from investors including Alibaba Group. Other participants included returning investors Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital China and FountainVest Partners.

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9 Essential Skills You Need to Start and Run a Successful Business

StartupNation

It’s easy to feel under-qualified when you’re about to start a new business. It’s a huge undertaking! There are so many factors that play into whether or not your business will succeed. And, while not every factor has to do with your skills as a business owner, some of the most essential skills for starting and running a business in the 2020s include: Financial literacy.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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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3 in 5 Small Businesses Don't Inform their Customers About Third-party Data Collection, Reports Survey

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you're thinking about ways to win your customers' trust, you should strictly consider safeguarding your customers' data. According to the latest survey conducted by CRM Essentials and commissioned by Zoho, 62% of small businesses don't inform customers that they are allowing tracking codes from third parties on their websites. What's more surprising is that most of these small businesses have customer data privacy policies enforced.

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Financing with grants, not equity or debt

Berkonomics

First, an example of grant-based financing . I was chairman of a company that, for twelve years never took a dollar of outside investment. The company was funded entirely by grants from the National Institute of Health, amounting to millions of non-dilutive dollars in all. The company created a product that could be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the experti

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Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital file paperwork indicating new funds

TechCrunch

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that much of venture capital isn’t just surviving 2020 – it’s flourishing through it.

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3 Vital Startup Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic

StartupNation

What will you remember most when you look back on 2020? While all of our stories are different, if you were an entrepreneur or small business owner, you may remember this year as one full of great changes in business and leadership due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And while there is never an ideal time to be faced with an unprecedented event, COVID-19 brought out the best in entrepreneurs and business leaders around the world.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Ramon's 2020 Holiday Party: Small Business Advice from Industry Experts

Smart Hustle Magazine

Ramon hosted his 2020 holiday party with some of the best industry experts out there. If you missed the live event, don't worry! You can still take advantage of all the small business advice that was shared throughout the event. Below are some highlights from each expert interview. You can still listen to the whole thing, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments and pieces of small business advice.

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After 2020, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It goes deeper than one disgruntled billionaire Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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CommonGround raises $19M to rethink online communication

TechCrunch

CommonGround , a startup developing technology for what its founders describe as “4D collaboration,” is announcing that it has raised $19 million in funding. This isn’t the first time Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz have launched a startup together — they also founded video networking company BigBand Networks , which won two technology-related Emmy Awards, went public in 2007 and was acquired by Arris Group in 2011.

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing a Killer Business Plan

StartupNation

A business plan is as important to a new business as a map is to a ship, or blueprints are to an architect. A written business plan will guide your actions and keep you focused on your short- and long-term goals. Your business plan puts your aspirations into words (and charts), demonstrating to partners, investors and lenders why your venture can and will be a success.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

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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5 Tips on How to Create Next Level Virtual Presentations

Smart Hustle Magazine

One of the least expensive, most effective marketing tools available, is an engaging, persuasive presentation. Delivering kickass virtual presentations can win new clients, impress investors, galvanize a team and catapult your career. But how do you keep your virtual presentations from boring listeners to tears or revealing all your fears? Public speaking consistently ranks as one of people’s top fears. 5 Ways to Shift Your Visual Presentations from Good to Great to Exceptional.

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How I Used Podcasting To Sell $140k+ Worth Of My Product

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My six-step process for starting your podcast. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Global investors flee from Chinese tech stocks after the government crackdown on Ant and Alibaba

TechCrunch

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. Shares of major technology companies in the country have fallen sharply in recent days, with Bloomberg calculating that Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and Meituan have lost around $200 billion in value during a handful of trading sessions.

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Monopolistic Competition: Definition, Characteristics, & Examples

Feedough

In today’s growing economy, it is impossible to identify markets that witness a perfect competition or even a pure monopoly. However, there does exist a market structure that lies in-between these aforementioned polar opposites. In 1933, Mr. Edward H. Chamberlin published the Theory of Monopolistic Competition , through which he popularised the concept of a monopolistic competition form of market structure.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How Small Businesses and Their Employees Can “#BeCyberSmart”

Smart Hustle Magazine

Why #BeCyberSmart? Cybercriminals come in all shapes and sizes. What they’re looking for is simple: access to confidential data they can use for malicious purposes. Today’s small businesses are more vulnerable to cyberattacks, given they’re not typically as well protected as their larger enterprise counterparts. A fact supported by Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report that shows one-third of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses.

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7 Entrepreneurs To Watch In 2021

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Follow these business minds to get ahead of the pack Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Amazon acquires podcast network Wondery

TechCrunch

Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death.” Wondery will become part of Amazon Music, which added support for podcasts (including its own original shows) in September. At the same time, the announcement claims that “nothing will change for listeners” and that the network’s podcasts will continue to be available from “a variety of providers.” Media companies and

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2020: Something good emerging out of the bad

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. When I was a boy, I learned from my grandparents that when something bad t happened, that something good would come out of it. I have been thinking about that lesson over the last few day, ever since the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine began shipping and healthcare workers and others began receiving shots. This has been a really bad year.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

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.