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What I learned from marketing a product people are too embarrassed to talk about

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Embarrassing products—the bane of marketing. Many marketing campaigns for embarrassing products, such as intimate care, adult diapers, condoms, or hemorrhoid cream, feature a humorous— if outdated —approach to draw in customers. Humor is always good, since it brings attention to the product in an approachable way. But it doesn’t need to be that cookie-cutter and old-fashioned.

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Read This if You Feel Like a Worthless Wannabe CEO

Entrepreneur's Handbook

9 boardroom confessionals your successful entrepreneur friends wouldn’t dare admit. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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6 reasons to invest in startups from Ukraine

TechCrunch

Oleksandr Yaroshenko. Contributor. Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup based in Ukraine. For more than three months, Ukraine has been engulfed in the flames of a war with Russia. That might look like a red flag from an investor’s point of view, but everything is not so black and white in the country’s tech sector.

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Protect your small business from cyberthreats with these simple interventions

NZ Entrepreneur

The last couple of years have accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses. Pandemic restrictions forced us to think creatively, be more innovative and, in many cases, digital adoption has played a big role in that. As a specialist small business lender, we’ve seen our customers use their funds to invest heavily in technology – setting up e-commerce sites, implementing CRM systems, adopting cloud technologies and trialling digital marketing strategies.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN $50,000 PA WILDS BIG IDEA CONTEST!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DUBOIS, PA – In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship, and with funding support provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ recent innovation competition targeted the counties of Centre, Clarion, Clearfield and Jefferson located in the PA WILDS. Ben Franklin has been offering Pennsylvania entrepreneurs and small manufacturers the opportunity to compete in our risk-free BIG IDEA contests for nearly 20 years.

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AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks

TechCrunch

As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding rounds for startups building products to address that gap. In the latest development, AppOmni — which has built a platform not just to connect with and secure SaaS apps, but to seek out, highlight and help fix vulnerabilities that arise when different apps are used together or in tandem — has raised $70

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Australian adtech firm Veridooh raises $5m in funding to finance global expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Veridooh , a multi-award-winning adtech firm , has secured $5 million in Series A funding, which will be used to grow internationally as part of its aim to improve out-of-home (OOH) advertising transparency, automation, and intelligence. EVP, a venture capital firm led by Dan Szekely, anchored the investment round.

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Why coming out as a gay entrepreneur is a privilege and an investment

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Mike Stephenson, an EO Vancouver member who is co-founder and CEO of addy , which uses the principles of crowdfunding to make real estate investing accessible to everyone, including Black, indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ2S+ and other underrepresented groups. Mike recently shared the importance of finding (and keeping) a monogamous co-founder on EO on Inc.

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5 tips for communicating and collaborating effectively when remote working

NZ Entrepreneur

The landscape businesses operate in has been permanently altered after two years of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies big and small are moving towards hybrid models that will continue to permit a portion of the work week to be done from home. It’s certainly tested traditional management styles as managers continue to learn to trust people and ensure they are productive, meet deadlines and meet KPI’s with ease.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Friday, June 10, 2022, and Haje is on the road, so it’s just me today. Before I let you enjoy the weekend, there are a few housekeeping items to address. First, TechCrunch Disrupt will be in person this year, and today is the last day to raise your hand to speak.

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#32. From Crashing To Zero To Investing $100m In Snap and Lyft w/ Nabil Borhanu

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from the founder of Graphene Ventures Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Nabil Borhanu who is the founder of Graphene Ventures. They invested in both Snap and Lyft before their IPOs. He’s got a very interesting background having grown up in Saudi Arabia.

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Circularity Tales: from organic waste to alternative proteins

Impact Hub

Did you know that waste generation is not an accidental phenomenon, but a major result of how things are designed? According to scientific sources*, 80% of environmental impacts are determined at the product design stage. Today, most of the decisions taken at that stage directly reflect the linear economy principles and the consumption habits instilled by capitalism – which takes us back to waste generation.

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CARRO invests $54m in Indonesia’s MPMX

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register CARRO , Southeast Asia’s largest used automobile marketplace , and PT Mitra Pinasthika Mustika Tbk , Indonesia’s leading consumer automotive and transportation company, announced that they would enter into a strategic collaboration.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

TechCrunch

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California. Most of his work revolved around building apps and iPhone games. When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE.

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How to Find the Investors Who Will Actually Invest in Your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You’ll become better at fundraising once you’ve learned how to pitch the right investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail…

Jason Malki

Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail & eCommerce I had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor Norlock, a Global Consumer Revenue Executive who is passionate about developing new business for creative and dynamic start-up companies. He has a proven record managing productive business development teams while acting as a catalyst to bring cutting-edge products to national and global markets.

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Newsletter: Meet Nas Daily + Solving airline industry jet lag

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: IQM, Leading Europe’s quantum revolution June 12: Meet Nas Academy Founder Nuseir Yassin Solving the airline industry’s jet lag Convizit transforms user clicks to cash D-ID’s tech brings images of missing people to life New FDA status for Remilk paves way for cow-free real dairy in US Amazon praises CropX for supporting sustainability US pharma giant Catalent taps MigVax for oral Covid-19 vaccine Salesforce teams up with Perception Point for thre

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Online education continues to get a lot of attention in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift it brought to how people can learn. And to underscore that fact, Go1 — one of the rising stars in the world of enterprise learning, providing education and training to businesses in turn to offer to its employees or users — is announcing a significant round of $100 million, at over a $2 billion valuation, to fuel its growth.

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The Slide Deck That Changed My Life

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How to make a Keynote presentation that will win hearts, minds, and money. The sun peeked over the horizon as our train hurdled through Maryland and Pennsylvania, lighting up the sky as we entered New Jersey. We were almost out of time. And we didn’t even have a name yet. Before January Third was born, we were just two people, sitting on a train, dreaming about starting our own agency.

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How a female entrepreneur gained Traction in a male-dominated industry

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Tiera Covington, EO Hawaii, is the founder and president of Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). She was recently recognized as an honoree in Pacific Business News’ 2021 Women Who Mean Business and named Pacific Edge’s 2021 Businesswoman of the Year. Tiera’s unique story spans a full career in the Air Force to the corporate world to entrepreneurship.

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The Cloud Killed Infrastructure, Long Live Infrastructure!

Andreessen Horowitz

Verticals clouds are on the rise, as traditional clouds give way to specialization. The infrastructure narrative of the last 15 years has been dominated by the cloud. Its growth has driven a surge of innovation in everything from hardware, to … The post The Cloud Killed Infrastructure, Long Live Infrastructure! appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

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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8 factors to consider when fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Karl Alomar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. After managing and exiting two startups over a 20-year career, Karl is now M13’s managing partner. Previously as DigitalOcean's COO, Karl built the business from first product to over 500 employees and $250M ARR over six years and prepared it for its IPO. These are challenging times, but this is not the first time I have heard that.

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Landing Your First $100K Investment for Your Startup in an Economic Downturn

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It’s not just from VCs Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Different Perspectives: The Investor Profile Series

The Seraf Compass

One of the best parts of working as a member of the Seraf team is interacting with and learning from its global customer base and community. Seraf’s users come from countries spread across 6 continents. They all have much in common in terms of their fascination and passion for early stage ventures. But they also have different and sometimes unique perspectives.

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Investing in SCiFi Foods

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environment or human health. Compounding this challenge are rapidly rising levels of global food insecurity , persistent levels of … The post Investing in SCiFi Foods appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!