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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for embarrassing products, such as intimate care, adult diapers, condoms, or hemorrhoid cream, feature a humorous— if outdated —approach to draw in customers.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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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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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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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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Ivella is the latest fintech focused on couples banking, with a twist

TechCrunch

Money can make people moody. There are layers of privilege, or lack thereof, that can make even the simplest conversation about bills feel like baggage to deal with. Translate that discomfort to relationships and it can feel like an awkward — and fragmented — dance on who pays which bill when (and how). Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions.

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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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#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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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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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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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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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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DeFi’s Calls For Self-Regulation: Too Little, Too Late.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

But that just might be the best thing for the industry… Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash Nour Haridy, founder of DeFi protocol Inverse Finance, a self-proclaimed “decentralized global central bank” is one of many prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry who has been tweeting for months about the inevitable demise of the UST stablecoin. However, it’s only in the wake of the spectacular meltdown of the Terra ecosystem that he has been advocating for the crypto industry to self-regulat

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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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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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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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MyShoot’s Bowman is Taking Her Experience & Passion to Grow MyShoots

Jason Malki

Georgina Bowman is the Founder of MyShoots app, which is designed to connect shoots, clubs, people who take part in shooting sports and staff of the venues. The concept has come from a former shooting clothes sales agent Georgina Bowman, who is following her vision to bring together all the key elements of a shoot day, from what if offers to location to who is going with you and where to stay.

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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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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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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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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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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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Investing in Omni Creator Products

Andreessen Horowitz

Many of the most popular, genre-defining games trace their heritage to what are called “mods”—player-made modifications to existing games. The mods are built from developer tools within the game so that players can create new levels, maps, and even new … The post Investing in Omni Creator Products appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Lessons Learned From Accidentally Selling My Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. With the paperwork signed, I celebrated by leaving my co-working space at 2pm and treating myself to ice cream?—?despite it being a cold November day in Chicago. I was over the moon.

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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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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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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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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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Music in the Metaverse: Harmony from Discord?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Photo by Diego Mora Barrantes on Unsplash During the last NFT hype cycle, most of the money went to profile picture projects with vague aspirations to build something in the metaverse. But in the background, some excellent use cases for NFTs were being tried, including something that will disrupt how we consume music. Music NFTs are recasting the music industry in favor of artists who, for the first time, are able to represent their creations online as unique tokens.

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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.